Adding CPU offload should make inference slower. Sometimes it makes it five times faster. Both are true, and the reason matters more than the trick.
Lena Fischer · 18m ago · 9 min
The dual-3090 build doesn't give you double the bandwidth for chat — and the reason has nothing to do with the cards. What the measurements actually say.
Ravi Malhotra · 1h ago · 11 min
a graphics card, a games console, a $45 hobby board, a hard drive and a retro handheld all got more expensive this year for one identical reason. I've written them as six stories. they're one — and here's what I'd actually do about it.
Ravi Malhotra · 21h ago · 9 min
three price rises in five months, up to $100 on the 16GB Pi 5, and a seven-fold jump in memory costs behind all of it. I still think the cheap end of the range is the best value in computing — but the top end is a harder sell now.
Ravi Malhotra · 22h ago · 8 min
consumer Extended Security Updates now run to October 12, 2027, not 2026. there was no announcement — just a doc edit. and you almost certainly don't need to pay the $30.
Priya Nair · 23h ago · 5 min
Splatoon Raiders is the first spin-off the series has ever had, it's PvE rather than turf war, and it lands July 23. I've got one real worry about it, and it isn't the thing most people are complaining about.
Diego Santos · 23h ago · 7 min
Raspberry Pi's CEO says the Pi 6 won't land before early 2028 and won't have an NPU. I think telling people that plainly is the most useful thing they could have done — even though it's not what anyone wanted to hear.
Ravi Malhotra · 23h ago · 8 min
3,200 jobs cut, four studios let go, Halo shipping on PlayStation, and a 2027 super-console still being funded. everyone's reading that as collapse. I've been staring at it for a week and I think it's a deliberate — and defensible — bet.
Diego Santos · 1d ago · 9 min
the storefront section is live, the hardware has cleared customs, the FCC paperwork is public. everything about Steam Frame is ready except the one number that decides whether anyone actually buys it — and I think I know why Valve is stalling.
Diego Santos · 1d ago · 8 min
The dual-3090 build doesn't give you double the bandwidth for chat — and the reason has nothing to do with the cards. What the measurements actually say.
Ravi Malhotra · 1h ago · 11 min
a graphics card, a games console, a $45 hobby board, a hard drive and a retro handheld all got more expensive this year for one identical reason. I've written them as six stories. they're one — and here's what I'd actually do about it.
Ravi Malhotra · 21h ago · 9 min
three price rises in five months, up to $100 on the 16GB Pi 5, and a seven-fold jump in memory costs behind all of it. I still think the cheap end of the range is the best value in computing — but the top end is a harder sell now.
Ravi Malhotra · 22h ago · 8 min
this is the question I get more than any other, and my answer disappoints people. the hardware is genuinely capable now. the maths usually still doesn't work — unless one specific thing is true for you.
Lena Fischer · 1d ago · 9 min
screenshots of Moonshot's new model introducing itself as 'Claude, made by Anthropic' are everywhere. it's real, and it's a genuine clue — but on its own it proves way less than people think. here's the actual picture.
Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 6 min
on a single 24GB card in 2026 there's no one 'best' — it's a clean three-way split: Qwen3.6-27B for coding, Gemma 4 for vision, gpt-oss-20b for raw speed. and a used RTX 3090 still competes, because this is a memory game, not a compute one.
Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 7 min
Splatoon Raiders is the first spin-off the series has ever had, it's PvE rather than turf war, and it lands July 23. I've got one real worry about it, and it isn't the thing most people are complaining about.
Diego Santos · 23h ago · 7 min
3,200 jobs cut, four studios let go, Halo shipping on PlayStation, and a 2027 super-console still being funded. everyone's reading that as collapse. I've been staring at it for a week and I think it's a deliberate — and defensible — bet.
Diego Santos · 1d ago · 9 min
the storefront section is live, the hardware has cleared customs, the FCC paperwork is public. everything about Steam Frame is ready except the one number that decides whether anyone actually buys it — and I think I know why Valve is stalling.
Diego Santos · 1d ago · 8 min
the one remake fans have begged for since 1998 is real — a ground-up Ocarina of Time, Switch 2 exclusive, 'in 2026.' no gameplay, no date, no developer. the silence is doing a lot of work.
Tom Ashcroft · 1d ago · 5 min
Revelations is a 10-12 hour campaign id says is bigger than both Doom Eternal expansions combined. the part nobody's talking about: it ships with rebuilt, fully playable classic Doom 2 maps.
Tom Ashcroft · 2d ago · 5 min
Blaze put Evercade cartridges and the Super Pocket up across the UK and EU. the cause has nothing to do with retro gaming and everything to do with AI datacenters — and this is the corner of the market least able to absorb it.
Tom Ashcroft · 3d ago · 7 min
consumer Extended Security Updates now run to October 12, 2027, not 2026. there was no announcement — just a doc edit. and you almost certainly don't need to pay the $30.
Priya Nair · 23h ago · 5 min
Proxmox VE 8.4 stops getting support in August. 9.2 finally adds the automatic load balancing VMware refugees kept asking for — and I think the upgrade is worth doing for that alone, deadline or not.
Priya Nair · 1d ago · 8 min
debloat scripts strip recovery components and quietly break Windows Update months later. Microsoft finally ships supported removal paths that do the same job — and I'd genuinely rather you used those.
Priya Nair · 1d ago · 8 min
researchers found wallets still tracking your address after you hit 'revoke,' plus cross-site leaks in most of the ones they tested. nearly everyone patched fast. MetaMask basically shrugged.
Sam Okafor · 3d ago · 6 min
eight real games, real Steam store pages, real players — and crypto-draining malware baked right in. the FBI only caught the guy thanks to a trail of Uber Eats gift cards. here's the playbook, and the defense.
Sam Okafor · 4d ago · 5 min
HSBC, UBS, Citi and 14 others are now moving 'tokenized deposits' on a Swift-built ledger. it's not a coin, it's not public, and it might quietly matter more than any crypto headline this year.
Sam Okafor · 5d ago · 6 min