ExLlamaV2 is open-source and free (MIT), and on a GPU it's roughly twice as fast as llama.cpp. The catch: your model has to fit entirely in VRAM. Here's exactly when to use each one.
Lena Fischer · 11h ago · 8 min
Local-AI hardware
Which card runs a model, what fits at your context length, and what it costs to rent — computed from each model's own config and live provider prices. Not opinion.
AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 lets you hand up to 96GB of its unified memory to the GPU — enough to run a 70-billion-parameter model on a mini-PC. Here's exactly how much you can allocate, how to do it, and the catch.
Ravi Malhotra · 11h ago · 9 min
--n-cpu-moe is the setting that lets a modest graphics card punch far above its VRAM. It offloads the parts of a Mixture-of-Experts model you use least to system RAM — and here's exactly how to tune it for your card.
Lena Fischer · 11h ago · 9 min
The best open coding model in the world needs a datacenter to run. The best coding model you can run on a single 24GB card is a different name entirely — and it's shockingly close for real work.
Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 9 min
CVE-2026-58608 is a fresh remote code execution flaw in the same Windows service that gave us PrintNightmare. It's on by default on virtually every Windows machine — and most servers have no reason to run it at all.
Priya Nair · 2d ago · 7 min
Kimi K3's open weights land July 27. It's genuinely great and genuinely free. It also needs about 1.4TB of memory to load, which means the download is the easy part. Here's the real hardware math — and the far smaller model that gets you most of the way.
Lena Fischer · 4d ago · 9 min
Llama 70B needs about 40GB of VRAM to run well — and almost no single consumer card has it. Here's what actually works, visualized, with the measured speeds and real costs for each path.
Ravi Malhotra · 4d ago · 10 min
CVE-2026-50518 is an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Windows DHCP Server — no login, no clicks, network access is the only requirement. It got overshadowed, and Microsoft says exploitation is 'more likely.'
Priya Nair · 4d ago · 7 min
The exploit hinges on a subtle mistake — WordPress's REST API validates and executes batch requests in two separate loops. When one step fails, everything after it dispatches under the wrong handler. Here's the chain, step by step.
Priya Nair · 4d ago · 9 min
The dual-3090 build doesn't give you double the bandwidth for chat — and the reason has nothing to do with the cards. What the measurements actually say.
Ravi Malhotra · 6d ago · 11 min
a graphics card, a games console, a $45 hobby board, a hard drive and a retro handheld all got more expensive this year for one identical reason. I've written them as six stories. they're one — and here's what I'd actually do about it.
Ravi Malhotra · 6d ago · 9 min
three price rises in five months, up to $100 on the 16GB Pi 5, and a seven-fold jump in memory costs behind all of it. I still think the cheap end of the range is the best value in computing — but the top end is a harder sell now.
Ravi Malhotra · 6d ago · 8 min
AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 lets you hand up to 96GB of its unified memory to the GPU — enough to run a 70-billion-parameter model on a mini-PC. Here's exactly how much you can allocate, how to do it, and the catch.
Ravi Malhotra · 11h ago · 9 min
--n-cpu-moe is the setting that lets a modest graphics card punch far above its VRAM. It offloads the parts of a Mixture-of-Experts model you use least to system RAM — and here's exactly how to tune it for your card.
Lena Fischer · 11h ago · 9 min
The best open coding model in the world needs a datacenter to run. The best coding model you can run on a single 24GB card is a different name entirely — and it's shockingly close for real work.
Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 9 min
Splatoon Raiders is the first spin-off the series has ever had, it's PvE rather than turf war, and it lands July 23. I've got one real worry about it, and it isn't the thing most people are complaining about.
Diego Santos · 6d ago · 7 min
3,200 jobs cut, four studios let go, Halo shipping on PlayStation, and a 2027 super-console still being funded. everyone's reading that as collapse. I've been staring at it for a week and I think it's a deliberate — and defensible — bet.
Diego Santos · Jul 20 · 9 min
the storefront section is live, the hardware has cleared customs, the FCC paperwork is public. everything about Steam Frame is ready except the one number that decides whether anyone actually buys it — and I think I know why Valve is stalling.
Diego Santos · Jul 20 · 8 min
the one remake fans have begged for since 1998 is real — a ground-up Ocarina of Time, Switch 2 exclusive, 'in 2026.' no gameplay, no date, no developer. the silence is doing a lot of work.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 19 · 5 min
Revelations is a 10-12 hour campaign id says is bigger than both Doom Eternal expansions combined. the part nobody's talking about: it ships with rebuilt, fully playable classic Doom 2 maps.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 19 · 5 min
Blaze put Evercade cartridges and the Super Pocket up across the UK and EU. the cause has nothing to do with retro gaming and everything to do with AI datacenters — and this is the corner of the market least able to absorb it.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 18 · 7 min
CVE-2026-58608 is a fresh remote code execution flaw in the same Windows service that gave us PrintNightmare. It's on by default on virtually every Windows machine — and most servers have no reason to run it at all.
Priya Nair · 2d ago · 7 min
CVE-2026-50518 is an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Windows DHCP Server — no login, no clicks, network access is the only requirement. It got overshadowed, and Microsoft says exploitation is 'more likely.'
Priya Nair · 4d ago · 7 min
The exploit hinges on a subtle mistake — WordPress's REST API validates and executes batch requests in two separate loops. When one step fails, everything after it dispatches under the wrong handler. Here's the chain, step by step.
Priya Nair · 4d ago · 9 min
researchers found wallets still tracking your address after you hit 'revoke,' plus cross-site leaks in most of the ones they tested. nearly everyone patched fast. MetaMask basically shrugged.
Sam Okafor · Jul 18 · 6 min
eight real games, real Steam store pages, real players — and crypto-draining malware baked right in. the FBI only caught the guy thanks to a trail of Uber Eats gift cards. here's the playbook, and the defense.
Sam Okafor · Jul 17 · 5 min
HSBC, UBS, Citi and 14 others are now moving 'tokenized deposits' on a Swift-built ledger. it's not a coin, it's not public, and it might quietly matter more than any crypto headline this year.
Sam Okafor · Jul 16 · 6 min