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    Welcome back to Paul's Tech News. The  final week of November 2025 is upon us,  
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    my friends. And in a normal year, we'd spend this  week parting out Black Friday PC shopping lists  
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    to gobble up the seasonal savings, whilst also  preparing to gobble up some Thanksgiving dinner,  
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    at least here in the US. Presumably, people in  other parts of the world will eat on Thursday,  
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    too, though. But 2025 is not a normal  year, nor have we had many of those at  
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    all in the past decade. But the point is that  while I will be baking some pies this week,  
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    I won't be trying to tell any of my viewers  that it's a great time to build a PC because  
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    it's not. Since any somewhat okay sales like 30  bucks off a 9800X3D CPU are laughably inadequate  
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    when contrasted with memory kits that cost more  than double what they were just a month or two  
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    ago. SSDs that are creeping steadily upwards as  well. and the prospect of GPUs, truly the poster  
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    children for overpriced PC hardware, joining  that trend soon as well, brought to you by AI,  
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    of course. So, no, I will not be giving thanks  this week for the mess that the PC hardware  
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    market has become. I'll be taking thanks and  saying you're welcome for this week's tech news.
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    There's an optional 6-in LCD add-on, too. For more  on the View 600 TG from Thermaltake, click the  
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    sponsor link in the video description. There was a  time in the distant past when Black Friday used to  
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    mean something. A day of wanting materialism when  the best sales of the year would wholly justify  
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    the hours spent waiting in long checkout lines,  feverishly searching for mall parking spots,  
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    or trampling other store patrons who dared to  position themselves in front of you. And while  
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    the past decade plus has seen us transition to  slightly less trample-y Black Friday celebrations  
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    thanks to online shopping, this sacred holiday  has long been threatened by external forces.  
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    Always overshadowed by Thanksgiving, of course,  and continuously diluted by retailers treating  
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    the entire week as Black Friday week or the  entire month of November as Black Friday  
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    month. But this year, at least in the PC gaming  world, Black Friday has truly lost all meaning,  
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    with the overall cost of new gaming PC hardware  being significantly higher than it was in the  
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    summer and early fall, which is the opposite of  a sale and indeed the opposite of Black Friday,  
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    which basically makes it the opposite of  Christmas. Sure, you can get 30 bucks off a 9800X  
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    3D, but a reasonable 32 GB DDR5 6000 memory kit  now costs well above $200. to say nothing of what  
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    you'll need to pay for a higher capacity 64 GB or  96 GB setup. It's well established at this point  
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    that the catalyst for these price hikes is AI  demand. And indeed, this week began with further  
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    reports from another big memory maker, the biggest  actually, Samsung, that server memory prices will  
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    be increasing by 30 to 60%. And the AI generated  Grinch will go beyond just plucking our PC memory  
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    modules from our stockings. There are in fact lots  of devices that need memory and smartphones and  
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    notebooks are not the least of those. Trend Force  now estimates reduced global production in 2026  
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    for these devices resulting in higher consumer  pricing due to increased demand and the passing  
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    on of bill of materials costs. And while I'd love  to just have a cold pint and wait for all of this  
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    to blow over, market research firm Counterpoint  doesn't expect a downswing anytime soon. In fact,  
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    they predict a further 20% increase in early 2026  per EE Times with the only silver lining being  
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    talk of at least some suppliers, specifically  Samsung and SK Hynix and Micron pushing to  
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    increase production. Good plan, guys. The reason  memory makers are hesitant to boost output,  
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    though, is because they're worried that AI is  a bubble and they don't want to overproduce in  
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    case that bubble pops. From a consumer standpoint,  though, it would be great if the AI bubble popped,  
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    come what may, because that would presumably  reduce AI data center demand for memory modules,  
