Intel’s first handheld gaming chip is the Arc G3, and this Acer is using it
Intel’s first handheld gaming chip is the Arc G3, and this Acer is using it

Intel is barely in the handheld gaming PC space – but that might be about to change. After the embarrassment that was the first MSI Claw and the excellent MSI Claw 8 AI Plus that followed it, Intel announced it would create custom handheld gaming chips. Today, it’s formally announcing them as the Arc G3 […]

Qualcomm promises $300 Windows laptops with new Snapdragon C
Qualcomm promises $300 Windows laptops with new Snapdragon C

They started at $1,000. Then $700. Then $600 budget machines. Now, Qualcomm says the price of its Arm-based Windows laptops will hit $300 this year. Even though RAMageddon has yet to subside and PC prices keep climbing, the company says it’s built a new budget laptop platform called Snapdragon C – “C” as in “Compute” […]

Nintendo could become Call of Duty’s most interesting 2027 battleground

A messy Modern Warfare 4 cover leak is grabbing attention, but the stronger thread points to Call of Duty’s rumored Switch 2 debut and a possible Nintendo comeback.

Pentagon gives Dell a $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft licences across the military
Pentagon gives Dell a $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft licences across the military

The five-year deal consolidates scattered Microsoft 365 and cloud subscriptions for the Defense Department, intelligence community and Coast Guard. Dell, not Microsoft, is the prime contractor. The US Department of Defense has awarded Dell a five-year,…

South Africa Has AI Leverage. Its Draft Policy Leaves It Unused
South Africa Has AI Leverage. Its Draft Policy Leaves It Unused

This article is adapted by the author with permission from Tech Policy Press. Read the original article.South Africa is not just another developing country struggling to govern artificial intelligence (AI); it is the exception with leverage, and the w…

Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional
Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional

Microsoft has added the ability to fully remove the Copilot app from Windows 11. The change arrived in the April 2026 update and applies to both enterprise administrators using Group Policy and regular users who can now uninstall it through Settings li…

Copilot is getting a sidebar treatment for Windows 11, just like Gemini in Chrome

Copilot is getting a dockable sidebar in Windows 11 that works similarly to Gemini in Chrome, an approach that Microsoft already tried and scrapped.

Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI
Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI

In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: int…

HP pushed a critical BIOS update through Windows Update. It bricked its most expensive laptops.
HP pushed a critical BIOS update through Windows Update. It bricked its most expensive laptops.

HP customers are reporting that BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update are rendering premium laptops unbootable. The affected devices include the ZBook Ultra G1a, a mobile workstation that costs upwards of £4,000, and the EliteBook X G1a. The updat…

Google, Meta and Microsoft are getting worker data from sneaky bossware tools, report says

The software tracking your work hours may also be feeding data to Big Tech. A new Northeastern study shows how bossware is becoming a wider privacy problem.