Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Rumoured new AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D could be our first sub-$200 3D V-cache gaming CPU
News Ye olde AM4 socket just keeps on rollin'.
Valve is 'continuing to work on adding support' for other handhelds, but 'SteamOS isn't ready to run out of the box' just yet
news Is SteamOS becoming the Half-Life 3 of gaming operating systems?
Creating your own Microsoft Copilot chatbot is easy but making it safe and secure is pretty much impossible says security expert
News Microsoft's AI platform in another security scare, who'd a thunk it?
I want a 4K OLED gaming monitor so bad and with both Alienware and Samsung's available for $200-plus off I'm going to sell my dog, probably
Deal Still not exactly cheap, but if I sell my dog and all my clothes on eBay it's doable.
AMD keeps chipping away at Intel as latest figures show increased market share in PCs, laptops and servers
News Overall, Intel is up, but only because AMD's console chip sales are cratering.
Micron touts world's first PCIe Gen 6 drive with epic 26 GB/s speeds but it's not hitting your PC for years
News The PC doesn't support Gen 6 yet and won't for some time to come.
Intel CEO says Panther Lake CPU on its new 18A node is already up and running with production slated for next year
News Promises, promises. And a few hail Marys?
UK Royal Mint's 'urban mining' extracts more gold from old motherboards and other junk than you might think
News But read on before you go melting down your PC...
AMD's new Ryzen 9000 CPUs are officially up to $50 cheaper than the old 7000 series were at launch
News Of course, Ryzen 7000 chips are now much cheaper than they were in 2022.
Broken CPUs, workforce cuts, cancelled dividends and a decade of borked silicon—how has it all gone so wrong for Intel?
News Intel can still turn the ship around, but time is running out.
Upscaling is the new normal according to Star Wars Outlaws system requirements
News Ubisoft now assumes you're running DLSS and FSR all the time.
New AI companion goes all Black Mirror, listens to absolutely everything and dies if you lose it
news What happens if it keels over all on its own isn't clear...
AMD sells $1 billion worth of AI chips and CPU sales are up but its gaming graphics continues to struggle
news AI and CPU sales are up, to but it's still slim pickings in gaming graphics.
After cutting 5% of its workforce in 2023 reports say Intel is planning to lay off thousands more workers
news One day there will be some good news from Intel, right?
Hard to believe but Secure Boot BIOS security has been compromised on hundreds of PC models from big brands because firmware engineers used four-letter passwords
News Critical encrypted file with mere four-character password to blame.
Mark Zuckerberg launches Meta's latest AI model, moans about Apple being mean and imagines a future of AI bots commenting on each other's social media posts
News Truly, the Zuck is an irony-free zone.
AMD is already prepping a 3nm update to its new Zen 5 CPUs
News 4nm and 3nm Zen 5 plans are so close, they're "on top of each other".
These Prime Day gaming monitor deals are making OLEDs almost affordable for the very first time
Prime Day 1440p OLED fun starts at $599, ultrawide from just $699.
I'm struggling to resist the OG Alienware OLED gaming monitor at this lowest-ever Prime Day price of just $700
Prime Day The original and arguably still the best.
Prime Day is the very best day to make the jump to 4K with these stellar gaming monitor deals
Prime Day 4K all the way from just $399.
Inexplicably Best Buy has slashed the price of this RTX 4070 Blade 14 AGAIN. With a $1,000 discount this Prime Day Razer gaming laptop deal is surprisingly competitive
Prime Day A Blade that's actually not at a price premium compared with similarly specced laptops? What timeline is this?
We'd all love a megabucks OLED panel but I'd happily have one of these cheap Prime Day gaming monitors on my desk from just $89
Prime Day From $89 to $249 and 1080p to 34-inch ultrawide, there's something here for almost any budget.
Microsoft's latest speech generator is so good it's afraid to release it to the public
news VALL-E 2 will remain a research project due to the potential risks of 'misuse'.
