Microsoftreleased a 12-second video on the official Windows YouTube channel, saying, “We’re faster than a Mac. Here’s how much faster.” The host in the shortYouTube clipsays, “Top Copilot+ PCs are up to 58% faster than MacBook Air with M3.” They reiterate, “That’s right, faster than a Mac.” Redmond has been pushing its Arm-basedCopilot+ PCshard, primarily because they accounted forless than 10% of total shipmentsin the 3rd quarter of 2024. These Snapdragon-powered laptops have already been on the market for a year, but their uptake is still seemingly slow....

BBC Newsreports that the FBI has increased the bounty on missing CryptoQueen Dr. Ruja Ignatova to $5 million. Bulgaria-born German national Ignatova went missing in 2017 after a federal warrant was issued for her arrest. She is accused of wire fraud, money laundering, and related offenses while operating a Ponzi scheme dubbed OneCoin and defrauding over $4 billion from victims. OneCoin wasn’t even a cryptocurrency, according to crypto investor sites like CoinDesk....

According to presentation slides shared by French publicationCowcotland, MSI plans to add five next-generation motherboards to itsProject Zerolineup. During a tour of the company’s Shenzhen factory, MSI presented upcoming members of the Project Zero family of cable-hiding cases and motherboards. The presentation focused mainly on the new MAG PANO 110R PZ, the successor to the current MAG PANO M100R PZ. The 110R chassis seems similar to the 100R, except for having a flat top, while the top of the 100R was sloped....

The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless is the company’s flagship gaming headset, and despite being out for a few years, it’s still competitive with thebest gaming headsetsout there. In fact, it’s so good that despite owning headsets which are technically better, like theAudeze Maxwell, it’s still my go-to pair of gaming cans. Amazonhas discounted this lightweight and comfortable headset by 30%, bringing the total price down to $243.99 for the PC/PS5 version....

“Meet your new photographic memory,” the ad, which has been running on Facebook and X, says. In the 12-secondFacebook version, you see a man useMicrosoft’s Recall app to search for “where’d I see that cute pink creature thing” and then get a picture of an Axolotl. The commercial closes with the words “Recall what you’ve seen instantly” emblazoned on top of the man using a laptop and in front of a big picture of the creature....

Nvidia’s stock price dropped to $118.50 a share at the end of trading yesterday, January 27—a nearly 17% drop from its opening price of $142.02. This wiped out over $589 billion in market capitalization for the company, whichForbessays is the biggest single-day loss for any company in history. Aside from this, other tech companies also faced losses, with Nasdaq tanking by 3.1%, while other tech giants like Arm, Broadcom, and Oracle all experienced share price drops greater than 10%....

Nvidia has just announced a new list ofrecently-released and upcoming gameswith native Nvidia DLSS support, includingRuneScape: Dragonwilds. Counting the six new games discussed in Nvidia’s newest blog post, DLSS and RTX support is now natively available at some level across769 video games and applications, a number outpacing AMD and Intel’s similar tech by incredible margins.DLSS, or Deep Learning Super Sampling, is Nvidia’s suite of AI video and rendering upscaling enhancements. The feature has come to encompass numerous features, from AI-powered “super resolution” upscaling and anti-aliasing, to ray reconstruction for improved denoising with ray tracing, along with frame generation (on RTX 40-series and later)....

Nvidia’s ChatRTX AI chatbot, previously known asChat with RTX, has been revealed to have been vulnerable tosevere security vulnerabilities in ChatRTX 0.2 and all priorversions. Fortunately, the latest iteration of ChatRTX 0.2, obtainable from Nvidia’s direct download page, addresses these issues immediately.ChatRTXis Nvidia’s ChatGPT-style software that uses retrieval augmented generation (RAG) in tandem with Nvidia’s Tensort-RT LLM software and RTX acceleration to let users train a chatbot on heir own personal data....

Over on Chinese videosharing platform Bilibili, user 苏打baka uploaded a lengthy video showcasing the building, iteration, and operation ofa true fan PC build, by which we mean the entire PC has been built into the center of a giant box fan painted to look like a case fan. This video demo should not be mistaken for an actually-viableMini PCproject, and does not constitute anyPC cooling advice. 苏打baka’s name is a combination of the Chinese characters for “soda” and Japanese-Romanized “baka” meaning “fool”, so their name can effectively be translated as “Sodabaka”, “Sodafool”, or “Soda-foolish”, depending on how semantic you feel like being....

During the Future of Memory and Storage 2024 (FMS 2024) conference (previously Flash Memory Summit), Phison debuted its latest Gen4 SSD controller, thePhison PS5023-E29T. This SSD controller is targeted at upcoming NVMe Gen4 drives in the M.2-2280 and M.2-2230 form factors and is now nearly the fastest SSD controller in Phison’s lineup, beating all of them in sequential read performance and only beaten by theenterprise-grade PS5020-X1 controller for U.2 and U....

Pineboards, maker of the five-star Editor’s ChoiceHatDrive! Nano,hasannouncedthree new products in the Modulo series, all based around theRaspberry Pi Compute Module 5and the olderCompute Module 4. The three Modulo series products are the Modulo5 IO PoE+, the Modulo 4 and Modulo 5. Modulo5 IO PoE+ The €47 ($49)Modulo5 IO Pois fully compatible with the official Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 enclosure, with the same port layout. However, as the name suggests, it comes with Power over Ethernet (PoE) support....

Qualcomm is assembling a team of developers to design server processors for the data center. Evidence of this comes via a vacancy posted on the company’s own website (noticed byLonghorn). The company is looking for a server system-on-chip (SoC)securityarchitect, and the details of the listing outline that the company is “developing reference platforms based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC, delivering a comprehensive solution that includes hardware, software, reference designs, user guides, SDKs, and more....

After months of accumulated hype, Windows on Arm laptops boasting theQualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processorshave landed. Qualcomm promised “flawless” compatibility with Windows games, but while it’s some games do indeed run well on the hardware, the performance gaps between Snapdragon X Elite and competing AMD/Intel iGPUs are oftentimes staggering. And that’s only when the games actually work to begin with — which they often do not.Despite how boldly Qualcomm attempted to push Windows on Arm gaming with its Snapdragon X Elite at the 2024 Game Developers Conference, includingclaims that their games simply “will work”, it seems that there are still potentially years of software and driver development progress to be made before Qualcomm will be capable of making gaming-competitive laptop processors....