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    because it turns out GPUs also have memory, aka  VRAM, and the aforementioned memory shortage is  
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    now rumored to cause GPU prices to go up again.  And I just can't shake the feeling that we've  
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    been through all this before. Gosh, wouldn't it be  nice if we could just build gaming PCs to have fun  
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    with instead of having to gauge supply chain  constraints and estimate global macroeconomic  
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    trends while planning our next upgrade? Here are  the indications that they're running out of VRAM,  
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    though. AMD apparently already raised prices for  the GPU plus VRAM packages they sell to board  
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    partners back in October. But there's another  price hike coming soon if rumors from the board  
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    channels forums are accurate. They claim VRAM  pricing is going up by 30%. And this has been  
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    further corroborated by a post from Power Color  recommending that you buy a GPU now or before the  
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    end of the year at least if you don't want  to pay more due to these increases. Sadly,  
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    but somewhat predictably, the lower-end video  cards in the stack that cater to budget gamers  
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    will likely be the first to suffer. If this  report by Korean media outlet Hank Young is true,  
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    it claims that companies like Nvidia and AMD  are reportedly considering discontinuing mid to  
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    lowpriced gaming graphics cards where memory costs  account for a large portion of total costs since  
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    AMD and Nvidia would rather pair up the VRAM they  can source with more expensive GPUs that fetch  
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    higher profit margins. But now our thoughts turn  to tech briefs, which seemed the best place to  
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    insert this subsegment, AI generated tech briefs.  Uh, but perhaps I should rethink that name since  
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    I actually never use an LLM to generate my Tech  News scripts. I am still one of those dinosaurs  
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    who prefers to use words that I thought up all  by myself. Windows 11 though, it sucks. Not just  
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    because of ads or forced Microsoft accounts or  general enshitification, but genuinely because of  
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    issues that never would have gotten past QA back  in Jerry's day, like regular Microsoft 365 outages  
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    or a Tuesday patch that crashed gaming performance  that Nvidia had to hot fix. But perhaps Microsoft  
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    has had some introspection after the recent  backlash to them claiming Windows would be an  
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    agentic OS which no one asked for. And maybe they  even regret AI vibe coding vital components of the  
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    most popular consumer OS in the world as a support  article Thursday admits to problems with the  
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    start menu, search, system settings, taskbar, and  explorer, which is pretty much the whole operating  
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    system. Speaking of tech giants who should do  better, Google apparently switched on AI email  
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    monitoring for many Gmail users recently. And call  me crazy, but I'd prefer to be asked for consent  
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    before any of my work is used for the benefit of  another business or entity. Disabling this means  
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    opting out of smart features so Google won't  do things like adding your flight details to  
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    your calendar from an airline booking confirmation  anymore, which was convenient. But those features  
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    seemed to work even without this broad AI email  tracking consent that they have forced upon so  
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    many Gmail users recently. So it seems Gmail has  made itself worse for those who don't want Gemini  
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    to read all their emails. But at least Google  isn't replacing you with a robot. That's what  
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    Amazon plans to do per the New York Times. At  least for more than 600,000 upcoming jobs that  
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    Amazon predicts it would have otherwise employed  humans for by 2033. Robots will handle those tasks  
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    instead, says leaked internal strategy documents.  And Amazon's automation team expects the company  
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    can avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the  United States it would otherwise need by 2027.  
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    Using robots will save Amazon roughly 30 cents per  package they pick. And no doubt those AI generated  
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    savings for Amazon will be passed along to the  consumer. Totally making up for every AI related  
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    thing we've had caused to complain about so far.  All right, I am now sick of AI as I imagine you  
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    might be too. So, let's move on to things  that are at least only tangentially related.  
