BACK TO THE FUTURE

HELLO AND WELCOME to this very forward-looking edition

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Specs Leaked

CPU looks to leave Intel’s Core i9-14900KS in the dust

HP REVEALS ULTRAFAST AI LAPTOP

IT WILL BE THE FIRST COPILOT+ PC TO FEATURE AMD’S AI CHIP

Tech Triumphs and Tragedies

A monthly snapshot of what’s good and bad in tech

DASVIDANIYA KASPERSKY

Kaspersky offers six months of free software before pulling out of USA

IT OUTAGE AFFECTS 8.5 MILLION

Microsoft releases statement

Chromium browsers sending information to Google

DESPITE BEING THE PREFERRED BROWSER of two thirds

Will RISC V make the same mistakes as ARM/x86?

The RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) has been

WD debuts huge capacity gaming drive

Since 2022, Western Digital’s SN850X SSDs has been

AMD details Zen 5 architecture for Ryzen

AMD WILL RELEASE two variants of its Zen 5 architecture into the wild in the next couple of weeks, the desktop ‘Granite Ridge’ chips with up to 16 cores and the mobile ‘Strix Point’ processors with up to 12 cores.

THE LIST

THE BEST NVME SSDS IN 2024

Is this Intel’s last stand?

I’VE BEEN FOLLOWING Intel for 20 years, and things have never looked this bad. Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs have a serious instability problem, and it’s the last thing the company needs as it struggles to turn its chip-manufacturing fabs around and keep up with AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. What’s going on, and can Intel survive this latest catastrophe?

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES...

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON...

THE BUILDS

THIS MONTH’S STREET PRICES...

OLD SCHOOL VERSUS NEW

Building our first BTF form factor PC.

SO MUCH MONEY

CPU INTEL CORE I9-13900K It might be a

BLOOD & STEEL

1 LENGTH OF TIME: 2-3 hours DIFFICULTY: Hard

HONEY, I LOST THE CABLES

SO, BTF. Revolutionary new design system? Or should

TITANIC PERFORMANCE

OKAY, we’ve got the build process wrapped up.

MAXIMUM PC’S LOVE LETTER TO MANUFACTURERS

BTF IS AN INTERESTING DESIGN DIRECTION, BUT HERE’S WHAT WE REALLY WANT

A.I. SUPREMACY: IS THIS THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA?

Zak Storey takes a dive into the world of artificial intelligence, and everything that currently entails

WINDOWS 12 WHAT WE WANT

With the next version of Windows likely to land this fall, we present our wishlist of new features—and what old features we want to see the back of

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CYBERWARFARE

Digital battlegrounds are hard to quantify; attackers are faceless and their weapons often untraceable. Nate Drake delves into the world of cyber espionage and sabotage

Hyte Thicc Q60

WHAT can we say about the Hyte Thicc

TIP OF THE MONTH

TABLISS FOR CHROME

Apple iPad Pro 13

AUTOPSY THIS MONTH WE DISSECT...

10 ways ChatGPT can change your life

YOU’LL NEED THIS CHATGPT-3.5 (free) CHATGPT-4.0 (from $20)

Fix problems with Windows Repair

YOU’LL NEED THIS A TWEAKING.COM ’S WINDOWS REPAIR

Securely delete Windows files

YOU’LL NEED THIS WINDOWS 11 An up-to-date installation

Secure your DNS settings

YOU’LL NEED THIS WINDOWS 11 An up to

LAB NOTES

Whether it’s processor generation, PCIe 5.0 drives, or

Asus Vivobook S 15 Copilot

ARM dominates, yet AI still half-baked

MSI MPG321URX

The cheapest 4K OLED by far

MSI Stealth 16 AI Studio A1V

Curious design held up by an RTX 4090

OneXPlayer X1

Is a fat tablet still a handheld gaming PC?

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024)

Our favorite 14-incher is back and better than ever

Gigabyte Aorus FO32U2

Does it all for gamers and pro fessionals alike

Bag a software bargain

Don’t pay full price for software when we can offer you huge reductions on everything from security software to Windows 11 Pro

NZXT H7 Flow

One of the cleanest modern chassis designs out there

SteelSeries Arctis Nova 4 Wireless

Budget wireless cans with top-tier audio

32GB Lexar Thor OC DDR5

The RAM singularity

Once Human

Build, farm, shoot, and cooperate in this top MMO

OneDrive vs Google Drive

The tech titans clash in the field of cloud storage