Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Philips and AOC announce the 'world's first' 1,000 Hz dual-mode gaming monitors
News 500 Hz native 1440p, 1,000 Hz 1080p alt mode.
Intel's next-gen 14A chip production node is the 'real deal' says leading analyst
News Sounds good, but we haven't even seen any 18A Intel chips, yet.
The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn't down to bad code but bad memory
News Two Linuses, one PC.
21 months and 5,000 hours in, this long-term OLED monitor burn-in test finds that panel degradation slows after six months
News OLED burn-in is real, but it's not a deal breaker.
Great news for Intel: It now owns fully 1% of the gaming GPU market
News OK, alright, the thing about the Apple foundry contract is much bigger news.
Memory crisis and sky-high DRAM prices could run past 2028 as Samsung and SK Hynix opt to 'minimize the risk of oversupply'
News The two big memory makers want to stick with boom and avoid bust.
Oh joy, it looks like OpenAI could be planning on turning ChatGPT into the ultimate advertising bot
News Maybe it can hallucinate some really low prices?
TIL the Wayback Machine saves 150,000 gigabytes of webpages every day and lives in a church in San Francisco
News Currently, one copy of the Internet Archive is 175 petabytes of web history and counting.
Microsoft confirms that its new AI agent in Windows 11 hallucinates like every other chatbot and poses security risks to users
News Hallucinating, hack-prone operating systems are the new normal.
Valve's decision not to sell the Steam Machine at a loss 'isn't stupid' but it is 'peculiar' says Baldur's Gate 3 publishing boss
News Wouldn't cheap Steam Machines get people spending on the Steam store?
AI is reportedly 'democratising' cybercrime by making it easy for bad guys with limited tech skills to have a crack at ransomware and other malicious code
News "Ah, I see you're interested in crafting a ransom note for your ransomware campaign."
Could a new generation of dedicated AI chips burst Nvidia's bubble and do for AI GPUs what ASICs did for crypto mining?
News Cheaper, more efficient ASICs for AI are coming.
MIT's new 'Iceberg Index' study claims AI already has the 'cognitive and administrative' capability to replace 11.7% of the US workforce
News Just the tip of the... AI apocalypse.
Gaming PC with bizarre Chinese-made but AMD-derived 16-core x86 CPU and Nvidia graphics goes on sale, but only in China for now
News AMD Zen-derived cores surely make for a licensing nightmare.
Intel will reportedly take the fight to AMD's dominant X3D gaming CPUs with monstrous Nova Lake chip packing 288 MB of vertical cache and 52 cores
News A battle royale of stacked cache CPUs beckons in 2026.
Framework delists standalone memory to 'head off scalpers' and Cyberpower announces system price hikes as the memory supply crisis deepens
News It's going to get worse before it gets better, peeps.
Sam Altman says the prototype AI 'thing' he's making with Jony Ive gives the 'vibe' of 'sitting in the most beautiful cabin by a lake in the mountains' and I'm left wondering if he's ever listened to the noises coming out of the hole under his nose
News Altman hopes when people see the former Apple design guru's device they will say, 'that's it?' It's going to be here in under two years so I guess we'll see.
Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU pops up in Geekbench with decent but not exactly spectacular benchmark numbers
News These aren't final figures, but Panther Lake doesn't look like a huge advance.
LG UltraGear 27GX790A OLED gaming monitor review
Score: 85% 480 Hz's worth of sizzling WOLED speed.
Researchers have scraped the personal data and images of 3.5 billion WhatsApp users in what's claimed to be the 'largest data leak in history'
News If you're worried, don't have a headshot as your WhatsApp profile.
Nvidia beats AI bubble fears with record revenues of $57 billion and 'off the charts' AI GPU sales
News 2026 is predicted to be better still.
Samsung's next-gen 2nm node is in mass production, but will it beat TSMC's N2 silicon to market and help make chips cheaper?
News My nm are better than your nm.
AMD finally gives its AI-enhanced FSR 'Redstone' upscaling tech a December 10 launch date
News All your rays are belong to AMD.
