Building a PC has its advantages, such as cheaper parts costs and a learning experience that'll stick with you forever. However, when our AI overlords suck the joy out of DIY custom rigs, we need to venture out to...

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The Wokyis M5 Retro Dock Station will add USB ports, memory card readers, and an external SSD enclosure to your Mac mini while giving you a small '80s Macintosh on your desk.

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Sony increased prices for refurbished PlayStation 5 Slim consoles, following its move last month to make brand-new models more expensive.

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Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available. Here's 86-DOS 1.00, released on its 45th anniversary, for example.

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A French retailer is willing to sell you defective RTX 5090s for half of what they cost new, on the condition that you'll be able to repair or recycle them. You can either get a random 5090 variant, depending...

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The FCC estimates that roughly 75% of all U.S.-bound electronics are currently tested in Chinese facilities.

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The U.S. Navy just signed a $99.7 million deal with Domino Data Lab to build software to monitor other AI mine detection systems, identify failures, and push corrections in the field.

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A YouTuber made his own Peltier liquid cooling system to see if GPUs benefit from thermoelectric cooling. Sadly, the cooler was barely capable of cooling an RTX 3070 below ambient temperatures despite consuming over 300 watts of power.

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Get your fill of Star Wars-themed tech that can turn your setup from Padawan to Jedi Master this May the Fourth.

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Gigabyte’s Z890 Aorus Elite Duo X lands square in the mid-range sweet spot, offering ample connectivity, five M.2 sockets, native Arrow Lake Refresh support, and CQDIMM compatibility, all for a compelling sub-$280 price.

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We're testing the impact of using a dedicated secondary RTX 5060 GPU to boost the performance of an RTX 5090 in a few classic Batman Arkham titles that support 32-bit PhysX.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook warns Mac mini and Mac Studio shortages could continue for months as developers rush to buy high-memory Apple Silicon systems for running local AI models and agentic AI workloads.

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The Hackinator delids an Intel Xeon Silver 4110 processor and prepares it for a die shot using unconventional techniques.

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A Reddit user tried their luck with a $20 4TB external HDD, and, to no surprise, they received a microSD card strapped inside a card reader and hot-glued to the back of the plastic case of an "external hard...

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Canonical under sustained DDoS attack as Ubuntu 26 releases

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The Biwin M350 is a budget PCIe 4.0 SSD done right. It has good performance where it matters and good power efficiency, too. But it still has the weaknesses of QLC flash, like poor sustained performance.

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The U.S. Department of War announced agreements with seven AI providers, allowing it to deploy multiple LLMs for its use and avoiding lock up with a single vendor.

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Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend a combined $725 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, a 77% increase over last year's record $410 billion.

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