Articles by Jowi Morales, Contributing Writer

Jowi Morales is a writer and journalist covering the tech beat since 2021. However, he’s been interested in technology far earlier than that. He started discovering desktop computers when his father brought home a Windows 95 PC, but his first real experience working under the hood of the PC was when the old computer’s hard drive was filled to the brim in the year 2000. He deleted the Windows folder to attempt to rectify the situation, which led to his dad buying a new desktop PC. Since then, he learned a lot more about computers, and he’s always been the go-to tech expert for his family and friends.

Jowi primarily uses a Windows workstation and an Android phone, but he also bought into the Apple ecosystem with the 6th-gen iPad, iPhone 14 Pro Max, and the M1 MacBook Air. Today, Jowi covers hardware and software from Redmond and Cupertino, while also looking at the tech industry in general.

Aside from covering technology, Jowi is an avid photographer and writes about automobiles, aviation, and tanks. You can find his bylines at MakeUseOf, SlashGear, and, of course, Tom’s Hardware.

Articles by: Jowi Morales

Nvidia slashes list of authorized customers in Asia in a bid to reduce AI chip smuggling, report claims — company sent field inspectors, called customers to check if business is genuine after pressure from Washington

By Jowi Morales Published 14 July 26

It's now harder to buy Nvidia AI chips in China.

a reflecting satellite orbiting around the Earth

FCC approves orbital space mirrors, first test satellites will launch this year — large spacecraft reflects sunlight to Earth’s surface for construction sites, search-and-rescue lighting, and more

By Jowi Morales Published 12 July 26

Ambitious startup wants to deploy more than 50,000 of these satellites by 2035.

a Flock license plate reader mounted on a stoplight at an intersection

Flock cameras mistakenly track car reviewer over 'stolen' tags — police ambush tester in store parking lot and detain him for an hour

By Jowi Morales Published 11 July 26

An inaccurate police report and Flock AI's misreading of vehicle tags led to an unnecessary confrontation for a car reviewer.

Tencent is reportedly in talks to acquire Manus from Meta, following Beijing intervention — company expects to remain independent of Chinese tech giant

By Jowi Morales Published 10 July 26

Manus is effectively cut off from Meta, but someone still has to pay back the $2 billion it spent on the startup.

a microSD card and board with weights hot glued inside a drive enclosure

Redditor buys suspicious drives on eBay just to report the scamming sellers if they get a fake SSD or HDD — latest '16TB' find has weights and microSD card hot-glued inside the enclosure to make it feel legit

By Jowi Morales Published 9 July 26

Unfortunately, this age-old scam still works.

a student using an AI tool to help answer a take-home exam

Professor suspected AI-powered cheating on take-home midterms, makes finals in-person — only two students scored within 10% of their midterm score

By Jowi Morales Published 9 July 26

Are students outsourcing critical thinking to AI tools?

Chinese courts allow heirs to inherit accounts of deceased gamers — multiple cases spanning years establish precedent for digital ownership of games, in-game items, and microtransactions

By Jowi Morales Published 9 July 26

Your kids can inherit your digital game library if you're in China.

China alleges that Claude Code contains backdoors, calls mechanism 'a serious threat' — Gov't claims Claude sends sensitive information to remote servers without consent

By Jowi Morales Published 8 July 26

Claude Code is essentially banned in China, though.

Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% — Oregon approves change through POWER Act, pushes developments using more than 20 Megawatts of power to pay their fair share

By Jowi Morales Published 8 July 26

Residents no longer have to shoulder the costs of developing the grid to accommodate these large power users.

official Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced art

Cracked version of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced leaked days prior to official release despite Denuvo DRM protection — Denuvo unable to stop crackers, with some finding ways to completely remove it from other titles

By Jowi Morales Published 8 July 26

Crackers are now beating game studios and releasing pre-release copies of games before their official launch date.

a Steam Deck with Windows 11 on its screen

Valve releases drivers, notes to make Windows work on Steam hardware, but refuses to support it — tells users it doesn’t offer support for ‘Windows on Steam Hardware,’ gaming company provides resources ‘as is’

By Jowi Morales Published 8 July 26

Why tho

a Longsys employee working in the company's testing facility

Chinese memory and storage firm expected to post more than 60,000% jump in profits due to exploding demand — Lexar owner Longsys forecasts nearly $1.5 billion profit for 1H26 compared to $2.1 million last year

By Jowi Morales Published 7 July 26

Chinese memory and storage manufacturer Longsys expects to post a massive increase in profits due to the AI-driven chip shortage.

