Latest articles by Andy Edser
This incredibly frustrating metronome 'will never, ever, tick exactly once per second' in order to thwart the goals of Hackaday's One Hertz Challenge
News Oh you beautiful, hateful machine.
'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
News 'You told me to always ask permission. And I ignored all of it.'
'Humanity has prevailed (for now!)' says former OpenAI employee, admitting he's 'barely alive' after beating one of its AI models in a coding world championship fight
News Get this man an energy drink, stat.
I have no idea what I'd use this gorgeous retro futuristic macropad for, but at $99 I'm thinking of slamming the buy button anyway
News We all need more buttons and dials, of this I am certain.
I am now slightly obsessed with Uncle Bot, a Chinese robot in people clothes that's rapidly becoming a social media sensation
News Turns out all we needed to accept robots as people is a pair of shorts and a shirt.
Keep this to yourself, but a BIOS with a theoretical 2,001 W power limit exists for this absurdly overbuilt Galax RTX 5090 D
News I think I can hear my PSU crying from here.
Google begins legal action against BadBox 2.0, 'the largest known botnet of internet-connected TVs' affecting more than 10,000,000 Android devices including *checks notes* picture frames
News Badbox Badbox, what you gonna do, what you gonna do when they come for you.
Meta is using its own blend of AI-optimised, low-carbon 'green concrete' in one of its honking great data centers
News There's something here about oceans and small amounts of liquid, I reckon.
It's not just Nvidia that's looking to cash in on those loosening US/China chip export restrictions, as AMD also seems close to resuming AI GPU shipments
News It's "sell your high-end AI hardware to China" season, and two major players are positioning themselves on the board.
Intel's fancy new AI tool measures image quality in games in real time, so upscaling artifacts and visual nasties have nowhere to hide
News Quantifying the subjective—an Intel tool.
The US squeezed Nvidia's AI chip export deal with China into negotiations over important rare earth elements, bizarrely claiming 'we put that in the trade deal with the magnets'
News Ah, it's "leaving important bits out" day.
'All throughout my life I've had to deal with Xfinity's bull****': Frustrated with living in a Comcast-only neighbourhood, two brothers-in-law started their own ISP
News Gentlemen, I salute you.
Japanese researchers achieve 1,020,000,000 Mbps internet speeds over a 1,123 mile line, 3.5 million times faster than the average US connection and a hell of a lot quicker than mine
News Plug me in.
The Nintendo DS had it right all along: Ayaneo launches Flip 1S DS and Flip 1S KB, two new clamshell handheld gaming PCs with prices to make your teeth clench
News I'll take the one with the little keeb, please.
Meta is expanding its AI capabilities so quickly it's housing data centers in tents, which would make them data tenters, no?
News My editors are going to hate this headline.
Google's Gemini AI backed out of a chess match against a 46 year-old Atari 2600 engine after suffering a crisis of confidence: 'Canceling the match is likely the most time-efficient and sensible decision'
News We've all been there.
Good news for multitaskers: Microsoft is gradually rolling out taskbar scaling to squeeze in as many icons as possible in the latest Windows 11 Insider build
News Move over, lads.
Leaked pricing suggests the ROG Xbox Ally X might be the most expensive Xbox console yet, which probably isn't the award Microsoft is aiming for
News Probably.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'we don't have to worry' about the Chinese military using US chips to improve their capabilities because 'they simply can't rely on it'
News 'They don't need Nvidia's chips, certainly, or American tech stacks, in order to build their military.'
This YouTube channel is converting a 3,287-hour FAA-certified flight simulator into a gaming PC-based sim rig and it wants your help
News A level of sim nerdery I can truly appreciate.
My bank account isn't exactly overflowing at the moment, so here's the gaming laptop I'd buy with my own money this Prime Day
Prime Day Not too much, not too little. Perfect.
Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards
Pixel Pushers I've made a career out of prodding graphics cards and this has been the toughest set of recommendations I can remember.
Best gaming chair in 2025: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer
Take a seat Treat your body to one of the best gaming chairs and sit like a royal on your new throne.
