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By the SpecPicks Editorial Team · 239 news articles · Latest story 2026-07-23

Archive of 239 SpecPicks news briefs on AI hardware, PC gaming releases, retro PC scene updates and SBC/maker hardware, each rewritten with cited sources and dated. No new brief has been published since 2026-07-23, so check a story’s date before relying on it. Expired deal briefs sit at the bottom marked “Deal ended”. The full archive is at all articles →

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🔥 BOSGAME VTA-439: A Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Mini PC

Phoronix's coverage of the BOSGAME VTA-439 mini PC highlights a Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 platform with clean Linux support. Here's how it fits a homelab and what storage to pair with it.

Mike Perry · 2026-07-21 · news · 9 min · trend 80

ASRock Phantom Gaming 360 LCD Cooler Debuts With Strong Numbers

Mike Perry · 2026-07-21 · 8 min · trend 78
Asus ROG Xreal R1: 240Hz AR gaming glasses land

Mike Perry · 2026-07-18 · 9 min · trend 70
GPT-5.6 Sol Reportedly Cracks a 30-Year Statistics Conjecture in 90 Minutes

Mike Perry · 2026-07-15 · 11 min · trend 78
A DIY Wireless Fingerprint Authorization Device Turns Heads on Hackaday

Mike Perry · 2026-07-15 · 11 min · trend 78
Sega's $5M Bet Saved Nvidia in 1996 — Jensen Heads to Tokyo

Mike Perry · 2026-07-12 · 10 min · trend 90
Retro Nintendo Switch 2 Dock Channels the N64 and Holds Six Game Cards

Mike Perry · 2026-07-15 · 17 min · trend 70
GPT-5.6 Sol Nearly Matches Fable 5 at a Third the Cost: The Local-Rig Angle

Mike Perry · 2026-07-10 · 9 min · trend 82
New Raspberry Pi 5 Active-Cooler + NVMe VESA Case Lands (3D-Printable)

Mike Perry · 2026-07-12 · 9 min · trend 76
Intel Plans Two 22-Core Nova Lake-S SKUs With Game-Boosting Cache

Mike Perry · 2026-07-07 · 8 min · trend 90
AMD Ryzen AI Halo Ships with a Fully Open-Source Linux Stack

Mike Perry · 2026-07-10 · 5 min · trend 75
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus: Dual-Channel Memory Scaling Tested

Mike Perry · 2026-07-10 · 5 min · trend 75
Mystery N64 Cartridge Found in the Woods Boots Up

Mike Perry · 2026-07-11 · 9 min · trend 70
Prime Intellect Raises $130M to Help Enterprises Build Their Own AI Agents

Mike Perry · 2026-07-11 · 8 min · trend 72
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Re-Review: DDR4's Last Gaming Champion in 2026

Mike Perry · 2026-07-09 · 9 min · trend 78
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work: An Agent for Whole Workflows

Mike Perry · 2026-07-09 · 10 min · trend 75
Adafruit's Cyberdeck Raspberry Pi Music Workstation Guide Lands

Mike Perry · 2026-07-09 · 9 min · trend 75
Cloudflare Swaps Its Blanket AI Bot Block for Granular Crawler Controls

Mike Perry · 2026-07-07 · 6 min · trend 82
ASUS Beta BIOS Restores Ryzen 9000 Memory Encryption Ahead of AMD's July Timeline

Mike Perry · 2026-07-06 · 9 min · trend 78
Raspberry Pi Locator Shuts Down in July: Where to Buy a Pi Now

Mike Perry · 2026-07-06 · 8 min · trend 78
Open-Source Linux Driver Lands for the ASUS ZenVision Lid OLED

Mike Perry · 2026-07-06 · 9 min · trend 75
Hidden Code in Claude Code Flagged Chinese Users: What It Means for Local-LLM Privacy

