Latest articles by Andy Edser
Meet GigaWiper, a tricksy new malware that can wipe your PC's storage drives squeaky clean and spy on your desktop all at once
News I guess I could do with the free space...
TIL: All the computers on the set of Jurassic Park were real, and someone has finally catalogued them in 'excruciating detail' because life, uh, finds a way
News Hold onto your butts.
OpenAI's collab mini keeb has optional 'yeet' and 'yolo' buttons, which is totally lit my fellow rizz lords, no cap
News Staying hip with the kids, I see.
AI music generator Suno has been hacked, detailing the data scraping of millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
News The same old tune.
Over 4,500 Google workers have signed a petition calling for layoff protections: 'These layoffs and cuts are not difficult decisions, but simply profit being put over the people that make this company run'
News The petition was reportedly "greeted with closed doors and no response for the most part."
The team behind Windows NT sent 'black cardboard coffins' and fake dog poop to their rivals back in the 90s, because nerds
News Halcyon days.
This AliExpress-sourced $5 USB hub has been described as 'mildly dangerous' for your PC, thanks to a nasty power issue
News In a word: Eek.
NY governor orders a pause on large AI data center construction, to ensure that 'when companies succeed because of New York, New Yorkers succeed too'
News 'It’s my responsibility to take action and lead," said governor Hochul.
HWMonitor now shows you thermal hotspot data for RTX 50-series graphics cards, so I thought I'd give one of ours a quick test
News Keep an eye on your spots.
Latest Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates stamp out a record 622 security vulnerabilities, as the company's AI-enhanced bug hunt looks to bear fruit
News Squish, squish, squish.
This DIY 'OpenPuck' project allows the Steam Controller to emulate Xbox, Switch, and PlayStation controllers, but no wireless charging for you
News Still, it's a perfectly practical puck in many respects.
BOE's new $9 billion OLED monitor plant, capable of churning out 10 million panels this year alone, is now up and running—with some big names already on board
News That's a whole lot of OLED competition and some seriously delicious pixels.
Too hot to handle: A leaked internal Nvidia tool re-enables blocked GPU hotspot sensor data for RTX 50-series graphics cards
News Exactly how hot are we talking?
'After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple’s phone technology! Wow': Elon Musk and Sam Altman are fighting on the internet again
News Keep it down would you, lads? Some of us have work to do.
Report suggests the US gov may have 'urged' Apple into Intel chipmaking deal to avoid tariffs, at almost the same time it took a $9 billion stake in blue team stock
News Allegedly.
A new Copilot feature tells you what might be slowing down your PC—while gorging itself on a fair chunk of your system RAM
News It can't help, can it?
Seasonic has removed the RTX 50-series Super GPU variants from its PSU wattage calculator. Was it just guesswork or actual info revealed too soon?
News Still, CES 2027, perhaps?
Asus ProArt Mouse MD301
Score: 71% A professional design, but with enough quirks to give me pause.
Somehow, the $1,000 Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is the best value gaming handheld I can think of right now
I guess? Handheld gaming PC pricing is ridonculous.
Razer Seiren V3 Pro microphone review
Score: 82% Razer's Shure MV7+ competitor has the odd quirk, but it's a good effort regardless.
Steam Machine review
Score: 62% A wonderful design can't beat the ugly realities of pricing, performance, and consumer value.
The Steam Machine is the biggest victim of the RAMpocalypse to date, and that's made me unreasonably annoyed
Steamed up Chalk another one up to AI demand, I guess.
Uni researchers plan to build a low-carbon data center hivemind from 2,000 Pixel smartphones—with Google's help, no less
News The omni-phone.
