"Slap the button for AI" is certainly a weirder Lenovo concept than even the bizarre folding gaming tablet thingy that debuted last week. www.pcworld.com/article/3075... via @michaelcrider.bsky.social

This is a little disappointing. So far, AMD has assigned its next-gen Ryzen AI 400 chips (both desktop and mobile) to its business line. And we have another AI "GPU," too. www.pcworld.com/article/3073...

We have one ICE car and made sure to fill that sucker up today.

Nope. Nope nope absolutely not.

Unaccompanied children as young as 13 who are pregnant, often from rape, are being moved to Texas so the Trump administration can avoid getting them access to abortion, critics say. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead and his body has been found, a senior Israeli official tells Reuters.

As everybody freaks out about losing their jobs to AI, I honestly think live theater could have a massive comeback as a reaction. It's live, it's real, it (can be) familiar. And no AI is doing stage magic in front of you. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

A good day to own an EV

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program. A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

Did we even bother with a justification for this war in Iran this time? Innocents dying, again, to satisfy the egos of old men.

RIP Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion and other great SF.

Hang on, @mikemuch.bsky.social. People get to retire in this business????

Inevitable www.computerworld.com/article/4138...

An alt headline for this would be: "This is the worst year for desktop PCs, ever." Because it really is www.pcworld.com/article/3070...

Google Nano Banana 2 seems to have trouble distinguishing a prompt for a new image with a request to edit a previous image. I had asked for an image of a user downloading RAM, and got the desktop. Then I asked for a new image of a PC sitting in the desert. It gave me this.

Lenovo has another weird one. And by this, I mean truly weird. www.pcworld.com/article/3072...

Nvidia is now warning analysts of GeForce GPU shortages. Add it to the list. www.pcworld.com/article/3072...

If you're someone who fell in love with Red Dead Redemption 2 and its elegy for the primeval West slowly worn down by civilization, consider watching Train Dreams (Netflix). It's a slow film, a meditation on a lot of things, but the very end cements the connection between the two media.

When the SVP of Intel Foundry leaves for Qualcomm that is not a good sign I should think.

Will Steve Jobs end up being right? Doubtful. www.pcworld.com/article/3071...

Law of big numbers, my ass. Nvidia today reported record revenue for the fourth quarter ended January 25, 2026, of $68.1 billion, up 20% from the previous quarter and up 73% from a year ago. For fiscal 2026, revenue was $215.9 billion, up 65% from a year ago.

"Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events" come on

There's been a lot of advice given out to Microsoft's new Xbox chief. Here's mine: make Game Pass cheaper, via special Microsoft Rewards pricing. www.pcworld.com/article/3069...

Trump served Team USA burgers because of course he did

Remember, Trump cares about spectacle and ratings. Just sit out the State of the Union. #sotu You can get the crazy talk tomorrow or later tonight.

Anker's new USB-C dock has a hub built in, which brings back a specific 80s vibe. Review: www.pcworld.com/article/3057...

Seems high time (tide) that we start to look at streaming with battery rundown tests, even with some unavoidable variables. www.pcworld.com/article/3063...

There's a bunch of (what I think is) previous reporting on the subject, but Myrhvold and Sinofsky still come off as slimeballs. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...

I still measure the decline of the industry I work in by the full-throated rejection of Google Glassholes in 2014 (!) and the "yeah, great!" acceptance of the 5,000 smart glasses knockoffs that exist less than a decade later

Here's the thing: it's been six years since Jeffrey Epstein died. You know the twisted powers that be haven't just said "Oh, that's over" and gone on with their lives. So who's replaced Jeffrey Epstein?

The storage apocalypse has come for RAM and SSDs, and now hard drives. But there is an existing product that can make the latter category a solvable problem. www.pcworld.com/article/3063...

Stolen valor? www.cnn.com/2026/02/22/p...

A prawn cracker of a story.

Just downloaded and played the "Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza" game on the Panther Lake laptop. Current AAA (?) game, no tweaks, didn't hear the fans. Ran smooth. (Not the most challenging game engine, true.)

Out sick this afternoon and Xbox gets a massive leadership overhaul www.ign.com/articles/phi...

I'm not crazy, right? Everyone saw how Trump just defied thrme Supreme Court tariffs decision? www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/t...

Holy fuck! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's difficult to cheer for the court's decision to reduce Trump's tariff power (as he could simply browbeat Congress to do it for him) when corporations will benefit, not consumers. We all saw what happened during the pandemic. My question: if prices do NOT come down, does that boost inflation?

Intel is replacing customer support with Microsoft Copilot. I was not impressed by my first interactions with it. www.pcworld.com/article/3066...

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Microsoft is splitting the most experimental Windows 11 Canary Channel into two paths. As if it all wasn't complicated enough.

Print to Pyrex could be the savior of long-term data storage www.pcworld.com/article/3064...

In 'n' Out handled a bulk order for about 20 hungry teenagers like a champ (although I wrote everything out to make it easier). And the best part? No tip asked for, either, which definitely saved me over $20 right there.

Damn, not a great look for Ars. On the other hand, I wonder what the editorial landscape looks like in five years, especially with the pressures some management is placing upon writers.

Barstool Sports Spins Off New Literary Journal

Microsoft has an unexpected money hack, Microsoft Cashback, that you really should sign up for and use. It dropped $20 in my account for a single $60 purchase. www.pcworld.com/article/3058...

Wow -- Microsoft just split Windows on Arm and Windows on X86 into their own parallel development tracks. It forked Windows. www.pcworld.com/article/3058...

The twist: is Copilot+ now a gaming brand? A Microsoft doc seems to think so.

Microsoft says it is focusing on the "cohort" of gamers, and making changes to improve the performance of Windows in response to the growing challenge of SteamOS. www.pcworld.com/article/3056...