Mike Perry · 2026-07-02 · 9 min · trend 90
Linux Now Boots on a Sega Genesis — Here's What That Actually Means

Mike Perry · 2026-07-05 · 11 min · trend 75
Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Adds DLSS Support: What It Means for RTX 3060 Owners

Mike Perry · 2026-07-02 · 9 min · trend 82
Prime Day 2026: Gaming Monitor Deals Worth a Look

Mike Perry · 2026-06-30 · 9 min · trend 78
Raspberry Pi OS Moves to Linux 6.18 LTS: Performance Gains for Pi 4 Owners

Mike Perry · 2026-07-01 · 7 min · trend 70
Anthropic Launches Claude Science for Researchers

Mike Perry · 2026-06-30 · 9 min · trend 72
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil 'Jalapeño' Inference Chip

Mike Perry · 2026-06-24 · 12 min · trend 80
Budget 4K QD-Mini LED Gaming Monitors Hit New Lows in 2026

Mike Perry · 2026-06-19 · 3 min · trend 75
Mistral AI Seeks €3 Billion to Fund Its European Push — The Local-vs-Cloud Angle

Mike Perry · 2026-06-13 · 10 min · trend 95
Sega Genesis Games Loaded Off a Vinyl Record — and What It Means for Retro Collectors

Mike Perry · 2026-06-13 · 9 min · trend 95
SteamOS Boots on Intel: Enthusiast Hack Breaks Valve's AMD-Only Grip

Mike Perry · 2026-06-16 · 5 min · trend 80
US Government Forces Anthropic to Disable Claude Fable 5 Worldwide

Mike Perry · 2026-06-13 · 9 min · trend 90
Inside the Creative Katana V2X Soundbar Teardown — and What It Says About Sound Blaster

Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 10 min · trend 75
180Hz 1440p Monitors Hit Entry Pricing — Here's How the 4K Tier Compares

Mike Perry · 2026-06-24 · 9 min · trend 50
Hyperscalers May Soon Outrun Their Cash Flow on AI Buildout

Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 7 min · trend 70
Claude Fable 5 Launches at #1 on the Intelligence Index — What Local Builders Should Take Away

Mike Perry · 2026-06-11 · 10 min · trend 92
AVX-512 Lifts Linux RAID Up to 41% on AMD Ryzen Chips

Mike Perry · 2026-06-15 · 10 min · trend 75
Asus ROG Harpe II Extreme Lands With a 65K-DPI Sensor

Mike Perry · 2026-06-15 · 10 min · trend 75
Amstrad CPC Emulator Now Runs on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2

Mike Perry · 2026-06-19 · 4 min · trend 60
Linux Gaming Keeps Getting Faster: Windows APIs Land in the Kernel

Mike Perry · 2026-06-14 · 10 min · trend 78
Asus ProArt PA27USD OLED Lands — and What 4K Gamers Can Buy for Less

Mike Perry · 2026-06-16 · 10 min · trend 70
Nintendo Switch Steering Wheel V2: A 3D-Printed Accessibility Controller

Mike Perry · 2026-06-16 · 10 min · trend 70
Hobbyist Turns a Raspberry Pi and ADS-B Into a Viral Real-Time Airport Tracker

Mike Perry · 2026-06-15 · 13 min · trend 70
Asus ROG Harpe II Extreme: A 24K-Gold, 65K-Sensor Gaming Mouse

Mike Perry · 2026-06-13 · 9 min · trend 78
Intel Panther Lake on Linux: First Core Ultra X7 Numbers Land

Mike Perry · 2026-06-24 · 9 min · trend 45
OpenAI Names Its Biggest Data Center Yet, With NVIDIA Backing: What It Means

Mike Perry · 2026-06-10 · 3 min · trend 88
Viral: Hobbyists Are Tracking Every Plane With a $50 Raspberry Pi - Here Is What You Need

Mike Perry · 2026-06-10 · 4 min · trend 85
A 3D-Printed Switch Steering Wheel V2 Brings Adaptive Racing to More Players

Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 9 min · trend 60
When a Game Boy Clone Runs Too Fast: The Crystal-Swap Fix Behind a Viral Repair

Mike Perry · 2026-06-15 · 14 min · trend 65
Intel Arc Pro B70 (BMG-G31) Posts Strong Linux Gaming Numbers — How It Stacks Up Against an RTX 3060

Mike Perry · 2026-06-11 · 12 min · trend 80
That Game Boy Clone Runs Too Fast — and the Fix Is a Clock Crystal

Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 7 min · trend 55
MCL8080+ Squeezes an Intel 8080 Emulator into an ATtiny85

Mike Perry · 2026-06-12 · 10 min · trend 70
Claude Fable 5: Anthropic Admits 'Wrong Tradeoff' on Throttling

Mike Perry · 2026-06-12 · 6 min · trend 70
Beijing's $295B AI Buildout Wants 80% Domestic Chips — What It Means for GPU Buyers

Mike Perry · 2026-06-09 · 9 min · trend 80
Linux Gaming Keeps Closing the Gap: Kernel and Windows-API Work Behind the Gains

Mike Perry · 2026-06-09 · 9 min · trend 76
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate Goes Cloud-First — The Local, Private Path on a Raspberry Pi

Mike Perry · 2026-06-10 · 9 min · trend 70
Microsoft Now Points to 32GB RAM for Windows 11 Gaming — What It Means for Your Build

Mike Perry · 2026-06-10 · 8 min · trend 70
Corsair's New Gaming Mouse Has a Dedicated Stream Deck Launch Button

Mike Perry · 2026-06-07 · 9 min · trend 75
Cloudflare CEO: The Web's Future Is 'Pay to Crawl' as Bots Overtake Humans

Mike Perry · 2026-06-05 · 10 min · trend 82
Asus ROG Harpe II Extreme: 24K-Gold, 65K-Sensor Gaming Mouse

Mike Perry · 2026-06-08 · 9 min · trend 70
Corsair Launches Lightweight Budget HS35 v3 Gaming Headset

Mike Perry · 2026-06-05 · 9 min · trend 78
Samsung's 2026 Odyssey Lineup Adds 5K, 6K and a 360Hz 4K QD-OLED

Mike Perry · 2026-06-04 · 6 min · trend 80
A LEGO Castle Case for the Raspberry Pi 5 Is Going Viral — Here's the Build

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 10 min · trend 92
Why That Game Boy Clone Runs Too Fast — and the Crystal Fix

Mike Perry · 2026-06-05 · 10 min · trend 72
Adafruit Ships a Triple LED Matrix Bonnet for the Raspberry Pi

Mike Perry · 2026-06-06 · 10 min · trend 65
Anthropic Raises $65B Series H Near a Trillion-Dollar Valuation: What It Means for Local-AI Builders

Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 10 min · trend 95
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Runs Well on Steam Deck

Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 11 min · trend 88
Voodoo5 5500 PCI Boots on a Modern Z77 Board: Retro-on-Modern Just Got Easier

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 10 min · trend 82
HiDream-O1-Image Debuts as Top Open-Weights Text-to-Image Model

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 9 min · trend 78
Intel's Bartlett Lake Core 9 273PQE Reportedly Loses to a Four-Year-Old CPU

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 10 min · trend 78
Claude Opus 4.8 Ships, Tops GPT-5.5 on Intelligence Index

Mike Perry · 2026-05-29 · 10 min · trend 88
Forza Horizon 6 Cuts Load Times to 4 Seconds With Advanced Shader Delivery

Mike Perry · 2026-05-29 · 10 min · trend 85
Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Takes On the Ryzen 5 7600X3D for Mid-Range Gaming

Mike Perry · 2026-05-29 · 10 min · trend 85
Open-Source Layer Brings Reflex and Anti-Lag 2 to All GPUs

