{
  "id": 9196831,
  "title": "Your PSU still follows a color-coding standard that’s decades older than your PC, but there's a reason why",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/your-psu-still-follows-a-color-coding-standard-thats-decades-older",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-22T20:30:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "XDA Developers",
    "slug": "xda-developers",
    "url": "https://www.xda-developers.com/your-psu-color-coding-decades-older-than-your-pc/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The importance of using a quality power supply is obvious to even new PC builders. It's the component that protects your expensive hardware from potentially devastating electrical shenanigans. What's way less obvious is the underlying make-up of the wires running from the PSU to the motherboard. These wires follow a standard established before some of you were even born.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}