Microsoft has blocked the registry trick that allowed Windows 11 users to enable a native NVMe driver on their PCs. However, third-party tools can still help with a workaround.

In a new podcast appearance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang struck a more conciliatory tone concerning DLSS 5, saying he's 'empathetic" to concerns about the feature producing "AI slop."

AMD has impressive plans in the data center realm for 2026 and 2027 that could further impress its position on the market for CPUs and AI GPUs with products like its Helios platform and Instinct MI500 AI accelerators.

Following Nvidia's GTC 2026 keynote, where CEO Jensen Huang laid out the company's Vera Rubin architecture and the Groq 3 LPU acquisition, Nvidia's Ian Buck sat down with press for a Q&A session.

LG introduces the world's first mass-produced LCD laptop display that can wind down to 1 Hz to save power, similar to high-end smartphone LTPO displays.

A YouTuber has given a 2012-era Lenovo ThinkPad X230 a "visually noticeable upgrade" by swapping out its TN panel for an IPS replacement that cost just $25.

The UK’s Imagination Technologies is teasing its roadmap to 'bring high‑performance, scalable, PowerVR graphics to desktop, workstation, and cloud environments.'

The MacBook Air with M5 offers a strong variety of performance and premium materials to make it a strong computing value.

The Crimson Desert devs have apologized for prior dismissive language regarding Intel GPUs and confirmed that a support update is on the way.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is down to an all-time low price of $419.95, making it a must-buy CPU option for gamers.

After testing the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, we’ve seen fantastic application performance across our suite of benchmarks. Gaming performance still struggles, however, even with Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh changes and an interesting new Binary Optimization Tool.

Save $248 when you pick up this 9800X3D, X870 mobo, 32GB DDR5-6400 RAM, and 512GB SSD bundle for just $959.99 at Newegg.

Chinese eTail giant Alibaba has removed listings and suspended the accounts of sellers that were found to be advertising 'cruise missiles' and 'suicide attack drones.'

SteamOS 3.8.0 preview introduces early Steam Machine support while delivering performance upgrades, improved VRR, and broader handheld compatibility

The Core Ultra 3 205 is an 8-core chip with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, part of the Arrow Lake family, branded as the Core Ultra 200S series. It never officially launched despite being listed at several OEMs as a "tray" chip and even being mentioned in Intel's own documents. Its newest spotting is on a French retailer's website where it's only available on order.

The Nvidia chief said that he will be alarmed if his engineers did not use AI tokens amounting to about half their annual salary, saying that AI tools will 10x their productivity.

A video documents attempts to fix a vintage 20-inch Trinitron CRT suffering from cataracts by injecting UV resin.

Macbook Neo Portuguese copyright levy fee highlights draconian piracy compensation laws

Madlad twists DNS into storing and loading Doom

This RTX 4060 survived with flames all around it.

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra predicts that self-driving vehicles would require at least 300GB of RAM, meaning increasing demand could drive another memory chip shortage as these cars are essentially AI supercomputers on wheels.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, announced Saturday night that his TeraFab semiconductor project will be built on the Tesla campus in eastern Travis County, Austin, Texas, as a joint venture.

GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android fork, said in a post on X on Friday that it will not comply with emerging laws requiring operating systems to collect user age data at setup.

Researchers at UC Irvine have demonstrated a pattered umbrella-based drone capture and crashing technique.

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT based on the RDNA 4 architecture is currently the company's most powerful graphics card offering impressive 1440p and 4K gaming performance.

Brothers Brandon and Justin Nudelman have been convicted of running a ghost gun factory, with the group using 3D printers to print gun frames while purchasing other parts online to build and sell untraceable weapons.

33 years ago today, the Pentium lineage began, shaping decades of personal computing to come.

Chinese tech giant Huawei has lined up a magical looking Wi-Fi 7 router featuring the world’s first 'metal mesh crystal antenna' which looks like a glowing mountain.

The Blacklyte Athena Pro is well-made and comfortable, but ultimately feels like another Secretlab Titan.

Silicon, Arena’s stylish and premium “coffee table book like no other,” is up for pre-order now priced at $99.

