It's Monday, October 5th, and tech decided the scariest thing this Halloween season wouldn't be a costume β it'd be a graphics card shipped without a face. Six tips, all verified, all wrapped in jokes. Let's go.
πΊ 1. Wolverine is on PC. Headless.
Sony got hit by the Rhysida ransomware crew back in December 2023 β 1.7TB of data gone, including an early build of Marvel's Wolverine. That leak just paid off in the weirdest way possible: a solo Redditor (u/Clean-Market5761) used the stolen source code plus AI-generated scripts to build a native PC port β no emulator, no KytyPS5, no AnyPS5. It runs. Sort of. The PS5 shader library wasn't ported, so Wolverine's hair physics froze the entire game, and the dev solved it the only reasonable way: he disabled the head. The world's most illegal port shipped headless, and honestly? Given the game itself β an "interactive movie" where the motorcycle chase completes itself and QTEs auto-pass if you don't press anything β the port is arguably the second-least interactive thing about it. (Source: Tom's Hardware)
π₯ 2. RAM is a patient now
A repair channel called NorthWestRepair just posted its first-ever RAM repair: two server-grade ECC DDR5 sticks β 128GB and 256GB β worth a purported $16,000. The fix list reads like an ER chart: hot-air reflow on stick one, and for stick two, a short-circuit hunt with voltage injection and a thermal camera, a new capacitor, and a replacement PMIC chip. Both sticks powered on and trained. The punchline is the economics: when a memory kit costs more than a used car, a couple hundred bucks of repair labor makes sense again. Tom's Hardware's take: "If you can repair RAM, you can now start a business." Your memory kit has an ER now. Bring your sticks. (Source: Tom's Hardware / NorthWestRepair)
π¨π³ 3. "Made in China" used to mean cheap. Now it means CL30
Colorful just listed an iGame Shadow II DDR5-6000 CL30 kit in China β 2Γ16GB with domestically produced CXMT chips, 10-layer PCB, XMP 3.0 + EXPO, RGB, the works. Price: 3,999 yuan, about $596. For context, the slower CL36 version was 3,499 yuan (~$522), so the low-latency kit carries a real premium β because in the 2026 memory crisis, everything carries a real premium. There was a time when a Chinese-made DRAM sticker meant "budget tier." Now it means "CL30, and you're grateful." (Source: VideoCardz)
πΎ 4. Your Switch 2 library finally gets a garage
HotHardware spotted the first 2TB microSD Express card β a capacity that's been the Switch 2's paper ceiling since launch, while the biggest card you could actually buy was 1TB (for around $200, thanks to the same memory shortage that's eating everyone's budget). Now there's a 2TB Express card in the wild. Two terabytes. On something smaller than a postage stamp. Your entire game library finally fits in a fingernail of silicon β and yes, it'll probably cost more than the games. (Source: HotHardware / The Verge)
βοΈ 5. The robots requested a curfew
Today β literally today β New York City held the first municipal AI oversight hearing in the US, with all 51 City Council members present and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta testifying under oath. And here's the twist worth savoring: OpenAI sent a letter ahead of the hearing recommending the city put safeguards in place against advanced AI risks. The companies that built the thing asked to be leashed. Speaker Julie Menin summoned them after the Hugging Face breach, and with federal AI legislation stuck in park, cities are writing the rules now. Watch this space β it's coming to a city hall near you. (Sources: CBS New York, NY1, council.nyc.gov, The Information)
π§ 6. The $5 DIY AI gadget
Meta announced Muse Gadgets β open-source firmware and SDKs that let you connect an off-the-shelf ESP32 board (about five bucks) or a Raspberry Pi to their Muse AI. Instead of selling you a $400 always-on AI keychain, they shipped the blueprint. Same announcement: Meta says its Muse Spark models helped mathematicians solve six research-level math problems in probability and differential equations. So the AI now does homework at a PhD level while you build its body out of hobby-store parts. (Sources: The Decoder, unite.ai, ai.meta.com)
The takeaway: tech in 2026 ships headless, checks into the ER, pays import premiums, swallows a library, testifies under oath, and assembles itself from a $5 board. Same time tomorrow. I'm Max β subscribe.
Sources: Tom's Hardware (Wolverine port; $16K DDR5 repair), VideoCardz (Colorful CXMT kit), HotHardware + The Verge (2TB microSD Express), CBS New York / NY1 / council.nyc.gov / The Information (NYC AI hearing), The Decoder / unite.ai / ai.meta.com (Muse Gadgets).