Alienware AW2726DM review

It just so happens I’ve been daily driving an old school VA panel this week. It’s a budget 34-inch ultrawide and, funnily enough, it provides the perfect foil for Alienware’s new 27-inch QD-OLED monitor, the Alienware AW2726DM. This, too, is a budget offering, albeit in the loftier context of OLED gaming monitors. Yours for $349.99…

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Making black versions of Noctua’s beige fans is ‘less like painting a wooden fence… and more like changing the colour of a carbon-fibre Formula 1 part’

If there’s a-love-it-or-hate-it aesthetic for PC components, I’d say it’s probably Noctua’s traditionally beige fans. The company also makes black versions, but they often arrive far later than their pale brown counterparts. There are a lot of very good reasons for that, apparently, and the company has released a breakdown explaining the delay. In essence,…

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Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a ‘sustained, cross-border attack’

Canonical, the company behind the most popular Linux distro, says its web infrastructure is currently under a “sustained, cross-border attack.” Affected sites and services seem to run across the entire Ubuntu gamut, from its website to its blog and even potentially its repos. According to what user reports I could gleam from online forums—given official…

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The new ‘Xbox mode’ for Windows 11 has arrived, but don’t get your hopes up for performance improvements: it’s just a new UI

Microsoft announced in March that the new Xbox mode for Windows 11, a full-screen “dedicated gaming experience,” was set to go live in April. And on the very final day of the month, with most of those last 24 hours already gone, it’s finally starting to happen. “Beginning today, we’re excited to share that Xbox…

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