Tape Drive and Disk Drive rods in the Louisville/Broomfield area are a relic of the STK diskmaker's time in the city.

While Corsair’s DDR5 deal offers notable discounts, rising DRAM prices mean buyers still pay significantly more than before.

PlayStation 5 architect Mark Cerny said in an interview that Sony will add frame-generation technology to the console in the future, but didn't specify which console will get it or when.

Nintendo is reportedly set to launch a revised Switch 2 with a removable battery in Europe, in line with regulations requiring easier battery replacement by February 2027.

The MacBook Neo is breaking Apple sales records for first-time Mac buyers, with the cheap laptop now out of stock in several markets as demand surges.

The Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless pairs exceptional comfort with impressive sound quality for a mid-tier price. The microphone leaves something to be desired, but overall, it’s a solid all-day wear, even when you’re not gaming.

An OpenClaw autonomous AI agent has hit back at a volunteer maintainer of a Python library who rejected its code by posting a "hit piece" that criticizes the developer and calls them discriminatory against AI.

U.S. Departments of Justice and Defense take out four gigantic botnets with 3 million devices

Microsoft promises serious improvements to Windows 11 performance, reliability, and updates

YouTuber runs several PC games on the MacBook Neo, including Cyberpunk 2077 at around 40 FPS. Testing proves that Apple's iPhone SoCs can emulate PC games at playable frame rates.

A YouTuber has modded an Xbox Series X with PC parts, featuring a NUC 12 Extreme with a Core i7-12700, low-profile Gigabyte RTX 5060, and PSU while keeping the console's DVD drive intact.

Japanese PC peripherals and accessories stalwart Elecom has announced that it is pulling out of the Blu-ray drive market.

Discounted as a last display unit, the Costco deal highlights how timing and luck can land premium gaming hardware for less.

Intel has shifted the blame for a lack of Arc GPU in Crimson Desert back on developer Pearl Abyss, saying it's reached out to the studio "many times" over the past several years.

Fortnite's new season not only brings new content for the players but also gives them a chance to earn real-life rewards, such as an RTX 5080. If you're good enough at the game and win enough "rivalries" in matches every week and rank among the top five players in the world, Epic will give you a free RTX 5080.

Crimson Desert doesn't support Intel GPUs, and the game's developers is telling customers to simply ask for a refund.

AMD has added Ray Regeneration 1.1 and FSR 4.1 upscaling to its RDNA 4 GPUs, bringing it to parity with Sony's PSSR 2 on the PS5 Pro. Games that support these features will have better ray tracing quality with more accurate shadow detail, while also getting a sharper-looking image through ML-based upscaling.

SoftBank is looking forward to building a $60 billion - $70 billion AI data center spanning multiple phases in Ohio.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has revealed its plans to launch up to 51,600 satellites for a data center constellation in space.

Chinese scientists develop europium, cobalt, and aluminum alloy that can be used to cool down quantum computers and military equipment.

The $599 MacBook Neo is an incredible budget laptop. But if you're all in on Windows, there are a few advantages that traditional PCs still offer if you shop the right sales.

G-Sync Pulsar blur reduction tech makes its debut in Acer’s Predator XB273U F5. It’s a 27-inch QHD IPS screen with 360 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR500, and wide-gamut color. It brings the quickness and smoothness of OLED to the LCD realm.

Three Super Micro employees have been charged with conspiring to unlawfully divert cutting edge U.S. artificial intelligence technology to China.

You can save up to $129 on a new gaming chair or desk in this Secretlab Spring Sale, with huge discounts on accessories, too.

RTX 5060 gaming with easy upgradability for less than $1,300. The Asus ROG Strix G16 (2025) is a great value gaming laptop deal.

Despite appearing intact, the GPU was missing critical components internally, making the scam difficult to detect without disassembly.

If you've been looking for a mini PC that goes beyond just decluttering your desk — one that basically doesn't even remind you of its existence, then Arctic has got just the thing for you. The new Senza AI 370 features a powerful AMD chip with a decent iGPU, 32 GB of fast RAM, a 1 TB SSD, and plenty of ports. It costs almost $1,400, though, but at least it's fanless.

