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PC Gamer1 t siden

Star Wars Zero Company's permadeath makes it a better RPG than most RPGs, even though it's not really an RPG

Choice and consequence vs. death and consequence.

The Verge1 t siden

Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets

Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don't know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets …

PC Gamer1 t siden

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 wins best PC game at Gamescom

Previews of the grimdark strategy game are turning heads.

Hacker News1 t siden

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

Article URL: https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501611 Points: 6 # Comments: 3

PC Gamer1 t siden

Thanks to a dedicated team 'art-directing' every single NPC, GTA 6 has over 10 times as many unique animations as GTA 5

Over 600,000.

TechCrunch1 t siden

Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

Tom’s Hardware2 t siden

Speedy 34-inch 240 Hz ultrawide OLED monitor now $600 off — LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B only $599.99

The LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B packs a fast 240 Hz OLED panel and 3440 x 1440 resolution into an immersive 800R curved display, now available for 50% off.

Hacker News2 t siden

Running SQLite Apps on Docker and Kubernetes with Litestream

Article URL: https://openrun.dev/blog/litestream/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501147 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

Hacker News2 t siden

Should We Have Kept the American Empire?

Article URL: https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/should-we-have-kept-the-american Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501002 Points: 15 # Comments: 3

Ars Technica2 t siden

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.

PC Gamer3 t siden

Elden Ring's Tarnished Edition is exciting enough on its own, but it's also our last chance to properly experience the game's launch day hype

One last hurrah for "fort comma night," "Mist, or Beast," and "offer pickle."

Hacker News3 t siden

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES

Article URL: https://www.artie.com/careers?ashby_jid=e87b84d2-78b3-41a3-937a-47e83643cdf1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500471 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

TechCrunch3 t siden

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health stu…

PC Gamer3 t siden

14 years on, the creator of DayZ is still searching for a solution to survival gaming's biggest problem: 'I think I am going to die without having solved it'

"And honestly, I'm okay with that."

PC Gamer3 t siden

Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong: The Wii and PS3 are 'retro' now, according to iconic Japanese gaming show

80% of nearly 17,000 viewers agree: Wii Sports is even more of a grandpa game in 2026 than it was two decades prior.

The Verge3 t siden

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) be…

Tom’s Hardware4 t siden

DLSS 5 mod brings next-gen tech to old Ampere GPUs, but frame rates are horrible — most games tank to single digits, high-end GPUs can hit up to 40 FPS in some cases

DLSS 5 now runs on Ampere GPUs thanks to a patched DLL, but performance is expectedly poor for the most part. You can get up to 30-40 FPS in edge cases with minimum in-game settings, but newer titles can tank FPS to single digits.

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

Article URL: https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499891 Points: 45 # Comments: 18

TechCrunch4 t siden

TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

Article URL: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499867 Points: 117 # Comments: 28

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

Article URL: https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499854 Points: 197 # Comments: 204

Startup Anti-Patterns

Article URL: https://www.itamarnovick.com/intro-to-startup-anti-pattern-series/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499831 Points: 6 # Comments: 2

The Verge4 t siden

Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras

As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over…

ScienceDaily5 t siden

1.4-million-year-old footprints reveal a surprisingly large human relative

Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some individuals reaching surprisingly large, human-like body sizes. The tracks offer a rare glimpse of thei…

Hacker News5 t siden

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499394 Points: 175 # Comments: 59

ScienceDaily5 t siden

This strange “spacetime crystal” can suddenly become a black hole

Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny change in energy. Their breakthrough came from an unusual trick involving …

TechCrunch5 t siden

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

PC Gamer5 t siden

The highly customisable Corsair Frame 4000X promised it would be my dream PC case, but I'm not completely convinced

It's definitely got plenty of parts to pick from, but does it all come together?

Tom’s Hardware5 t siden

SpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing strategy cuts generator delays by 18 months

Turbine blades and vanes are among the most complicated turbine engine parts to build, with processes taking as long as 60 to 90 weeks. Because of this, Musk wants to bring their manufacturing in-house at SpaceX.

