Category: News
‘This memory situation is a multi-year problem,’ says Maingear CEO — Custom PC company offers up BYO RAM builds to combat shortages
CEO Wallace Santos said costs for a 32GB kit of RAM are up 394%, and up to 344% for 64GB…
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows
Wasn’t 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card…
Apple fined $116 million over app privacy prompts
Italy’s antitrust authority says double prompting for tracking permission is harmful to developers who rely on personalized advertising…
Windows drive X: Unleash ferocious speed by using RAM as storage
The X: drive is often used as a synonym for setting up a turbo-fast RAM disc in Windows. In this article, we show you how to set up and use such a RAM disc…
Hackers just ‘backed up’ 86 million Spotify music tracks
A hacker group claims to have scraped Spotify’s most popular music tracks and metadata, and is calling its booty the “world’s first preservation archive for music.”…
Still Using Passwords? Yikes. Here’s Why You Should Switch to Passkeys Now
Passkeys offer stronger protection than passwords—and they have the potential to eliminate passwords altogether if more people adopt them. We break it all down and show you how to get started…
pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree
Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen…
Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi
Google says the lawsuit is its last resort…
Social media is being slammed by deceptive AI videos. Here’s how to spot them
Sora2 is causing a new wave of deceptively real AI videos on YouTube and social media. We show you how to reliably expose AI-generated videos and which warning signals you should be aware of…
The RAM shortage is here to stay, raising prices on PCs and phones
Budget-friendly smartphones and memory-hungry AI PCs might have higher price tags next year…
This Windows feature secretly eats up RAM and slows your PC over time
If you never take advantage of Delivery Optimization, it might be a good idea to turn it off…
Anthropic Rolls Out Its Chatbot Claude as a Chrome Extension
The OpenAI rival says the new Chrome extension, Claude for Chrome, will be able to navigate websites on your behalf, fill in forms, and complete scheduled tasks, accessing multiple tabs in the process…