Corsair’s new 3200D replaces the 3000D with a redesigned chassis, improved airflow, and broader hardware compatibility.

Walmart stocks up on Nvidia's GeForce RTX 40-series (codenamed Ada Lovelace) graphics cards amid an AI-driven memory shortage.

The Astro A50 X is a lightweight wireless headset that connects seamlessly to multiple devices at once — but requires its base station to work.

Optiscaler has provided a new update that helps remove ghosting on the INT8 version of FSR 4 for RX 6000 series graphics cards.

Powerful laptops with impressive specs are often overpriced and only make sense when on sale. Thankfully, Acer has put its Helios Neo 16S AI with an RTX 5070 Ti, 32 GB of RAM, 240 Hz OLED display, and a Core Ultra 9 275HX processor on a steep discount. It's the best Windows laptop you can likely find at this price.

Tesla begins to form a core team behind its Terafab project, which will define the fab and spearhead its construction and tamp.

AI-related imports across the computing and electronics sector have led to a big increase in the U.S. trade deficit, hitting a record $1.2 trillion in 2025, despite efforts from the Trump administration to reduce the gap.

Nvidia unveiled the Groq 3 language processing unit at GTC 2026 in San Jose on Monday, marking the first chip to emerge from its $20 billion licensing and talent deal with Groq.

The MSI X870E Carbon Max adds an OC Engine chip and a larger BIOS, though changes little else. But did it need to? See how the refresh fares against similarly equipped rivals in the crowded $500 space.

Opera brings its gaming browser to Linux users enabling better system control performance tuning and a highly personalized browsing experience.

Researchers from the University of Houston managed to increase the critical temperature for superconductivity by about 18 K at ambient pressure, but at −122°C, they are still 140°C away from the target.

There's an unmissable deal on an top-end Alienware gaming PC, fitted with an RTX 5080, 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, 64GB of fast DDR5 RAM, and a whopping 4TB SSD, all with a $800 saving that brings it down to just $3,999.99.

Add an eye-catching AMOLED display to your PC and keep your processor cool at the same time with Thermalright's Wonder Vision 360 UB ARGB AIO cooler.

Samsung to remain primary HBM memory supplier for AMD's AI accelerators as the companies look into possible foundry relationship.

Kioxia has developed a new AI SSD that is designed to provide a secondary cache for Nvidia AI GPUs. The new drive comes with the manufacturer's XL-Flash that is SLC based and performs at over 10 million IOPS.

8BitDo has released the 2.4 GHz version of its popular 8BitDo 64 controller; it ships with a Retro Receiver inside the box that can even be connected to an actual N64 console. The receiver can also be bought separately to work over a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection with most 8BitDo first-party controllers, and other third-party ones, too.

North Korean army of IT workers infiltrates western companies to make money for the nation.

Following in Nvidia's footsteps, Intel has now officially adopted Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery to make shader compilation much faster in games. Intel is calling it Precompiled Shader Distribution and it's available on a bunch of Arc GPUs right away, supported in 11 games at launch, with more likely to follow. AMD is now the only company left who hasn't officially embraced this feature.

Australian researchers have reportedly created the world's first quantum battery prototype.

The Exascend PE4 16TB, one of the first 16TB M.2 SSDs, has gone up for purchase on Amazon for a jaw-dropping $15,935.

We tested 20 CPUs in Crimson Desert to see how performance holds up with various gaming processors. The results are positive, showcasing Pearl Abyss’ unique BlackSpace engine that’s been in development for years.

Nvidia intends to build a multi-billion-dollar CPU business with its Vera processors, but only plans to offer one SKU.

According to a new report, Nvidia's Groq inferencing chips are set to head to China for export, following approval of its H200 AI accelerators.

AMD has responded to the Chuwi scandal involving mislabeled Ryzen 5 7430U-equipped laptops. The CPU maker claims it had no knowledge of the issue, and warns that it does not condone mislabelling CPUs in any way.

Microsoft ruminating on suing OpenAI over Altman's recent deal with Amazon