Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn
Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'Slop,' summing up 12 months that have been especially soggy with AI-generated content in only four letters
News I'd rather hang AI-generated content out to dry.
Acer and Asus will also pass on surging memory costs to the consumer, highlighting a growing industry-wide consensus
News No one shall be spared by the memory apocalypse.
Samsung denies reports that it is exiting the SATA SSD consumer market
News A company spokesperson has described the rumours as 'false'.
Anthropic reveals that as few as '250 malicious documents' are all it takes to poison an LLM's training data, regardless of model size
News Don't sleep on this study.
Framework raises its memory prices by 50%, but says 'it is highly likely that we will need to make further price updates...whether DDR5, LPDDR5X, or GDDR'
News Unfortunately, it will only get worse before it gets better.
Handheld PC maker Ayaneo unveils its first phone, the Pocket Play, with a hidden controller behind a sliding screen
News Slide to the left, slide to the right… CRISS-CROSS!
Noctua fans, rejoice: You can finally colour-match your 3D printed creations to that iconic colour scheme using official 3D printing filaments
News Looking like a Lindt bunny.
Lenovo, HP, and Dell said to have warned customers of imminent PC price hikes, so I hope you've already picked up that upgrade you had your heart set on
News More memory, no money.
'Just last week alone, we were notified that costs had risen by 50–100%': SSD maker Transcend further tightens its belt amid delayed Samsung and Sandisk shipments
News No one is safe from the memory apocalypse.
Ayaneo says that next up is the, err, Next II, a power-hungry handheld with a whopping 115 Wh battery
News Thank you, Next (II).
Varmilo releases mildly cursed looking 'foot keyboard' designed to give you an edge in competitive games
News Gain the upperhand… with your foot.
Reports of Windows 10's death appear to have been greatly exaggerated as 29% of Steam users still cling on
News In other news, Linux still perfectly content with its sliver of the pie.
The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices
News Mobo, mo' problems.
The Seance of Blake Manor is a folk horror detective game, but I've been too busy digging through my fellow hotel guests' drawers to solve its supernatural mystery
Costly curiosity Snooper's paradise.
Big AI companies and the people that supply big AI companies are once again investing billions of dollars in one another: this time, Nvidia, Microsoft and Anthropic
News Money fight, anyone? Chuck a few bucks my way while you're at it.
The first 'official' Android game spotted on Steam suggests you might not need to buy games twice to run them natively on the Steam Frame's own chip
News Stick swinging, chin stroking.
This 2-meter tall statue of Hatsune Miku is actually a gaming PC—the gaming PC of my dreams, that is
News Go, go!
This $150 controller from Honeycomb Aeronautical has not one, not two, not three, but four integrated Throttle Levers for the flight sim sickos
News Don your aviators, you big nerd.
AMD is the hardware of choice for France's first 'AI factory' supercomputer
News It will have an eye-watering amount of processing power—and cost an eye-streaming amount of euros.
A UK trial scheme is attempting to cut heating costs for households with shed-sized mini data centres
News Getting a lot of heat—literally.
State-level crackdowns in the US threaten to 'break VPN access for the entire internet,' claims online privacy nonprofit
News In other news, my DMs remain unread.
The Destoyinator is a data-blitzing coffin that can wipe up to 60 drives at once
News And it's not picky about which drives it'll have for breakfast either.
Valve's Steam Machine may look a bit like the Borg Cube, but it's still the friendliest face of PC gaming I've seen yet
Good things, small packages Is Valve picking up the ball console gaming dropped?
