2026 is an especially weird year for watching the NBA. With the demise of regional FanDuel Sports Networks, and the league’s long-planned national streaming service at least a year away, many teams were suddenly in…
A lot can change in a year—and PC building sure took unexpected directions since I launched this newsletter in May 2025. Back then, tariffs were the big crisis. They spread uncertainty throughout the PC industry,…
Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams. Canvas parent company Instructure said that as…
PC graphics shipments grew 2.5 percent last quarter, a report by Jon Peddie Associates found Monday. Data center GPUs, however, grew an average of 145 percent. And that’s the state of the market right now,…
TL;DR: The PC Transfer Kit gives you three apps to migrate software, preserve your PC, and fully delete files, and it’s only $35. Moving to a new PC gets messy fast — reinstalling apps, restoring files, and…
Talos said Chaos is likely either a rebranding of the BlackSuit ransomware or is operated by some of the former BlackSuit members. Talos based its assessment on the similarities in the encryption mechanisms in the…
You can easily find laptops and desktop PCs packing USB-C port certified for Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4. But now the next generation of the standard is picking up speed with Thunderbolt 5 (TB 5)…
June’s big Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 has caused a bit of a mess for users, so much so that Microsoft had to briefly pause the update and issue an emergency patch… that ended…
According to a new blog post, Microsoft will be enforcing uniform USB-C standards for Windows 11 laptops going forward, which apply with Windows 11 24H2 and beyond. PC manufacturers will need to implement Microsoft’s specifications…
On Monday, OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, its newest series of AI language models that brings a 1 million token context window to OpenAI for the first time and continues a long tradition of…