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    AMD's FSR4 Redstone is their latest AI enhanced  upscaling platform. DAM machine learning enhanced,  
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    we'll call it that instead. But it's launching on  November 10th. And much like Nvidia has done with  
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    their DLSS naming scheme, FSR now includes a suite  of ML powered gaming technologies. FSR upscaling,  
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    FSR frame generation, FSR ray regeneration, and  FSR radiance caching. They've also done away with  
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    the name Fidelity FX super resolution, which was  a mouthful, going with just FSR now, kind of like  
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    how Kentucky Fried Chicken is now just KFC. I  suppose we'll be able to provide more analysis  
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    on whether FSR is finger-licking good or just  more fake frames, fake rays, and fake upscaling  
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    sometime after December 10th. We're all probably  familiar with the limitations of the 12v2x6 or  
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    12vhpwr connector at this point. Specifically,  its tendency to melt itself and or the GPU it's  
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    plugged into. But what if one could pump even more  power than the 600 watts it's rated for through  
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    those 12 little pins? How about 800 watts? Well,  now you can select RTX5090 owners thanks to the  
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    debut of the unapologetically penis-shaped Asus  RG Matrix RTX5090, whose XOCV BIOS can be flashed  
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    onto other 5090s as long as they have three fan  headers and an owner who's willing to play fast  
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    and loose with a $2,500 plus video card. At least  a few Overclock.net NET forum members meet those  
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    criteria and saw 300 MHz plus clock speed boosts  and new high scores in 3D Mark runs after grabbing  
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    the V BIOS from Tech Powerup. I'm not sure whether  these results are impressive or just foolhardy,  
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    but I'd say that if even WCCF tech is warning  against trying this mod, your best viewing from  
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    the sidelines as well. Attempting to move on from  the generally bad news that AI has brought to us  
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    lately. I just want to say that while I can't give  everyone a new gaming PC, I am doing what I can to  
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    put a silver lining on the somewhat disheartening  end to 2025 with my holiday build series. It  
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    kicked off in spectacular fashion last month  with the scariest gaming PC ever that triggered  
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    arachnophobes everywhere. The giveaway for that  PC is ended. The system was prepped and shipped  
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    to the winner who has received it this week. And  now the November build is live as well. A glorious  
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    crossover PC gaming and workstation build in the  Corsair Air 5400 case has been assembled. Powered  
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    by the 9950X3D CPU and a Powercolor Hellhound RX  9070 XT video card and sporting a monstrous 96GB  
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    DDR5 6000 memory kit that is pretty much worth  its weight in gold. Now, the giveaway for this  
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    system is currently open for viewers in the US  and Canada. And there's another build coming the  
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    first week of December that will also be given  away to help support our Extra Life charity live  
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    stream that takes place December 6th where Kyle  and I will debase ourselves and see how much our  
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    gaming skills have deteriorated since last year.  So check out the full build video. Join us for  
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    the live stream if you can and consider donating  as it is an excellent excellent cause. But there  
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    you have it guys, tech news for the week. And if  you liked it, click that like button or leave me a  
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    comment down below. While you're down there, all  the articles I talked about today are linked in  
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    the video's description if you're interested. And  you can check out my store at paullesharboard.net  
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    for high quality merchandise, t-shirts, hoodies,  beer sets, and more. Subscribing to my channel  
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    is always a good call, too. Thanks again,  everyone. Cheers, and we'll see you next week.

