Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Outraged Redditors discover they have been subject to a secret chatbot experiment that found AI posts were 'three to six times more persuasive' than humans
News All your subreddits are belong to us.
ChatGPT's latest build is such a pathological ass-kisser OpenAI decided to roll it back: GPT-4o is 'overly supportive but disingenuous'
News Sam Altman puts it in different terms, saying GPT-4o "glazes" too much.
Google's dominance in decline as its overall share of online search dips below 90% for the first time in a decade, and its desktop PC share is now below 80% and falling fast
news Is deGoogling the next big thing?
Forget the rumoured 18 GB RTX 5070 Super, this utterly epic 96 GB Nvidia GPU will solve all your VRAM worries, kinda
News All for the low, low price of $8,500.
Intel's upcoming Panther Lake CPU looks like a killer gaming handheld chip thanks to a reported massive graphics upgrade, hefty AI performance and upgraded E-cores
News 50% more graphics cores, 180 AI TOPS, Darkmont cores, the works.
AMD and Samsung demo 8K 120 Hz gaming and I am really, really struggling to care
news So many pixels. So little point.
Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 GRE pictured which means the new AMD GPU is probably arriving sooner than we expected but it may be restricted to China
news As ever, its appeal will be all about pricing.
Intel's elderly Raptor Lake CPUs are still selling surprisingly well and the reason is simple: They're cheap
News Good enough performance at the right price, for laptops at least...
New Intel CEO is looking 'for partnership with the industry leader to build purpose-built silicon' for AI, but is he talking about making chips with Nvidia or for OpenAI?
News Lip-Bu Tan also says he hooked up with TSMC to talk about a possible collab'.
MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible
News Strong but stretchy, apparently.
Intel will reportedly fire fully 20% of its workforce and focus on 'engineering', a plan that sounds all too familiar at this point
News New CEO, same old staff cuts?
Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
Best curved monitors for gaming in 2025: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of
Bendy Immerse yourself to the max with these vision-enclosing panels.
Mark Zuckerberg is so desperate to make Facebook relevant again he considered deleting your entire friends list
news Remember who your friends are.
There's no need to overshare on social media now that OpenAI's new chatbots can pinpoint your location from the tiniest details in images
News The ultimate GeoGuessr cheat code or just a privacy nightmare?
A high-performance Intel Battlemage gaming GPU has allegedly been spotted and I really want it to be a $400 RTX 5070 killer
News That's if tariffs don't get in the way...
Hold up, there's an RTX 5070 under MSRP in the UK that just dropped below £500 (by a penny, still counts)
News It's a topsy-turvy time for tech pricing.
If you thought USB naming was nonsense, allow this professional furry engineer to explain the total nightmare that is the underlying hardware complexity of USB-C
News Oh, and it's all Apple's fault. Well, possibly...
User reports melted power cable on an RTX 5070 and now we're wondering if any RTX 50-series GPU is safe
News That melted cable looks awfully familiar...
Trump administration exempts phones and most computing hardware from tariffs and then says they're not really exempt, just being lined up for a very special tariff 'bucket' of their own
News This really isn't my kind of bucket list...
PCs with Intel's new warranty-backed 'IPO' overclocking feature reportedly go on sale in China with claimed 10% frame-rate uplifts but what about the rest of us?
News IPO supposedly makes overlocking all elements of an Arrow Lake CPU simple, effective and safe.
There's hope for the PC market yet: Sales boom before tariff hammer comes down and HP expects 90% of its US PCs will be made outside of China by the end of the year
News Is this the peak before the dip?
Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
Best 4K gaming monitors in 2025: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend
4K Vision The best 4K gaming monitor has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast could ever want or need.
This estimate that iPhones would cost $3,500 if made in the US has me terrified of tariffs and the concept of a mid-range gaming laptop costing $5,000 and high-end models hitting nearly $15,000
News Analyst predicts it would take years to move even a small fraction of iPhone production to the USA.
