Kioxia might not be a household name for many PC enthusiasts, but the company is synonymous with "fast storage" in the server and datacenter world. The technologists at the Japanese multinational have been hard at work and came up with a...Read more...
ASUS is known for releasing a wide selection of motherboards for every major chipset, and today the company let its latest cat out of the bag: The ROG Strix X870E-H Gaming WiFi 7. This motherboard is based on the highest grade of Ryzen...Read more...
NVIDIA just released a new driver and a massive update to its NVIDIA App, bringing in lots of settings from the old NVIDIA Control Panel, and adding a ton of new and quality-of-life features. This latest release is currently in beta, but...Read more...
Update, 8/19/25, 1:12 PM ET: Phison, the company whose controllers are used by a few SSD brands, has issued the following statement: "Phison has recently been made aware of the industry-wide effects of the 'KB5063878' and ‘KB5062660’...Read more...
PC gamers with an interest in the inner workings of their machine have historically had to rely on a mish-mash of third-party tools to keep track of CPU, memory, and GPU usage. Commonly used tools include HWMonitor, HWiNFO, and MSI...Read more...
Coincedentally, I was just discussing desktop PC power delivery woes with some friends, and voilá, ASUS releases a motherboard that addresses this topic. The ROG Crosshair X870E Hero BTF is one meaty motherboard, ready to take the latest...Read more...
It hasn't been a fun past few months for Intel employees as the company continues to fire large swaths of its workforce. The job cuts run quite deep, so much that they're starting to affect the company's Linux kernel driver...Read more...
Seemingly out of nowhere, Perplexity AI posted a $34.5 billion bid to buy out Google's Chrome browser. Additionally, the offer was made fully in cash, with no equity to be exchanged.
The offer comes as a surprise because as far as most...Read more...
The tech space has no shortage of personalities, and memes about Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Jensen Huang are in plentiful supply—especially considering how pivotal their decisions are. However, one person who's just as relevant right now is...Read more...
Everyone's favorite file archiving utility isn't often in the news, but today is an exception. The WinRAR archiving utility has been the target of a couple of large-scale attacks that leverage a 0-day security vulnerability.
The news...Read more...
We have a one-two combo of juicy Apple rumors today, about a new cost-optimized MacBook, along with the headwinds faced by the Apple Intelligence team in charge of enabling Siri with superhuman capabilities. Get your pinch of salt ready...Read more...
Meta must be feeling very confident about the security of its WhatsApp messaging application. The company is co-sponsoring this year's Pwn2Own competition (from ZDI, the Zero Day Initiative group) with a cool combined $2 million in prizes. If you're clever enough, you can earn $1 million with...Read more...
If you've been following GPU news in recent days, you may have come across some findings highlighting that some games based on Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) suffer from heavy stuttering with AMD's RX 9000-series cards when ray-tracing (RT) effects...Read more...
NVIDIA's older-generation graphics cards enjoyed a pretty good run, but time waits for neither man nor GPU. The company has announced that this October's Game Ready driver release will be the last one for a number of its vintage...Read more...
The news are just in, and El Capitan reigns supreme. Named after the massive rock structure at Yosemite National Park, the subject of the day is the El Capitan supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The machine just...Read more...
TSMC is having a fantastic day today, we're certain. The Taiwanese giant responsible for making most of the world's high-end chips just got another order from NVIDIA, this time for wafers for an additional 300,000 (yes, three hundred...Read more...
It's pretty safe to say that Google Pixel phones are hot right now. Not too long ago, there were a couple of reports of Pixel 6a devices catching fire, and yet another Pixel 6a has put on a pyrotechnics show. This marks the third such phone in recent months to go up in flames due to an...Read more...
Most PC and gaming enthusiasts can talk about FPS and high refresh rates all day long, but when it comes to quality laptops for general use, battery life is still king. A while back, Qualcomm and Microsoft decided to challenge the status...Read more...
Old-timers might recall the idea of "RISC" as a once-upon-a-time processor design ideology. RISC processors were mostly used for servers from Sun Microsystems, DEC, and other companies of a bygone era. As it happens though, RISC is alive...Read more...
Summer is in full swing, and the weather is perfect for an outing somewhere, preferably far from the hustle and bustle of daily life. As nice as that sounds, outdoor life does have its fair share of inconveniences, namely the lack of...Read more...
Microsoft Systems administrators everywhere, it looks like you get a Patch Monday as a side dish to the usual Patch Tuesday this week. There's a full remote code vulnerability (RCE) exploit for SharePoint running around, letting any...Read more...
If you're in the market for a Ryzen 9000-series processor you can probably save a few bucks soon by going for a variant without integrated graphics (IGP). According to rumors and hints, the release of AMD's Ryzen 9000F series without an...Read more...