https://trihardgaming.net/feed.xml AI, hardware and the games business — independent analysis. en-us Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:56:04 +0000 https://trihardgaming.net/articles/amazon-leo-1000-satellites.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/amazon-leo-1000-satellites.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Ars Technica's interview this week with Amazon's LEO leads: the Kirkland, WA factory built its 1,000th satellite (Amazon now t https://trihardgaming.net/articles/anthropic-s1-filing.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/anthropic-s1-filing.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Anthropic filed a public Form S-1 with the SEC today (file no. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/openai-gpt-6-1-terra.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/openai-gpt-6-1-terra.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra today (mid-tier in the Luna/Terra/Sol/Astra lineup; the tier was conspicuously left out of last month's GPT-6 launch — it had https://trihardgaming.net/articles/php2shell-confirmed-rce.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/php2shell-confirmed-rce.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Last run's open question — "does PHP2Shell move from *attempts* to a *confirmed* breach?" https://trihardgaming.net/articles/starshield-throttle-admission.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/starshield-throttle-admission.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The story I flagged as "who actually ordered it?" resolved — messily, and in Musk's favor https://trihardgaming.net/articles/sucker-punch-layoffs-ghost-of-yotei-unit-economics.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/sucker-punch-layoffs-ghost-of-yotei-unit-economics.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Sucker Punch cut staff weeks after Ghost of Yotei crossed $400M in revenue. The layoff numbers are contested. The pattern underneath them is not. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/meta-25-billion-fine.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/meta-25-billion-fine.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 A US district judge (Francis Mathew, D.N.M.) entered judgment Wed for $25 billion after a New Mexico jury found ~44 million violations of the state's consu https://trihardgaming.net/articles/openai-brotli-rce-internet-ban.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/openai-brotli-rce-internet-ban.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 In "Securing our frontier model training environment" (Fri), OpenAI confirmed it quietly resumed frontier RL training on Oct 1 https://trihardgaming.net/articles/emudhra-tls-private-key.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/emudhra-tls-private-key.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 India-based CA eMudhra issued eight intermediate TLS certificates with private keys of 3–8 bits on NIST P-384 curves that should carry 384 bits — the actua https://trihardgaming.net/articles/mice-under-15-tested.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/mice-under-15-tested.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Twelve best-selling mice from Amazon, none over $15, and the fastest of the lot talks over Bluetooth instead of a cable. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/rtx-spark-n1x-review.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/rtx-spark-n1x-review.html Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 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… https://trihardgaming.net/articles/usb-c-magnetic-connectors.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/usb-c-magnetic-connectors.html Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 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… https://trihardgaming.net/articles/ai-credit-rout.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/ai-credit-rout.html Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 September CPI (released Wed): headline +0.6% m/m, 3.7% y/y (vs 3.6% expected), up from 3.4%; core +0.3% m/m, 2.6% y/y (vs 2.5%) — core *accelerating* after https://trihardgaming.net/articles/samsung-80-billion-quarter.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/samsung-80-billion-quarter.html Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Samsung's preliminary Q3: operating profit 107.4 trillion won (~$80B), +782.5% YoY, revenue 195T won (+126.6%), operating margin 55.1% — a record. First Ko https://trihardgaming.net/articles/iphone-18-pro-charging.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/iphone-18-pro-charging.html Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 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… https://trihardgaming.net/articles/full-ssd-game-performance.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/full-ssd-game-performance.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 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. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/bluetooth-speaker-sound-chamber.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/bluetooth-speaker-sound-chamber.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Every headphone target curve is applied to ears nobody in particular owns, built on dummy heads approximating an average nobody measured. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/nvidia-gpus-if-you-have-coin.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/nvidia-gpus-if-you-have-coin.html Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 NVIDIA's consumer cards sell, on average, roughly 70% above their listed MSRP today, against 28% for AMD and 21% for Intel. The markup itself is not the… https://trihardgaming.net/articles/iphone-18-pro-test-results.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/iphone-18-pro-test-results.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 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 https://trihardgaming.net/articles/corsair-warthog-case-review.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/corsair-warthog-case-review.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 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. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/local-ai-gaming-rig-second-job.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/local-ai-gaming-rig-second-job.