Articles by Rahim Amir, Contributor

Rahim Amir is a UAE-based tech writer who enjoys building PCs as much as he enjoys writing about them. He has been professionally writing about PC hardware since 2023, focusing on buyer’s guides, hardware reviews, and sponsored content and features related to tech.

Having built hundreds of gaming PCs and being an avid gamer in his spare time, Rahim tends to have stronger opinions about hardware than most. This is particularly on display when he gets his way with powerful, but minimalistic RGB builds even as Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs come a close second.

In addition to his contributions to TechRadar, Rahim’s work has also been featured on Game Rant and financial news websites.

When he’s not working, you can find him playing DotA with friends or schmoozing to take the world over in Civilization. Alternatively, you can find him binging through the entirety of the Lord of The Rings universe with extended editions in play where applicable.

You can currently catch Rahim grinding Path of Exile 2, complaining about his (extremely low) unique loot drop rate, or actively participating in one of the numerous (and heated) debates centered around Tolkien's universe on multiple forums daily.

If you have a PC build or a Satisfactory playthrough in progress, he is likely to have some advice to send your way, especially regarding verticality being key for the latter. For the former, Rahim enjoys all aspects of the process including researching the components he will eventually use, benchmarking the latest and greatest hardware he can get his hands on, and somewhat surprisingly, cable management once he gets his latest build to POST.

Articles by: Rahim Amir

DJI Inspire 3 drone in flight against a blue sky

The Pentagon has unveiled an improved online store to buy counter-drone kits, but you probably won't ever be able to see it

By Rahim Amir Published 13 August 26

The Pentagon has a limited-access 'Amazon' for counter-drone weapons, with Anduril and DroneShield listing products and an AI that recommends purchases.

Linus Torvalds says 'huge' Linux kernel updates are now the status quo — and it's all thanks to AI

By Rahim Amir Published 13 August 26

Linux release candidates are supposed to get smaller, but Torvalds says AI review tools have made oversized the new normal.

Russia's Microsoft Office challenger forced to shut down offices and fire workers as reports claim it is losing millions

By Rahim Amir Published 13 August 26

Russia's designated Microsoft Office replacement closes the office where it was built, with its majority owner says import substitution does not work in this segment.

Data center racks with cables and servers

A step too far? US lawmaker pledges 'Data Center Bill of Rights' to let protests be more effective

By Rahim Amir Published 12 August 26

Ro Khanna's Data Center Bill of Rights would ban data centers within half a mile of homes and schools, but it might lack teeth as a non-binding resolution.

Nashville will use 'eminent domain' to block a $700 million data center threatening iconic zoo

By Rahim Amir Published 11 August 26

Nashville votes to use eminent domain against a data center, stating the land it would seize could cost taxpayers.

Matt Damon's Odysseus looking over his left shoulder with some ships in the background in The Odyssey

Scammers are using fake Odyssey pirate downloads to spread malware that's more dangerous than the Cyclops and Circe combined

By Rahim Amir Published 11 August 26

Fake downloads of The Odyssey are delivering Lumma Stealer, and the stolen session cookies walk straight past your two-factor authentication

TSMC reportedly has $1 billion of Apple chips awaiting delivery of DRAM — will this be what powers the iPhone 18 Pro?

By Rahim Amir Published 10 August 26

A billion dollars of Apple's 2nm chips are stuck at TSMC because the memory has not arrived, with Apple's own packaging choice the reason why they cannot just be stockpiled and finished later.

A woman out of focus in the background touches the word AI, lit up in glowing yellow light, in the foreground. The woman is wearing smart glasses

Experts find AI agents can be tricked into 'remembering' fake facts for months — so how do we stop it?

By Rahim Amir Published 9 August 26

Hidden text on a webpage can become a fact your AI assistant "remembers" and acts on weeks later.

Experts warn this fake Claude install guide can be used to empty crypto wallets

By Rahim Amir Published 9 August 26

A fake "install Claude on Mac" guide, hosted on claude.ai itself and boosted by a Google ad, ends with your Ledger app quietly asking for your recovery phrase.

