Latest articles by Andy Edser
Deezer says it's being bombarded by 'nearly 75,000' AI-generated tunes every day, and that 97% of survey respondents can't tell the difference between human-made and AI music
News Robot music is no longer beeps and boops.
The makers of Playdate, the console-with-a-crank, will no longer accept games created with generative AI
News 'There are lots of people in the world who are extremely eager and excited to create beautiful music, art, and words for your Playdate creation.'
Anthropic had a 'productive and constructive' meeting with White House officials after the preview release of its new cybersecurity-challenging AI model
News Best friends again?
Gigabyte describes its new PSU range as a 'Hardware Guardian', protecting your graphics card from melting and presumably fighting crime in its spare time
News To the Volt-mobile!
This AMD-powered, Linux-running mini PC looks like a Steam Machine disguised as a vinyl record player, without the fancy controller
News A mixing console?
Report claims the global CPU shortage is 'more acute for processors than memory' as industry waits for Intel's 18A chips to plug the gap
News Yes, it's caused by AI demand. What else?
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB review (Asus Prime)
Score: 63% Yes, it's cheap—but there's still a cost.
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB review (Palit Dual)
Score: 73% A punchy little performer, but 8 GB of VRAM comes with caveats.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
Where does your PC live? There is obviously one correct answer, can you pick it out?
Poll Don't hide your gaming light under a bushel. Or a desk.
Minecraft creator Notch says 'DLSS fundamentally makes no sense', but the X comments say 'um, actually'
News Hey, we're all learning. All the time.
Two high-rated motherboard security vulnerabilities have been identified in Gigabyte Control Center, so come update your software along with me
News Time for a spring clean.
Dell XPS 14 laptop with a Panther Lake chip manages a staggering 43-hour+ battery life result, thrashing the latest MacBook Air
News MacBook in the mud.
Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse
DIY Pick the products from our latest recommendations.
512,000 lines of Claude Code's own CLI source code have leaked due to 'human error', but the company says 'no sensitive customer data or credentials' were exposed
News I'd imagine it'll still be keeping some coders busy over the weekend.
To the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS
News We try these things not because they are easy, etc etc.
The latest Nvidia App beta update adds DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support and an intriguing Auto Shader Compilation feature to the green team suite
News More frames, dynamically.
The new Crimson Desert patches are grand and all, but the Ray Reconstruction performance and lighting options are still all kind of b0rked on my machine
News I guess it's going to take a while to fix, but Crimson Desert's visuals have some... issues left to resolve, at least for me.
'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script
News Is there anything on earth that can't run Doom at this point?
You can chow down on this edible thermal paste made from gold leaf and honey, and it's not as horrible for your temps as you might expect
News Condiment, meet cooling.
Yes, some DDR5 RAM prices have dropped recently—but I wouldn't pop the champagne just yet
News Good RAM is still eye-wateringly expensive, but some of the discounts are back at the very least.
This intrepid bug bounty hunter is splicing together Tesla parts from crashed cars, and has somehow managed to build a semi-working computer system on their desk
News In the Mad Max times to come, this dude's got it all figured out.
Google says it's preparing for the quantum apocalypse, when traditional encryption methods are broken by quantum computers, by 2029—which is much sooner than originally expected
News Well, it's been fun folks. Thanks for all the fish.
Senator Bernie Sanders announces bill to pause US data center construction: 'AI and robotics will impact our economy, our democracy, our privacy rights... even our very survival as human beings on this planet'
News 'I fear that Congress is totally unprepared for the magnitude of the changes that are already taking place.'
