Author: Jeremy Laird

Chalk this up as further evidence of the impending demise of civilisation, along with the climate, large language models and the increasingly ubiquitous implementation of the Oxford comma. Now it’s being reported that very nearly half of all internet traffic is accounted for by bots. That’s according to the 2024 Bad Bot Report by cybersecurity…

AMD’s upcoming Strix Halo APU is one of the more exciting chips on the horizon, what with its console-like specs and the promise of a more efficient and just maybe more affordable portable gaming. Now a new rumour has emerged indicating it could be a chiplet design using the very same eight-core CPU CCDs as…

It’s been in the works for years. It’s been wishlisted by millions of Steam gamers. It’s finally out on April 26th. And now the full system requirements for Manor Lords, everyone’s most wanted city-building smorgasbord, have been released. And, huzzah, they’re mostly very modest indeed. For minimum support, publisher Hooded Horse says antediluvian CPUs starting…

Nvidia socialled up an image on its official GeForce X account earlier in the week that got tongues wagging. A large monolith-style graphics card obscuring the sun and tagged ‘Eclipse2024’? That’s clearly a portentous teaser for the RTX 5090 coming later this year, right? No wait, it’s an RTX 4090 Ti, isn’t it? Or should…

As SSDs have gotten ever cheaper, the appeal of traditional magnetic hard drives has waned. Well, for gamers if not some industrial scale storage applications. That’s remained true even with flash memory prices on the up of late. But if you want maximum capacity, there’s still no substitute for a spinning platter. Which is why…

Fed up with silly graphics card prices? Then build your own, including the GPU itself, the PCB, drivers the works. That sounds like a silly, perhaps impossible, notion given the complexity of modern graphics cards. Heck, even the might of Intel has struggled with many aspects of entering the GPU market with its new Arc…

AMD has reportedly announced new “F” versions of its Ryzen 8000 Series desktop APU with the integrated GPU hacked out. Okay, the graphics is just disabled rather than physically removed, but the net result is the same: An APU with no graphics. Which essentially amounts to a CPU. The new chip was spotted at a…

Qualcomm claims that most games created for x86 Windows “just work” on its new killer Arm chip, the Snapdragon X Elite. There’s no porting required. If that’s true, it’s quite an achievement, albeit not totally unprecedented. Apple pulled off something similar with its jump from x86 to own in-house Arm silicon via the Rosetta 2…