With the official launch of the Galaxy S26 series, the performance comparison between Samsung’s new Exynos 2600 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is also coming into focus. Both chipsets are used in devices depending on the model and region and were compared in initial Geekbench 6 tests immediately after the launch. The results […]

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Rumors about AMD’s RDNA 5 generation are gathering pace, but much remains speculative. The focus is on the alleged top-of-the-line “AT0” chip, which, according to forum posts by Kepler_L2 on AnandTech, could possibly be released as a Radeon gaming model after all, albeit in limited quantities. The pattern is reminiscent of the Radeon VII, which […]

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With the GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.59, NVIDIA actually wanted to do just one thing: optimize Resident Evil Requiem in time for its release and cleanly integrate DLSS 4 MFG and Ray Reconstruction. The result was the opposite: a driver that caused black screens, freezes, unstable clock speeds, and faulty fan control for many users. […]

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The ongoing boom in artificial intelligence continues to drive the business of US chipmaker Nvidia forward at a rapid pace. In the most recent quarter, the company increased its revenue by 73 percent compared to the same period last year to around $68.1 billion. The group thus significantly exceeded Wall Street forecasts. Nvidia also recorded […]

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When Jensen Huang compares an acquisition with Mellanox, it is not a casual aside, but rather a strategic assessment. This is precisely what the CEO of NVIDIA did in the Q4 2026 earnings call when he explained that Groq would be integrated “in very much the same way” as the company had expanded its own […]

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Apple has begun introducing mandatory age verification for downloading certain apps in select countries. Users who want to download apps with an age rating of 18+ will have to actively prove that they are adults. Without this confirmation, downloads and in-app purchases will be automatically blocked. The measure will initially take effect in Australia, Brazil, […]

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Introduction and Unboxing With the Apex Pro Gen 3, SteelSeries is launching the third generation of its well known high end gaming keyboard, consistently relying on further developed magnetic switch technology. The core is the OmniPoint 3.0 switches, which allow an individually adjustable actuation point and support functions such as Rapid Trigger and Rapid Tap. […]

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The latest sales figures from German online retailer Mindfactory show a noticeable shift within the graphics card market. While AMD’s RDNA 4 models continue to dominate the overall rankings, a new frontrunner has established itself within NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series. The GeForce RTX 5080 is now the best-selling model of the current NVIDIA generation at […]

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Microsoft continues to make major adjustments. In the current preview version 26300.7877 (KB5077232) of Windows 11, another classic feature from the old Control Panel is being moved to the modern Settings app. This time, it’s the option to rename local user accounts. A small switch with symbolic explosive power. Account names in Settings in the […]

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World of Warcraft: Midnight, the eleventh expansion of the online role-playing game, is about to be released and marks the second chapter of the overarching Worldsoul saga. Blizzard is positioning Midnight as the content-rich middle part of a planned trilogy that breaks new ground in terms of both narrative and gameplay mechanics. Among other things, […]

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There are moments when you realize that modern update infrastructure is less like a precision clockwork and more like a remote-controlled automaton. This is exactly what happened to users of Windows 11 25H2 in the Release Preview channel. Build 26200.7921 installed, everything clean. A glance at the Insider settings – and suddenly it says: Beta. […]

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The name sounds like a line of defense. The reality is more unpleasant. Security researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities in Trend Micro Apex One, some of which are critical, that enable precisely what endpoint security is supposed to prevent: code execution and privilege escalation. For companies with on-premises installations, this is not a theoretical problem, […]

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Phil Spencer’s resignation marks the end of an era for Microsoft’s gaming division. After nearly four decades with the company and around ten years at the helm of the Xbox brand, Spencer is handing over responsibility at a time characterized by strategic upheaval, growing service offerings, and declining hardware sales. His successor is Asha Sharma, […]

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In times of DRAM shortages and absurd prices, the industry usually comes to a standstill – manufacturers wait and see, and new products are only released when sufficient purchasing power can be expected. However, today’s test is anything but normal. Origin Code, which until now had been nothing more than a phrase in the wave […]

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We have already tested a number of notebooks from manufacturers that are rather unknown in this category and that you usually associate more with mini PCs. That is also the case today with Geekom, who on paper promise quite a lot with the X14 Pro. Only 6 mm thin, 999 grams light, and a 2.8K […]

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German hosting provider Hetzner will adjust its prices across its entire product portfolio on April 1, 2026. This affects cloud servers as well as dedicated servers, storage offerings, and supplementary services. According to the company, the new terms and conditions will apply to all locations worldwide, including Germany, Finland, the US, and Singapore. The decisive […]

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AMD is going on the offensive, and not with the handbrake on. The US chip manufacturer has signed a multi-year, cross-generational agreement with Meta that, according to reports, could address an infrastructure volume in the range of “several hundred billion US dollars.” The focus is on customized Instinct GPUs from the upcoming MI450 generation and […]

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The competition for technological supremacy in the field of artificial intelligence is reaching a new dimension. AMD has entered into a comprehensive, multi-year partnership with Meta aimed at expanding a powerful, energy-efficient AI infrastructure. The agreement centers on upcoming generations of Instinct GPUs, EPYC server processors, and rack-scale complete systems that will be specifically tailored […]

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While Nvidia and AMD are battling it out in the AI market, Intel, under the new leadership of Lip-Bu Tan, continues to look like a giant in search of a compass. Rumors had been swirling for a long time: a takeover of AI chip specialist SambaNova was supposed to finally give Team Blue the necessary […]

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The loss of long-standing major customer 1&1 has left a significant mark on O2 Telefónica’s balance sheet. The German subsidiary of Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica recorded a 3.8 percent decline in revenue to around €8.2 billion in the past fiscal year. The decline was even more pronounced in adjusted operating income, which fell by 8.8 […]

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AMD is facing increasing headwinds on the subject of FSR 4, and this time not from NVIDIA, but from the community. While the manufacturer officially limits its current upscaling generation to RDNA 4 graphics cards and DirectX 12 titles, the open-source tool OptiScaler has now created facts: With the test build 0.9.0-pre10, FSR 4 is […]

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Apple is apparently planning another strategic adjustment to its premium models in order to further strengthen momentum in key markets. According to reports from Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman’s sources, the company is considering a deep red color variant for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The move would not be purely […]

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Anyone who has ever tried to wake up an electric car with conventional LFP (lithium iron phosphate) cells at a fast charger in winter knows the misery: the charging curve resembles a flatline, and the range melts faster than the ice on the windshield. But while we in the West are still philosophizing about lithium […]

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Sometimes I feel like the software department in Redmond is like a giant ocean liner trying to turn around in a bathtub. While the marketing team tirelessly proclaims the next “AI era,” the engineers at the grassroots level are struggling with what I like to call “digital dry rot”: legacy issues, some of which date […]

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