Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
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'.
Qualcomm touts Intel-beating gaming performance for its Snapdragon X Arm chip, promises gaming app plus monthly GPU driver updates
news Qualcomm is making quite the push for PC gaming with its new chip.
Pay no attention to AMD's horribly misleading benchmarks for its 'new' Ryzen 5000 XT CPUs
news And really pretty naughty.
AMD's greatest gaming CPU won't be beaten by AMD's latest gaming CPU, and that's according to AMD
news But upcoming X3D versions of Ryzen 9000-series chips will be even better.
The battle for the heart of next-gen handheld gaming PCs: AMD's Strix Point versus Intel's Lunar Lake
AMD v Intel Frame rates or battery life, take your choice...
HAVN's new 'Unisheet' glass case is the totally panoramic PC you've been waiting for
news Unisheet Heatformed Glass for the win!
Corsair's new cases at Computex include its biggest ever beast and a cut-price contender with full wrap-around glass
news The 9000D is a monster but it's the 3500X that would get our cash.
Intel's new Lunar Lake CPU is simultaneously wonderful, weird and worrisome, but has the makings of an awesome handheld gaming chip
News Say what you want about Intel's new mobile CPU, it's not boring.
