Mark Tyson

On real hardware, the Motorola 68030 executed an undocumented instruction to prevent a system crash at boot, but it caused problems with the emulator.

A WWII Enigma encryption machine with four rotors was sold at auction earlier this week, achieving double its estimated price.

The Small Capacity Memory Card Championship (Japan) has been a tightly run race, but the results are now in.

Windows 1.01 was released by Microsoft 40 years ago. It didn't start well.

Pat Gelsinger's initials remained on the Intel 386 silicon die, despite this being something that wasn't done at Intel, thanks to some quick thinking.

Kingston Technology has announced its first cable-free SSD, the new Kingston Dual Portable SSD Storage Solution, in capacities from 512GB to 2TB.

If you would like to rehome thousands of old VHS videotapes, there’s an incredible hoard being given away for free on Reddit.

The NVMe Destroyinator can securely wipe up to 16 NVMe drives at once at 64 GB/sec.

SilverStone surprises EXPO 2025 Japan attendees with an early appearance of the unannounced FLP03 PC case.

The real 'world's first microprocessor' was a classified military secret for nearly 30 years.

The publisher of Wolfenstein 3D has recalled the struggle to distribute copies of this seminal FPS game in Germany back in the early 1990s.

In 1985, there were designs that envisioned the NES as a wood veneer clad Atari 2600 successor for the US market.

AMD chipset driver possibly shortens SSD life, behavior alarms users — incessant log file writes observed every time a window is moved or resized.

Microsoft Windows president faces withering criticism in response to boasts that 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.'

LTO-10 40TB carts were enabled by new 'Aramid' material technology.

As the Xbox 360 turns 20, the first images showing an exclusive edition of the console, which some claim kicked off the HD gaming era, have been shared on social media.

Veteran Windows dev Dave W Plummer has run a simple performance test across his 25 computers, released between 1976 and 2023, and he observed a huge 200,000X CPU performance delta.

An LED testing ‘device’ which largely consists of a hot dog, two forks and a power supply has been entered into an electronics competition

Webcam brand Insta360 has gifted real gold keycaps, worth up to $45,000 each, to its most valued employees.

A hardware hacker has installed a Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb.

TSMC-branded sneakers were 'the focus of the audience' at the firm's annual Sports Day event this weekend.

There’s a new open source contender being prepared for the 8-bit console arena.

The ‘tiniest GPU’ has gotten a big update with the new TinyGPU v2.0 offering interactive 3D rasterization, with transformation & lighting tech.

Google’s sunsetted Nest Gen 1 and Gen 2 thermostats have been given a new breath of life by a frustrated developer's No Longer Evil Thermostat firmware.