Hacker News5 t siden

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499095 Points: 36 # Comments: 6

ScienceDaily5 t siden

Common supplements rival antibiotics for severe gum disease

Omega-3 and low-dose aspirin matched the effectiveness of antibiotics in a year-long study of patients with severe gum disease, with both approaches helping about 58% reach the treatment goal. The unexpected result could point to…

Hacker News6 t siden

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498978 Points: 127 # Comments: 143

Tom’s Hardware6 t siden

Donkey Kong 64 finally gets a fully native PC port written in C — DK64 ReKONGpiled brings ultrawide support, uncapped framerates, and zero AI code

A team of veteran developers has recompiled Donkey Kong 64 in C, so it runs natively on Windows, Linux, and Mac. The entire project is free, uses no generative AI, but still includes more features than any vibecoded retro revival…

ScienceDaily6 t siden

IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes

IBM and University of Chicago researchers have completed a quantum computation that leading classical methods could not practically reproduce. The system used 70 error-corrected logical qubits and finished the task in roughly 15 …

Hacker News6 t siden

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

Article URL: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface-hack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498787 Points: 59 # Comments: 24

ScienceDaily6 t siden

HEPA air purifiers may boost brain function after just one month

Adults aged 40 and older performed about 12% faster on a test of executive function after using a HEPA air purifier at home for one month. The findings suggest that cleaner indoor air could offer a simple way to help protect the …

PC Gamer6 t siden

This newly-announced FPS will let you blast through the worlds of Medieval Europe's weirdest artist, and I really hope it includes the 500-year-old butt song from hell

Hieronymus invites you to step into artworks like The Garden of Earthly Delights.

ScienceDaily7 t siden

Hundreds of hidden earthquakes found at Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

Hundreds of previously overlooked seismic events have been detected beneath Antarctica, including 245 near the marine edge of the Thwaites Glacier. Many appear to be glacial earthquakes caused when huge icebergs break off, capsiz…

The Verge7 t siden

Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games

Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it's going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in beta back in May: Gambit, a free…

Hacker News7 t siden

Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498201 Points: 129 # Comments: 153

Tom’s Hardware7 t siden

Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games — archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets

Early builds of Valve games from 2003 to 2013 have been found in a 12TB archive pulled from the company's old servers. These pre-release versions act like time capsules, preserving the state of the game from before it underwent m…

Tom’s Hardware7 t siden

At least three exhibitors got robbed at Gamescom 2026 — laptops and handhelds with unfinished game builds stolen from locked cabinets

Several developers, publishers, and studios have had their laptops and handheld consoles stolen at Gamescom 2026. However, the organizers said that it's only responsible for general security, and exhibitors can book individual bo…

ScienceDaily8 t siden

Scientists discover a massive heat anomaly deep inside Mars

Mars has a hidden temperature divide, with its southern interior potentially hundreds of degrees hotter than the north and partially molten. The discovery could help explain several long-standing Martian mysteries, including unus…

Tom’s Hardware8 t siden

Adata Urban Tapsafe 2TB review: Solid-state storage you unlock with your phone

Adata's Urban Tapsafe portable SSD sports magnetic face plates, a metal mounting clip, the ability to unlock the drive with your phone, and share selective access with others via an app.

monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter

Article URL: https://github.com/fugue-labs/monty-go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497928 Points: 36 # Comments: 11

The Verge8 t siden

China’s robots race ahead

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on falling robots and the US-China AI race, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday …

The Verge8 t siden

Two new small, powerful Macs

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 142, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, how is it almost September already, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer ho…

Tom’s Hardware8 t siden

DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans

An epic book preservation effort.

Automating Immersive Reading

Article URL: https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497854 Points: 59 # Comments: 17

ScienceDaily8 t siden

A new recipe unlocks “impossible” nanocrystals for LEDs, implants, and superconductors

Scientists have cracked a long-standing chemistry problem, creating nanocrystals from tough metal nitrides that were previously extremely difficult to produce at this scale. The breakthrough could turn familiar materials used in …

Windows

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

Article URL: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/windows.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497819 Points: 40 # Comments: 7

PC Gamer8 t siden

A massive cache of Valve data has reportedly leaked online, appearing to include Portal 2's elusive beta build and a potential weapon from Half-Life 2: Episode 3

The leak purportedly includes files that date between 2003 and 2013.

Hacking IKEA Furniture

Article URL: https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497810 Points: 191 # Comments: 105

Tom’s Hardware9 t siden

China's top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting — argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware

Chinese DRAM maker CXMT wants the US Department of Defense to remove it from the list of companies linked to the Chinese military.

Tom’s Hardware9 t siden

Corsair RM1000e (2026) ThermalProtect power supply review: Temperature-sensing 12V-2x6 cable shuts the GPU down before a connector can melt

Corsair's mainstream RMe series returns for 2026 with Platinum-class efficiency, a 500W fanless window, and a temperature-sensing 12V-2x6 cable that shuts the GPU down before a connector can melt.

