Jon Martindale

AMD's RX 9070 GRE Graphics Cards May Soon Be Available Outside China

It'll fill a performance niche, but the final price will be the real measure of its potential.

20 hours, 21 minutes By Jon Martindale

Someone Found Chinese NAND Flash in a Corsair Vengeance Memory Kit

This could be a sign of memory companies diversifying to avoid steeper price increases.

3 days, 19 hours By Jon Martindale

Time to Switch: How to Set Up Passkeys Before Microsoft Ditches SMS 2FA Logins

SMS-based authentication is convenient, but it's also a leading source of fraud, Microsoft says.

4 days, 14 hours By Jon Martindale

China Just Made a GPU That's Powerful Enough for Gaming, But There's a Catch

This 12GB VRAM GPU is about as powerful as an RTX 4060, but it's priced like a 5060 Ti.

4 days, 14 hours By Jon Martindale

Preorders for AMD's $3,999 Ryzen AI Halo, Its DGX Spark Competitor, Start in June

AMD is now ready for its developer platform to go head-to-head with Nvidia (and Apple).

4 days, 17 hours By Jon Martindale

Valve Overhauls Steam Tags, Kills Off Dozens But Adds New Categories, Too

If you love games about monotonous daily tasks, you can now filter titles using the Cleaning and Organizing tags. But say goodbye to tags for Dungeons and Dragons, Lego, NSFW, and more.

5 days, 13 hours By Jon Martindale

Nvidia Exec Hand-Delivers First Vera CPU Systems to AI Heavy Hitters

Nvidia's Ian Buck personally delivered Vera CPU systems to OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, and Oracle Cloud. The company says it's the first 'agentic CPU' to enter full production.

6 days, 17 hours By Jon Martindale

Microsoft Is Ditching SMS 2FA Login Codes, Prioritizing Passkeys Instead

SMS-based authentication is now a leading source of fraud, Microsoft says.

6 days, 17 hours By Jon Martindale

First Intel Wildcat Lake Laptops Show Up in China, Priced to Beat the MacBook Neo

The sub-$700 laptop market is heating up, despite ongoing memory shortages.

1 week By Jon Martindale

Software Developers Claim Heavy AI Use Is Making Them Forget Critical Skills

404 Media interviewed devs who find that they're pushing through code unaudited to handle the workload, and rarely using the skills they developed after years of studying.

1 week, 3 days By Jon Martindale

Windows Updates Will Soon Be Able to Automatically Fix Botched Driver Updates

If you install something that doesn't work for your Windows machine, Microsoft will roll it back.

1 week, 4 days By Jon Martindale

Threat of Samsung Strike Pushes Up Memory Prices (Again)

As Samsung Electronics and its workers' union struggle to reach a deal on compensation, memory prices have increased by up to 20% in some cases.

1 week, 4 days By Jon Martindale

Google Confirms Googlebooks Won't Be Limited to Intel Chips

Google VP John Maletis says Google is working with Intel, Qualcomm, and MediaTek.

1 week, 5 days By Jon Martindale

Microsoft Pushes Back on Complaints of 'Cheating' With Low Latency Feature

'Apple does this and y'all love it,' argues Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman.

1 week, 6 days By Jon Martindale

Intel CEO Tips Plans for 'Exciting New Products' With Nvidia. What to Expect

The first step could be Serpent Lake, pairing an Intel CPU with Nvidia GPU on a single die.

2 weeks By Jon Martindale

Intel Reportedly Planning 4 New CPU Lines Through 2028: Here's What to Expect

Intel is on track to launch Nova Lake desktop CPUs with up to 52 cores in 2026, with Razer Lake next year. Mobile and budget-oriented chip lines, Titan Lake and Moon Lake, will follow in 2028.

2 weeks, 3 days By Jon Martindale

Microsoft Tests Windows Feature That Could Make App Startup Less of a Slog

Low Latency Profile reportedly speeds up app launch times by up to 40%.

2 weeks, 3 days By Jon Martindale

Android PC Game Emulator Unlocks Multi-Frame Generation for 100+ FPS

For AAA games compatible with Game Native, this could help more phones run games smoothly.

2 weeks, 4 days By Jon Martindale

Microsoft VP Backs Removing Copilot From Less Useful Corners of Windows

He deleted the tweet, but Jacob Andreou said Microsoft should 'remove Copilot from places where it doesn't live up to its promise.'

2 weeks, 4 days By Jon Martindale

Valve Releases Steam Controller CAD Files So Modders Can Make It Their Own

Letting people play around with your hardware is a great way to encourage adoption.

2 weeks, 5 days By Jon Martindale