Microsoft study suggests folks can’t tell the difference between real and AI-generated images about 62% of the time—but can you do any better?

Unless you take curation of your social feeds very seriously, the tidal wave of AI slop images and videos has felt nigh inescapable. More worrying still is how often this crashing tide serves to highlight which of our loved ones struggle to discern AI-generated content from all the slop made by human hands. Even worse…

Read More

Hacker claims to have exposed Amazon’s ‘AI security theater’ after exploiting its coding assistant with a simple factory reset prompt

Amazon Q, the company’s AI coding assistant, reportedly exposed almost one million users to a potential system wipe, and the hacker who did it claims to have exposed the ‘security theatre’ at the heart of Amazon’s system. As reported by Techspot, Amazon Q has an open-source GitHub repository for its code, and this is what…

Read More

If you catch the ball in Rematch, there’s a small chance you didn’t—Sloclap’s desync issues are upsetting players in a game I otherwise can’t stop playing

Rematch is great—I’ve already sunk about 40 hours into the thing and have no intention of stopping anytime soon. Just one small problem, though: the desync issues are still rough. In any given match, there’s a chance you’ll make a dive towards a ball—only for the fabric of time to hiccup, subjecting you to an…

Read More

The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 chip in the laptop I’ve been testing just scored over 1,000,000 in Cinebench, breaking space and time and sending me whirling around my room like a nut in a blender

Remember the Black Mesa Incident? Well that just happened in my room, thanks to a very sprightly little chip in the RTX 5060 laptop that I’m testing. The Asus TUF A14 (2025) in front of me has an Nvidia RTX 5060 and an AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 APU inside of it. You might expect…

Read More

If you’d like to see Meta’s AI gunk purged from WhatsApp, a new antitrust investigation in Italy might just do the trick

Italy’s antitrust authority, AKA the body the looks into monopoly abuses by companies, has reportedly launched an investigation into Meta. According to Reuters, the Italian authority is considering, “allegations the company abused its dominant position by installing its artificial intelligence tool on messaging service WhatsApp.” The key detail, it seems, is that Meta foisted its…

Read More

It’s the scantest of rumours but given AMD’s track record, I actually believe the claim that the Ryzen 9000G series will be nothing more than an 8000G refresh

Although they take a while to appear with each new generation of Ryzen processors, AMD always converts some of its laptop processors into desktop CPUs to give entry-level PC gamers an all-in-one option. But one rumour is to be believed, then the forthcoming Ryzen 9000G chips are unlikely to be well received because it’s being…

Read More

I’ve just anointed the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro as our new best gaming mouse because… well, it’s simply better than the rest in almost every conceivable way

The best gaming mouse is perhaps the most hotly debated topic in the PC Gamer office. We test fabulous offerings from all the biggest brands on a monthly, sometimes weekly basis, and then we have a good old scrap about why each is better than the other, or worse, or the same. It’s one long,…

Read More