Ars Technica9 t siden

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

Tom’s Hardware9 t siden

Poor liquid metal application almost destroys Asus Zephyrus M16 laptop, eats through the processor lid — paste replacement triples framerates, drops temps, and eliminates hard cra…

A user on Reddit shared their story about how the factory-applied liquid metal on their Asus Zephyrus M16 gaming laptop corroded the heatsink and lid of their CPU. It got so bad that the corrosion was about to eat away and seep o…

Tom’s Hardware10 t siden

Modders solder power cables directly to RTX 5090 PCB to eliminate notorious melting 16-pin connector — bare-board Galax HOF card pulls 600W under chiller cooling

TecLab, a Brazilian YouTuber, has just shown the most dangerous method of bypassing the 16-pin connector on an RTX 5090 — by soldering wires directly to the card's PCB. In an attempt to save the GPU from melting, they've created …

ScienceDaily10 t siden

Seven new frog species were hiding beneath Madagascar’s forest floor

Scientists have discovered seven new species of Madagascar’s elusive diamond frogs, using DNA from modern and century-old museum specimens to solve a long-running biological puzzle. The findings reveal surprising hidden diversity…

Digi10 t siden

Apple kommer med nye Airpods med kamera

Det er ulike meldinger om når de nye AirPods-ene vil komme.

PC Gamer10 t siden

Activision serves cease and desist to infamous Call of Duty cheat maker—and films the whole thing: 'We will find you'

The publisher says it has disrupted 375 reseller operations so far.

Tom’s Hardware10 t siden

US military uses high-energy lasers to shoot down three Mexican cartel drones over the southern border — narcos suspected of using UAVs for surveillance and reconnaissance to supp…

The US military has successfully deployed a laser defense system on the southern border of the country and shot down alleged Mexican cartel drones. These UAVs are suspected of spotting U.S. law enforcement operations and help the…

Hacker News10 t siden

Building my own network stack

Article URL: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/dn42-2-dnet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497200 Points: 79 # Comments: 63

ScienceDaily11 t siden

Ancient Egyptian princesses were buried with weapons. Their bones reveal why

Weapons buried with ancient Egyptian princesses may have been more than ceremonial decorations. Researchers studying royal mummies from Dahshur found bone changes consistent with years of archery and other strenuous weapon use. S…

Digi11 t siden

– Det er greit å bruke KI, så lenge du er ærlig på det

Stadig flere lar språkmodeller skrive for seg. Problemet ikke er teknologien, men at vi skjuler at vi bruker den, mener to forskere ved Universitetet i Agder.

Hacker News11 t siden

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

Article URL: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496918 Points: 170 # Comments: 66

Hacker News12 t siden

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496782 Points: 172 # Comments: 49

ScienceDaily15 t siden

Researchers unveil sustainable spirulina solution to vitamin B12 deficiency

Researchers have produced a form of Spirulina containing biologically active vitamin B12 at levels comparable to beef. By carefully controlling the light used to grow the algae, they overcame a major problem with conventional Spi…

PC Gamer15 t siden

Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime in The Transformers, dies aged 85

The prolific voice actor also appeared in Knight Rider, Gremlins, King Kong, Crystal Crisis, and plenty more.

ScienceDaily16 t siden

The next Cascadia megaquake could hit Oregon harder than expected

The Juan de Fuca plate beneath northern Oregon appears to be shallower than previously estimated, potentially making shaking from a future Cascadia megathrust earthquake significantly stronger. Scientists also found a deep basin …

ScienceDaily17 t siden

Some signs of quantum gravity may be an illusion

Quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of gravity explain almost everything we see in nature, yet physicists still do not know how to unite them. A new theoretical framework suggests that some experiments that appear to show gra…

ScienceDaily19 t siden

A cancer therapy put severe rheumatoid arthritis into remission

CAR T-cell therapy dramatically reduced disease activity in six people with severe rheumatoid arthritis that had resisted other treatments, with three achieving medication-free remission. The treatment may work by clearing out ha…

Hacker News20 t siden

Bug Blindness

Article URL: https://danluu.com/bug-blind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494520 Points: 355 # Comments: 231

PC Gamer20 t siden

PSA: Swap the radial ability menu in Star Wars Zero Company for more of a trad XCOM-style experience

It's the Runa-approved way to play.

PC Gamer22 t siden

A native port of Donkey Kong 64 is finally playable on PC thanks to a team of programmers who boast that 'no generative AI [was] used at any point in the process'

The unofficial native port of the classic Nintendo platformer runs on modern hardware.

