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Gaming

Steam Developers Are Getting Extorted With AI Clone Threats. Valve's Answer Is to Out-Build the Copycats

Indie studios have been receiving emails this month threatening to clone their upcoming games with generative AI and publish the knockoff first unless the…

Mara W.
Gaming

A $400 Million Hit Didn’t Protect the Studio That Made It

Aftermath reported Monday that Sucker Punch Productions, the Sony-owned developer of Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yōtei, has laid off staff.

Mara W.
Hardware

A $14 Mouse Beat Every Wired Mouse in a 12-Mouse Budget Roundup

Twelve best-selling mice from Amazon, none over $15, and the fastest of the lot talks over Bluetooth instead of a cable.

Desmond R.
GPU

RTX Spark N1X: 128GB of CUDA Wrapped Around a CPU That Feels Late

NVIDIA's first serious Windows-on-Arm laptop chip is not really a laptop chip. It is a way to put 128GB of CUDA-addressable memory in a backpack, and the N1X…

Desmond R.
Hardware

Microsoft's Magnetic USB-C Adds a Port and Quietly Takes One Away

Microsoft's Magnetic Connect is the rare case of a vendor altering the physical layer of USB-C instead of the protocol running over it: magnets on both sides…

Desmond R.
General Tech

Your Existing 45W Charger Already Fast-Charges the iPhone 18 Pro

Apple's fine print now attaches a condition to the 50-percent-in-fifteen-minutes claim: the wired charger has to support SPR AVS, which predictably sent people…

Owen L.
Hardware

A Full SSD Costs You Writes, Not Frames

The advice to keep a fifth of your SSD empty has been repeated for so long that it has stopped being a claim and become furniture.

Desmond R.
Hardware

Sound Chambers Have a Data Problem: 845 Measured Ears

Every headphone target curve you have ever read about is applied to ears nobody in particular owns — an average built on dummy heads, which are themselves…

Desmond R.
GPU

The 70% Markup Is the Business Model Now

NVIDIA's consumer cards sell, on average, roughly 70% above their listed MSRP today, against 28% for AMD and 21% for Intel.

Desmond R.
General Tech

Same Shell, 55% More GPU: Inside the iPhone 18 Pro's 2nm Jump

Externally the iPhone 18 Pro is close to a rerun of last year's phone. Underneath, the A20 Pro built on TSMC's 2 nm process is not: a 55 percent jump in a GPU…

Owen L.
Hardware

Corsair's Warthog Is a $200 Paint Job on an $85 Chassis

The Warthog is the most fun-looking case of the year and it sits on a chassis Corsair sells for less than half the money.

Desmond R.
AI

The Model Fits in 8GB; the Agent Needs Far More

The pitch for local AI on a gaming PC usually gets argued in model sizes — which quantization fits which card, how many tokens per second come out.

Nate C.
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