
Nguyen realises the Pixel 10 actually works
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s grip on reality is slipping, and not even its favourite tame journos are buying the hype anymore. Nicole Nguyen [pictured] at the Wall Street Journal appears to have broken ranks after playing with Google’s Pixel 10.

Qualcomm slaps satellite on new smartwatch chip
Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 adds safety tricks but not much grunt
Qualcomm has refreshed its smartwatch silicon after three years, but anyone hoping for a serious performance leap will have to keep waiting.

MSI drops Godlike X870E monster with Zen-boosted max mobos
Limited-edition board hits 7.3 Ghz while rest of lineup promises 15 per cent Ryzen uplift
MSI has wheeled out its full range of AM5 “X870E MAX” motherboards, topped off with a limited-edition monster that comes with gold trim and a stuffed dragon [no really? ed].

Valve's Fremont console leak reveals serious AMD firepower
Six Zen 4 cores and Radeon 7600 GPU hint at proper pc-class gaming box
Valve might finally be getting serious about console-grade gaming, if a freshly leaked Geekbench listing is anything to go by.

AMD leaks FSR 4 source code
SDK update locks features behind DLLS
AMD had a bit of a senior moment this week when it accidentally dumped the FSR 4 source code on GitHub before yanking it offline when it realised they’d left the safe open.