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Zak Killian

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Ever since playing Joust on his family's Atari 800XL 8-bit computer as a youth, Zak has been hooked on PC and console games. His passion for gaming as a kid led to an interest in PCs as a teenager, which ended up with him founding his own PC repair shop in the year 2000. Decades later, he's still building, still gaming, and still arguing on the internet with any opinion anyone has. A former writer of news and reviews for The Tech Report, Zak is a modern-day Renaissance man who may not be an expert on anything, but knows just a little about nearly everything.

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Intel's foundry ambitions have shifted from a hopeful turnaround story into a tangible powerhouse narrative. Following the momentum of its 18A node, the company's successor technology, the 1.4nm-class Intel 14A, is rapidly shaping up to be... Read more...
Whatever you think of Moore's Law is Dead, he's just dropped a massive new leak seemingly revealing tons of supposed details about AMD's upcoming Zen 7 architecture and the products that will be based on it. As always, take these leaks... Read more...
Educational publishing giant McGraw Hill has confirmed a massive data leak, resulting in roughly 13.5 million user accounts being exposed online. The breach, which materialized earlier this month (April 2026), stemmed from a... Read more...
Despite being labeled "very preliminary info" and advised not to report on it, this information is so peculiar that we had to drop a post about it. Here's the story: regular and usually reliable Intel leaker Jaykihn claims that Intel is... Read more...
If you've ever tried to click the "back" button on your browser only to find yourself trapped in a loop or redirected to a sketchy spam page, relief is finally on the way. Google has announced that it is expanding its Search spam policies... Read more...
Gaming handhelds are relatively small by nature, and as a result, it's not really possible to put a discrete GPU in one. That means gaming on integrated graphics, necessarily. Well, what faster SoC with integrated graphics than AMD's Ryzen... Read more...
In recent years, processor models have broadly been like this: lots of cores with little integrated graphics, or a few cores with a big built-in GPU. This is because both AMD and Intel have shipped one design for desktops that includes... Read more...
If you read this site regularly, you'll already be well-informed about Intel's upcoming Nova Lake family of processors; at least, as well-informed as it's possible to be from early leaks and rumors. We have another such leak on the news... Read more...
Windows' multi-monitor support is remarkably functional when you think about what it's having to do. Still, the experience isn't always silky smooth. In particular some folks may suffer weird stutters when moving windows around or smoothly... Read more...
If you downloaded common system tools CPU-Z or HWMonitor in the last 24 hours, stop reading this and go deal with that system first, because there's a real chance it was compromised. A breach of the official site for these tools resulted... Read more...
We already knew the NVIDIA N1 was a thing; NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told the world straight up that his company was working with Mediatek on SoCs for AI PCs, and he also confirmed that the N1 and the GB10 Superchip in the DGX Spark are one... Read more...
Our colleagues over at German site HardwareLuxx have posted up their full review of the Arc Pro B70, Intel's long-awaited top-end Battlemage GPU that finally launched last month. As you could guess from the name, the card is focused on... Read more...
Windows 11 has faced significant backlash as of late. Even before Microsoft integrated a number of controversial Copilot AI related features, users balked at the many changes to the operating system that diminished functionality, like the... Read more...
AMD has finally revealed the price of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, so let's not waste any time: it's $899 USD. That is, of course, the suggested price, and retailers are free to price it higher, but $899 is already a pretty stiff ask... Read more...
Going down the list of leaked Intel codenames, we have Nova Lake, Razor Lake, Titan Lake, Serpent Lake... wait, what the heck is Serpent Lake? Well, according to prominent hardware leaker Jaykihn (@Jaykihn0 on Xwitter), "Serpent Lake" is... Read more...
If you use Steam consistently you'll likely have noticed that many reviews now include the user's system specs thanks to a new checkbox you can check when you're adding a review for a game. You may also have seen a pop-up dialog recently... Read more...
Intel's "HX" processors have, for several generations now, been its top-end laptop silicon. That's because they hold a little secret: they're not really laptop-specific silicon, exactly. Instead, the "HX" processor family is typically a... Read more...
Google's "Gemma" isn't the same thing as Gemini. Instead, Gemma is Google's series of open-weights models, which means you can download them and run them on your own hardware. Gemma 4 comes in four sizes, ranging from 2 billion to 31... Read more...
Many believe that Apple makes the most efficient laptop chips and that MacBooks have the best battery life because the Arm ISA supposedly offers superior performance and efficiency over the crufty x86 ISA. But that is not the case. Apple's... Read more...
A new poll from Quinnipiac University suggests a growing unease around artificial intelligence even as usage continues to climb. Surveying 1,397 adults, the poll finds that 55% of respondents believe AI will do more harm than good in their... Read more...
If you've ever desperately wanted to know exactly what your golden retriever is yelling at the mailman, a newly emerged tech startup claims to have the answer. Enter Pettichat, an AI-powered smart collar currently courting early adopters... Read more...
It would be easy to assume from the name that Wildcat Lake is the successor to Intel's recently launched Panther Lake CPUs, but wildcats aren't as big as panthers, and there's your clue as to what these CPUs actually are: the successors to... Read more...
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