The Verge23 t siden

Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale

I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, but life kind of got in the way. (Turns out jobs, wives, and children aren't thrilled with the …

Elden Ring players are hard at work putting the new Tarnished Edition DLC's gear to the test

Some poor bosses are getting "the Matador treatment".

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the US legall…

Hacker News1 d siden

Hy4 preview

Article URL: https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492632 Points: 365 # Comments: 232

Valve assures Deadlock players hungry for its next big update that it will notify them, 'or order a ton of pizza', when it's ready

Yoshi said to expect the new big update by the end of September.

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for …

All the key details on HoYo's co-op monster slayer Nodusfall

Paimon could never.

At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.

Hacker News1 d siden

Creepy Crawlies

Article URL: https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791 Points: 504 # Comments: 228

“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical …

The Long Dark will get new DLC again as studio shifts devs away from the sequel to survive an 'uncertain' industry: 'We have to adapt to this'

Blackfrost's early access release won't make it this year after all.

Modern gamers spoiled by Steam will never understand the joy of a MegaPak

A requiem for the early days of budget PC gaming.

Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps

Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.

Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding custom extensions

BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of their lives putting words to virtual paper, there is an obvious allure. Personall…

I want MMOs to waste our time again

I've accomplished very little on a Star Wars Galaxies private server, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.

Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first — text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech

A dinner plate-sized magnetic core memory homebrew USB device has been used to transfer a text file from one PC to another for the first time.

Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango

Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He's also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn't Dead, which takes some of the conspiratori…

Get a 32-inch Samsung Odyssey G55C curved gaming monitor for $199 — 1440p 165 Hz screen is 39% off at Amazon for a limited time

The Samsung Odyssey G55C is a 32-inch curved gaming monitor with a 1440p QHD resolution and 1ms response time. It's currently on sale at just $199.99, saving you $130 off its $329.99 MSRP.

Startup raises $7 million to build backpack-portable 8.8-ounce drone interceptors — Mara claims 20x cost advantage over other interceptors, priced one-for-one against attack drones

San Francisco defense startup Mara has secured $7 million in a pre-seed round to produce what it calls Spike, a portable counter-drone system housed inside a backpack.

The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy

As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains. I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of massa…

LWN1 d siden

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

The results of the Debian general-resolution vote on the use of large language models have been posted; the winner is choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI. Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tool…

I played just an hour of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 and it was the highlight of my year

Living the grimdark dream.

Keto diet cut liver fat by 67% in a clinical trial

A ketogenic diet outperformed Mediterranean and low-fat diets in several measures of metabolic health during a clinical trial involving people with obesity, prediabetes, and fatty liver disease. All three groups lost about 10% of…

Digi1 d siden

[Ekstra] Linkedin innførte «anti-KI-knapp» – har blitt en stor suksess

Brukere ser nå i snitt 40 prosent mindre KI-søppel, ifølge selskapet.

Rockstar considered having four protagonists in Grand Theft Auto 6, but the studio 'worried about diluting the amount of player time' with each character

"How do we follow up three characters? Is it four characters now?"

Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.

I've checked gaming PC deals every week for two years and I'm not exaggerating when I say there isn't a single well-priced PC left

Even AMD builds are now depressing to look at.

Dogs may hold surprising clues to human longevity

Dogs and humans may have more in common when it comes to aging than scientists realized. Researchers with the Dog Aging Project found that patterns of small molecules in dogs’ blood were linked to longer or shorter lifespans in r…

Scientists turn one of the hardest plastics to recycle into high-performance engine lubricant

Researchers have discovered a way to turn notoriously difficult-to-recycle PVC plastic into a key ingredient used in high-performance lubricants such as engine oil. The technique could give mountains of plastic waste a valuable s…

'Well, that didn't go as planned' says EA as it footage of its Iron Man game leaks online

"But now you know, we've got a lot more to show you."

The universe is still speeding up, but nobody knows why

A major new analysis challenges recent claims that the universe's expansion is slowing, finding that the evidence for cosmic acceleration remains strong. The findings preserve the leading role of dark energy, while leaving scient…

Get up to $175 back for your pre-installed Windows 11 license — new portal provides legal forms, but warns buyers not to wipe storage first

The Refund4Freedom site was put together by the Italian Linux Society and the Free Software Foundation Europe to help address the unfairness of unwanted OS bundling.

Grand Theft Auto 6 will run at only 30 FPS on consoles at launch, no performance mode promised — even the souped-up PS5 Pro might not get 60 FPS support

GTA 6 is currently running at 30 FPS at Rockstar internally with no confirmation on a 60 FPS mode being available at launch, or even later.

