Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
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".
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'.
Chrome beats all comers in web browser drag race, never mind the memory footprint and privacy problems
news Faster than Edge, Firefox, Opera, and the rest.
PC sales are finally on the up again as Lenovo tightens its grip on the top spot in the charts while Dell takes a dip
news All the big brands are up... apart from Dell.
Intel reportedly won't make any cheaper GPU-less 'F' spec versions of its top Arrow Lake CPUs
news But we could still see some pure CPU models with the iGPU turned off further down the range.
Why TSMC's 4nm silicon will make or break Intel's new Battlemage GPUs
news Has the competition gone for N4 or N3?
Mark Zuckerberg accuses AI competitors of attempting to 'create God'
news The Zuck warns against the quest for 'one true AI'.
Ageing Windows 10 PCs will live on an extra five years thanks to third-party security patches
news 0patch's "micropatches" can be applied without a reboot and easily reversed.
Intel denies Lunar Lake laptop chip delay but reports say Arrow Lake could actually go on sale first
news Intel's seemingly intentional vagueness has the rumour mill in a tizz.
Super-tiny capacitors could enable a 'whole new realm' of ultra-efficient devices, maybe even handheld gaming PCs with more than 15 minutes of battery life
news Dare we hope for a gaming handheld with usable battery life?
Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED G80SD gaming monitor review
DumbTV disaster So frustrating, it'll make you cry.
SSD prices could steady or even drop as NAND chip makers boost production
News Not that SSD pricing ever got all that bad.
Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company, but will somebody please think about poor old PC gamers?
News Adios Apple and Microsoft, you're old news.
Microsoft president grovels before Congress, takes responsibility for a 'cascade' of cybersecurity errors
news Chinese hackers accessed US government data thanks to Microsoft's 'avoidable errors'.
