Latest articles by Andy Edser
This 3D printed laser chip-hacking device uses a $20 laser pointer, costs $500 to build, and was developed so that 'people can do this in their homes'
news Me? I spend my weekends going for long country walks. Ah who am I kidding, I want one.
NZXT will rent you an RTX 4070 Ti Super system for $169 a month or $2,028 a year but we can find deals a lot better than that
news The CPU and GPU specs are healthy at least, but that's still a lot of cash compared to buying outright.
Intel extends its warranty support for 13th and 14th Gen CPUs by two years but its RMA procedure has been anything but straightforward for some
news "If the products fail the validation process, the units will be retained and confiscated, and no replacements or refunds will be provided."
AI avatars may soon be attending meetings for us and that sure feels like a slippery slope towards an AI future none of us want
AI and me AI is entering the workplace and a bright future awaits, we're told. I'm really not so sure.
Things I've missed: Windows 11 lets you 'End Task' from the taskbar, but you have to turn it on yourself
News Well, there's a useful little feature hiding itself away.
AMD's Ryzen 9000-series CPUs may have been delayed because of a typo on the heatspreader, which is definitely not the sort of mistake I'd ever make
news Ryzen 7, Ryzen 9, what's the difference? Err, quite a lot.
Intel has no plans to recall those crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, hasn't halted sales, and the damage to affected chips may be permanent
news No recall, no halting of sales, and no comment on warranty extensions.
A leaked document indicates Runway's Gen-3 AI video generation tool may have been trained on YouTube videos and copyrighted content without permission
news I imagine the lawyers are sharpening their pencils...
Bing is experimenting with search pages that boot traditional results off to the side in favour of AI summaries, and the results are a bit of a mess
news Useful information, get out of the way: AI has something it wants to tell you.
Google's AI solved four out of six problems in one of the world's hardest maths competitions, equivalent to a silver medal standard 'in a certain sense'
News *Rubs belly* Who's a good AI? You're a good AI. Yes you are. Yes you are.
This is not a typo: The world's fastest gaming monitor may well be this ancient IIyama CRT unit, pushed to 700 Hz at a glorious 120p resolution
news All hail the IIyama Vision Master Pro 512, an old timer pushed to within an inch of its life.
Microsoft says 8.5 million devices were affected by the CrowdStrike bug or 'less than one percent of all Windows devices' as new details emerge on Friday's tech meltdown
News As damage control continues, we're now learning how the CrowdStrike crisis unfolded, and why.
Smaller and faster Windows 11 updates are on the way as Microsoft switches to downloading just what you need and none of what you don't
news The tyranny of huge Windows updates looks to be a thing of the past.
Dyson's humongous ANC headphones look great for Princess Leia impressions from the side, but from the front, I'm not convinced
news We'll have to get a review set in to see if they suck. Boo. I'm booing myself.
The Tony Blair Insitute 'did not simply ask ChatGPT for the results' of its AI impact report, it trained its own version of ChatGPT instead
news If there's one thing I trust, its AI predictions. Said nobody ever.
Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Keyboard review
Old meets new Refreshingly old-school yet with all the mod cons.
Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat
News The Las Vegas Sphere might have an impressive spec sheet, but its energy demands are almost as staggering.
Setting every registry value to zero in Windows 10 breaks most features—but Paint and WordPad cling on until the very last
news The Windows registry remains a place of mystery and wonder.
Alienware Pro wireless gaming mouse review
Simple things Smooth, speedy and incredibly light. To a fault, perhaps.
The Game Boy Camera can now be used as a webcam, providing 16,000 pixels of grainy black and white glory
news Black and white and previously dead all over—but thanks to this dock, resurrected.
Excellent news—Apple Vision Pro headsets can no longer be filled with VR spiders
news You mean that was a possibility to begin with?
FTC fires out warnings to ASRock, Gigabyte and Zotac over 'Warranty void if removed' stickers in violation of US law
news Threatening stickers, err, under threat. Good riddance, says I.
Elden Ring's 1.12.3 patch notes blame third party mouse apps and unintentional ray tracing settings for performance issues
news A reminder to check your settings, and potentially disable some useful mouse configuration tools if you're having issues.
