Latest articles by Jacob Fox
People are falling for AI phishing attempts 4.5x more often than human ones but the solutions are the same as ever
News Just tread more carefully.
Battlefield 6 is so well-optimised it's playable on an eight-year-old RX 570 with just 4 GB of VRAM
News Oh, and a GTX 1650 Super, too.
Gigabyte's new gaming laptops come with voice control for performance, fan, and privacy settings, so you can shout at them if they won't pipe down
News Remember to say please and thank you.
EU MEPs agree on recommendation for Europe to 'make full use of its powers' to ban loot boxes for minors and social media for those under 16
News The Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee urged the European Commission to enforce these changes.
If you regret not living through the floppy disk era why not try this 3D printed Linux project that uses the cartridges to launch games
News Pointless? Maybe, but count me in.
Big networking software hack seemingly backed by China poses a 'significant cyber threat targeting federal networks'
News The exfiltrated data relates to networking software used by big companies and government organisations.
These are the last few Windows 10 zero-day security updates you'll see without signing up to extended coverage
News Time to get upgrading.
'Systems that have a secure boot process, in reality, do not': Major backdoors have been discovered in Framework Linux machines and it might just be the tip of the iceberg
News Turns out, allowing direct memory modification is a little risky.
MSI denies selling selling the RTX 5090 in China after pictures surface showing giant pallets of the restricted GPUs in the country
News Smugglers getting busy again?
If anything were to convince me to try out carpentry it would be this gorgeous DIY mini walnut PC case housing an Asus ProArt RTX 5080
News Hold my beer.
AMD and Intel teaming up to stick it to Arm has led to 'significant progress' improving x86 after just a year
News What's bigger, two or one? One. One army, a real army, with one purpose.
'Imagine delivering the smallest supercomputer next to the biggest rocket': Jensen delivers a DGX Spark to Musk at SpaceX facility but some think the Nvidia launch is little more than a 'PR stunt'
News Is this mass production or a limited launch for the mini 'supercomputer'?
Keychron's upcoming fully ceramic keyboard is a strange choice for rapid trigger and 8K polling but it's incredibly shiny so I'll take it
News Set to ship before Christmas.
Elon Musk has been snapping up ex-Nvidia specialists to help make AI world models, which is fine but please keep away from our games
News Rockets are cool, AI slop games are not.
Best gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
Top Desks We've chosen the best gaming desks based on hours of playing on both sitting and standing desks, just to see which is worth your money.
Masters of timing, Microsoft: Just one day from Windows 10 EOL and apparently the official Media Creation Tool isn't working
News Just use Rufus.
You can still grab a high-end gaming PC for around $1,500 after October Prime Day, and you get your pick between AMD or Nvidia
Deal Are you team green or team red?
'Now you've got something that's a little bit easier and less expensive and can go a little bit faster': Intel's lead x86 CPU architect explains why it's not bringing Hyper-Threading back for Panther Lake
News You just don't need it when you have hybrid cores.
Thank you Galax for this skinny RTX 5060 Ti because there's something surprisingly alluring about single-slot graphics cards
News In the year of the chonk, too.
Valve's long-awaited standalone VR headset, Deckard, could be here before year's end according to word on the street from China
News It's been 84 ye- sorry, three years.
Apparently optical gaming mice can spy on what we're saying and video games are an 'ideal target'
News Maybe it's time to turn that polling rate down again.
Battlefield 6 ditching ray tracing seems to have paid off because the latest system requirements say 4K at 240 Hz is possible
News You'll need a beefy rig, but that it's possible at all is fantastic.
The Windows 10 era is over and with it, the last time I felt my PC was truly my own
End of an era Oh to be back in 2015.
