Laptops, PC hardware, components and platforms.
A Canadian software engineer and YouTuber built a custom automatic license plate recognition camera to track police vehicles, prompting a visit from local law enforcement and highlighting broader automated surveillance concerns.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
The group known as Cyberleek has issued an ultimatum to Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games, threatening to release a full build of Grand Theft Auto VI unless the publisher apologizes and their associated memecoin reaches a $30 million market cap.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 4 min read
Video game console sales in the U.S. have seen a massive year-to-date drop, with Xbox sales down 33% and PlayStation 5 sales falling 25%. Industry advisor Mat Piscatella attributes the decline to increasing price sensitivity among gamers and console price hikes.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
The Asustor Lockerstor 2 Gen2+ AS6702T v2 delivers dual 5GbE networking and four M.2 slots in a two-bay design, but struggles to justify its high price against newer rivals.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 7 min read
Leading artificial intelligence developers like Anthropic and OpenAI are reportedly running scenarios and building contingency plans for potential catastrophic incidents involving rogue AI systems.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
The Ruark Audio Talisman-R floorstanding speakers offer exceptional build quality, a discreet double-baffle design, and an informative, highly musical sound.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 5 min read
The HP EliteBook X G2i combines an ultralight magnesium chassis with robust Intel Core Ultra performance and impressive Arc B390 graphics.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 6 min read
A hardware modder attached a 360mm AIO liquid cooling radiator and custom waterblocks to an aging laptop, slashing temperatures by 60 degrees Celsius and unlocking performance gains.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
The open-source AnyPS5 project has achieved 100 percent GPU shader instruction coverage, marking a major milestone in efforts to run PlayStation 5 games natively on Windows and Linux PCs.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 5 min read
A modder has forced Nvidia's DLSS 5 upscaler onto the classic MS-DOS version of Pac-Man using the MAME emulator, ReShade, and RenoDX with 4x Multipass.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
Industry rumors suggest Nvidia has halted production of consumer GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards to redirect GB202 silicon toward more lucrative AI and professional data center accelerators.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read
An AI-powered free Steam game demo forced its developers to take out a bank loan after daily cloud AI service costs surpassed $1,000 due to unexpected player growth.
BYTERMINAL Desk · 3 min read