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The System76 'Lemur Pro' laptop is available now with Coreboot and open source firmware

By Liam Dawe, 9 Apr 2020

System76 have now fully revealed the 'Lemur Pro' laptop, and not only is it powerful and good-looking it's also their most open laptop yet.

The Atari VCS is in trouble again as Rob Wyatt sues Atari for lack of payment

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2020

Rob Wyatt, the architect behind the original Xbox and someone Atari hired to work on the Atari VCS system is now suing Atari over their failure to actually pay up.

System76 formally tease their new 'Lemur Pro' laptop as their most open yet

By Liam Dawe, 23 Mar 2020

System76, Linux hardware and software vendor has today formally begun teasing the new 'Lemur Pro' laptop and it's their most open yet.

Privacy-focused Linux vendor Purism announces the stylish Librem Mini

By Liam Dawe, 19 Mar 2020

Purism aren't a company we cover here often, as their devices aren't usually gaming related. However, they did just announce a mini-PC that looks and sounds rather lovely called the Librem Mini.

Linux hardware vendor System76 will have their own Keyboard out this year

By Liam Dawe, 19 Mar 2020

System76 do a lot of things, they've steadily grown to a point where they make their own desktops and now they're expanding further into making more hardware.

AMD announce a big sale going for their 3rd Gen Ryzen desktop processors

By Liam Dawe, 12 Mar 2020

From now until the end of March, AMD have cut the price of some popular 3rd Gen Ryzen desktop processors across multiple stores with discounts in many countries.

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Say hello to your new best friend 'LVI' - another security flaw in CPUs for Intel

By Liam Dawe, 10 Mar 2020

Security? What security? Say hello to 'LVI' (Load Value Injection), a new class of' transient-execution attacks' exploiting flaws in modern processors and it defeats all existing countermeasures.

AMD just recently had a 'Take A Way' security issue for their CPUs disclosed

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2020

Thought Intel was the only one? Well you would be living under a rock with all the past issues but Intel seemed to be constantly hit harder, and they had another recently. This time, it's AMD's turn in the security spotlight.

Intel chipsets have another security issue, this time it's 'unfixable'

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2020

Researchers have uncovered a fun new vulnerability in Intel processors, and this one has a claim attached that it's not possible to fix it.

AMD next-gen Zen 3 due this year, Zen 4 will be 5nm and new RDNA 2-based GPUs coming

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2020

The last few years have shown what competition can really do. AMD went from being constantly bottom, to truly kicking some ass with the Zen processor design and they have more to come.

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As AMD launch the monster 3990X CPU, System76 offer it up with their stylish Thelio Major

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2020

Today, AMD officially made the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X available as a seriously high-end desktop processor. Along with that, System76 jumped in right away to give it as an option on their powerful Thelio Major.

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The Atari VCS team give another update - plus a proper look at the UI

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2020

Pre-production is still ongoing for the Linux-powered Atari VCS, with the team giving a fresh update on how it's doing.

AMD has strong revenue growth again, new next-gen RDNA GPUs coming this year

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jan 2020

Two big bits of AMD news to share with you this morning, as they appear to be going from strength to strength as a company.

Have an Intel processor? Enjoy two more vulnerabilities

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2020

Intel are not having a good time lately are they? More vulnerabilities in their CPUs have been made public.

Have a Razer laptop and use Linux? Keep a close eye on this new open source project

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

Many hardware developers sadly don't provide official drivers for Linux, even when they do there's no decent interface for them. One user got "sick" of Razer's "lack of Linux support for laptops" so they made their own driver.