Outfitting your home with outdoor security cameras can get complicated—and expensive—quickly. Anyone looking for a shortcut on both fronts might consider one of BotsLab’s W510 kits, bundles consisting of up to six 4K outdoor pan/tilt security cameras, solar panels to keep each camera’s battery topped off, and a base station with 32GB of onboard storage (expandable up to 16TB with a…
Watch this RTX 5090 burst into flames
February 12, 2026
Nvidia’s graphics cards are the most in-demand for PC gamers right now. But with high power requirements and a new 12VHPWR connector introduced on the 40 Series, followed by a revised 12V-2×6 connector after those kept melting, Nvidia’s cards are causing some concern…
Microsoft just forked Windows
February 12, 2026
Testing Windows has always allowed you to try out new features ahead of time, even a new operating system. But the Windows 11 26H1 release Microsoft is testing now literally breaks Windows into two parallel tracks, separated into x86 and Arm.
Some of this isn’t new…
Report: Desperate PC manufacturers are turning to China for RAM
February 11, 2026
The current RAM shortage is raising prices for memory and storage as the “AI” industry gobbles up manufacturing capacity. That sucks for consumers, who are seeing the price of retail-packaged RAM go up by as much as 400 percent. But it’s also devastating for manufacturers like Dell who rely on standard consumer sales. According to one report, such manufacturers are seeking out new sources of…
Gemini gave my Plex server a checkup. Its diagnosis surprised me
February 11, 2026
Who needs Netflix when you have Plex, the media server software that runs locally and lets you stream your own local video files? I’ve been hosting my own Plex server on a Raspberry Pi 5 for a few years now, and it’s mostly run without a hitch.
But like taking your car…
This dual-CPU PC from 1995 was so cool, Microsoft had to kill it
February 11, 2026
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PCWorld highlights the BeBox, a revolutionary 1995 computer featuring dual PowerPC 603 processors and custom BeOS operating system created by former Apple executives.
This innovative machine pioneered multi-processor computing…
There wasn’t much in the way of GPU announcements at (or around) CES earlier this year, with the integrated graphics in Panther Lake laptops the only real shocker. But MSI resurrected its top-shelf Lightning brand for the RTX 5090, announcing a bombastic card with water cooling. The price was assumed to be high, since MSI didn’t set one—and now we have at least one source for the approximate…
5 crucial Windows 11 settings I always change ASAP
February 10, 2026
While Windows 11 provides a good enough out of the box experience—atrocious new taskbar aside—it handles so much better after tweaking just a handful of settings to make it feel more like the Windows of yesteryear.
No, I’m not talking about making Windows 11 look like…
Don’t let RAM clearance wreck your PC build
February 9, 2026
Anyone planning to install a large-volume CPU cooler with a fan alongside RAM modules with heat spreaders or RGB lighting will quickly encounter a problem: lack of space. The technical term for this is “RAM clearance,” and it can make the difference between a smooth PC…
I remember the first time I bought a Razer mouse. Inside the box was a letter printed on fancy vellum paper. It opened with, “Welcome to the cult of Razer.” It appears that this isn’t just a cheeky marketing slogan, Razer means it genuinely. Because only brainwashed cult members would pay $1337 for a mouse.
Razer announced its 20th Anniversary Boomslang mouse a couple of months ago. The…
