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The short answer: not in 2026 If you opened this article hoping for a “wait three months and SSDs will be half price” tip, close the tab and go buy what you need. We’re in the middle of a memory super-cycle, and it is not letting up this year. Right now, in July 2026, DRAM and NAND contract prices are sitting at or near record highs and they are still climbing. Every major forecaster — TrendForce, IDC, Citi — sees prices going up through the rest of 2026. The only good news is that the rate of increase is slowing down. That is not the same as prices falling. ...

If you are using a Mac and considering a Dell monitor, you are probably wondering: Will this monitor actually work with macOS? The good news is that a large and growing list of Dell monitors is fully compatible — but not every model makes the cut. Below you will find the complete compatibility list, plus system requirements and setup notes. For help with connecting Dell docks and peripherals, see our official Dell Dock Compatibility Chart guide and Dell P2425H vs P2425HE comparison. ...

It’s July 2026. Spain just reported 327 heat-related deaths during a June that broke every temperature record on file — southern regions hit 45°C (113°F). France saw 43.8°C in the west. The UK just had its hottest June day in history. Europe is warming at twice the global average rate, and the WHO estimates heat kills 175,000 Europeans every year. And yet only about 20% of European homes have air conditioning. The reason isn’t that Europeans inexplicably enjoy sweating through 40-degree nights. It’s that for 60% or more of European homes — many of which are century-old buildings — installing a traditional split-system air conditioner with an external condenser unit is either illegal, impossibly expensive, or both. ...

Your Cloud Storage Is Full Again. We’ve All Been There. You opened Google Drive to upload a file, and instead got the dreaded “Storage full” warning. So you clicked through to the storage manager, stared at a wall of files with no real way to sort by size or find duplicates, and thought: I’ll just buy more storage. Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Google One, Microsoft 365, Dropbox — they all give you 15 GB to 2 TB, and somehow it’s never enough. Photos auto-backup at 4K. Every Slack attachment lands in your Drive. Old project folders from two jobs ago are still sitting there, quietly eating gigabytes. ...

A Ban With No Room for Negotiation On July 3, Alibaba issued an internal directive: every employee must uninstall all Anthropic products — including Claude Sonnet, Opus, Fable, and the Claude Code agent — by July 10. The ban is total. No exceptions, no transitional period. This comes at a time when the AI assistant landscape is already shifting — ChatGPT is losing ground while Claude has been quietly gaining among power users, but trust issues like this could change that trajectory. ...