Zak Killian

The problem with introducing a new technology, whether it be an upscaler like FSR 4 or a hardware feature like AVX, is that you have to wait for software to make use of it. Except maybe not, in the case of FSR 4, thanks to the OptiScaler mod and its fresh support for AMD’s new AI-powered scaling tech. OptiScaler is a multi-game mod that’s been around for a couple of years. It originally grew out

Have you ever been sitting at your desk wishing you had room for an air purifier alongside all of your computer gear? No? Me neither, but those who have serious hay fever or similar allergies to airborne allergens likely already have such a setup. In case you fall into that category and haven’t arranged for an air filter next to your workspace, ASUS has a new option for you: three monitors that integrate air ionizers.

If you were frustrated by an inability to doomscroll Xwitter on your lunch break, don’t worry, you’re not alone. The site has been suffering intermittent connectivity issues all morning. What’s the deal? Did Musk forget to pay some bills? Has X’s famously skeletonized staff failed to keep the ship righted? Is the Internet at large dying? According to the X-Tesla-Starlink-SpaceX man himself, the site has actually been weathering the effects of “a massive cyberattack” today.

Nevermind the fact that the overwhelming majority of consumer desktop tasks don’t really scale past four to six cores—fanboys have accused AMD of “stagnating” much as Intel did in years past, by having its top-end Ryzen desktop CPUs max out at sixteen cores for four successive generations. That period may be over soon, though, at least if regular leaker zhangzhonghao over at ChipHell has good info. Click or tap this if you can’t read it.

We can talk until we’re blue in the face about the actual effects of software piracy, but it’s not hard to understand why companies like Electronic Arts and Nintendo get up in arms about it. Nintendo in particular has been highly aggressive in its efforts to scourge the web of unofficial ways to acquire and play its games, and it has just won a major court battle in France toward that end. The Judicial Court

Update: 3/6/25 – 5:24 PM: We have just received an official statement from representatives at AMD on this matter, and it appears there’s more to this story for sure. We have left the entirety of our previous coverage in tact below, however…  “It is inaccurate that $549/$599 MSRP is launch-only pricing. We expect cards to be available from multiple vendors at $549/$599 (excluding region specific tariffs and/or taxes) based on the work we have done with our

The world’s first “biological computer” has officially hit the market, marking what may actually be a significant breakthrough in AI technology. Developed by Australian company Cortical Labs, the CL1 fuses human brain cells with silicon hardware to create a dynamic, learning neural network. This innovative system, known as Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI), promises to be more flexible and energy-efficient than traditional silicon-based AI chips. Launched in Barcelona on March 2nd, the CL1 is the result

It’s pretty ironic, if you think about it. AMD makes desktop CPUs, then turns them into BGA chips for the high-end mobile market. Laptop vendors don’t buy as many of those CPUs as AMD would like, and they start to filter into the market via alternative channels—like these Minisforum “Mobile on Desktop” (MoDT) products. So it goes that we have the Minisforum BD790i X3D, a Mini-ITX motherboard with a Ryzen 9 7945HX3D onboard. It’s exactly

In what is a depressingly-rare show of pre-release transparency, AMD has posted a support article concerning UEFI support on its RDNA 4-based GPUs, including the soon-to-be-released Radeon RX 9070 series. The article is surprisingly wordy for such a simple topic: AMD will only officially support UEFI systems with graphics cards sporting GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture. Is this the first major controversy for AMD’s new Radeon series? Well, no. In fact, you’re probably

You’ve probably done it yourself: you need to know how hard a given application is hitting your CPU, so you pull up Windows’ Task Manager to check the CPU utilization. For a casual inquiry, this is fine, but for anything approaching scientific rigor, you need to be using a third-party application because Windows’ Task Manager does not correctly report CPU usage. This has been well-known for a long time, but Microsoft is finally fixing it