Gaming Roundtable
The crew kicks things off with the Gaming Roundtable. Matt shares his experiences with Arc Raiders and The Outer Worlds 2, while also revisiting the pixel-art mystery The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
RAM Prices Surge
We tackle the exploding cost of PC hardware. RAM prices are out of control, with some DDR5 kits jumping from ~$70 to over $300—and premium 64GB kits hitting a staggering $900. We discuss how AI demand and hyperscalers (like Azure and AWS) are driving this 171% year-over-year surge, making this one of the worst times to build a PC since 2021.
The Cloudflare Outage
We cover yet another major infrastructure failure: the Cloudflare outage on November 18th. We explain how a bug in a Bot Management feature file caused a massive crash, resulting in 500 errors across the web for nearly three hours.
Azure Stops a Record DDoS
We look at a win for cloud defense. Microsoft Azure recently mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded—a massive 15.72 Tbps assault powered by the Aisuru botnet. We break down the attack, the IoT devices behind it, and how Azure managed to stay online without service interruption.
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Hosts & Credits
- Hosts: Brent, Matt, Brandon, Shaun, Jordyn
- Technical Design / Production: Brent