Desktop PC CPU shipments plunged more than expected during the first quarter of 2026, and darker clouds loom on the horizon.
In total, the total number of X86 processors sold into the PC market — mobile, PC, server, IoT — only fell about 6 percent from a year ago, a report issued Wednesday by Mercury Research found. However, Mercury noted that fourth-quarter sales had already weakened, and…
There were quiet cheers when Tali Roth, responsible for core Windows experiences, showed how Windows’ widgets button wouldn’t automatically trigger when the user hovered over them. They grew louder when she showed how Windows Search could produce just the files on a…
If you don’t know what Firefox Relay is, you should. This free service provided by Mozilla (the developers of the Firefox browser) lets you create free email masks—that is, disposable email addresses that point back to your real email address. The idea is to share these…
Corsair’s Warthog is the PC case for Halo fans
June 4, 2026
There are a lot of different ways you can go with a desktop PC build, from disco light show to mini-fridge. One of the less common themes I’ve seen repeated is “military surplus equipment.” That’s the vibe that Corsair is trying to hit with the new Warthog mid-tower case. If the name doesn’t remind you of the Halo battle truck, the color scheme and brutal lines sure will.
Corsair says…
Ignore the name — you’ll be able to buy Microsoft’s Surface RTX Spark Dev Box as a consumer, Microsoft executives confirmed this week at its Build conference.
In an interview with my colleague Alaina Yee, Andrew Hill, corporate vice president of Surface for Microsoft…
Imagine your Windows taskbar was replaced by a soft green meadow of gently swaying grass, with small bunnies hopping about. Or mechs stomping back and forth with hellfire. Microsoft’s suite of killer Windows utilities, called PowerToys, might be getting another utility…
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Microsoft’s Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is a specialized mini PC targeting AI developers, featuring an Arm-based RTX Spark chip with 20 cores and 6,144 CUDA cores.
PCWorld highlights this device offers 1 petaflop of AI compute power with 128GB RAM, pre-configured with Windows 11 for development work.
Expected to launch later this year at a high…
AI agents will soon be everywhere, we’re told, but where exactly? Clearly they’re in the cloud, on our desktop PCs, and even on our phones, but they could also live on other devices, like smart speakers, glasses, and perhaps, even a smart security badge.
That’s the…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is nothing if not passionate, and as he rattled off the impressive specs for the RTX Spark—a system-on-a-chip that’s powerful enough to run an army of AI agents on laptops and desktops—the outspoken exec described an audacious vision of our AI…
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Microsoft officially confirms no Windows 12 announcement at Build 2026, despite widespread social media speculation about a new operating system.
PCWorld reports that Microsoft is instead focusing on the Surface Laptop Ultra featuring Nvidia’s new N1X Arm processor for enhanced gaming and AI capabilities.
This shift represents a strategic…