Mike Perry · 2026-06-01 · 9 min · trend 75
Lenovo G02 Retro Handheld Ships Preloaded With Thousands of Games

Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 10 min · trend 78
Forza Horizon 6 Runs Smooth on Steam Deck — the Dock-and-Settings Combo

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 9 min · trend 73
Samsung Unveils World's First 4K 360Hz QD-OLED Panel

Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 9 min · trend 78
Linux Beats Windows 11 on the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, Phoronix Finds

Mike Perry · 2026-05-29 · 8 min · trend 80
Forza Horizon 6 Hits 130K Concurrent on Steam, Tops PC Gamer at 84/100

Mike Perry · 2026-05-25 · 10 min · trend 95
Forza Horizon 6 Boots in 4 Seconds with Advanced Shader Delivery

Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 9 min · trend 70
Lenovo G02 Retro Handheld Reportedly Ships With Pirated Game Library

Mike Perry · 2026-05-29 · 10 min · trend 72
AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 'Gorgon Halo': 192GB Unified Memory APU Hits $3,999

Mike Perry · 2026-05-27 · 9 min · trend 78
Sub-$300 4K Mini-LED Gaming Monitors Hit the Mainstream

Mike Perry · 2026-05-28 · 10 min · trend 70
Hobbyists Are Self-Hosting a Nintendo eShop With Ownfoil on a Raspberry Pi

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 10 min · trend 60
Lenovo G02 Retro Handheld Reportedly Ships Preloaded With Pirated Games

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 9 min · trend 60
Samsung Winds Down Chip Output Before Strike — Brace for SSD Prices

Mike Perry · 2026-05-26 · 10 min · trend 75
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Powers a Privacy-First Ring-Camera Alternative

Mike Perry · 2026-05-25 · 10 min · trend 75
Noctua-Style Pi 5 NAS Build Goes Viral — Here's the Parts List

Mike Perry · 2026-05-28 · 9 min · trend 64
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Ships — Is the Pi 4 8GB Still Worth It?

Mike Perry · 2026-05-27 · 9 min · trend 58
Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus vs Ryzen 5 7600X3D: The Mid-Range Faceoff

Mike Perry · 2026-05-27 · 9 min · trend 55
International Women in Engineering Day 2026: A Beginner's Pi Starting Point

Mike Perry · 2026-07-01 · 9 min · trend 9
Qualcomm Enters the Data-Center Market With Its Own AI Processor

Mike Perry · 2026-06-25 · 11 min · trend 8
Raspberry Pi OS Moves to the Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel With an Updated LabWC Compositor

Mike Perry · 2026-06-25 · 12 min · trend 7
Intel Eyed as TSMC Backup by Google and Nvidia for AI Chips

Mike Perry · 2026-06-09 · 4 min · trend 7
A 2007 Samsung UMPC Becomes a Wii U Gamepad

Mike Perry · 2026-07-23 · 4 min
Microsoft and Mistral Sign Multi-Billion Europe AI Infra Deal

Mike Perry · 2026-07-22 · 10 min
Modder Runs a Counter-Strike Clone at 60 FPS on the Original PSP

Mike Perry · 2026-07-22 · 9 min
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Lands as a Newegg Exclusive at $329

Mike Perry · 2026-07-21 · 10 min
Google's 'Frozen v2' Chip Bakes Gemini Into Silicon: What It Means for Local Rigs

Mike Perry · 2026-07-21 · 10 min
Hugging Face Says an AI Agent Breached Its Infrastructure

Mike Perry · 2026-07-20 · 7 min
MicroPython Now Runs on the Super Nintendo — On Real Hardware

Mike Perry · 2026-07-20 · 10 min
Moonshot Pauses Kimi K3 Signups After GPU Demand Maxes Out