Deco Gear DG49OLED240 49-inch 32:9 OLED gaming monitor review: Two 27-inch QHD screens without the dividing line

You can replace two 27-inch QHD monitors with one Deco Gear DG49OLED240. This 49-inch 32:9 QD-OLED panel has an 1800R curve, 240 Hz, 5120x1440 pixels, HDR10, DisplayHDR 400, wide gamut color, and Adaptive-Sync.

Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank — groups' issues with $19.4B facility range from illegal construction…

The community surrounding the DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, are complaining about the Microsoft-linked project. The company's deployment of several unpermitted gas turbines is just one of the issues that has been h…

Long-term melatonin use linked to 90% higher heart failure risk

People with chronic insomnia who used melatonin long term had a roughly 90% higher risk of developing heart failure over five years, according to a large preliminary study. The findings do not prove melatonin causes heart problem…

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.

GTA 6 leaker cashes out in $250,000 crypto rug pull just hours before Rockstar's official reveal — memecoin crashes as Cyberleek's 'anti-corporate' campaign ends in a payday

The person or group behind nine days of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leaks cashed out of the $CYBERLEEK memecoin on Thursday, hours before Rockstar's Extended Look premiered on Netflix.

Hello Neighbor's multiplayer spinoff has been 'temporarily shut down' after a hacker wiped player progression and demanded the game's 'removal from sale across all platforms'

Secret Neighbor will remain offline until Hologryph and tinyBuild have addressed the breach.

Australia’s red soil may be hiding a massive clean energy source

Researchers have discovered that Western Australia’s iron-rich rocks can naturally generate hydrogen and that the process may be boosted to produce much larger amounts. If it can be scaled up, the vast formations beneath the Pilb…

US Navy launches missiles from its first drone sailboat — Saildrone Surveyor launches dual JAGM missiles, carrier strike group tests armed USV and electronic warfare

The U.S. Navy successfully tested a sail-powered autonomous drone in live-fire exercises in the Pacific.

LWN1 d siden

Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies

Konstantin Ryabitsev has written a blog post with hard numbers about the impact of AI crawlers on the Linux kernel repositories at git.kernel.org: Today, git.kernel.org receives about 6M daily requests demanding to see random com…

Your sleep may be hiding an early clue to Alzheimer’s

Frequent micro-awakenings during sleep were linked to higher genetic risk for Alzheimer’s in healthy middle-aged adults who had no symptoms. The discovery raises the possibility that subtle changes during sleep could offer an ear…

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[Ekstra] Støthansker, falske telekomtårn og KI-overvåking: Slik jobber Trumps sci-fi-politi

Trump-administrasjonen bevilger millioner av dollar til en egen politienhet og investerer i flere nye teknologier, med mål å stramme grepet om ulovlige migranter.

Scientists discover why damaged nerves struggle to heal

Scientists have identified a protein that acts like a brake on the nervous system’s ability to repair damaged connections. Blocking AHR helped injured nerve fibers regrow and improved movement and sensation in mice with nerve or …

'Claude Strife': DLSS 5 has escaped into the wild, and things are immediately weird

The controversial generative AI tech can look alright when used subtly, but the 'AI look' seems to be inescapable.

Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine

Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.

Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?

Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?

Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name

Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

Cancellations have accelerated.

"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.

Path of Exile 2's first event league goes 'oops, all bosses' and reworks its worst mode so sane people can finally enjoy it

Forbidden Rites is a rerun of the action RPG's best league yet with some twists.

Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

Bland or badass? The internet is split on GTA 6's Jason, and so is PC Gamer

Everyone's got an opinion, including us.

Car: Dolphin 26.08 and KIO performance improvements

Méven Car has written a pair of interesting blog posts (part 1, part 2). The first post is largely about some of the recent new features and performance work that have gone into the Dolphin file manager 26.08 release, as well as …

Nodusfall isn't Elden Ring, Monster Hunter or a typical HoYoverse game—it's something very different

Hands-on with the free-to-play boss-killer.

An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.

Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases

The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses.

[$] The "rnull" Rust block driver

The null block driver (null_blk) is a small driver that is mostly useful for benchmarking block-layer implementations. It accepts all requests and marks them complete as quickly as possible, doing as little work as possible. In J…

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

5 samurai movies to watch before playing Onimusha: Way of the Sword

While you were out partying, I was studying the blade (on DVD).

