Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T1g Gen 8 delivered its strongest SPECworkstation 4 result in the AI & Machine Learning category, with an Accelerator score that highlighted the role of its dedicated acceleration ...

If you've ever spent any amount of time experimenting with local AI models, you've almost certainly experienced the same cycle I have. You find an exciting new model ...

Understanding your computer’s specifications is crucial, whether you’re troubleshooting, upgrading, or simply wanting to know what you have under the hood. Knowing how to check computer specs can ...

Let Windows rate your hardware.

AI benchmark cheating has been theorized as an inevitable consequence of training capable optimizers against fixed metrics. With OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, the theory arrived in full view. The nonprofit ...

A new PowerShell-based Hyper-V health tool goes beyond replication status to estimate whether a VM is actually ready for a successful failover.

Late last week, the Sanders Administration released student testing data that indicated across-the-board improvement in ...

Mapping detections and controls to MITRE ATT&CK: a practical guide for technical teams MITRE ATT&CK is useful because it gives technical teams a common language for describing adversary behaviour. For ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.