Chris Harper
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Following the reveal of its retro-inspired ROG Crosshair 2006 X870E motherboard, Asus is showing off some ROG-branded, Hynix-based DDR5 RAM running at 8800 MT/s with the powerful AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU. It's an impressive overclock...
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It only took the better part of five years, but Microsoft is finally listening to Windows users and restoring desired Taskbar functionality to Windows 11 and addition some customization options to the Start menu too. The Taskbar used to...
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Microsoft's initiative to improve Windows 11 is in full swing and the company just announced an overhaul to how system drivers are handled. In Taipei at WinHEC 2026, Microsoft announced the Driver Quality Initiative (DQI), which is...
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It's a great time for fans of premium controllers: not only did the new Steam Controller just release to high sales and critical acclaim, but now leaked photos confirm the existence of an Xbox Elite Series 3 controller.
The first Elite...
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Nightmare-Eclipse, a cybersecurity researcher previously known for a controversial reveal of three Windows Defender zero-day exploits seemingly rejected by Microsoft for petty reasons, has followed up with information regarding a BitLocker...
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Multiple sources have confirmed that Best Buy sent out an email alert for Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders early, marking a May 18th start date for pre-orders of the physical PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions of the game. This timing...
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Razer is following up on last year's Huntsman release with the new Razer Huntsman V3 TKL 8KHz. Since there's also a TKL version of the V3 Pro, the Huntsman V3 is a similar keyboard, but with a few changes that result in an even smaller...
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We've known for some time that Google was planning to merge Android and Chrome OS for a new type of operating system, thanks to leaks of an "Aluminum" desktop interface and Android app support being added years ago. Today, we learned the...
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A well-known gap in AMD's GPU drive support on Linux was the absence of HDMI 2.1 and Display Stream Compression (DSC), but fortunately AMD open source software engineer Harry Wentland and the team have finally remedied the situation. Per...
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The upcoming Forza Horizon 6 looks great and may be one of Xbox Game Studio's biggest releases yet, but unfortunately for the publisher and series developer Playground Games, the entire game was inadvertently leaked 10 days ahead of its...
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Sony is notifying PS4 players who have Grand Theft Auto VI on their wish-list (or have tons of GTA V playtime) that a new console will be required to play the hotly-anticipated game when it launches on November 19th.
As spotted by...
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PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 has earned much praise thanks to its rapid pace in emulating the complex Cell CPU architecture since its initial release in 2011, but the open source nature of the project means that virtually anybody can...
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ASUS just introduced a pair of new ROG Strix displays. The star of the show is the 34-inch Tandem RGB QD-OLED ASUS ROG Strix XG35WCDMS, a 21:9 Ultrawide which offers up to 280 Hz refresh rate with a 0.03 millisecond response time. The...
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In a PDF on Personnel Changes quietly attached to Nintendo's latest fiscal report, the retirement of one of its most prestigious directors, Takashi Tezuka, was announced. Takashi Tezuka is best known for his involvement in the Super Mario...
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Discovery of the Copy Fail Linux kernel exploit sparked widespread discussion and concern around Linux kernel security earlier this month, and that was for an exploit that had mostly already been patched by the time the public was made...
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An unexpected feature buried within free Nintendo Switch 2 game Super Animal Royale caught the Internet's attention this week. Specifically, some web pages viewable within the game and Nintendo Switch 2's system-level browser contain...
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Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a frightening new Linux rootkit, dubbed Quasar Linux (QLNX,) and developers should be especially concerned. Per the report (which we spotted through Bleeping Computer's coverage,) QLNX is a Linux...
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Google is the latest company to generate negative headlines for its AI integration, due to its Gemini AI integration into Chrome announced back in September of last year. In the months since, the feature has rolled out to users' PCs, and...
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Notepad++ is in the news again, though it's more of a mixed bag than its last report. In short, an unlicensed Mac OS port was released for Notepad++, which is usually Windows and Linux-exclusive. In addition, this particular Mac OS port is...
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In an offhanded comment on the official X account for Call of Duty, developers confirmed that the next entry in the series will be exclusive to current-gen consoles and PC. The responses range from players declaring they weren't interested...
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According to a post on Glassdoor, Rockstar Games employees—at least those working at Rockstar Interactive India—are being subjected to unreasonable working conditions ahead of the game's anticipated November 19th launch. A Glassdoor review...
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After 29 years in the business, Ask.com (formerly known as Ask Jeeves), has finally closed its doors as of May 1st, 2026. While the writing has been on the wall since Google's search engine took the world by storm and nearly monopolized web search as a whole, it still marks the end of an era...
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