The development team behind the wildly popular ARC Raiders has already set out its goals for this year, which include a new set of maps alongside tweaks to gameplay it hopes will challenge players in new and interesting ways. The latest update, however, is incremental and delivers several quality-of-life improvements, along with new rules

The controversy around the Windows 11 January 2026 Update won't stop rolling in—and now, Microsoft is intentionally disabling support for legacy hardware, not simply breaking it on accident. Specifically, in the January 13th KB5074109 update, four essential dial-up modem drivers were removed. These driver files included agrsm64.sys, agrsm.sys,

What's the purpose of a computer chassis? If you said "to protect my parts from the environment," (or to protect your home from your parts), you might as well click off this post right now. If you instead said "to hold my parts in place," well, we've got exactly the minimalist micro-ATX chassis for you. Check out Geeek's new EXO 1, an open-air

Remember the Samsung 9100 PRO? We reviewed it back in August. It's an amazing performer, and despite being a high-end PCI Express 5.0 SSD offering sequential speeds in excess of 13GB/second, it actually runs pretty cool thanks to the use of a custom 5nm "Presto" SSD controller. If you wanted an SSD 9100 PRO but you've only got an M.2-2242

Forget rotisserie chicken and oversized barrels of mayo, Costco's hottest commodity right now just might be RAM and GPUs. With prices of computer memory, storage, and graphics cards going for two to three times more than normal, shoplifters have been hitting big box stores like Costco and Walmart, and those business are now taking action. Costco

NASA has taken the wraps off Athena, the space agency's most potent supercomputer yet. It'll be tasked with things like aircraft and spacecraft modeling, rocket launch simulations, large-scale AI training, etc. Housed at NASA’s Modular Supercomputing Facility (within Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley) and just brought fully online

If you've been patiently waiting for NVIDIA to release a native Linux app for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service, your wait is now over. After announcing it earlier this month at CES, NVIDIA today unlocked the native app available in beta form, the caveat being that GeForce NOW's journey into Linux territory starts with Ubuntu (version 24.04

Microsoft's earnings for the second quarter of its 2026 fiscal year managed to top expectations on Wall Street, with the Redmond outfit reporting $81.3 billion in revenue, which is a 17% increase from the same period in the prior year. The bulk of the revenue came from its Cloud business, leading to an overall net profit of $30.9 billion (non-GAAP

Maingear is back with another retro-inspired drop and like the Retro95 that launched last summer, the new Retro98 meshes old school styling that will have you reminiscing about those all-night LAN parties from way back in the day, with decidedly modern hardware to conquer modern games. It's also another limited edition run, so once the available

Remember the WinRAR path handling exploit we reported on back in August? According to Google, that same flaw, officially dubbed CVE-2025-8088, is still being actively exploited, even though versions of WinRAR newer than v7.12 have been patched. Google's recent blog post on the exploit activity provides a timeline of exploits across six different

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D: $499 MSRP The new AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is a clone of the existing 8-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but with higher clocks to boost performance and solidify its gaming leadership.   Leading Gaming Performance Power Efficient Doesn't Require Massive Cooling Adequate General Performance For Most Users Small (Additional) Price...

Intel may take on a limited role in manufacturing and packaging NVIDIA's next-next-generation GPUs, according to a report from DigiTimes Asia. Citing supply chain sources, DigiTimes reports that NVIDIA plans to partially involve Intel in production of its post-Rubin "Feynman" GPU architecture, expected in late 2028. Under the reported arrangement,

Valve is being subjected to yet another multi-million dollar lawsuit, this time stemming from the UK and totaling £656 million British pounds, or roughly ~$904 million USD at current exchange rates. The lawsuit from children's welfare advocate Vicki Shotbolt alleges that Valve is preventing publishers from selling games earlier or at a lower

The rise of RGB lighting on the PC led to an increase in the amount of proprietary software from numerous manufacturers to control said lighting. Unfortunately, this software has varied in quality, which makes many DIYers hesitant to install it. Razer, however, is looking to shake things up by providing a different control method. The company

Google just might've (inadvertently) revealed the first look at its ambitious Android for PC project, bringing the long-awaited unification of ChromeOS and Android to desktop closer to reality. The leak (as spotted by our friends at 9to5Google) originated from a bug report on the Chromium Issue Tracker, which contained two screen recordings

Genesis has unleashed a guttural, 1,100-horsepower roar across the dunes of the Arabian Peninsula. Could the radical X Scorpio concept off-roader be a hint of the brand's upcoming Dakar or WEC aspirations? As you can see, the Genesis X Scorpio concept is a departure from the brand’s typical luxury offerings. Debuting in the Rub' al Khali,

Samsung is set to make a splash in the U.S. market with release of its Galaxy Z TriFold on Friday, January 30, 2026. How big of a splash are we talking about? A sizable one, like a cannonball from a high-rise diving board, and that's regardless of whether you're talking about its ginormous display that folds out twice into a tablet-like form

Deep in the digital bedrock of 35 years of Hubble observation archives, a new AI tool has uncovered more than 800 previously undocumented cosmic anomalies in a scant two and a half days.  Using a sophisticated neural network called AnomalyMatch, astronomers have unearthed nearly 1,400 bizarre astronomical objects hidden within the Hubble

SK hynix is making a major investment on U.S. soil with the formation of an AI solutions firm that it is tentatively calling AI Company (or AI Co.). Most of the finer grain details are light at the moment, though from a high-level overview, the South Korean memory chip maker says its new firm will be focused on finding "new AI growth engines." As

At long last, Beijing has given several domestic tech giants its stamp of approval to buy H200 chips based on NVIDIA's Hopper architecture, with the green light coming while NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was visiting China, Reuters reports. Sources who are purportedly familiar with the matter told the outlet that ByteDance, the owner of TikTok,

The star of Intel's CES 2026 show was of course its new Core Ultra 300 series processors, code-named Panther Lake. We have our review up if you haven't read it already, but the short version is that they offer all-around impressive performance—particularly the Xe3-based integrated graphics. Well, those graphics just got a fresh performance

Microsoft is rolling out a preview of an updated look and feel for its Xbox Cloud Gaming web experience as the company eyes opening up the service to more users with an ad-supported tier. It’s a necessary refresh, because while the current web-based interface is serviceable, it still has plenty of pain points that needed to be smoothed out

SoundCloud, best known as a home to indie musicians including the popular "SoundClown" comedy remixers, has been hit with a major data breach that includes the avatars, email addresses, names, usernames, locations, and profile statistics of nearly 30 million (29.8 million) accounts. This breach follows demands from an extortion group that

Some chilling news has crept through the wire for those who prefer physical games or are starved for SSD space—apparently, Grand Theft Auto 6 is due to launch as a digital-only title. This news stems from at least one European game distributor, who reports that Take-Two Interactive is not planning a physical version of the next Grand Theft