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AMD Bringing Back Ryzen 7 5800X3D to Save the World from DDR5

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Apr 20, 2026 | General Tech | 5

Is Anyone Buying DDR5 at These Prices Right Now?

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Apr 14, 2026 | General Tech | 2

AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Pricing and Availability

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Apr 8, 2026 | Processors | 1

Raptor Lake Still Big Part of Intel’s Plan in 2026 – DDR4 Options Available

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Apr 7, 2026 | Processors | 0

Logitech’s G512 X 98 If You Can’t Decide Between Magnetic Or Mechanical Switches

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 17, 2026 | General Tech | 0

The Logitech G512 X 98 keyboard supports both mechanical and magnetic switches; well the left side does anyway and comes with DoubleShot PBT keycaps with shine through. To be more specific the…

Edifier R2750DB MKII Powered Stereo Speakers With Onboard Class‑D Amps

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 17, 2026 | General Tech | 1

Speakers do die, as cones become stiff, connectors loosen, felines using them as scratching posts while you sleep or thanks to an excited canine's tail. When that happens and you find yourself…

Stream On Twitch? You’re Probably Training AI Without Knowing It

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 17, 2026 | General Tech | 0

When an app silently enables a feature and forces users to hunt down an option to opt out of that feature it is an admission that no one actually wants that new…

Nightmare Eclipse Now Has A Top 10 Windows 11 Vulnerability List

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 13, 2026 | General Tech | 0

ShieldBreak is the 10th zero-day vulnerability which Nightmare Eclipse has posted to GitHub. These releases are not good for sysdamin's blood pressure and Microsoft is livid that this person or...

SteamOS 3.8.25 Beta Adds Significantly Expanded Compatibility

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 12, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Valve is thankfully continuing to expand the hardware that SteamOS supports instead of locking their OS to the Steam Machine; a hard to get and rather expensive system. SteamOS 3.8.25 will now…

The Noctua NL-LC1-36 Leverages Asetek To Create A Superior AIO Cooler

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 12, 2026 | Cases and Cooling | 0

Noctua partnered with Asetek to create the NL-LC1-36 AiO liquid CPU cooler from scratch. This is not just a rebranded Asetek cooler, everything about it is custom which makes it both an…

Plug and Pwn Provides Further Proof Windows’ Co-installers Are Dangerous

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 12, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Microsoft was unimpressed with LG installing pop up ads for McAfee along with their LG Monitor App Installer when someone plugged in certain models of LG displays. Microsoft did not...

Xbox on Linux Could Trigger Further Xodus From Windows

by Sebastian Peak | Aug 11, 2026 | 0

We spoke about the dwindling Windows desktop OS market share on our last podcast, and Linux could soon become even more attractive to gamers as another roadblock could be removed....

Pass-ta-key Takes Advantage Of Some Assumptions When Grabbing Your Windows Passkeys

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 11, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Passkeys are a somewhat new attempt to find something to replace passwords, session cookies, MFA and all the other ways we have to use on the internet to verify both that we…

The Precious GIGABYTE X870E Aero X3D Dark Wood

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 10, 2026 | Motherboards | 0

The life of a hobbyist system builder is a tough one right now, with only cases and motherboards retaining a somewhat rational price tag. That is a bit relative with Gigabyte's Aero…

Can’t Afford To Build A New PC But Maybe You Could Do A Rebuild

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 10, 2026 | Systems, Cases and Cooling | 0

It's prohibitively expensive for anyone to indulge in the hobby of PC building, with even older parts like HDDs and DDR4 soaring in price. The price of a new 2TB SSD isn't…

Did You Realize noreply.us and noreply.net Are Real Domains?

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 10, 2026 | General Tech | 0

We've all fed fake email addresses into websites that demand you give them one but don't require you to verify it. Companies do the same, filling in the From: field on their…

Time Magazine’s Site Now Shows Advertisements Only Chatbots Can See

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 6, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Time Magazine is apparently testing out a way to game the bots that make up the majority of traffic on the internet. The Register spotted a post by a German software developer…

Endless Legend 2 Arrives On September 17th

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 5, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Hooded Horse are after your free time. If you are the type of gamer that tends towards games more tactical than twitch it's likely you've grabbed one of their dozens of…

The NVM Express Consortium Applies Some Spit And Polish To The NVMe Standards

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 5, 2026 | General Tech | 0

The reveal of new specifications for industry standards like NVMe doesn't excite everyone, but for some it is always a fun day. If you are one of the latter then the NVM…

Windows 11 Runs Perfectly With 8GB Of RAM And Other Amusing Musings By Microsoft

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 4, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's executive VP for Windows and Devices who recently castigated LG for dumping non-Microsoft pop up advertising on Windows machines, now has posted some details on promised...

Shocking, Anthropic’s Claude Is Also A Kleptomaniac

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 31, 2026 | General Tech | 0

It's a bit of a challenge to write about the behaviour of LLM's without anthropomorphizing them; humans habitually assign agency to just about anything they interact with. GPT-5.6 Sol did not actually…

AI Powered Vending Machines Lie, Cheat, And Whine

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 30, 2026 | General Tech | 0

The results of a research project that put three different AI models in charge of vending machines is both truly sad and utterly hilarious. Andon Labs tests AI models for safety and…