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Minecraft is raising its system requirements for the first time in seventeen years. Microsoft now recommends sixteen gigabytes of RAM and a processor from the early two thousand twenties to run the Java Edition smoothly. It's a sign of how much the game has grown since its scrappy origins, and a quiet reminder that even blocky nostalgia has a hardware cost.
On a more unsettling note, a Hacker News user is reporting something strange with the Google feed on Android. Swiping left from the home screen, they're seeing sensationalized headlines attributed to outlets like Forbes, but with unfamiliar icons and no clear sourcing. Whether it's a caching glitch, a spoofed ad placement, or something more deliberate, the pattern raises real questions about how much we trust the news surfaces baked into our phones.
And AMD's Radeon RX nine thousand seventy XT is seeing its lowest price of the summer, dropping ninety dollars to just under seven hundred dollars at Newegg. Graphics cards have stubbornly resisted discounts this year, so any meaningful price movement on a flagship RDNA four card is worth noting for anyone still building or upgrading a rig.
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