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September 9, 2026: Apple Invents the Folding Phone

Posted by Sebastian Peak | Sep 9, 2026 | Mobile | 0

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

Apple Is So Annoyed With AI They Are Changing Their Full-Disk Access Permissions

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

It could be sheer coincidence that there was a kerfuffle on social media two weeks, followed by Apple changing how their full-disk access permissions function. One almost hopes it isn't as this…

The Very Affordable Chuwi Unibook Is Indeed Too Good To Be True

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 2, 2026 | Mobile | 2

The Macbook Neo quickly turned out to be too good to be true, it's price jumped $100 almost immediately and there are concerns about the life of the SSD because of the…

The New Tandem OLED In The ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 2, 2026 | Displays | 1

New displays are one computer upgrade which AI has yet to ruin and while they can still be expensive their prices aren't skyrocketing like memory and storage. They also continue to evolve…

LLMs Think TCP Is Too Slow And Want To Give Homa A Try

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 2, 2026 | General Tech, Networking | 0

It's fair to say that TCP is getting long in the tooth; Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn's protocol is now in it's 50s and that is an exceptionally long run for any…

Check Out The Unique Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition Mouse And Dongle

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 29, 2026 | General Tech | 0

The Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition is an odd looking gaming mouse, the holes in the shell allow airflow across your fingers and palm from the tiny Noctua fan hidden inside. The…

EV Phone Home; An Investigation Into Connected Cars

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 29, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Ars Technica posted an overview of the findings from a study undertaken by Northeastern University and Consumer Reports to see who your connected car talks to. The good news is that the…

Corsair Gives You Another Chance To Shove Your System Into A Warthog

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 25, 2026 | Cases and Cooling | 0

The Corsair Warthog RS may remind you of the old Vengeance C70, the previous case from Corsair with a martial design. The Warthog sticks with the olive green metal look, with a…

The Open Source Play Store Alternative F-Droid Hits 2.0

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 25, 2026 | General Tech | 0

F-Droid is something not everyone might be familiar with, a rather elderly alternative to the Google Play Store which has been around for more than 10 years. Unfortunately, it has also gone…

Alphabet Asks You Don’t Call The New Googlebook A Premium Chromebook

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 24, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Google is releasing what they would like you to believe is a brand new class of mobile computer, called a Googlebook. It is not a Chromebook because it has real internal storage…

LLM Slop Kiddies Is A Phrase Now And They’ve Done Serious Harm To The PS5 Linux Project

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 21, 2026 | General Tech | 0

It was just a few short months ago when a developer by the name of Andy Nguyen figured out how to convince PS5 hardware to run on Linux. He managed to get…

Heavy Weight Sound Quality From The aune AS5 Active Speakers

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 18, 2026 | General Tech | 0

The aune AS5 active stereo speakers each weigh in at about 8kg (~17lbs) and feature individual bass control, RCA and XLR inputs, and a power port with a replaceable fuse. That design…

The PCSpecialist Momentum Pro Uses DDR4 To Lower The Price

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 18, 2026 | Systems | 0

It's no fun pricing out a new PC right now; so bad we can almost look fondly back to the days of crypto jacking GPU prices up ... almost. In order to…

Patch Your Pixel Phone Pronto

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 18, 2026 | General Tech | 0

If you've a Pixel in your pocket you had best head to Settings and check for an Android OS update ASAP. There is a 0-day out there that offers one...

Paradox’s Upcoming Post-Apocalyptic Afterworld Has A Somewhat Random Map

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 16, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Afterworld is Paradox's new grand strategy game set in North America after civilization was wiped out by war. They aren't just going for nuclear war either, expect wastelands created by biological, chemical…

Would You Like To Learn More About Installing Windows 11 Locally

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 16, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Windows 11 keeps trying to force you to create an online Microsoft account and people keep finding ways around it. Thankfully it seems that every time Microsoft finds out about one of…

$1060 For The Steam Frame VR Headset Seems Depressingly Inexpensive

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 15, 2026 | General Tech | 0

The Steam Frame has arrived, if you are Ars Technica, otherwise all you can do is register to get in line for an opportunity to buy one sometime down the road. The…

be quiet! Dark Power Pro 14 IO, For Those That Want A ‘Smart’ Power Supply

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 14, 2026 | Cases and Cooling | 0

Power supplies are overly simplistic for today's world. They barely have RGB capabilities, you can't control them from your phone, there's no internet connection to push annoying firmware updates and people yell…

LLM’s May Have Finally Spelled The Doom Of Security Through Obscurity

by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 14, 2026 | General Tech | 0

Security through obscurity has been a thorn in the side of security professionals everywhere; some programmers believe that the code they used or even the programming language itself is so rarely used…