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    The Blackest Friday - Tech News Nov 23 ▷ MY STORE - shirts, pint glasses & hoodies: http://paulshardware.net/ ⇨ Sponsor: Thermaltake View 600 TG Case | buy: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMYCWSFM?th=1&geniuslink=true info: https://www.thermaltake.com/view-600-tg-full-tower-chassis.html ► TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News - November 23, 2025 1:50 Black Friday PC Hardware Sales Overshadowed by RAM/Storage Price Spikes 4:03 GPUs To Get Expensive Again; Budget GPUs Might Just End “AI Generated” TECH BRIEFS 5:40 Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 6:41 Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 7:21 Leaked documents reveal that Amazon could replace 600,000 US workers with robots TECH BRIEFS 8:01 AMD shortens “FidelityFX Super Resolution” name to just “FSR” for Redstone Debut 8:52 800W ASUS ROG Matrix XOC BIOS Flashed on Other RTX 5090 GPUs 9:52 End of Year Build / Giveaway Series Update ► LINKS Black Friday Sales Overshadowed by Memory and Storage Price Spikes 9800X3D $450 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DKFMSMYK?geniuslink=true 7800X3D $384 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BTZB7F88?geniuslink=true https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/amds-chart-topping-ryzen-7-9800x3d-is-on-sale-at-amazon-right-now-for-black-friday-save-usd30-on-the-king-of-gaming-cpus https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung-hikes-memory-chip-prices-by-up-60-shortage-worsens-sources-say-2025-11-14/ https://www.techpowerup.com/342971/rising-memory-prices-weigh-on-consumer-markets-affecting-smartphones-and-notebooks-in-2026 https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/nvidias-demand-for-lpddr5x-could-double-smartphone-and-server-memory-prices-in-2026-seismic-shift-means-even-smartphone-class-memory-isnt-safe-from-ai-induced-crunch https://www.eetimes.com/ai-to-drive-surge-in-memory-prices-through-2026/ GPUs To Get Expensive Again; Budget GPUs Might Just End https://www.techpowerup.com/342990/amd-reportedly-planning-gpu-price-increase-as-memory-costs-spike https://wccftech.com/amd-notifies-imminent-gpu-price-hike-all-models-affected-due-to-rising-memory-costs/ https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/amd-is-reportedly-planning-a-gpu-price-rise-as-the-memory-shortage-crisis-bites-and-odds-of-decent-black-friday-graphics-card-deals-look-increasingly-slim/ https://videocardz.com/newz/powercolor-representative-confirms-2026-gpu-price-hike-recommends-buying-next-week https://wccftech.com/amd-nvidia-could-kill-off-budget-gpus-as-memory-shortages-drive-costs-up/ https://www.hankyung.com/article/2025111815991 https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-exec-asks-why-arent-more-people-impressed-with-ai TECH BRIEFS AI Tech Briefs Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-all-major-windows-11-core-features-are-broken/ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5072911-explorer-the-start-menu-and-other-xaml-dependent-apps-might-not-start-or-close-unexpectedly-on-some-enterprise-devices-d2d30684-4e2b-47f5-9899-a00a8e0acb09 https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-we-see-all-the-backlash-and-we-know-we-have-a-lot-to-fix-in-windows/ Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-sparks-backlash-gmail-setting-004529370.html Leaked documents reveal that Amazon could replace 600,000 US workers with robots https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html https://thedailyadda.com/2025/11/21/leaked-documents-reveal-that-amazon-could-replace-600000-us-workers-with-robots/ AMD shortens “FidelityFX Super Resolution” name to just “FSR” for Redstone Debut https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-announces-fsr-redstone-premiere-on-december-10-confirms-technology-will-be-limited-to-the-rx-9000-series https://videocardz.com/newz/with-fsr-redstone-coming-amd-shortens-fidelityfx-super-resolution-name-to-just-fsr 800W ASUS ROG Matrix XOC BIOS Flashed on Other RTX 5090 GPUs https://wccftech.com/asus-800w-rog-matrix-xoc-bios-flashed-rtx-5090-gpus-gigabyte-pny-msi-massive-boost/ https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/280329/280329 End of Year Build Series Update November Build in Corsair Air 5400 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toW2ri3ib08 Giveaway Entry Page (US/Canada) - https://gleam.io/wHM3k/pauls-hardware-corsair-air-5400-9950x3d-rx-9070-xt-pc-giveaway-for-extra-life-nov-2025 Awesome Hardware 2025 Extra Life Page - https://www.extra-life.org/teams/72765 Please note that links above may be affiliate links -- if you click them and make a qualifying purchase I earn a commission. ▷ SOCIAL Twitter: @paulhardware http://www.twitter.com/paulhardware Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser ► Edited by Joe Aguilar - ShaostylePostProductions https://twitter.com/joe_editing Audio file(s) provided by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/

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