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

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Free-falling atoms in space put a new twist on Galileo’s gravity test

Rubidium atoms on China’s Tiangong space station fell with the same acceleration, upholding a cornerstone of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced

"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."

Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.

How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems

Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech ecosystem.

I have modded many dogs, several cows, 2 lions, and a chimpanzee into Grand Theft Auto 5, and they are all my friends

Rolling deep.

Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary.

I tried the sequel to Task Manager and it has too many special effects

If Task Manager is so good, why isn't there a Task Manager 2?

More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey

The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.

MSI brings DDR4 back to gaming laptops amidst DRAM crisis — Katana 15 HX C14 available with up to Core i9-14900HX and RTX 5070

With 32GB DDR4 SO-DIMM memory kits costing roughly half as much as comparable DDR5 kits, MSI’s new Katana 15 HX C14 could help reduce the impact of soaring memory prices.

Chinese memory maker YMTC wants to dethrone Samsung and SK hynix by the end of 2027

YMTC has some big plans.

New US export controls reportedly target Chinese access to remote AI servers — Trump admin's cut-down AI diffusion rule could be shared with industry as soon as September

The Trump administration is reportedly drafting a rule to close a loophole around remote access to advanced AI compute, and it could be shared with trade groups as early as September.

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

Friend-focused photo-sharing app Retro snags $21M

Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding.

Rockstar has to 'be careful' about what GTA 6 picks to satirize because 'very specific political issues or memes will date fast'

So no Skibidi Toilet? Got it.

Nvidia gears up its influence in Washington, forming PAC — tells employees that decisions Congress makes over the coming years could have substantial consequences for the AI indus…

Nvidia establishes its employees federal political action committee (PAC) to fund politicians whose positions are favorable to Nvidia's interests.

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Your skin chemistry may affect which mosquitoes most want to bite you

Three species preferred different people based on their skin odor and bacteria. The findings could help make new microbe-based repellants.

Fable director says they aren't 'scared of other big games' except one—it's GTA 6, in case you were living under a rock

"There's just one that I'm happy to avoid entirely."

Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again

Now, Apple TV subscriptions will cost $14.99 per month, up from its previous price of $12.99 per month.

All the key details about 'anime GTA' game Ananta

Does whatever a (legally distinct) Spider(-Man) can.

Experimental eye drops help blind mice see again

Scientists have created light-activated drugs that helped blind mice perceive light again and restored visually guided behavior without gene therapy, implants, or specialized lighting. Even more intriguingly, two of the most prom…

Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide — three different backdoor-like implants hidden in firmware

Security researchers at Vulncheck discovered intentionally masked surveillance implants embedded in the firmware of numerous devices from Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics.

Save up to $600 on iBuyPower gaming PCs in its Labor Day sale — beat the component crisis with big bundles and coupons

iBuypower is hosting a Labor Day sale with up to 65% off our favorite tech products.

DLSS 5 has already been ported to work on RTX 4000 Series graphics cards — incompatible CUDA instructions get patched to work on previous-gen hardware

One modder has reverse-engineered DLSS 5 to function on RTX 4000 series Ada Lovelace-based GPUs, porting incompatible CUDA instructions within the Neural Rendering DLL, enabling them to be read on previous-gen hardware.

Pulsar's new mouse is sliced in half to make it genuinely 'crazy-light'

'I swear it came like that,' I say as I chew through half a mouse.

NASA’s Roman telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will combine Hubble-like detail with a field of view 100 times larger, giving astronomers a sweeping new way to explore the cosmos. Its observations could uncover hidden planets, map billions of cosmi…

id Software's former co-owner says they absolutely would've used gen AI back in the day: 'John Carmack would be like making Skynet or something'

"I make this joke that someone needs to come up with the 'Half-Life 2 of AI'."

Eight stable kernels with fix for a single vulnerability

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.2, 7.1.12, 6.18.48, 6.12.107, 6.6.155, 6.1.186, 5.15.219, and 5.10.268 stable kernels. Each of these contains a single fix for a vulnerability (CVE-2026-80590) that allows m…

[Ekstra] Cybersikkerhetsekspert: Ny Chat GPT-funksjon er en gigantisk bakdør til Iphonen din

Ny OpenAI-plugin er en drømmebakdør for de amerikanske etterretningstjenestene, mener cybersikkerhetsveteran.

a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’

The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.

After seeing what GTA 6 does to a PS5 we're even more desperate to see what the PC version has for us

Looking at the PlayStation 5 capture, we're noodling on just what extra shinies Rockstar might add to the best gaming platform's version.

