Modder builds giant Game Boy featuring a dreamy electroluminescent screen driven by custom graphics adapter — DIY retro console is fully functional with working buttons By Hassam Nasir published 23 December 25 The Lego Game Boy she told you not to worry about.
Corsair ships customer $35 decorative memory sticks instead of $1,000 worth of 96 GB of DDR5 memory — buyer accidentally receives dummy RAM in unlucky warranty claim By Hassam Nasir published 23 December 25 "We have RAM at home"
Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites By Hassam Nasir last updated 22 December 25 After books, music is the next target for Anna's Archive.
You can own a piece of the first $124 million Atari Hotel in Phoenix for as little as $500 — Developer launches SEC-backed fundraiser with construction set to begin next year By Hassam Nasir published 22 December 25 Does it have 2600 rooms?
Turns out, AI can actually build competent Minesweeper clones — Four AI coding agents put to the test reveal OpenAI's Codex as the best, while Google's Gemini CLI as the worst By Hassam Nasir published 21 December 25 Mistral and Anthropic both performed respectably well.
Nintendo Switch 2 to reportedly get smaller capacity game cartridges soon, offering an alternative to costly 64GB cards — Storage crisis might delay production, however By Hassam Nasir published 21 December 25 16GB and 32GB physical media on the way?
Moore Threads unveils next-gen gaming GPU with 15x performance and 50x ray tracing improvement — AI GPU with claimed performance between Hopper and Blackwell also in the works By Hassam Nasir published 21 December 25 Chinese silicon is gunning for the crown.
Three year test shows OLED is significantly more reliable than LCD, with most lasting more than 10,000 hours — 20 TVs failed out of 102 tested By Hassam Nasir published 20 December 25 Price and reliability don't scale.
Unreal Engine 5.7 brings significant improvements over the notoriously demanding 5.4 version, tester claims — benchmark shows up to 25% GPU performance increase, 35% CPU boost By Hassam Nasir published 18 December 25 Unreal Engine might be heading in the right direction.
AMD's rumored Ryzen 7 9850X3D spotted at Swiss and U.S. retailers — listings reveal preliminary price of ~$550-600, significantly higher than 9800X3D's $449 MSRP By Hassam Nasir published 17 December 25 Early price listings seem high
Enthusiast modder stuffs an entire gaming PC inside a gutted Commodore PET 2001 — replaced the screen with an iPad Retina LCD, but the original keyboard still works By Hassam Nasir published 17 December 25 A "retrofit" in the truest sense of the word.
Sapphire rep predicts DRAM prices will begin to stabilize in the next 6-8 months, but warns 'it may not be the prices we want' — GPU vendor says memory crisis is similar to tariff uncertainty By Hassam Nasir published 16 December 25 GPUs have so far remained safe.
The 'ExtrudeX' machine wants to turn your 3D printing waste into reusable filament, all at home — this Kickstarter project is itself 3D-printable with minimal hardware costs By Hassam Nasir published 15 December 25 Helping you save money on new filament.
Unreleased RTX Titan Ada prototype gets taken apart to reveal complex internal design and assembly — Nvidia's mythical GPU is engineered to the max with dual 12VHPWR connectors By Hassam Nasir published 14 December 25 This quad-slot beast would've been a challenge on mass production lines.
Dev hacks Xiaomi's Smart Humidifier to free it from the cloud, now works with Home Assistant locally — custom firmware allows the product to evade planned obsolescence By Hassam Nasir published 14 December 25 No more relying on the manufacturer.
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 9 290K Plus spotted at Indian retailer — listings appear to corroborate prior leaks but don't reveal pricing or new info for upcoming Arrow Lake refresh By Hassam Nasir published 12 December 25 First retail appearance of the Arrow Lake refresh.
Asus' new 5K gaming monitor is so high-end it doesn't even officially support RTX 40-series GPUs — the XG27JCG is a 5K 180Hz beast with 330Hz 1440p dual-mode support By Hassam Nasir published 11 December 25 Gaming monitor with retina resolution.
Framework puts Dell and Apple on blast over egregious RAM prices — modular laptop maker will be forced to increase memory prices, but won't "gouge customers" like other vendors By Hassam Nasir published 10 December 25 The result of an erroneous screenshot.
Intel's upcoming Core Ultra X9 388H is up to 8.7% faster for 1T perf than Ryzen AI Max+ 395 — Panther Lake gains significant ground on Strix Halo in early Geekbench leak By Hassam Nasir published 9 December 25 Class-leading single-core and multi-core numbers.
This GitHub script claims to wipe all of Windows 11's AI features in seconds — "RemoveWindowsAI" can disable every single AI feature in the OS, from Copilot to Recall and more By Hassam Nasir published 9 December 25 And you can disable what's left manually.
Scavenger scores 14900KS PC with 64GB of DDR5 for less than the cost of RAM alone — $2500+ machine sells for just $600 By Hassam Nasir published 9 December 25 God, I've seen what you've done for others.
AMD's B650 chipset isn't going anywhere, according to a new rumor — rising memory costs and softening DIY demand mean the transition to B850 may take longer than expected By Hassam Nasir published 8 December 25 Vendors allegedly told to restart B650 production.
Geekbench leak sees Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 7 270K comfortably ahead of Core Ultra 265K — alleged result shows Arrow Lake refresh chip 5.6% ahead of the 265K By Hassam Nasir published 8 December 25 A decent improvement over the 265K
CPU air cooler runs ice-cold water through its heatpipes to liquid-cool a GPU — negative-temp DIY mod sees up to 17% performance uplift By Hassam Nasir published 6 December 25 Taking custom loops to a whole 'nother level.
AMD's imminent Ryzen 7 9850X3D chip shows up on Geekbench with 5.6 GHz boost clocks — Scores slightly lower than 9800X3D in multi-core tests, higher in single-core By Hassam Nasir published 6 December 25 Tested on slow RAM.