Mike Perry · 2026-07-20 · 9 min
Asus ROG Xreal R1: 240Hz AR Glasses Hit Review

Mike Perry · 2026-07-19 · 9 min
Raspberry Pi Pico SDK 2.3.0 Ships: What Changed

Mike Perry · 2026-07-19 · 9 min
Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Support Is Landing in the Mainline Linux Kernel

Mike Perry · 2026-07-19 · 10 min
GPT-5.6 Deleted User Files With Full Disk Access, OpenAI Says It Shouldn't Have

Mike Perry · 2026-07-19 · 9 min
Anthropic Tightens Claude Fable 5 Limits — Why Builders Are Eyeing Local Rigs

Mike Perry · 2026-07-18 · 10 min
Ex-Sega Engineer's 'Super Realistic' CRT Emulator — What It Means for Retro Mini-Consoles

Mike Perry · 2026-07-18 · 10 min
Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Support Lands in Mainline Linux: What It Means

Mike Perry · 2026-07-18 · 10 min
Raspberry Pi Pico W Becomes a Driverless USB WiFi Adapter

Mike Perry · 2026-07-17 · 9 min
AMD's Ryzen 7 7700X3D Goes Newegg-Exclusive at $329

Mike Perry · 2026-07-17 · 9 min
Asus ROG Xreal R1 Brings 240 Hz to AR Glasses — What PC Gamers Should Know

Mike Perry · 2026-07-17 · 9 min
Kimi K3 Nears GPT-5.6 at Half the Cost — And What It Means for Home Rigs

Mike Perry · 2026-07-17 · 9 min
AMD Ryzen AI Halo Review Roundup: AMD Builds Its Own DGX Spark Rival

Mike Perry · 2026-07-16 · 10 min
Jensen Huang Heads to Tokyo as Sega's 1996 Bet on Nvidia Is Remembered

Mike Perry · 2026-07-16 · 10 min
BOSGAME VTA-439: A Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI Mini PC

Mike Perry · 2026-07-16 · 10 min
Ex-Sega Engineer Builds a 'Super-Realistic' CRT Emulator

Mike Perry · 2026-07-16 · 10 min
Pi Pico Puts Bluetooth Keyboards on the I2C Bus

Mike Perry · 2026-07-15 · 10 min
DeepSeek Seeks More Cash Weeks After $7B Round

Mike Perry · 2026-07-15 · 10 min
This DIY 'Steam Controller Puck' Emulates Xbox, Switch & PS Pads

Mike Perry · 2026-07-14 · 9 min
Adafruit's 2026 I2S Microphone Guide Brings Real-Time Audio to CircuitPython

Mike Perry · 2026-07-12 · 10 min
Motherboard Sales Fell 33% in 2026: Is DIY PC Building Dying?

Mike Perry · 2026-07-12 · 9 min
GPT-5.6 Sol matches Fable 5 near one-third the cost

Mike Perry · 2026-07-12 · 10 min
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade-Secret Theft: What It Means

Mike Perry · 2026-07-11 · 8 min
A Practical Look at the PlayStation Architecture — and Why It Still Matters

Mike Perry · 2026-07-06 · 9 min
Raspberry Pi OS Now Ships on Linux 6.18 LTS With Performance Gains

Mike Perry · 2026-07-06 · 2 min
The Hackaday Europe 2026 Retro PC Build: What They Actually Built and Why It Matters

Mike Perry · 2026-07-05 · 9 min
Why NVIDIA's New AI Servers Use Hot-Tub Coolant

Mike Perry · 2026-07-05 · 9 min
Sony to End Physical PlayStation Disc Production by 2028: What It Means for Retro Collectors

Mike Perry · 2026-07-05 · 9 min
Why Retro Cables Are Melting Into Their Cases in Storage

Mike Perry · 2026-07-05 · 7 min
Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Core i7-14700K: DDR4's Last Big Fight

Mike Perry · 2026-07-05 · 6 min
This Open-Source KVM Runs a Pentium 4 Instead of a Raspberry Pi