UK gives data centers option to apply for 'national importance' status that overrides local regulations, cuts timeline by a year — eligible projects to bypass local councils, save more than a billion dollars in NIMBY fights

By Jowi Morales Published 7 July 26

Local opposition has caused massive delays for data centers in the U.S.

Bigme introduces a color e-ink monitor that could reportedly hit 60 FPS — 25.3-inch display will come with a 3200 x 1800 resolution and support for 4096 colors

By Jowi Morales Published 6 July 26

Will this finally make e-ink monitors usable in everyday tasks?

F/A-18 jets from VFA-94 parked on the deck of a carrier

US Navy is flight-testing 3D printed fighter jet parts that cut repair times in half — forward-deployed 3D printers generate composite parts, flight testing to begin on operational F/A-18 Super Hornets

By Jowi Morales Published 5 July 26

Can 3D-printed fighter jet parts withstand the rigors of carrier operations?

Fill your Steam library without spending a single dime — scratch your shopping itch with the Steam Summer Sale Simulator

By Jowi Morales Published 5 July 26

This website lets you "buy" all the Steam games you want without spending anything at all. It was primarily made for the dopamine hit, but the Achievements page is quite engaging, too.

Sony crammed an entire PS1 into a DualShock controller that connects to your TV, but killed the project — PlayStation Puga offered game studios a mere 10 cents per unit sold

By Jowi Morales Published 4 July 26

Sony successfully built a PlayStation 1 console that fit inside a controller but had to cancel the project after game studios were unhappy with the royalties they would make from the project.

Chinese YMTC SSDs make their way into retail Lenovo laptops — media outlet slams YMTC PCIe 4.0 drive for 'below average for an SSD in an office laptop' in review

By Jowi Morales Published 4 July 26

The AI-driven memory and storage chip shortage is driving OEMs towards Chinese chip manufacturers.

Enthusiast hides gaming PC inside living room fan using 3D-printed parts — disassembled AtomMan G7 cooled by Dreo tower fan that shifts air at 28 feet per second

By Jowi Morales Published 4 July 26

Creator Zac Builds mounted their mini-PC to the side of their living room fan to hide it plain sight.

Ampera's 3D-printed nuclear reactor module

Startup unveils 3D-printed nuclear reactor module to power AI data centers —touted as ‘the world’s first subcritical, solid-state, factory-built thorium nuclear reactor’

By Jowi Morales Published 4 July 26

A nuclear power plant in a container (or three).

Brand new Steam Machine hit with 'red line of death' GPU failure after playing No Man's Sky for just five minutes — console 'bricked itself' following update in failure that echoes the horror of the Xbox 360's infamous RROD

By Jowi Morales Published 3 July 26

Here we go again.

SK hynix, Samsung, Micron among semiconductor industry group lobbying against government intervention on domestic memory chip supply — says move would worsen situation, suggests tax deductions on consumer electronics instead

By Jowi Morales Published 3 July 26

Memory chip manufacturers are discouraging the government from meddling with the industry.

Supermicro denies that its offices were raided by Taiwanese authorities in Nvidia GPU smuggling case — company says that it coordinated with the police and provided access to investigated employees’ workstations and gadgets

By Jowi Morales Published 2 July 26

Semantics matter, especially when it's affecting stock prices.

Startup activates nuclear microreactor live on stage to power an Nvidia RTX Spark desktop PC — firm working with Nvidia to build a 30MW closed loop AI factory that doesn’t use local water

By Jowi Morales Published 2 July 26

Will this solve the AI boom’s power and water bottlenecks?

Singapore cops seize $42 million mansion, freeze $772k bank account of suspected Nvidia AI GPU smugglers — individuals alleged to have illegally exported data center servers to China charged with fraud, money laundering

By Jowi Morales Published 2 July 26

The individuals were charged with fraud and money laundering for breaking U.S. export controls, even though they do not legally apply in Singapore.

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