Latest articles by Jacob Fox
'I do not subscribe to the belief that if you build it, they will come' says Intel's new CEO, calling past investments 'unwise and excessive'
News Putting a stop to Gelsinger's 'bet it all' strategy.
'Gaslight-driven development': ChatGPT was convinced this app had a feature it didn't, so the devs decided to add it in anyway
News A productive hallucination, then?
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su says she can see AI 'helping us design the next-generation GPU much faster and more reliably'
News I'm not sure what chip architects and engineers think about this.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls Trump 'America's unique advantage' because he's ramping up US energy
News More energy means more AI 'factories'.
Qi2 wireless charging to go from 15 to 25 W, helping fast charge devices to actually charge fast
News I'm all for fewer cables.
Some gamers are angry that Battlefield 6 is likely going to require Secure Boot but most shouldn't have any issues at all
News Most gamers will be fine leaving the setting enabled.
Endgame Gear confirms it had malware-compromised mouse software on its official site but promises changes to prevent it happening again
News Packaged for a while with the Endgame Gear OP1w 4K V2 configuration tool.
The reason Nvidia's upcoming Arm CPU is delayed is apparently in part because Microsoft isn't sorting out its next-gen OS quickly enough
News Windows on Arm causing issues? Well, I never.
This keyboard looks like it's been plucked straight from Half-Life 1 with how well it replicates low-res classic game textures
News Gimme.
A crypto wallet browser extension has been quietly wearing out some user SSDs at a rate of 5 MB/s: 'That's about 500 GB per day!'
News Or upwards of 175 TB per year.
Musk saying 'game on' to AI and creating a Baby Grok for kids makes me miss 'in denial' Elon, when he was oracle of the impending AI apocalypse
News Come on mate, AI ain't cool, get back to your rockets.
Better grips, OLED screen, and more memory: Our first actual look at the Lenovo Legion Go 2 is everything I wanted in the original
News Just like the first, but improved, nice. About that weight, though...
Microsoft warns of 'active attacks' on its government and business server tech, with one cybersecurity expert claiming that they should 'assume that you have been compromised'
News There are a bunch of security agencies on the case, though.
This Redditor says it wasn't even that difficult to get a sub-$100 broken Steam Deck working again with parts from an old Nintendo DS Lite: 'not that hard at all'
News And now it's fit with Nintendo DS Lite shoulder buttons, amongst other Frankenstein fixes.
Looks like the Taiwanese chip industry is becoming a hot target for Chinese state-sponsored hackers trying to nab trade secrets
News Get your own chips, these are mine.
A capacitor 'mix-up' is causing some mini PCs to fail and it's giving me flashbacks to the great capacitor plague of the early '00s
News I'd get checking that serial number.
This might be the first AMD Strix Halo chip in a handheld gaming PC we've seen, but I'm more excited for those mini PCs around the corner
News A first look and possibly a last, too, if this prototype doesn't stick.
You can now stream Xbox-only games to your PC if you're an Insider with Game Pass Ultimate
News Not so exclusive now, are we?
EU-commissioned study on generative AI and copyright suggests overturning the current opt-out approach that 'effectively treats silence as consent'
News Quotas for human-authored content, too? I'm in.
We might have to wait until next year to see those all-Nvidia laptops with custom Arm processors
News Damn, this was probably the piece of hardware I was most looking forward to seeing in 2025.
Best external SSDs for gaming in 2025: These are the portable drives I'd use for backups, game libraries, and travel storage
SSDs to go Bag one of the best USB Type-C SSDs for game storage on a PC or console.
It might give me the heebie jeebies but I can't help wanting one of these transparent power supplies to soothe my retro-starved mind
News I'm not sure I'd try to power that RTX 5070 Ti with it, though.
If you're on the latest Windows 11 Insider build you might have to uninstall your Xbox controller driver to get it to play nicely
News Ah, the old uninstall trick, I like it.
