April 2026

As part of its 14,000 layoffs in October 2025, Amazon made major cuts to its gaming division, claiming that it was shifting its strategy away from ill-advised attempts at competing with Steam through mismanaged AAA projects and focusing instead on its Luna cloud gaming service. Despite that supposed refocusing, Luna just got smaller. As of…

It’s rough out there for RAM prices. It’ll be a long time before memory prices become properly sensible again, but apparently spot prices have recently dropped. I’d like to take the wins where I can, but I’m not sure the time for celebration is anywhere near. To briefly recap, the AI industry’s bottomless appetite for…

In a seminar on April 8, a handful of groups from the French government got together to discuss digital sovereignty and “accelerating the reduction of its extra-European dependencies.” One such act is to move away from Windows, the US-made operating system, entirely. The solution? Linux. As noted by Tom’s Hardware, and detailed in a report,…

If you found a ticket that let you fly all the way to Amsterdam just lying on the beach, what would you do with it? Would you turn it in or try to sell it at your own pop up trash shack on the beach? Hypothetically speaking, I’d sell it at my pop up trash…

It’s fair to say that Apple’s new MacBook Neo has given the Windows-based laptop market something to think about. Powered by the same chip used in the iPhone 16, the $599 computer has reportedly been selling very well. That’s despite it only having 512 GB as the best storage option. But if you’re as handy…

PC gaming has always been an expensive hobby, even if you stick to entry-level hardware. So much so that the majority of enthusiasts only upgrade their systems piecemeal, one component every so often, or get a new rig after many long years. But if you were hoping to build a new gaming PC or update…

Misclicking the Copilot button before hurrying to shut down Windows’ built-in AI has become a familiar ritual for many recent Microsoft customers. At one point, it seemed like the company wanted to crowbar AI into all of its offerings, though it recently announced it would pull back on this approach. Even so, Mozilla has shared…