So, Googlebooks would now succeed Chromebooks. Apparently, these new laptops come with a new operating system that could natively run Android apps. Qualcomm, Mediatek and Intel are onboard on the CPU side for these laptops. There weren’t a lot of details about the OS atm however.

When the dogfooding is dog food

This is some of the best hardware news in recent times. AMD just announced FSR4 support for their older-gen cards. The Radeon 7000 series would get FSR4 support later this year, followed by the 6000 series.

Intel might actually be back. And I did not expect to say that in 2026. A $299 CPU with 24 cores would’ve sounded insane just a year ago. Yet Intel’s new 270K Plus is out here beating AMD chips twice its price in productivity workloads. The ironic part? Intel is now the “value” option :p

USB-C was supposed to end cable confusion. Instead it created a whole new type of confusion. The biggest misconception is that people think all USB-C cables are the same. They are not.

TCL just showed off a screen capable of going down to 0.1 hertz. It’s really cool that the display can switch between 0.1 Hz to 120 Hz. For laptops, it will be a good thing because it saves battery reportedly adding over an hour of video playback. LG has also started rolling out such displays.

Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo might not stay $599 for long. The problem with the Neo is that it is selling too well. Even more than what Apple estimated themselves. Apple reportedly planned around 5-6 million units initially but now may double production because of extra demand.

Nintendo just raised the Switch 2 price to $499. And honestly, this AI hardware crisis is now hitting gaming properly. Nintendo says memory chip prices and tariffs are hurting profits. Sony is saying similar things around the PS5 and future PlayStation hardware too.

Steam Controller just got live with a queue system now. The controller sold out almost instantly and scalpers started flipping a $99 controller for absurd prices. Valve reservations just went out live. What this means is that you won’t actually buy the controller immediately.

TSMC just made a wind energy deal because they because of energy fears. The company alone uses nearly 10% of the Taiwan’s total electricity. By 2030, that number could apparently reach almost 25%. And this comes during a pretty ugly global energy situation.

Kernel-level anti-cheats are basically running your games on “god mode”. Games like Valorant use software like Vanguard anti-cheat that operate deep inside your computer. That means they can see and control almost everything on your PC.

Steam Controller just dropped and it basically vanished. Within ~30 minutes of launch, the Steam controller was sold out on Valve’s store. People were stuck spamming checkout, getting errors, refreshing like crazy. Some eventually got through but most didn’t.

Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated, and we hate that not everyone who wanted one was able to get it. We’re working on getting more in stock and will have an update on expected timeline soon.

Talk of a product so good that a company like Apple runs into supply issues :p Tim Cook recently shared how the MacBook Neo (Apple’s most affordable laptop) has had an ‘Off-the-Charts’ demand. This laptop has sold like hot cakes and for good reason too.

Old hardware isn’t the problem. Our expectations are. Look, we’re in 2026 and people are still using 3–5 year old machines just fine. Writing, browsing, even light editing - most of it works. But every time new hardware drops your system suddenly feels old, right?

Apple quietly removed the Mac Mini with 256GB storage from its store. Now the lowest tier you can buy comes with: 512GB storage Apple M4 chip And a $799 price tag The reason behind all this is RAM.

Hmm, It seems Vavle’s restocking with new shipments of ‘gaming consoles’. Are these really the Steam Machines we’ve all been waiting for? www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Old Tesla cars aren't getting the latest FSD it seems. Elon Musk confirmed that around 4 million Teslas would need upgraded hardware if they want access to their latest driving tech. If you're unsure what FSD even means here's a short overview: sknexus.substack.com/p/why-self-d...

Valve is about to ship a $99 controller… but that’s not the interesting part. The interesting part is why this thing exists. See, on the surface this looks like just another “pro controller” Gyro Trackpads Extra inputs Cool. We’ve seen that before. But Valve is playing a different game here.

Here’s a question: Do you have any idea how your phone actually knows where you are? Because it’s not the internet. It’s not even mobile signals. It’s something way more insane.

What was the last time you worried about your smartphone battery? That’s the thing. Modern smartphone batteries are good enough for most of the people out there. It’s common for smartphones to last a day on a single charge. But the battery tech used in our tech products is hitting its ceiling.

You ever open an app you've used for years and think "this used to be better"? You're not imagining it. There's a term for that. Ensh*ttification - check out the full post here: www.sknexus.org/p/enshittifi...

Many people ask “why is Intel struggling?” But I think a better question is: “How did AMD, Apple, and others quietly took its place?” Think about it. The company that defined computing for decades… “Intel Inside” on almost every machine… Now losing ground in laptops, servers, even processors.

Everyone’s talking about the the MacBook Neo. But almost no one is talking about the one decision that made it possible. Apple stopped playing by the PC industry rules. For years, laptops followed the same formula: Intel or AMD chip Separate CPU, GPU, RAM More power = more heat = worse battery

Is Valve going to release the new Steam Controller? Last September Valve dropped announcements for their upcoming hardware but didn’t mention a date. The announcement included: 1. A brand-new VR controller 2. A console that is a PC 3. A new controller

Valve make steps to improve Steam Deck Verification, giving developers more performance data #SteamDeck #GameDev #SteamOS #Linux

Have you noticed that yellow “HDR” sticker you keep seeing on TVs? Yeah… it doesn’t always mean what you think it means. I used to assume HDR = better picture. Done. Turns out it’s a bit more annoying than that.

