A fully modular power supply unit (PSU) is a PSU where all the cables can be detached from the PSU itself. There are a few reasons why they are generally viewed as better than their non-modular PSU counterparts. With a fully modular PSU, the only cables that need to be attached to the system to turn it on are the ATX 24-pin and 8-pin EPS cables.

There's no better feeling than having built or bought a brand-new PC. But before you jump into that game you've been waiting to play, there's something you need to do first. The first thing that every new computer owner should do is run a benchmark test. Benchmarking your GPU is a great way to measure how much performance you can get from your graphics card, how hot it gets under load, and what frames per second (FPS) it will run certain games at.

Have you ever had a program on your PC that, for some reason, simply won't uninstall? There are a ton of programs, especially older ones, that suffer from incomplete uninstallers or not even having a pre-packaged uninstaller with them. For those pieces of software, you're better off using a dedicated uninstaller program to remove it. That's where Revo Uninstaller comes in.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Starting in July, you won’t be able to add items to lists on third-party apps like Todoist and AnyList with Alexa voice control through their existing Skills. A post on Amazon’s developer site says it's shutting down access to Alexa Shopping and To-Do lists on July 1st. List Skills and Alexa Shopping and To-Do ListsStarting July 1, 2024, you will no longer be able to use List skills or the List Management REST API to access Alexa lists, i.e., the Alexa Shopping and To-Do lists, in your skills or apps. For other ways to build custom voice experiences, see Steps to Build a Custom Skill. Please contact us if you have any questions.What this means is that unless developers choose to develop a new custom skill, their Alexa integrations... Continue reading…

Mike Tyson, Nakisa Bidarian, and Jake Paul pose onstage during a press conference on May 16th, 2024 | Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images for Netflix Netflix is increasingly getting into live events, with comedy specials, NFL games, and even the WWE, but live action means unpredictability, and today, the streamer announced that a planned July 20th boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson is being rescheduled. While Tyson recovers from an ulcer flare-up that required medical attention during a recent flight, he has been advised to do “minimal to light training” over the next few weeks. Due to the interrupted training schedule for the officially sanctioned fight — Tyson’s first since 2005 —they’re now planning on a date later this year, which Netflix said will be announced by the end of next week.“My body is in better overall shape than it has been since the 1990s and I will be... Continue reading…

Intel has dished out some great CPUs as a part of both its mainstream as well as servers and workstation CPU line-ups over the last few years. Many of its mainstream consumer-grade CPUs have made it to our list of the best CPUs, with the likes of the Core i9-13900K even claiming the performance crown. This has been something of a comeback, as Intel has struggled technologically for years and, in 2022, finally felt the devastating financial effects of losing the edge in this space over its competitors. If you look back at Intel's history, you'll find tons of awful CPUs, and some of these will make you wonder how Intel only started running into financial issues recently.

Microsoft has been busy adding a ton of AI-powered features to its Edge browser lately. We recently saw Microsoft adding AI-generated themes to Edge to give users a truly unique background for their browsing, and now, another AI-powered feature has appeared within Edge's code. While nothing has been outright confirmed yet, there is evidence of work being done on a website suggestion feature that'd use AI to guide your browsing.

In our current day and age, you would be hard-pressed to find a company that isn't striving to enter the AI space. Since the rise of ChatGPT and the overwhelmingly positive public response to AI in general, PC companies have been playing catchup to implement AI in their next generation of hardware. This has been made clear by recent events like CES and Samsung Unpacked this year.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Someone going by the name “ShinyHunters” has been advertising a 1.3TB cache of data allegedly containing personal data (names, email/home addresses, and phone numbers), credit card details, and other information about 560 million Ticketmaster customers for $500,000 in hacking forums all week. Now, Ticketmaster parent Live Nation — the company that upset an army of Taylor Swift fans and is facing a federal antitrust lawsuit — publicly acknowledged a data breach in a regulatory filing late Friday evening. On May 20, 2024, Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (the “Company” or “we”) identified unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment containing Company data (primarily from its Ticketmaster L.L.C. subsidiary) and... Continue reading…

There are a lot of options when it comes to M.2 SSDs, but if you're looking for one that's going to fit an M.2 2230 slot, then your search for something great becomes a little less complicated. While there aren't that many 2230 SSDs out on the market, there's still a good selection, mostly thanks to the recent boom with PC gaming handhelds.

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge An alleged data breach potentially affecting as many as 560 million Ticketmaster accounts and a confirmed one for Santander Bank may have stemmed from attacks on the cloud storage accounts with a company called Snowflake. As spotted by Bleeping Computer, an investigation from cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock reports that a bad actor gained access to Ticketmaster and Santander by using the stolen credentials of a single Snowflake employee.According to Hudson Rock, the hacker bypassed the authentication service Okta using these credentials and then generated session tokens to obtain a trove of information from Snowflake. In addition to Ticketmaster and Santander Bank, Hudson Rock suggests the hacker may have gained access to hundreds of... Continue reading…

One thing you'll find yourself doing very often as a PC gamer is troubleshooting errors. Things have gotten a lot better these days, but a lot of games on PC still don't work very well out of the box due to some errors. One of the errors that you may face often throws an error message that reads a D3D11-compatible GPU is required to run the engine. What's annoying about this particular bug is it keeps you from the affected game until you fix it. If you find yourself stuck and are struggling to fix this particular issue, then I've highlighted a few potential ways to fix it below.