Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn
'We would need to shut off power for half the country': Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya data center project runs out of juice
News 'Future generations will be overburdened by the current decisions.'
Gaussian Splatting is my new favourite thing, so I hassled an ex-Epic artist to tell me everything he knows about the low-cost 'photo-real' rendering technique
A point of view "It is not just a rendering trick—it changes the entire capture-to-delivery pipeline."
Elo Shapes reveals a speedy gaming mouse from a fresh new brand that weighs even less than the competition
News Speeding into view.
Rockstar ransom hackers claim to have stolen the data of 280 million teachers, school staff, and students in Canvas attack
News Lock it down, switch on 2FA, and stay safe, folks.
Google isn't scanning your Gmail to train Gemini, it's letting Gemini scan your inbox to provide 'personalized insights' but I'm not sure that's better
News You can also let Gemini scan your photos to make more "personal images using Nano Banana."
Valve releases the CAD files for the Steam Controller and its Puck, no doubt ushering in an era of unholy 3D printed creations
News Making it your own.
'We now expect second half gaming revenue to decline more than 20%': AMD feeling the sting of the memory supply crisis
News "I mean, look, this is something that everyone in the industry is working with."
'A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017': Time to update your kernel
News Batten down the distros.
Windrose should no longer threaten to significantly reduce your SSD's lifespan thanks to a fresh patch
News Ship shape.
YouTuber makes the most of the unused space beneath their monitors with custom desktop aquarium with actual fish in it
News Underwater, and under-monitor.
This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient print-outs in order to make it open source
News History painstakingly preserved.
Cozy games in May: Our release calendar and staff picks
Cozy calendar From Paralives to Thrifty Business, this month is going to be all about life sims and shop sims in the cozy game corner.
Glorious GHS Eternal wired gaming headset review
Score: 79% This ticks all the right boxes, but is outclassed by budget headsets that push the boat out.
This photorealistic FPS runs in browser thanks to 'Gaussian Splatting', which is now my new favorite thing
News Photorealism in a fun new 'crunchy' flavour.
Modder upgrades their supposedly 'vintage' 2008 ThinkPad with an RTX 4070 Super and I can feel myself crumbling to dust
News I'm definitely not ageing like a fine wine, I can tell you that much.
'Feel free to start a laptop company and see what suppliers quote you for GDDR7': Framework vents frustration amid memory crisis
News Unfortunately, it's likely to get worse before it gets better.
'We've never met a cult we didn't want to be a part of, so we're getting in on the ground floor': Dbrand announces skins for the new Steam Controller in the most Dbrand way
News Head-turning for the right reasons?
Grok 4.1 'instructed the user to drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backward' in latest AI psychosis study
News Some LLMs fall "short of a benchmark that’s already been met elsewhere."
Hardware modder connects his gaming PC to his bike and achieves 'human powered CPU cooling'
News Round round, baby, round round.
Pocket console modder shrinks down Game Boy Color into a smart watch, complete with cursed control scheme
News Makes no sense. Compels me, though.
Nvidia rolls out GPT-5.5-based Codex to 10,000 of its employees, who apparently all think it's 'mind-blowing' and 'life-changing'
News Go on, let me hear what the grumpy office admin really thinks.
Nextorage unveils fresh new gaming SSDs, but they only come with a one-year warranty
News Has the memory supply crisis claimed another victim?
Elon Musk's aerospace and AI company reportedly plans to make its own GPUs, though I doubt you'll one day be enjoying a SpaceX graphics card in your rig
News Game on—in space?