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 8 min
OpenAI Tripled Revenue to $5.7B but Burned $3.7B: What It Means for Local AI

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 9 min
AVX-512 Speeds Up Linux Software RAID by Up to 41% on AMD Ryzen

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 10 min
Adafruit Reverse-Engineers the Creative Katana V2X Soundbar

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 4 min
Sega's TMSS Explained: The Lock-Out Chip Behind the Genesis, and Why It Still Trips Up Reissues

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 15 min
Windows NT Now Boots on the Nintendo GameCube: What the Homebrew Port Actually Runs

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 10 min
SteamOS Boots on Intel Hardware: Enthusiast Hack Lands

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 10 min
SteamOS Boots on Intel Hardware in Community Hack

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 9 min
Raspberry Pi OS Moves to the Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 9 min
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Re-Review Shows DDR4 Still Has Gaming Legs in 2026

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 9 min
GPT-5.6 Rollout Now Requires US Government Sign-Off, Customer by Customer

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 9 min
Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Core i7-14700K: The 2026 DDR4 Value Fight

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 9 min
GPT-5.6 Sol Now Requires US Government Approval Per Customer

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 9 min
Raspberry Pi OS Gets a Desktop Refresh: What Changes for Pi 4 Users

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 3 min
The Truth About Sega's TradeMark Security System (TMSS)

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 9 min
ASUS Beta BIOS Restores Ryzen 9000 Memory Encryption Ahead of AMD

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 10 min
GPT-5.6 Sol Ships Under Government Access OpenAI Calls Unsustainable

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 10 min
Watching a Z80 Live From a Raspberry Pi RP2350

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 11 min
ASUS ProArt PA27USD Lands: 27-Inch OLED Aims at Gaming

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 12 min
Super Mario 64 Nintendo DS Port Lands With Multiplayer Support

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 10 min
Samsung and SK Hynix Plan $590B Chip Push as Memory Prices Climb

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 10 min
Homebrew Hardware Mod Gives the NES a Graphics Upgrade

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 8 min
Memory Prices Climb as Samsung and SK Hynix Pour $590B Into Chips

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 9 min
Claude Code Ran Hidden Repo Malware Unverified — Why Local AI Sandboxing Matters

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 10 min
Raspberry Pi RP2350 Emulates a Z80 in Real Time — What That Actually Means

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 6 min
Tesla Caps AI Spend at $200/Week — The Local RTX 3060 Rig Case

Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 6 min
NVIDIA Bankrolls AI Startups to Tighten Its Chip Grip

Mike Perry · 2026-07-03 · 2 min
NES Graphics Upgrade Mod Gains Community Traction

Mike Perry · 2026-07-03 · 2 min
Raspberry Pi OS Moves to Linux 6.18 LTS: What the Kernel Jump Means for Pi 4 Owners

Mike Perry · 2026-07-03 · 10 min
A Red Hat Engineer Went Back to AMD Ryzen for His Linux Desktop

Mike Perry · 2026-07-02 · 2 min
GLM-5.2 Is Now the Most Intelligent Open-Weights Model — and the Most Verbose

Mike Perry · 2026-07-01 · 9 min
Raspberry Pi Locator Website to Shut Down in July 2026

Mike Perry · 2026-06-26 · 10 min
SteamOS Boots on Intel Hardware: Enthusiast Hack Breaks AMD Lock-In

Mike Perry · 2026-06-26 · 9 min
Microsoft MAI-Image-2.5 Lands #2 on the Image Arena — The Local Angle

Mike Perry · 2026-06-25 · 13 min
OpenAI Says GPT-5.5-Cyber Beats Anthropic's Mythos on Security

Mike Perry · 2026-06-24 · 13 min
PebbleOS Comes to the Raspberry Pi RP2350: What the Port Means for Tinkerers

