Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Quantum computing might get a morsel of the financial love the Trump administration gave Intel, as the US government reportedly considers becoming a shareholder in several companies
News It's hardly the billions that AI companies deal in, but it's something.
Razer is finally giving a PlayStation-style controller the full competitive treatment and it's called the Raiju V3 Pro
News Pricey, but premium quality.
In case we needed a visceral reminder just how screwed memory prices are thanks to AI, Samsung and SK hynix are apparently raising prices by up to 30%
News Guess it's time to try downloading more RAM again.
So much for Xbox full screen experience, it looks like the ROG Xbox Ally X might get much better performance on Linux with faux-SteamOS operating system Bazzite
News Dual-booted too, so you might not even have to choose between them.
Looks like the AI boom has made DDR4 RAM no better value than DDR5 as storage and memory prices continue to rise
News Lower costs could still make DDR4 worth it in some cases, though.
Xbox president says the next-gen console will be 'very premium' and 'very high-end' which is totally treading on PC gaming's turf
News Imagine if PC gaming becomes the affordable option compared to consoles.
Cooler Master recommends physically tampering with its angled 12V-2x6 GPU power connector to make it fit better. Yes THAT GPU power connector. Even worse, the 'fix' doesn't work
News It's not like we're messing with hundreds of dollars of hardware here, right?
The ROG Xbox Ally X seems surprisingly repairable and upgradeable judging by iFixit's teardown video, which could be good news for stick drift
News And you don't have to settle for 1 TB of storage, either.
Wikipedia says it's getting fewer 'human pageviews' thanks to AI and social media but it's got a plan to deal with it
News Hopefully that plan doesn't include even bigger donation banners.
Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
The first US-made Nvidia Blackwell wafer just came out of TSMC Arizona, but don't get carried away thinking about RTX 50 Supers yet
News Good news, but mass production is likely a way off.
This Redditor is playing Battlefield 6 on an AIO cooler and I can't for the life of me figure out why
News Why not, I suppose.
AWS outage affecting Fortnite, Roblox, Reddit, and many others is close to fixed, with Amazon saying services are showing 'significant signs of recovery'
News Fingers crossed.
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?