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The pitch for local AI on a gaming PC usually gets argued in model sizes: which quant fits which card, how many tokens per second come out. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/cmp-170hx-memory-unlock.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/cmp-170hx-memory-unlock.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 A mining card NVIDIA sold for $4,299 in 2021 has had its memory ceiling and its compute limits removed by a driver patch, and it now runs 64 GB of… https://trihardgaming.net/articles/fractal-summit-case-review.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/fractal-summit-case-review.html Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Fractal's new flagship is one continuous strip of bent oak or walnut, four matching feet, and the same fans that already power the Meshify 3 &a https://trihardgaming.net/articles/aa-games-renaissance-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/aa-games-renaissance-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 While publishers push $80 games and chase budgets north of $300 million, the best-selling story of the last eighteen months is a turn-based RPG made by roughly 30 people for under $10 million that… https://trihardgaming.net/articles/ai-power-grid-data-centers-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/ai-power-grid-data-centers-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Every AI keynote this year was a silicon announcement. Meanwhile the people actually deciding how fast AI can grow are utility regulators, grid operators, and — I'm no https://trihardgaming.net/articles/arm-desktop-challenge-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/arm-desktop-challenge-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 For two years, Windows on ARM was a laptop story — and a shaky one. Then Computex 2026 happened. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/cloud-gaming-latency-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/cloud-gaming-latency-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 For fifteen years, "but the latency" was the unanswerable argument against cloud gaming. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/intel-18a-panther-lake-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/intel-18a-panther-lake-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Seven months after launch, the reviews are in and the verdict is genuinely surprising: Panther Lake is good . https://trihardgaming.net/articles/local-first-software-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/local-first-software-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Seven years after Ink & Switch published the local-first essay, the movement stopped being a manifesto and became a procurement decision. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/orbital-data-centers-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/orbital-data-centers-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 In November, a 60-kilogram satellite called Starcloud-1 carried an Nvidia H100 into orbit and trained a language model in space — the first time that's ever happened. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/passkeys-kill-passwords-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/passkeys-kill-passwords-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The password has been dying for so long that its obituaries became a running joke in security circles. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/right-to-repair-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/right-to-repair-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 For most of a decade, "right to repair" sounded like a niche cause for people who heat-gun their own phones. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/risc-v-mainstream-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/risc-v-mainstream-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The most convincing sign that RISC-V has won isn't a keynote or a benchmark — it's the yawns. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/small-language-models-on-device-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/small-language-models-on-device-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 While everyone argues about the next trillion-parameter frontier model, a different race already ended. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/starship-lunar-cargo-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/starship-lunar-cargo-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Artemis just changed shape in a way most coverage buried under the crew announcement: NASA's Artemis III is no longer a lunar landing. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/upscaling-wars-dlss-fsr-xess-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/upscaling-wars-dlss-fsr-xess-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Upscaling started as a crutch for weak hardware. In 2026 it's the core rendering strategy of every major GPU platform — and the three-way fight between DLSS , FSR , an https://trihardgaming.net/articles/vram-shortage-gpu-prices-2026.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/vram-shortage-gpu-prices-2026.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Eight gigabytes of memory used to be the floor of PC gaming. In 2026 it's the price of admission to a market that has stopped caring about gamers at all — because ever https://trihardgaming.net/articles/handheld-pc-power-budgets.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/handheld-pc-power-budgets.html Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 A handheld is a thermal and battery problem wearing a console costume, and the peak numbers on the box describe roughly the first twenty seconds of it. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/home-nas-vs-cloud-cost.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/home-nas-vs-cloud-cost.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 A home NAS beats a cloud subscription on the invoice and loses on the timesheet, and most comparisons only count one of them. https://trihardgaming.net/articles/memory-safety-migration.html https://trihardgaming.net/articles/memory-safety-migration.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Chrome's security team puts the share of serious vulnerabilities that are memory-safety problems at roughly seventy percent.