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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Specs Leaked • CPU looks to leave Intel’s Core i9-14900KS in the dust
HP REVEALS ULTRA-FAST AI LAPTOP • IT WILL BE THE FIRST COPILOT+ PC TO FEATURE AMD’S AI CHIP
NVIDIA OPEN SOURCES GPU KERNEL MODULES
Tech Triumphs and Tragedies • A monthly snapshot of what’s good and bad in tech
DASVIDANIYA KASPERSKY • Kaspersky offers six months of free software before pulling out of USA
IT OUTAGE AFFECTS 8.5 MILLION • Microsoft releases statement
Chromium browsers sending information to Google
Will RISC V make the same mistakes as ARM/x86?
WD debuts huge capacity gaming drive
AMD details Zen 5 architecture for Ryzen • AMD WILL RELEASE two variants of its Zen 5 architecture into the wild in the next couple of weeks, the desktop ‘Granite Ridge’ chips with up to 16 cores and the mobile ‘Strix Point’ processors with up to 12 cores.
THE LIST • THE BEST NVME SSDS IN 2024
Is this Intel’s last stand? • I’VE BEEN FOLLOWING Intel for 20 years, and things have never looked this bad. Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs have a serious instability problem, and it’s the last thing the company needs as it struggles to turn its chip-manufacturing fabs around and keep up with AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. What’s going on, and can Intel survive this latest catastrophe?
DOCTOR • THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES…
BUILDING TOMORROW TODAY: OLD SCHOOL VERSUS NEW • Building our first BTF form factor PC.
SO MUCH MONEY
BLOOD & STEEL
HONEY, I LOST THE CABLES
TITANIC PERFORMANCE
MAXIMUM PC’S LOVE LETTER TO MANUFACTURERS • BTF IS AN INTERESTING DESIGN DIRECTION, BUT HERE’S WHAT WE REALLY WANT
A.I. SUPREMACY: IS THIS THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA? • Zak Storey takes a dive into the world of artificial intelligence, and everything that currently entails
THE BEST AI TOOLS TODAY
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WINDOWS 12 WHAT WE WANT • With the next version of Windows likely to land this fall, we present our wishlist of new features—and what old features we want to see the back of
FEATURES: WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE? • Lee Grant, who runs a PC repair shop, reveals his and his customers’ most wanted Windows 12 features.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CYBERWARFARE • Digital battlegrounds are hard to quantify; attackers are faceless and their weapons often untraceable. Nate Drake delves into the world of cyber espionage and sabotage
POWER KO
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Apple iPad Pro 13 • Apple skipped the M3 entirely for the new iPad. Apple’s M3 chips are on TSMC’s N3B process node, and the new M4 is on the slightly more energy-efficient N3E process node.
10 ways ChatGPT can change your life
AI TODAY & AI TO COME
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