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If you were hoping memory prices would come back down to earth, Lenovo has some bad news for you. At the International Supercomputing Conference this week, a Lenovo executive said the so-called RAMageddon is, quote, the new normal, and that prices will never return to where they were last year. For builders and IT teams alike, that's a sobering forecast with no clear end in sight.
On a slightly brighter note for desktop builders, PNY's Performance thirty-two gigabyte DDR five kit just dropped by seventy dollars, making it currently the most affordable two by sixteen gigabyte DDR five option on the market. It won't solve the broader shortage, but for anyone mid-build right now, it's a rare moment of relief in an otherwise punishing landscape.
And in a story that raises serious questions about privacy and the reach of AI data, prosecutors in the Palisades fire arson trial used the defendant's ChatGPT conversation logs as evidence. Alongside location data and security footage, those logs reportedly showed the accused asking the chatbot to generate images of fire. It's a landmark reminder that AI conversations are not private, and they can follow you into a courtroom.
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