September 2025

Starship Troopers is a satirical movie (and less satirical book) that examines how fascist dictatorships drive young people into the meat grinder—waging pointless war across the galaxy, sending poor souls deep into the heart of an insectoid hive to meet a horrific death for basically zero reason. Helldivers 2 slightly undercuts this satire by making…

If you’re looking to come up with a different way of cooling a big CPU or GPU to get more oomph out of it, your options are a bit limited. Water loops, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, mineral oil—they’ve all been done before and to varying degrees of success. Enter stage left, one tech YouTuber with…

We reported recently on TSMC’s relentless march toward 2 nm chip tech, despite the fact that there’s barely any 3 nm silicon in our PCs. That’s all very nice, but the problem is that it’s just TSMC doing 2 nm with little to no competition. At least it was. Reportedly, Japanese chip manufacturing startup Rapidus…

Gathering ingredients for cooking in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is just as important as collecting crops and animal resources. Unfortunately, some of these are slightly harder to find than others, and honey can be a real pain to track down if you don’t know where to start. You’ll also need to give honey to…

Will no one stop this mad beast? Can no wall hold against its offensive? Is there any hope for the ‘umble indie game in this, our era of Silksong? Well, no. Or if there is, it ain’t for Star Birds, the base-building and resource management game from Toukana Interactive (who also made Dorfromantik). It’s joined…

Whether it’s your graphics card, RAM sticks, or SSD, they all contain memory chips that have probably been manufactured by one of two companies: Samsung and SK Hynix. While the majority of their production takes place in their native South Korea, both firms have lots of plants in China. And due to a recent decision…