The Blackest Friday
The Blackest Friday – Tech News Nov 23
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► 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://geni.us/1Vd87
7800X3D $384 – https://geni.us/Y9WONXt
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-multiple-symptoms-occur-after-provisioning-a-pc-with-a-windows-11-version-24h2-update-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
[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power “smart features”
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://youtu.be/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
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