The Daily Grind: Do you think of yourself as on the side of MMORPG game developers?
Storytime! Years ago, when we were in the thick of covering a particular well-known MMORPG studio’s corporate shenanigans, two devs from said studio tried to...
SanDisk Extreme Pro with USB4 (2 TB) review: Bursty USB4 speed, but not great for pros
Can SanDisk’s Extreme Pro USB4 SSD compete with impressive options from Corsair and LaCie? We ran the drive through our benchmark suite to find out.
Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever
The latest data shows that almost 90% of Windows games now run on Linux.
RTX 4090 laptop GPU gets 20% performance boost after shunt mod, beats the mobile RTX 5090, on average — reduced resistance boosts power to 240W
A user on Reddit shunt-modded their Zephyrus M16’s RTX 4090 laptop GPU, which led to a 20% bump in performance compared to stock, while even beating RTX 5090 mobile on average. This was achieved by just stacking one resistor atop the existing one to trick the GPU into consuming way more power than it thinks it is.
Unlucky buyer purchases external Seagate HDD, gets an SD card glued inside a plastic shell
An unfortunate user on Reddit bought a 1TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim external hard drive, only to find out that they’ve been scammed. Inside the enclosure was an SD card for storage, with metal blocks attached to a fake weight.
SK hynix unveils AI NAND strategy, including gargantuan petabyte-class QLC SSDs — ultra-fast HBF and 100M IOPS SSDs also in the pipeline
SK hynix introduced its AI NAND lineup — AIN D, AIN P, and AIN B — at the 2025 Global Summit, outlining a new strategy to deliver high-density, high-performance, and high-bandwidth storage tailored for AI servers and workloads.
China builds brain-mimicking AI server the size of a mini-fridge, claims 90% power reduction — BI Explorer 1 packs in 1,152 CPU cores and 4.8TB of memory, runs on a household power outlet
China’s GDIIST research institute has announced the development and soon release of the BIE-1, an AI supercomputer inspired by the operation of the human brain. This neuromorphic computing tech is one of the first standalone, non-rack-based brain-based computers we’ve ever seen.
Intel’s revolutionary 54-year-old 4004 chip was the world’s first programmable microchip — 2,300-transistor 10,000nm processor exposed
A CPU collector/enthusiast has taken the top off of an Intel 4004 processor and taken pictures of the chip’s insides, showing the 10,000nm chip in all its glory.
Scientists claim you can’t see the difference between 1440p and 8K at 10 feet in new study on the limits of the human eye — would still be an improvement on the previously-touted upper limit of 60 pixels per degree
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Meta Reality Labs have conducted a new study on just how many pixels the human eye can take in at certain distances, and determined it’s fewer than we might think. They claim in their results that it means most humans wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between 1440p and 4K on a 50-inch screen at 10 feet distance.
The Stream Team: Spooky storytime in Warframe
There are plenty of eerie things in Warframe, but Halloween time does have a little extra spooky oomph with Nights of Naberus. And Massively OP’s...