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (assertj-core, golang, httpd, kernel, and libxml2), Debian (chromium and suricata-update), Fedora (rust-h2), Mageia (avahi and python-django), Oracle (kernel and mingw-openssl), SUSE…

Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB

Cloudflare says that it has freed up roughly 100TB of RAM across its global fleet without reconfiguring any physical RAM modules in its servers.

Nvidia denies pausing AI cloud commitments initiative after reported partner backlash — report claims company told cloud providers it could only lease its GPUs to Nvidia-approved …

Nvidia denies putting AI cloud commitments initiative on hold despite reports that some deals were paused amid partner pushback over customer controls and concerns about potential antitrust scrutiny.

Micron workers increasingly support strike over bonus pay — labor union wants profit-sharing scheme, as employees at Samsung, SK hynix enjoy bonuses worth hundreds of thousands of…

80% of Micron workers in Taiwan have signaled that they're willing to go on strike if the company does not strike a deal over bonuses. The employees want to replace the current bonus system with a profit-sharing scheme, allowing …

Chimpanzees have been hurling rocks at the same trees for more than a decade

Some chimpanzees in West Africa repeatedly throw rocks at particular trees, creating piles of stones that can remain in use for more than a decade. Researchers think this unusual behavior may be cultural and could serve as a form…

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NASA’s new space telescope will reveal the universe like never before

NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will tackle nearly every aspect of astrophysics, including dark matter, dark energy and alien planets.

A common vape flavoring may disrupt early embryo development

A popular vanilla flavoring in e-cigarettes may interfere with some of the earliest steps of human development. In lab experiments, vanillin caused embryonic stem cells to lose their ability to develop normally and pushed them to…

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The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young —Antonio Regalado I knew I’d of…

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Researchers followed 400,000 kids for 20 years and found a lasting pre-K advantage

A 20-year study of 400,000 students found that children who attended public school pre-K earned better grades and test scores through high school than those in other childcare settings. Better-trained teachers and earlier exposur…

[Ekstra] Trollfjord kjøper seg opp i Teneo

Trollfjord eier nå 67,8 prosent av aksjene i det nordnorske bredbåndsselskapet Teneo.

Save a ridiculous 76% on this 7-in-1 Hyper Dual Monitor Thunderbolt 4 Dock — just $24 buys a dual 4K60Hz HyperDrive docking station for pennies on the dollar

Grab the HyperDrive Thunderbolt 4 7-in-1 dock for under $25 with code WOOTDOCK (76% off) - run two 4K60Hz monitors or one 8K30Hz display and additional connectivity for a pittance

'I'm done. I used up my luck for this timeline': Redditor accidentally saves $5,000 on RTX 5090 Razer Blade 18 thanks to labelling error

Why can't this kind of thing ever happen to me?

GTA 6 is adding a more nuanced version of Red Dead Redemption 2's honor system to ensure player characters aren't too 'all-powerful'

Careful when you're in Leonida, it's on sight.

Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.

X busts 200,000-strong Chinese bot farm, including accounts making claims about AI data centers and electricity — suspect accounts posted claims about pricing and grid strain to '…

The X Safety Team said that at least 200 bot accounts have been making posts to influence public opinion data centers and energy policy. The accounts share links to legitimate news stories and then add their own spin designed to …

MSI MPG Ai1600TS PCIE5 1600W power supply review: GPU Safeguard+ protection with Titanium effeciency

MSI's flagship 1600W unit delivers confirmed Titanium efficiency, an all-Japanese component selection, and a genuinely novel approach to GPU power management, but the price tag demands serious justification.

Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut

"From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship."

Google clamps down on Android app RAM usage amid AI memory crisis — developers have until February 2027 to adapt to new memory-optimizing rules

Google implements stricter memory limits and introduces new performance standards for Android apps.

Netflix is likely pleased as punch with the GTA 6 extended look, which more than doubled its web traffic

Done deal.

Looks like you can try DLSS 5 out today yourself

Nvidia might also be doing the smart thing a rebranding the whole DLSS 5 pitch as DLSS Neural Rendering

Samsung's new 2TB 990 SSD is 36% off at Amazon — nearly $200 off this Gen 4 all-rounder

Get 36% off the new Samsung 990 2TB SSD, a $190 saving.

Intel 14A defect density is dropping faster than the company expected — 'we have not seen this performance since 22nm,' says CFO

Intel says defect density of 14A process technology is declining rapidly as internal teams are already developing 14A-based products, while external clients are now wondering about capacity that Intel can provide them.

