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Nvidia's RTX Spark chip is clearing a major hurdle for Windows on Arm gaming. The company is working with Microsoft to bring full support for anti-cheat and DRM systems — including Valorant, Fortnite, and Denuvo — natively to the platform. Until now, Fortnite stood nearly alone as a working example, but that bottleneck appears to be breaking open.
Shifting to AMD, the company is holding firm on its AM five socket commitment, promising support through two thousand twenty nine. That's consistent with the decade-long track record of its predecessor AM four, which gave budget-conscious builders years of upgrade flexibility. In a hardware landscape that often forces full system replacements, AMD's socket longevity is increasingly a selling point worth taking seriously.
And in crypto, Michael Saylor's firm Strategy has done something it once vowed never to do — sell bitcoin. The firm offloaded thirty two coins for roughly two and a half million dollars, and markets noticed. Bitcoin slipped under seventy two thousand dollars as the news landed, a reminder that even the most committed true believers operate inside financial realities.
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