Mike Perry · 2026-06-19 · 7 min
Anthropic Backs Off Billing Overhaul as Price War Heats Up

Mike Perry · 2026-06-16 · 10 min
Anthropic Shutdown Reignites the AI-Sovereignty Debate — and the Case for Local Inference

Mike Perry · 2026-06-15 · 10 min
Meta's AI Bill Hits Billions: The Case for Local Inference on a $300 GPU

Mike Perry · 2026-06-14 · 9 min
Why a Game Boy Clone Ran Too Fast — and the DIY Fix Makers Are Building

Mike Perry · 2026-06-14 · 9 min
US Forces Anthropic to Disable Claude Fable 5: Local Fallbacks

Mike Perry · 2026-06-14 · 9 min
Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ Hits 26 TOPS for On-Device Inference

Mike Perry · 2026-06-14 · 10 min
Mistral Seeks €3B: What a Bigger European Lab Means for Local Rigs

Mike Perry · 2026-06-14 · 9 min
Microsoft Now Points to 32GB RAM for Windows 11 Gaming

Mike Perry · 2026-06-14 · 12 min
'Count Anything' AI Model Does Object Counting — Harder Than It Sounds

Mike Perry · 2026-06-13 · 9 min
Microsoft's SkillOpt Boosts GPT-5.5 With Just a Trained Markdown File

Mike Perry · 2026-06-13 · 10 min
Bezos-Backed Prometheus Raises $12B at $41B: The Local-vs-Cloud Question

Mike Perry · 2026-06-12 · 3 min
Linux Gaming Keeps Closing the Gap: What the Latest Kernel Work Means

Mike Perry · 2026-06-12 · 3 min
Microsoft Signals 32GB RAM as the Windows 11 Gaming Baseline

Mike Perry · 2026-06-11 · 9 min
Steam Controller (2026) Scores 83/100 in Early Reviews

Mike Perry · 2026-06-11 · 9 min
Apple Intelligence Gets a Second Shot With Google and Nvidia Help

Mike Perry · 2026-06-09 · 10 min
Intel's Bartlett Lake Core 9 273PQE Loses to a Four-Year-Old CPU

Mike Perry · 2026-06-09 · 8 min
DeepSeek Tops US AI Vendor Charts in June 2026 as Firms Chase Cheaper AI

Mike Perry · 2026-06-09 · 9 min
MiniMax-M3 Tops Open-Weight Models at Intelligence Index 55

Mike Perry · 2026-06-09 · 10 min
Inside the Intel 8087: Decapping a 1980 Math Coprocessor's Microcode

Mike Perry · 2026-06-05 · 9 min
Intel's Bartlett Lake Core 9 273PQE Loses to a 4-Year-Old CPU

Mike Perry · 2026-06-05 · 9 min
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Runs Faster on Linux Than Windows 11

Mike Perry · 2026-06-04 · 11 min
Asus ROG Harpe II Extreme Brings a 65K-DPI Sensor — and a Gold Price Tag

Mike Perry · 2026-06-04 · 10 min
Forza Horizon 6 Is the Highest-Rated Game of 2026: What Metacritic's 94 Says About Where Racing Sims Are Going

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 10 min
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G1 OLED RTX 5070 Drops $575 This Week — Is It the Right Buy?

Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 9 min
Samsung Winds Down Memory Output Before 18-Day Strike — SSD Price Watch

Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 11 min
Can a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Mini-PC With 128GB Run Big LLMs? The r/LocalLLaMA Question

Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 9 min
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Boots in a Modern ASUS Z77 Board

Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 9 min
Claude Opus 4.8 Takes #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61.4

Mike Perry · 2026-05-29 · 9 min
Linux Beats Windows 11 on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

Mike Perry · 2026-05-28 · 10 min
In Brief: Best Buy Cuts $1,000 Off RTX 5070 OLED Gaming Laptop with Core Ultra 9 275HX