'AI success will be defined not by how much infrastructure organizations own, but by how productively they use it': Nvidia lays out its thoughts on how storage has become the next frontier of AI

By Rahim Amir Published 8 August 26

Nvidia just open sourced the interface GPUs use to reach storage and got Intel to help maintain software designed to take its own silicon out of the I/O path.

Could this be the end of BIOS-locked laptops? AI tweaker deploys Claude to unlock and change settings for good

By Rahim Amir Published 7 August 26

AI helps patch a signature check to always say "yes" on a specific HP laptop using a hardware flasher.

The next age of LLMs? Dev gets a small LLM running at 10 tokens a second locally on a $10 microcontroller

By Rahim Amir Published 7 August 26

A 28.9M-parameter model runs on a microcontroller costing less than $10 at 9.88 tokens a second because 25M of those parameters never leave flash storage

Microchip on a motherboard with Flag of China and USA. Concept for the battle of global microchips production.

China declares it is now the leading global chipmaking power — mainly because it just changed the definition of what a semiconductor is

By Rahim Amir Published 7 August 26

China struck the word "semiconductor" from a 25-year-old chip law to cover photonic and quantum designs, and it is being seen as a potential leadership claim

SK Hynix and SanDisk reveal first specs for High Bandwidth Flash — but don't get too excited, you probably won't be able to buy it anytime soon

By Rahim Amir Published 6 August 26

The first High Bandwidth Flash spec is here: 512GB stacks at up to 3TB/s. What isn't here is a ship date, and perhaps more importantly, Nvidia isn't on the participant list.

CXMT's booth at the 22nd China International Semiconductor Expo

Global memory shortage forces top PC makers like HP and Asus to turn to CXMT chips — but what will Samsung and Micron think?

By Rahim Amir Published 6 August 26

Three of the world's biggest PC makers now have qualified Chinese DRAM

'This one page changed my life': Michael Dell shows off the document which helped set him on the path to business success

By Rahim Amir Published 6 August 26

Michael Dell's famous dorm-room balance sheet is usually read as a story about betting on yourself. It is actually a story about having the receipts to back your play first.

FBI agent accused of stealing $1 million in crypto — and he even consulted ChatGPT on how to leave the country

By Rahim Amir Published 5 August 26

An FBI agent allegedly stole $1m in crypto by memorizing a seed phrase, then asked ChatGPT how to move to Europe.

The letters AI in a box in the middle of a vast digital room divided by beams of line

Chinese military reportedly uses American AI models to train its defense systems - tools from OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly among those affected

By Rahim Amir Published 5 August 26

Chinese military researchers are distilling US AI models into systems they can run locally.

A laptop with digitally inserted hack warnings around it

Watch out — Microsoft login pages are being abused as hackers try and lure in unlucky victims, here's what to look out for

By Rahim Amir Published 4 August 26

No passwords were stolen, and MFA never came into it; they walked away with access to mail, files, Teams, SharePoint, and calendars across around 120 organizations.

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Cybercrime is costing the world trillions every year - new report says victims lose an average of nearly $10,000 in every hit

By Rahim Amir Published 4 August 26

An increasingly expensive situation at a global scale

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Lifts Off During An Afternoon Demonstration Launch

SpaceX rocket set to crash into the moon at seven times the speed of sound — but the 5,400 mph impact is entirely expected, and might even prove useful for NASA

By Rahim Amir Published 4 August 26

A dead SpaceX upper stage is set to hit the Moon at 5,400 mph. Nobody planned it; everybody saw it coming, and two orbiters will be watching.

LinkedIn says it won't be spending big on AI hardware this year — but it has a good reason why

By Rahim Amir Published 4 August 26

LinkedIn says it won't expand its AI data centers for a full year, keeping GPU investment flat after roughly doubling the output of the GPUs it already has.