Last year, something weird just happened in hardware: Qualcomm bought Arduino. Yeah, that Arduino. The tiny blue board most of us used to blink our first LED. At first I thought… okay cool, big company buys smaller one. Happens all the time. But this one feels different.

Everyone talks about NVIDIA, Apple, TSMC when it comes to chips but almost no one talks about the one company all of them depend on: ASML. And what they do sounds fake until you actually look into it. Modern chips are so tiny that normal light literally doesn’t work to manufacture them.

A 5-year-old GPU… coming back in 2026? Yeah you heard it right. The RTX 3060 might get relaunched.. The graphics card from 2021 is being brought back because newer GPUs still ship with less VRAM. 12GB vs 8GB. And suddenly the “old” card starts looking… sensible?

Steam… on a Nintendo Switch? It kinda works because a modder got Steam running on the original Nintendo Switch using Proton’s new ARM support. A console built for Nintendo games… now running Windows games… through Linux… on an ARM chip.

You hardened your browser. Your ISP still sees where you go. Part 4 of Privacy Fundamentals is live. VPNs, WARP, proxies, what they hide, what they don't, and why one "no-logs" VPN got caught lying. www.sknexus.org/p/privacy-pa...

A new CPU drops. Benchmarks everywhere. “2x faster.” “Next-gen performance.” And suddenly your perfectly fine machine starts to feel… slow? But here’s the thing; Twice as fast at what? For most of us? Writing doesn’t get faster. Browsing doesn’t get faster. Your actual work… doesn’t change.

The MacBook Neo is LITERALLY selling like hot cakes. Reports are saying Apple is running out of the A18 Pro chips that power the MacBook Neo. The same chip that came from the iPhone. And what’s interesting is that even Apple seemingly didn’t expect this level of demand.

In recent months, a slew of executive reshufflings, discontinued projects, and other news has raised questions about how stable the company really is — and how long it may be able to stay on top. Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social:

You picked up your phone today? Maps. Uber. Food delivery. Banking apps. All of them quietly depend on one thing you probably didn’t think about even once. That is GPS. GPS chip in your phone is listening to satellites ~20,000 km above you, calculating your position using really cool physics.

You don’t need an account to be tracked because your browser already gives so much about you away, but how can one change that? I covered that in the 3rd part of my privacy series, check it out: www.sknexus.org/p/privacy-pa...

Open Chrome. Top right corner. See your profile picture? Chrome controls over 60% of global browser usage. And Google's core business isn't search. It's advertising. Part 3 of the Privacy Fundamentals is now out www.sknexus.org/p/privacy-pa...

Valve recently confirmed Steam game pricing updates across different regions #Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming

DOOM Eternal is now available on GOG #FPS #Gaming #GOG #PCGaming #DOOM #DOOMEternal

Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time #Steam #Linux #LinuxGaming #SteamOS

A future Wine release could use Zink to run OpenGL via Vulkan #Wine #Linux #LinuxGaming #OpenSource #Vulkan #OpenGL

RIP, affordable Raspberry Pis! Raspberry Pi just confirmed how bad the RAM situation is, once again. The Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM now costs $25 more, and the 8GB version is up $50. RAM prices have gone up seven times over the past year, mostly thanks to AI data-centers buying it all.

It’s official boys, SK NEXUS just hit 500 subscribers on Substack! Writing is hard but writing something that people actually want to read, is well researched and isn’t too boring, is much harder. That’s something we tried to fix with SK NEXUS.

You heard it right, Anthropic made a big oopsie. Turns out, the source code for their Claude Code got leaked in an update Anthropic pushed recently.

Rest in Peace Mr Cheese-grater! Apple just quietly killed the Mac Pro, a powerful tower with a cool design that didn’t look like a cheese-grater at all (or maybe it slightly did :p). Other than the design, the machine was powerful, expensive and had a long run until Apple Silicon came around.

Yup, you heard it, Sora is no more :/ OpenAI just shutdown its AI video generation service in what it claims to be a ‘strategic pivot’ while costs and competition against Sora grew. The downloads were already on an inverted rocket trajectory. Disney also exited with their $1B investment into Sora.

Your PS5 just got a $100 expensive on top of the $50 price hike Sony did less than a year ago. The Base PS5 is $649, up from $549 The PS5 Digital Ed is $599, up from $499 The PS5 Pro is $899, up from $749 And you can maybe thank Sam Altman for that. Those juicy RAM contracts don't come cheap :p

Google's recently announced TurboQuant compression algo sounds really cool. Apparently, It's a new algorithm that losslessly compresses RAM used by AI models by 6 times. If implemented right, we’re in for such a cool competition where companies are incentivised to make AI feasible for us all.

I've wondered why ASML is the only one building machines that spin-out advanced chips. Turns out, the physics behind working of an EUV lithography machine (that are the crown jewel of ASML) looks purely fictional. Here's a blog I wrote explaining how cool ASML is: open.substack.com/pub/sknexus/...