Latest articles by Andy Edser
A free Chrome VPN with over 100,000 installations has been accused of snapping unauthorised screenshots of websites and spying on its users location data
News Put the camera down, and back away slowly.
Microsoft's DirectX Advanced Shader Delivery tech might be the eventual answer to stuttering and shader compilation woes, but it's limited to the ROG Ally X for now
News It looks promising, at least.
The first reported case of an AMD RX 9070 XT melting a 16-pin power connector is here, but I'm not sure we should prepare ourselves for another 'meltgate' just yet
News User error is always a potential factor, but it looks pretty nasty regardless.
'They’re just hiding the critical information': Google says its Gemini AI sips a mere 'five drops' of water per text prompt, but experts disagree with its findings
News 'This really spreads the wrong message to the world.'
'One of the most powerful DDoS botnets to ever exist' has been taken down by the DoJ with help from Amazon Web Services, Google, Cloudflare and others
News It's not quite "those meddling kids", but I'll take it.
Sony has bumped up the US prices of the PlayStation 5 range by roughly $50 a piece, citing 'a challenging economic environment'
News Remember when consoles used to get cheaper over the course of a generation?
Despite Grok's claims to the contrary, over 370,000 xAI conversations have reportedly been openly listed on search engines, with responses said to include 'a detailed plan for the assassination of Elon Musk'
News It makes for a pretty grim list of Grok's bad behaviour.
AMD accidentally released the source code for FSR 4 before swapping back to the normal SDK, and a glimpse at the libraries suggests it might support older graphics cards in the near future
News Butterfingers, perhaps?
Asus announces the Raikiri II controller with anti-drift TMR joysticks and 1000 Hz wireless polling, which should make the Razer Wolverine V3 Pro look up from its breakfast
News We weren't keen on the original, but the new version has quite the specs sheet.
Samsung says you'll soon be able to see Stellar Blade in, err, all its glory on its glasses-free 3D monitor, which I'm sure absolutely no-one will be weird about
News Behave yourselves.
A free chicken nugget hack helped uncover multiple McDonald's cybersecurity fails: 'All I had to do was change login to register in the URL' to access 'highly confidential and proprietary information'
News 'They fixed the vulnerabilities after I literally had to cold-call their HQ pretending to know security employees. This is that story.'
You can now buy a trip to space on Jeff Bezos' unfortunately-shaped rocket with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, bringing the finest human endeavours full circle
News To a reasonable distance away from the planet, and beyond!
The new HyperX SoloCast 2 looks like a return to gaming microphone simplicity, whereas its bigger brother is covered in all the bells and whistles you could think of
News Chalk and cheese.
HyperX just updated one of our favorite wireless gaming headsets with a new RGB base station... and slightly worse battery life
News Rough with the smooth, but the smooth looks plenty slippery, at least.
I'm genuinely excited to check out Beyerdynamic's first 2.4 GHz wireless gaming headsets, but they'll only be available in Canada and the EU for now
News Tariff-related, perhaps?
Softbank announces it's buying a $2 billion stake in Intel as the Trump administration reportedly considers a 10% slice of the bright blue chipmaking pie
News Suddenly Intel looks like hot property again.
Nvidia's RTX Hair feature looks set to give the cast of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle some fabulously luscious locks
News Harrison Ford has been at the pomade, apparently.
Nvidia announces the official release of Smooth Motion for RTX 40-series GPUs, enabling Frame Generation in unsupported games
News Smooth frames in many, many games.
Can't afford the $7,000 gold-plated Asus RTX 5090? How about the downright reasonable $2,589 RTX 5080 Core version?
News It's practically budget. By comparison, I mean.
Colorful's cat-themed B650 motherboard now has an optional kitty-based BIOS, a combination of words I really didn't think I'd be writing today
News FurMark scores are currently unknown. Yes, I know it's a GPU benchmark. I'm trying, okay?
China has reportedly told its data center operators to source more than 50% of their chips from domestic manufacturers in an effort to break away from US tech
News What was once a local policy now appears to be nationwide.
'Someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money' says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about unwise AI investment. 'When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth'
News Not OpenAI investors, though. Obviously.
'You will definitely see some companies go make Japanese anime sex bots,' says OpenAI's Sam Altman about AI relationships. 'You will not see us do that'
News Well, that's a... relief?
