• Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh isn't even on store shelves yet and it's already had a price increase.  (WCCFTech)
  
  10% officially and up to 25% in online listings.  Still decent value if it weren't for all the other headwinds Intel is facing here.
  
  Sailing straight into an F5 tornado.
  
  
  
• But you can save a lot of money on audiophile-grade cables.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Mostly by not buying them.  Once again, there is no detectable difference between $4000 cables and a $7 pair from the Amazon Basics range.

• Microplastics are glove contamination.  (University of Michigan)
  
  The researchers are sure that once they rule out the omnipresent glove particles they will have the truth and not a big fat ball of nothing.
  
  
  
• One day after Microsoft announced a new focus on security, the company had to release an emergency security patch.  (Computer Weekly)
  
  For a bug created by the March Windows update.
  
  
  
• M4 and M5 Macs can't run external 4k monitors at native resolution in HiDPI mode.  (S McLeod)
  
  You might wonder how people didn't notice.
  
  People did.
  
  But Apple doesn't sell a 4k monitor - only 5k and 6k models - so they didn't care.
  
  
  
  

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