Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Cloudflare apologises for 'the pain we caused the Internet' and admits a file size error brought down large parts of the web yesterday, not a malicious cyberattack
News A teeny, tiny bug turned into a major internet outage.
PC and smartphone markets forecast to shrink in 2026 due to higher prices as memory supply crisis escalates and threatens to spoil Black Friday for PC fans
News Get your PC purchases in ASAP, peeps.
OLED PC monitor sales are booming, up 65% on last year with Asus leading the charge
News Fancy an OLED monitor this Black Friday?
AMD is reportedly planning a GPU price rise as the memory shortage crisis bites and odds of decent Black Friday graphics card deals look increasingly slim
News GPU prices rises are now pretty much inevitable.
AMD's graphics driver discovered making 'hundreds' of SSD writes for every mouse move, but it probably isn't actually a problem
News AMD's graphics driver probably won't kill your SSD, it's just doing normal driver things.
Valve says a next-gen Steam Deck 2 still isn't possible, two years after it last said exactly the same thing
News There just aren't any chips good enough and probably won't be until 2027.
Today I learned that the curvy lithography masks used by TSMC to make next-gen GPUs are 'alien', 'psychedelic' and look nothing like chip circuits
News May we introduce Inverse Lithography Technology.
This new Mac Pro-inspired motherboard standard banishes all power cables for a single connector rated at over 2,000 W
News DIY-APE takes his war on cables to a whole new level.
Sony's new 'PlayStation' gaming monitor is a relatively unexciting 27-inch 1440p model but it does have a DualSense charging hook
News It's PC compatible but doesn't look hugely compelling.
A Japanese retailer is now restricting PC memory purchases, so is it time to properly panic?
news Affordable DDR5 is but a sweet, well, memory.
Is this puny Arm-powered PC with a desktop graphics card slot a glimpse of the future of gaming?
News As ever, software support is the problem.
This bizarre but apparently usable RTX 5080 skateboard mod is kinda cool but surely if you wanted a mobile GPU there's a better way
news If GPU coolers weren't so silly, this wouldn't even be possible.
You can watch RAM prices going up almost in real-time on Amazon and it's only likely to get worse
news PC memory prices have doubled since the summer.
OneXPlayer's new OneXFly Apex uber handheld gaming PC starts at a ridiculous $1,599 when powered by AMD's top Strix Halo APU and goes all the way to $2,299
News If you're not getting all 40 graphics CUs, honestly what's the point?
That guy from The Big Short movie who correctly predicted the World Financial Crisis has just placed a billion-dollar bet against Nvidia (and AI specialist Palantir)
News Now, that's a big short.
This new leaked AMD Strix Halo variant could be the ultimate chip for handheld gaming PCs
News Half the CPU cores but all the graphics compute units? Yes please.
AMD posts record profits but it's not just all about endless chips for generating AI slop, gaming CPU and GPU sales are booming, too
news AMD is going gangbusters across pretty much all segments.
Give it up for the MCHOSE Ace 68 Turbo, the world's first 16 kHz keyboard and surely the last word in technological overkill
news So fast it Hz.
I've been playing with the 'world's first' glasses-free 3D handheld PC and my early impressions are that the $1,500 Abxylute 3D One is absolutely huge, annoyingly clunky and a little bit silly
News This 11-inch 'handheld' PC is bigger than my laptop...
A bizarre bug in the latest Windows 11 update allows endless copies of Task Manager to run in the background and can even impact system performance
News Task Manager is super handy, but who needs umpteen copies running?
Promising new nanoscale OLED tech makes 1 mm 1080p panels possible, which could usher in an era of ultra-realistic VR, dual-4K AR glasses, tiny projectors and much more
News Care for some 300 nm pixels, anyone?
NZXT's controversial PC rental scheme hit by class action lawsuit claiming the company 'defrauded consumers through gross misrepresentations and illegal business practices'
News Last year's NZXT mea culpa apparently wasn't enough.
