Optical drives are quietly back on the shopping lists of Japanese PC buyers, and the cause is as practical as it is cultural: the end of Windows 10 support forced a refresh cycle that exposed a simple compatibility gap—new Windows 11 machines often omit internal optical bays—prompting a wave of...
Cooler Master’s new MasterBox CM695 lands in Japan with a full-size 5.25‑inch front bay at a moment when optical drives are suddenly back in the conversation — a deliberate nod to a market that still values discs, and a reminder that case design can still answer regional needs rather than global...
Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region suffered a high‑impact outage on October 20, 2025 that knocked hundreds of consumer and enterprise services offline, exposed a brittle set of control‑plane dependencies (notably DNS resolution for Amazon DynamoDB), and renewed urgent debate about how the...
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Windows 11’s role in driving market momentum was on full display in the first quarter of 2025 as global PC shipments climbed to 59 million units—a 4.8% increase over last year. Behind these numbers lurks a blend of strategic moves by vendors and rapidly evolving user demands that have helped...
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