
MSI RTX 5090 user suffers from a melted connector twice
16-pin power plug problems continue to plague Nvidia’s flagship GPUs
Another MSI GeForce RTX 5090 owner has reported the familiar smell of burning plastic, after the card’s 16-pin power connector melted not once but twice in just a few weeks.

Amazon Fire TV to dump Android for Linux in 2025
Bezos’s empire fancies more cash from your telly habits
Amazon is preparing to ditch Android on its Fire TV gadgets and shove in a home-grown Linux-based system codenamed Vega OS.

AMD blames mobo makers for AM5 socket meltdowns
Socket sizzle saga hits ASRock hardest
AMD has finally broken its silence over the smoking AM5 socket scandal, and it's pointing the finger at third-party motherboard vendors for pushing the limits.

Nvidia fixes thermal bug
Driver 576.15 ends long-running sensor mess and flaming GPUs
Nvidia has issued a fix for a bug that’s been quietly sabotaging its RTX graphics cards, leaving users flying blind on GPU temperatures and risking overheating in the process.

AMD admits Ryzen 9800X3D meltdown mess
Sounds of PR silence
After more than 100 Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors keeled over, mostly while paired with ASRock boards, AMD has finally broken its vow of silence—only to point fingers at “memory compatibility.”

Tesla Cybertruck: more dangerous than explosive Ford Pinto
So much for safety
A new report has come to a disturbing conclusion for Elon [Roman salute] Musk's Swasticar Cybertruck — the model is far more dangerous than the infamously "explosive" Ford Pintos of the 1970s.

Amazon has sold 200 million fires
That should sort out the rain forests
In the middle of announcements about its new tellys, Amazon has revealed it has now sold 200 million Fire TV devices.

Apple fanboy tries to sleep with his iPhone
And it nearly kills him
An Apple fanboy from Alabama is regretting his decision to take his iPhone to bed with him.

Boffins turn all stolen phones into a Samsung Note 7
Still better than an iPhone
Researchers have developed new technology that can prevent stolen phones turning into a smouldering blob of plastic, or the case of an iPhone a beautiful looking, reassuringly expensive smouldering blob of plastic.

Samsung planning to release refurbished Note 7s
Flaming heck, the magnificant seven rides again.
Samsung is apparently planning to release refurbished Note 7s.