Latest articles by Andy Edser
AMD's mighty 96-core Threadripper Pro has been overclocked with a car radiator and some big ol' beefy fans, and I am remarkably satisfied
News For those who ever wondered if car parts had a place in their rig.
Palmer Luckey wants to know if you'd buy a 'Made in America' computer for 20% more than 'Chinese-manufactured options from Apple'
News Also, what's your favourite colour, and how've you been getting on recently?
'We should change the name' Trump says of artificial intelligence: 'I actually mean that, I don't like anything that's artificial'
News 'So could we straighten that out, please? It's not artificial, it's genius.'
'You're going to need more electricity than any human beings ever... Jensen, you're gonna have to explain that to me someday' says Trump to Nvidia's CEO as he rolls out his AI expansion plan
News 'Double what we produce right now for everything, right?'
Trump's AI action plan claims to chart 'a decisive course to cement US dominance in artificial intelligence'
News "We are moving with urgency to make this vision a reality."
Elon Musk's xAI is reportedly trying to borrow $12,000,000,000 for even more Nvidia GPUs, an impulse all PC gamers can truly understand
News I've checked down the back of the sofa, and I'm not sure I can cover it.
Microsoft confirms SharePoint vulnerabilities have been exploited by suspected Chinese hackers, as reports indicate the US Nuclear Security Administration may have been among those compromised
News 'Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing.'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks some jobs will be 'totally, totally gone' thanks to AI, but he still wouldn't trust ChatGPT with his 'medical fate'
News 'Maybe I'm a dinosaur here.'
A mysterious crypto account bought $54,000 worth of bitcoin in 2011 and sold it all for $9.6 billion this week, which means they can now afford one Big Mac a day for 4,971,897 years
News How's your week going?
This incredibly frustrating metronome 'will never, ever, tick exactly once per second' in order to thwart the goals of Hackaday's One Hertz Challenge
News Oh you beautiful, hateful machine.
'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
News 'You told me to always ask permission. And I ignored all of it.'
'Humanity has prevailed (for now!)' says former OpenAI employee, admitting he's 'barely alive' after beating one of its AI models in a coding world championship fight
News Get this man an energy drink, stat.
I have no idea what I'd use this gorgeous retro futuristic macropad for, but at $99 I'm thinking of slamming the buy button anyway
News We all need more buttons and dials, of this I am certain.
I am now slightly obsessed with Uncle Bot, a Chinese robot in people clothes that's rapidly becoming a social media sensation
News Turns out all we needed to accept robots as people is a pair of shorts and a shirt.
Keep this to yourself, but a BIOS with a theoretical 2,001 W power limit exists for this absurdly overbuilt Galax RTX 5090 D
News I think I can hear my PSU crying from here.
Google begins legal action against BadBox 2.0, 'the largest known botnet of internet-connected TVs' affecting more than 10,000,000 Android devices including *checks notes* picture frames
News Badbox Badbox, what you gonna do, what you gonna do when they come for you.
Meta is using its own blend of AI-optimised, low-carbon 'green concrete' in one of its honking great data centers
News There's something here about oceans and small amounts of liquid, I reckon.
It's not just Nvidia that's looking to cash in on those loosening US/China chip export restrictions, as AMD also seems close to resuming AI GPU shipments
News It's "sell your high-end AI hardware to China" season, and two major players are positioning themselves on the board.
Intel's fancy new AI tool measures image quality in games in real time, so upscaling artifacts and visual nasties have nowhere to hide
News Quantifying the subjective—an Intel tool.
The US squeezed Nvidia's AI chip export deal with China into negotiations over important rare earth elements, bizarrely claiming 'we put that in the trade deal with the magnets'
News Ah, it's "leaving important bits out" day.
'All throughout my life I've had to deal with Xfinity's bull****': Frustrated with living in a Comcast-only neighbourhood, two brothers-in-law started their own ISP
News Gentlemen, I salute you.
Japanese researchers achieve 1,020,000,000 Mbps internet speeds over a 1,123 mile line, 3.5 million times faster than the average US connection and a hell of a lot quicker than mine
News Plug me in.
The Nintendo DS had it right all along: Ayaneo launches Flip 1S DS and Flip 1S KB, two new clamshell handheld gaming PCs with prices to make your teeth clench
News I'll take the one with the little keeb, please.
