I loved HP’s beautiful OLED laptop at full price. Now it’s $470 off
It’s not every day that we find great laptops for good prices. We were already in love with this HP Omen Transcend, but we love it even more now that it’s a massive $470 off…
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The Full Nerd: PCIe 6.0 inbound, ChatGPT rekt by Atari, & Alienware Lego-fied
Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardcore hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. In it, we dive into the hottest topics from our YouTube show, plus interesting news from across the…
The Full Nerd: Dead Ryzen CPUs, SteamOS rising, & scented thermal paste
Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardcore hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. In it, we dive into the hottest topics from our YouTube show, plus interesting PC hardware news from…
The Full Nerd: TechTubers debate Computex’s best and worst PC trends
Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardcore hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. In it, we dig into the hottest topics from our YouTube show, plus hot tidbits seen across the…
Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books
Photo of the Chicago Sun-Times “Summer reading list for 2025” supplement. Credit: Rachel King / Bluesky Novelist Rachael King initially called attention to the error on Bluesky Tuesday morning. “The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT…
Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter, your weekly dose of hardcore PC hardware talk
Welcome to the first edition of The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardcore hardware talk from the PC enthusiasts at PCWorld. In it, we dig into the hottest topics from our YouTube show, plus…
Gamers Nexus joins The Full Nerd podcast for tariff talk
The Trump administration’s unprecedented import taxes are weighing heavily on US businesses and consumers, and nowhere more heavily than in the computer industry. The team over at Gamers Nexus published an incredible exposé video on…
OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access
On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the release of two new models—o3 and o4-mini—that combine simulated reasoning capabilities with access to functions like web browsing and coding. These models mark the first time OpenAI’s reasoning-focused models can…
Windows 11 will get auto-shrinking icons when the taskbar is full
Right now, I’ve got twelve open programs on my Windows 11 taskbar, plus four more pinned apps—and even on my ultrawide monitor, they’re taking up a lot of screen real estate. On my laptop, I…
I asked ChatGPT to make an image of a completely full glass of wine. It did
OpenAI released the latest–and massively upgraded–version of ChatGPT’s image generation engine on Tuesday, and the internet was soon oohing and aahing, giddily asking the AI to make everything from memes in the style of South…