Mike Perry · 2026-05-28 · 10 min
Samsung Winds Down Chip Production Six Days Before Strike: What Memory Buyers Should Do Right Now

Mike Perry · 2026-05-27 · 10 min
Solar-Powered Raspberry Pi Bird Identifier Shows the Pi AI Camera's Reach

Mike Perry · 2026-05-27 · 8 min
ASUS ROG Crosshair 2006 X870E: A Retro-Styled AM5 Mobo for ROG's 20th Anniversary

Mike Perry · 2026-05-25 · 9 min
Forza Horizon 6 Runs Surprisingly Well on Steam Deck — Here's What Players Are Reporting

Mike Perry · 2026-05-24 · 9 min
Noctua-Style Raspberry Pi 5 NAS Build Goes Viral — What Pi 4 Owners Can Borrow

Mike Perry · 2026-05-23 · 9 min
Asus ROG Xreal R1 AR glasses pre-orders start today at $849 — 240 Hz virtual gaming at 171 inches on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation

SpecPicks News Desk · 2026-05-18 · 9 min
LG UltraGear 52G930B 52-inch 5K gaming monitor review: Extreme in every respect

SpecPicks News Desk · 2026-05-18 · 8 min
MLX engine comparison… and oMLX is the top choice.

SpecPicks News Desk · 2026-05-18 · 9 min
llama.cpp MTP support landed - Qwen3.6 27B at 2.44× on a Strix Halo, 2.17× on a RTX 3090 rig

SpecPicks News Desk · 2026-05-18 · 10 min
Lemonade v10.5.1: an MTP + ROCm 7.13 quick start for Strix Halo

SpecPicks News Desk · 2026-05-18 · 10 min
MTP (Multi-Token Prediction): 2x Faster Token Generation on AMD Strix Halo & Radeon 9700 AI Pro

SpecPicks News Desk · 2026-05-18 · 11 min
21 GPU's benchmarked running a small TTS model (vram peak: 5GB)

SpecPicks News Desk · 2026-05-18 · 10 min
Asus RTX 5060 Near-MSRP Deal Has Expired

Mike Perry · 2026-07-22 · 9 min · Deal ended · trend 85
Best Buy Cuts $900 Off an Asus 64GB Gaming Laptop — Is a Desktop Smarter?

Mike Perry · 2026-07-19 · 6 min · Deal ended · trend 78
Samsung 27" 1440p 240Hz Gaming Monitor Drops to $169 in 2026 Deal

Mike Perry · 2026-07-12 · 10 min · Deal ended · trend 88
Samsung's 240Hz 1440p Gaming Monitor Drops to $169

Mike Perry · 2026-07-11 · 8 min · Deal ended · trend 70
256GB Samsung microSD Drops to $32 — Storage Prices Slide

Mike Perry · 2026-06-24 · 10 min · Deal ended · trend 80
180Hz 1440p Gaming Monitors Hit Entry-Level Pricing

Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 9 min · Deal ended · trend 76
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Mike Perry · 2026-06-17 · 7 min · Deal ended · trend 70
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Mike Perry · 2026-06-05 · 10 min · Deal ended · trend 78
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Mike Perry · 2026-06-06 · 9 min · Deal ended · trend 70
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Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 9 min · Deal ended · trend 78
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Mike Perry · 2026-06-01 · 9 min · Deal ended · trend 70
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Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 9 min · Deal ended · trend 70
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Mike Perry · 2026-05-27 · 9 min · Deal ended · trend 78
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Mike Perry · 2026-07-01 · 9 min · Deal ended · trend 9
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Mike Perry · 2026-07-23 · 5 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-07-18 · 8 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-07-06 · 1 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 10 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 4 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 9 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-07-04 · 7 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-07-02 · 3 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-07-01 · 10 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-06-16 · 10 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-05-31 · 6 min · Deal ended
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Mike Perry · 2026-05-30 · 6 min · Deal ended

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