Latest articles by Andy Edser
Ryzen still rising: AMD's processor revenue climbs 34% from last year, thanks to 'multiple generations' of Zen-powered chips
News But Intel's new and next-gen offerings loom large.
AMD says Valve is 'on track' to begin shipping the Steam machine 'early this year'
News But how early is early?
The Notepad++ website was hijacked by 'malicious actors' last year and security researchers are picking through the wreckage
News That lizard sure looks shocked.
This $1,299 gaming laptop has a fire-breathing AMD CPU, a proper-spec RTX 5070 mobile, and my hopes and dreams contained inside
Deal At least there's one gaming laptop deal worth shouting about at the moment.
'We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI' says Mozilla, as it introduces an AI blocking menu to upcoming Firefox builds
News The people have spoken. Some of them, anyway.
It looks like XeSS 3 and multi-frame generation can be enabled on older Intel GPUs with the most minor of tweaks, so it's not just Panther Lake that gets in on the fun
News Scooby Doo-style, it was hidden in the files all along.
Rocket wizard Scott Manley has used a ZX Spectrum to land a Kerbal on the Mun and I am phenomenally impressed
News One small step for retro computing, etc.
'Everybody who worked at Nvidia in the early days really wanted to make a game console' says senior VP of engineering Andrew Bell: 'Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves'
News ‘Let’s go after people who really want a premium experience.’
Puget Systems crowns the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K as the most reliable processor in its consumer PCs, with Nvidia Founders Edition cards leading the charge for GPUs
News It's Kingston for RAM, with Micron not far behind.
This Frankenstein-ed RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in it has just set a world record benchmark score and it's the most cursed-looking graphics card I've ever seen
News A graphics card can be destroyed but not defeated, apparently.
'TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outside a 'trillion-dollar dinner' for top tech manufacturers in Taiwan
News Sounds lovely.
You can now view the Computer History Museum's collection from the comfort of your own home, and it's full of retro blasts from the past
News For those who can't make the trip to California.
DeepSeek has reportedly been given conditional approval by the Chinese government to buy Nvidia's AI GPUs
News If true, China's top AI startup may be about to receive some serious hardware horsepower.
Microsoft says the Windows 11 boot failure bug is linked to another buggy update: 'This issue can occur on devices that failed to install the December 2025 security update and were left in an improper state'
News Bugs upon bugs.
Google says Chrome's new 'auto browse' feature is 'a powerful agentic experience that handles multi-step chores on your behalf'
News Can it do my laundry? I've been meaning to wash some shirts.
Scientists say they've developed transistor-dense, flexible fibre chips as thin as a human hair, which can survive 'crushing by a container truck weighing 15.6 tons'
News I'd like to be there the next time they test that. For science.
'An unprecedented bombardment': Cloudflare claims a new world record for a 31.4 Tbps DDoS botnet attack it recorded late last year
News "The largest attack ever disclosed publicly."
Microsoft says Windows 11 now has one billion users, 'up 45% year-over-year', which is probably no surprise after Windows 10 was put out to pasture
News It's not like we had too many other options. Yes, I know, Linux.
'Vibe coding kills open source' claims new paper, as its authors lament the lack of 'human attention' towards OSS products
News "Vibe coding raises productivity... but it also weakens the user engagement through which many maintainers earn returns."
This 'scientifically dubious' Linux CPU scheduler makes decisions 'based on real-time planetary positions, zodiac signs, and astrological principles'
News "Because if the universe can influence our lives, why not our CPU scheduling, too?"
A professor lost two years of 'carefully structured academic work' in ChatGPT because of a single setting change: 'These tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability in mind'
news No way, you're kidding, etc, etc.
Highguard's output resolution is bizarrely tied to its post processing setting, which feels like a crunchy bug that needs squashing
News The difference is pretty darn clear in person.
I've found a cheap RTX 5070 gaming laptop you'll actually want to buy, an increasingly rare thing in these uncertain times
Deals Just call me Captain Deals. On second thoughts, don't.
