Latest articles by James Bentley
Creative is on an absolute tear right now with its value gaming speakers, hogging fully half our top recommendations
Enter stage left Though the overall spot remains unchanged.
Best PC speakers in 2025: From 2.1 systems to bookshelf bangers, these are the best gaming PC speakers
Volume up Treat yourself to an awesome audio experience with the best PC speakers.
Intel is suing an ex-employee of 11 years alleging the engineer downloaded nearly 18,000 files, many of which being top secret or confidential
News Intel's intel has apparently been stolen.
A few Redditors faked the recent Ryzen 7 9700X3D benchmark leaks and explain 'why you can't trust online bench databases'
News Playing X3DChess.
At a company sports day, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang acknowledges 'without TSMC, there is no Nvidia today' and says thank you to the 'pride of the world' company
News Nvidia will want to keep a strong bond with the Taiwanese manufacturer.
One techie has built a camera out of an old Logitech gaming mouse, and it's inspired by the Game Boy Camera
News It even has multiple shot types.
Windows 'really does suck for some people': Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer explains how he would fix the popular OS
News "I think we've crossed the line over to where the operating system feels like a sales channel for all their other properties."
If you think 2025 couldn't get worse, Collins Dictionary awards 'vibe coding' the word of the year
News And I'm here to say 'Um, actually'.
OpenAI's Sam Altman is not looking for government rescue if things go bad: 'Taxpayers should not bail out companies that make bad business decisions'
News That doesn't mean the US government won't help in other ways.
Great, now even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google, as it documents new phase of 'AI abuse'
News I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer says 'SD cards are lame!' and opts to rescue a 200 lb 14-inch magnetic disc drive from the '80s with just 622 MB of storage
News Just listen to that noise.
Japan's biggest publishing house and one of the world's largest manga producers takes aim at OpenAI, accusing it of 'trampling on the dignity of artists'
News Copyright is pretty big to a major publisher, in case you can't tell.
'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'
News The Internet Archive has archived one trillion webpages since its inception.
Ayaneo is teasing a 'mobile phone truly made for gamers' and I hope it keeps its promises
News Do I need a gaming phone? No. Do I want one? Maybe.
Samsung and other memory manufacturers reportedly leave DDR5 buyers hanging as prices expected to surge 30–50% every quarter from the end of 2025 through the first half of 2026
News The biggest rise in recent memory.
It looks like a NUC, it smells like a NUC, but this is not a NUC: Asus ditches the Intel naming for new AMD-powered mini PC, but restricts its GPU choice
News You can get an AMD one with an RTX 5060 or 5070, while the Intel NUCs top out with an RTX 5080.
The MSI Claw handhelds are the first non-Xbox devices to get the Windows Full Screen Experience, with more said to arrive 'in the coming months'
News Getting all your games in one place is kinda neat.
AMD clarifies RX 5000 and RX 6000 GPUs will still get game-specific optimisations despite going into 'maintenance mode'
News You could buy a new RDNA 2 GPU earlier this year.
Corsair announces a Hall effect stick-less fight controller with rapid trigger, in the hopes of button bashing faster than anyone else
News Is it time to drop the joystick?
YouTuber spends over $6,000 to make a solid aluminium Xbox like the 2000s prototype, and it 'operates like any other Xbox because that's exactly what it is'
News It's a pretty great way to play Halo, though.
The US government announces strategic 'prosperity deals' with Japan and South Korea to 'drive breakthroughs' in AI, quantum computing, and more
News This matches a similar deal made with the UK earlier this year.
Meta claims that thousands of pirated adult videos it was accused of using for AI training may have been downloaded by 'disparate individuals' for 'personal use'
News A master downloader.
A YouTuber claims they've had two Windows 11 local account and hardware bypass videos taken down because of supposedly 'harmful or dangerous content'
News Maybe it's time to try Linux.
