To make the most of AMD's 3D V-Cache technology, you'll need to play some games that can fully leverage the additional cache and other improvements over standard AMD Ryzen CPUs. I've been messing around with the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D inside my gaming rig, replacing the also brilliant Ryzen 9 9950X, to see how it impacts the games that I play. For a more in-depth look at the processor, I do highly recommend our Ryzen 9 9950X3D review, which also features some benchmarks, test runs, and plenty of graphs.

After the United Kingdom began enforcing its sweeping Online Safety Act in April, British regulator Ofcom served violation notices to three notorious sites: 4chan, Gab, and Kiwi Farms, each of which risked multimillion-dollar fines. Late last week, Preston Byrne, a First Amendment lawyer representing them, struck back. Byrne announced he would sue Ofcom in US federal court and added an unusual request. He called on the Trump administration "to invoke all diplomatic and legal levers available to the United States" to protect his clients from the OSA's reach.Byrne's request could put a trio of sites known as hotbeds of violence, harassment, …Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple is suing a former employee on the Apple Watch team who left to join Oppo, alleging that he “conspired to steal Apple’s trade secrets relating to Apple Watch and to disclose them to his new employers.”Ahead of starting his new job at Oppo, the employee, Dr. Chen Shi, attended “dozens” of meetings with technical members on the Apple Watch team to learn about their work and downloaded 63 documents “from a protected Box folder” that he loaded onto a USB drive, according to the lawsuit. Shi allegedly sent a message to Oppo saying that he was working to “collect as much information as possible” before starting his job. And he searched the internet for terms like “how to wipe out macbook” and “Can somebody see if I’ve opened a file on a shared drive?” from his Apple-issued MacBook before leaving the company.Shi was formerly a sensor system architect at Apple, and the company says he had “a front row seat to Apple’s development of its cutting-edge health sensor technology, including highly confidential roadmaps, design and development documents, and specifications for ECG sensor technology.”He now heads up a team working on sensing technology at Oppo — which Apple says it learned because of “messages he left on his Apple-issued work iPhone.” In his resignation letter to Apple, Shi said he was leaving “due to personal and family reasons.” Via that iPhone, Apple also says it found messages from Oppo demonstrating that it “encouraged, approved, and agreed to Dr. Shi’s plan to collect Apple’s proprietary information before leaving Apple.”When The Verge tried to contact Oppo for comment, the email bounced back because the mailbox was full.

When it comes to upgrading your PC's cooling hardware, you probably think of a better cooler, more fans, a bigger case, or even a custom watercooling loop. Investing in the right components is undoubtedly crucial for maximizing the cooling, and hence, the performance of your PC, but it's easy to get distracted and spend on stuff that's more cosmetic than functional. They might not be completely useless, but their cooling benefits might still be dwarfed by their esthetic appeal.

Alright, let's make one thing clear — I'm not happy with the current gaming generation when it comes to consoles. As an exclusive PlayStation-plus-PC guy since the PS4, I was quick to buy a PS5, and slow to realize just how terribly short the list of true exclusives on that console was. Am I happy that a lot of PlayStation games are now on PC where I can enjoy them with better framerates and mods? Absolutely. At the same time, there's just something special about kicking back on the La-Z-Boy and taking in a brilliant 'PlayStation exclusive'.

If you work on multiple projects with different clients, you probably know how difficult it is to manage files across external drives, network shares, Google Drive, and other cloud buckets. It's pretty annoying, inefficient, and definitely not what you expect file management to be in today's time.

If you spend most of your day on a computer, and you're using a traditional mouse or are relying on your laptop's trackpad, it might be a good time to upgrade. Changing your mouse to something more ergonomic can not only help you throughout the day with the work that you do, but can also be gentler on your body as well. Of course, not everyone wants to spend a lot of money, jump ship, and find out that it doesn't work out for them. That's why this ProtoArc mouse is a great option, costing just $19 thanks to a discount from Amazon.

Why buy a handheld console when you can make your own? We've seen plenty of Raspberry Pi portable consoles in the past, ranging from the Steam Deck-esque to the truly "pocket-sized." But rarely do we see them come with two screens, akin to Nintendo's DS and 3DS systems.

In the past week, the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, was in talks with the CEO of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan. We didn't hear much of what was going on, and while there were some speculations and claims as to what was going on around the negotiation table, we didn't hear of anything concrete. Well, now we have confirmation as to what was going on, as both the POTUS and Intel have broken the silence to say that the US government has acquired 10% of Intel's shares, seemingly for free.

When you're looking at motherboard features for your next PC build or upgrade, one of the most important specifications is how many PCIe lanes it supports, thanks to the combination of CPU and chipset. The better your motherboard, the more lanes you have for your graphics card, NVMe SSDs, and peripherals. But with modern consumer platforms from AMD and Intel, does stressing yourself out over how many PCIe lanes you have make sense? After all, both Ryzen 9000 and Arrow Lake have similar PCIe lane support. It's not quite as clear-cut as not having to worry, but there are still some pitfalls when you choose your motherboard that you'll need to be aware of.

Let me start by confessing my dislike for AI note-takers like Otter AI and Fireflies. They are undeniably useful, but also a privacy nightmare. All it takes is one teammate bringing one of these note-takers into a meeting, and suddenly everyone else is forced to deal with email notifications they never consented to. On top of that, they flood in-call chats with ongoing transcriptions. Reports have even alleged that Otter AI secretly records private work conversations.

With their remote monitoring, motion detection, PTZ control, and data storing provisions, Network Video Recorders are a great way to turn a bunch of IP cameras into a full-fledged surveillance system. Better yet, the self-hosting landscape is chock-full of cool NVR solutions that not only let you manage your security footage, but also preserve your privacy and money while doing so.