HACKER’S MANUAL

TINKERING WITH 4K

I’VE GOT THAT ITCH again for a new

THE NEWS

World Chip Shortage

TECH TALK

Hello GPU Shortages, Again

DOCTOR

THIS MONTH THE DOCTOR TACKLES

Taking the Fight to the Millennium Bug

We sat down with a retired IT engineer to discover what it was like to face the Y2K bug

THE ULTIMATE 4K GAMING RIG

Zak Storey attempts to capture that great white whale of PC gaming

THE LUCID DREAM

MYTHICAL,  BEAUTIFUL,  LUMINOUS. TAKE  A LOOK AT OUR  CASTLE IN THE SKY

BEATING THE BUG

Ian Evenden discovers the history of  a problem many think never existed

HACKING THROUGH THE AGES

From phone lines to fake certificates and social engineers, hacker tradecraft has evolved spectacularly over the years

INTRODUCING KALI

Kali Linux is a powerhouse of pen-testing and security research goodness

DISRUPTING DATABASES

Get your first taste of breaking something in the form of a deeply vulnerable web application

DSHIELD PI HONEYPOT

Use a Raspberry Pi to trick hackers into thinking they’ve found a juicy target, then study them like ants in a jar

THE GREAT KEYBORD SWITCH SWAP

KEYBOARD WORKSHOP 

HOW TO

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO IMPROVING YOUR PC

AUTOPSY

THIS MONTH WE DISSECT

How To Use Photoshop Part 1

YOU’LL NEED THIS ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2018 ONWARDS

Switch Audio Output With SoundSwitch

YOU’LL NEED THIS SOUNDSWITCH https://soundswitch.aaflalo.me/ THE BACK OF

Microsoft MSX Architecture

YOU’LL NEED THIS OPENMSX For this tutorial, grab

Get The Most Out Of Your Audio

YOU’LL NEED THIS WINDOWS 7 + Realtek Audio

The World of 3D Printing

LAB NOTES TESTED. REVIEWED. VERDICTIZED

Editor’s Pick: Pikatea Macropad

This pad is like a tiny five-switch keyboard with a weird-looking wheel on it

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

The runt of the litter delivers where it counts

MSI Bravo 15

Not quite bravo enough

Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2TB

Is this really the world’s fastest N VMe SSD?

Samsung CRG9

Too much of a good thing?

Corsair 5000D Airflow

Gratuitous flexibility made manifest

Sony WH-1000XM4

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, just tweak it?

Razer Naga Pro Wireless Mouse

One mouse (with many buttons) to rule them all?

SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL Keyboard

There are many TKL boards like it, but this one is ours

Thrustmaster eSwap Pro Controller

Just too many steps away from greatness

Raspberry Pi Pico

The smallest Raspberry Pi yet

Cyberpunk 2077

Stepping out in Night City, hoping not to get bugged

Bitwarden vs LastPass

The winner takes it all (and hides it) in the battle of the password managers

LETTERS

WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON

THE BUILDS

BUDGET THIS HAS BEEN one of the most