Latest articles by James Bentley
Valve's Steam Frame launch looks imminent, with new 'Great on Frame' category spotted
News Though there are only four games as of right now.
AMD Zen 6 server CPUs are launching this month, which has me hopeful for a desktop release this year
News Here's hoping the swap to 2 nm is huge.
New IDC report claims worldwide PC shipments fell by 5% but revenue didn't, as 'vendors are pushing through price increases faster than demand is dropping'
News Thanks, AI.
It looks like monitor manufacturers can download bloatware without consent that will serve you pop-up ads
News Here's hoping this doesn't become a trend.
YouTuber gets Minecraft running on an original Game Boy Color, and it even looks kinda playable
News Has the 'can it run Minecraft' arms race begun?
An alleged member of a hacking group was caught, thanks to one hated Windows feature
News Good news and bad news then?
This Chrome extension hides 'knockoff' brands on Amazon: 'Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXY'
News This would have been handy last Prime Day.
'Slopfix': A software team is charging up to $10,000 to clean up AI-generated code, with the help of *checks notes* AI
News Who fixes the fixes?
China's National Vulnerability Database warns that recent Claude Code models have a security backdoor
News An update seems in order.
This free software aims to turn Sony headphones into a head tracker for '200+ PC games'
News Your audio device may have just gotten much more useful.
'Not once have we been asked to verify our age': Study suggests companies falling under Australia's under-16 social media ban are failing to verify accounts
News And that's before mentioning workarounds.
Analysts think SK hynix's DRAM and NAND prices will finally drop by the end of 2028, but not before a huge rise over the next year
News Here's hoping the expected price drop isn't just wishful thinking.
After buying up between $1m and $5m in Dell stock this year, Trump tells everyone to 'go out and buy a Dell computer'. Again.
News Dell's stock price has risen significantly since his investment.
A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there's a fix
News That's about $100 worth of space in the current memory crisis.
Microsoft says 'cryptographically relevant quantum computers could arrive sooner than previously expected' as it bumps its QSP timeline to 2029
News As attacks get more advanced, security must follow.
Chinese-made YMTC SSDs have been spotted in Lenovo's latest ThinkBook laptops, as the memory crisis continues to bite
News That's one way to cut costs.
A second OG Steam Controller prototype has been found at Goodwill
News We don't know how much it cost, but it does apparently work.
Google's AI Studio lead has vibe coded a port of Command & Conquer for iOS
News And it even has touch controls.
'Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real': Github, wagging its finger at Sony's own goal, is offering CD-ROMs of your code for a few days
News Time to bust out the CD drive.
SK hynix to invest over $60 billion in chip plants in South Korea, but the memory crisis still seems a long way from being over
News That's $52 billion for a NAND plant and $13 billion for a chip packaging plant.
'Something has gone completely wrong': Palantir CEO rants on live television about his problems with the AI business model: 'Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?'
News Alex Karp seems convinced that AI companies are selling AI wrong.
Sony's PlayStation 6 is now estimated to cost over $900 in materials alone, signalling a launch price tag double that of the PS5
News That could be a tough sell.
AMD is reportedly bumping the price of its GPU and VRAM bundles to graphics card makers and you can expect to feel the sting soon
News AI, you've struck again.
