Framework’s ultra-repairable PCs are, by their nature, open platforms. So it seemed strange for the company’s founder and CEO, Nirav Patel, to call its latest “Pro”-level Framework Laptop with its new ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix issues affecting Windows Server systems after installing the April 2026 security updates. As Microsoft confirmed last week, some admins may ...

Built-in intelligence – SQL Server 2025 optimising performance and insight. Key takeaways SQL Server 2025 shifts optimisation from a reactive activity to an intelligence-driven discipline. Built-in ...

I've spent years optimizing data access layers in enterprise .NET applications. Here are the lessons that made the biggest difference — no fluff, just what works. The first query pulls every row into ...

Ability to upgrade graphics on a laptop is a PC nerd’s dream. Comes with six hot-swappable expansion slots for ports. Bright, color-accurate screen with 165-Hz refresh rate. Decent gaming performance ...

A team of AI researchers at Bloomberg have developed PExA, an agentic framework that achieved 70.2% execution accuracy, sharing one of the top positions on the Spider 2.0 (Snow) leaderboard, one of ...

This is not about saying EF is bad — it’s about sharing what I learned from real .NET projects where Entity Framework didn’t behave as expected. Here’s why I started moving back to raw SQL and Dapper ...

What if the next time you upgraded your laptop, the old motherboard didn’t end up gathering dust in a drawer or, worse, contributing to the growing mountain of electronic waste? Imagine transforming ...

I’ve been a consumer PC expert at PCMag for 10 years, and I love PC gaming. I've played games on my computer for as long as I can remember, which eventually (as it does for many) led me to build and ...

Absurdly large bezels. Thick and heavy for the size. Performance is a bit slow. The new Framework Laptop 12 starts at just $549 for the DIY Edition, a fantastic deal for the price, but also a laptop ...