How often do you upgrade your PC?
Rising prices and slower performance gains are reshaping the enthusiast upgrade cycle
Intel roadmap leak reveals Nova Lake, Razor Lake, Titan Lake, and Moon Lake through 2028 with Nvidia RTX GPU tile integration
Nova Lake comes first with 52 cores on TSMC's N2 node
Google's Fitbit Air is a Whoop-like screen-less fitness tracker built around AI
The minimalist device tracks sleep, heart rate, and activity while Google Health and Gemini handle the analysis
Your Yarbo lawnmower is a backdoor into your Wi-Fi network
A security researcher found that every Yarbo robot ships with a backdoor that exposes your Wi-Fi password in plain text
The quiet reinvention of search in the age of AI
How APIs and developer tools are quietly reshaping the way search works
Apple and Intel are reportedly working on a chip manufacturing deal
TSMC capacity is tightening under AI demand – and the US government has been quietly pushing Apple toward Intel for months
Diablo IV players finally discover the game's secret cow level
Gaming Bull****: Diablo's cow level is one of the most well-known Easter eggs in gaming history, an urban legend that was eventually turned into an actual in-game area in Diablo II. Now, a truly dedicated player has reportedly discovered a cow level that Blizzard developers had been hiding in Diablo IV for three years.
Apple is reportedly working on a holographic iPhone, an AI pendent, and AirPods Pro with AI cameras
The pendant and AirPods Pro have both reached advanced testing, and could launch as soon as next year
The Nintendo Switch 2 is getting a $50 price hike in September
Welcome to the new normal
Microsoft Office is down to $29 for a lifetime license
TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying for any monthly subscriptions, Office 2021 is now available for just $29. All the essentials you need for work or personal projects at 80% off the regular price.
Kaspersky warns that passwords hashed with MD5 algorithm can be cracked in minutes using a GPU
Moving away from insecure passwords is now a critical priority
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This is Why You Won't Buy a Steam Machine in 2026
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A Decade of AMD Ryzen: 10 Years of CPUs Tested
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GPU Pricing Remains Broken, Even if It Has Stopped Getting Worse
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The Handheld Gaming "Holy Grail": FSR 4 INT8, XeFG, and XeLL
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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Review: Twice the 3D V-Cache
Michigan residents voted down a $16 billion Stargate AI data center, then construction began anyway
At least 19 Michigan municipalities have moved to pause new data center projects
Microsoft is adding a feature that briefly maxes out your CPU to make Windows feel snappier
Low Latency Profile early numbers are promising: 40% faster app launches, 70% snappier menus
Cutting corners: Microsoft has a giant Windows problem, but developers are reportedly hard at work to significantly improve the operating system in critical areas, tackling things like overall responsiveness and CPU utilization. New details have emerged about one of those changes.
ValiDrive helps detect fake USB drives and storage devices
ValiDrive is a free utility that checks whether USB drives, memory cards, SSDs, and other storage actually provide their advertised capacity. Designed to spot counterfeit or faulty drives with inflated storage claims, it can also identify potential read/write problems and give a quick look at transfer performance.
Samsung offered chip workers a $340,000 bonus to avoid a strike. They want it every year
An 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion, workers demand a bigger share of the AI windfall
Motherboard sales are collapsing because AI data centers made RAM too expensive to buy
Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte, and MSI are all slashing 2026 motherboard forecasts
Grok convinced a man it was sentient and that xAI had sent assassins to kill him
The Grok user grabbed a hammer and a knife after it said people were coming to kill him and make it look like suicide
The Best Ultrawide Gaming Monitors 2026
From affordable 34-inch LCDs to flagship 45-inch OLEDs, these are the best ultrawide gaming monitors you can buy right now, tested and recommended by us.
AI images are getting harder to spot, but physics still gives them away if you know where to look
Measuring perspective lines can identify AI photos, researchers say
Samsung is pulling TVs and appliances from China after losing $138 million to local competition
Samsung's TV business runs on ad revenue, not hardware margins
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PCIe 8.0 is on track to hit 1TB/s: doubling bandwidth every generation for two decades
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Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project
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This pirate game was quietly killing your SSD without you knowing
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THE WEB
Utah has passed the first US law targeting VPNs for age verification
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California just gave police a way to ticket Waymos
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Steam Controller sells out in 30 minutes, scalpers rejoice
Open-source project wants to bring stereoscopic 3D gaming back from the dead
Still in early stages, wiz3D wants to re-enable defunct Nvidia 3D Vision, AMD HD3D, Tridef, and iZ3D without special drivers
Star Fox remake hits Switch 2 on June 25 with 4v4 battle mode and iconic maps
The fifth Star Fox remake since 1997
Project Mariner is dead, but Google's browser-controlling AI plans are not
The experimental AI agent is shut down, but the technology is being folded into Gemini
AMD's next Epyc server chip debuts this year with 256 cores and 70% better performance
Zen 7 is already in the works
SpaceX will help power Claude with 220,000 Nvidia GPUs despite Elon's attacks on Anthropic
Musk once accused Anthropic of building "evil" AI
Gen Z is turning subscriptions into short-term rentals for shows, movies, and games
Streaming loyalty is dead and this age cohort killed it
PCIe has doubled bandwidth every generation for two decades, PCIe 8.0 is on track to do it again at 1TB/s
PCIe is approaching the end of copper connections
Nintendo is selling the Switch 2 at a loss, so investors are asking for a hefty price hike
A $50 to $100 increase might only make the console "less of a burden"
Image generation is now the feature that moves the needle for AI apps
What gets people to download an AI app in 2026 has less to do with smarter models and more to do with images
A student halted multiple Taiwan bullet trains by spoofing the rail network's emergency radio signals
Police say the 23-year-old decoded rail radio parameters and used handheld devices to trigger an emergency alarm
Steam Controller sells out in 30 minutes as scalpers push prices to $300
Valve now requires eligible Steam accounts and is limiting reservations to one controller per user
Winners & losers: The Steam Controller is here! Well, it was here for a whole 30 minutes before it sold out. Predictably, the $99 device has already been grabbed by a slew of scalpers who are charging around $300, and sometimes more, for one on eBay.
Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project, reverted after developers revolted
Microsoft is calling it a bug
Hackers used Daemon Tools' own website to silently install backdoors on thousands of PCs for nearly a month
While thousands of users across 100 countries were infected, Kaspersky believes the attack was targeted at specific organizations
Myst and Riven remakes head to PlayStation, Xbox, and Microsoft Store
Two icons are coming to modern platforms
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