It's the weirdest takeover in Germany. The Hanover-based Heise Group (a publisher of many IT-affine magazines, such as Java magazine, CT, the German edition of Make and tech website Heise.

Mindfactory initiated self-administration proceedings at the end of February. The hardware retailer should now be back on track.

Inconsistencies at hardware retailer Mindfactory Mindfactory has closed all previous customer accounts. There were rumors of insolvency for weeks – but now goods are available again.

Before looking at some benchmarks, the Mindfactory sale must be commented upon. The etailer now has no stock up for sale and the product page indicates that 120 Intel Core i7 11700K CPUs sold this ...