[Ekstra] Denne skal gi deg raskere Chat GPT-svar

Open AI har avslørt de første testresultatene for den nye «Jalapeño»-brikken.

Modders get leaked DLSS 5 running in Control — early Blackwell test drops RTX 5070 Ti from 71 to 35 FPS at 4K

DLSS 5 has apparently leaked, originating from inside a new game.

SK hynix breaks ground on the first HBM plant in the US, bringing key AI component production to the States — says production starts in 2029

SK hynix breaks ground on HBM assembly plant in the U.S. that will form a connection between DRAM wafers produced in South Korea and their consumers among AI companies in the U.S.

Indiana power provider proposes $59 million rate cut for state, says data centers and other large customers are driving increased revenue — move could potentially save residential…

I&M, which serves part of Indiana, says that it plans to cut electricity prices for the state, resulting in savings of about $59 million for residential users. This translates to about $100 a year for each home, with the savings …

Claude nukes a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harnes…

Claude nuked a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing a script to ensure that wouldn't happen, and it's possible that an automatic model downgrade likely contributed to the screw-up

Scientists tested 212 plant-based meat alternatives. Every one contained fungal toxins

Every one of 212 plant-based meat alternatives and drinks tested in the UK contained at least one naturally occurring fungal toxin, though concentrations remained below recommended EU guideline levels. Researchers say the bigger …

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How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should

MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly wan…

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[Ekstra] Varselsignalene var der – Open AI reagerte for sent

KI-agentene hadde vært på avveie i flere uker før angrepet mot Hugging Face ble oppdaget.

[Ekstra] Telenor vil ha frekvenser fra Ice/Telia

Når Telia og Ice slår sammen mobilnettene, får de nær to tredjedeler av frekvensressursene. Det liker Telenor dårlig.

[Ekstra] Aker-selskap bygger gigantdatasenter i USA med eget gasskraftverk for 640 mrd.

I tillegg til å finansiere egen kraft, lover Aker-selskapet at de ikke skal forsyne seg av drikkevannet for å kjøle ned det som kan bli USAs største KI-datasenter.

Scientists tracked 4,500 animals and found a surprising human effect

Scientists tracking thousands of animals found that our physical presence can reshape where wildlife moves and lives, sometimes as strongly as roads, cities, and other human development. Because different species reacted in very …

Why scientists asked 1,000 people to bury their underwear

More than 1,000 volunteers buried cotton underwear across Switzerland to help scientists measure how active different soils are. The faster the fabric disappeared, the more biological activity was taking place underground. Garden…

Scientists find a huge hidden ice reservoir beneath Utah’s mountains

Beneath the rocky slopes of Mount Timpanogos lies far more ice than anyone walking across the surface might suspect. Researchers used gravity measurements to map the buried glacier in 3D and found it is about 83% ice, with enough…

[Ekstra] Lørenskog kommune: Ber staten om hjelp til å rydde opp etter dataangrepet

Lørenskog er i gang med å søke staten om penger for å rydde opp etter cyberangrepet mot kommunen.

The GTA 6 Netflix exclusive reveal is on YouTube now

Watch 26 minutes of new Grand Theft Auto 6 footage.

Every GTA 6 song confirmed so far

Tune into Lil Wayne, Birdman, and Phil Collins radio.

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

GTA 6 gameplay reveal breakdown: A summary of all the details we spotted

We saw a lot of little tactical maneuvers for perpetrating crimes in disguise and escaping the cops too.

GTA 6 map is apparently 3 times larger than Red Dead Redemption 2's, twice as large as GTA 5's

Some YouTubers got an exclusive look at GTA 6 from Rockstar.

What do you think of the GTA 6 reveal?

Was the Netflix preview everything you’ve ever wanted, or a dud?

The GTA 6 reveal has me wowed by Vice City and underwhelmed by Rockstar's same old missions

Looks like we're in for more Rockstar missions, for better and worse.

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

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A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young

I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation treatment, an injectable combination …

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Cyberleek may have just cashed out on their GTA 6 leak, earning over $200,000 in the most predictable crypto rugpull ever performed

Nobody could have foreseen this.

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

Star Citizen's Squadron 42 delayed again, this time to avoid 'the attention buzz saw of GTA 6' says Chris Roberts

The star-packed singleplayer space FPS, first planned for 2015, has missed another release window.

Where to find the Torrent skins in Elden Ring's Tarnished Edition

Track down each Spectral Steed Regalia for Torrent.

Where to find new armor and weapons in Elden Ring's Tarnished Edition

Grab the new gear added to the Lands Between.

Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal live coverage: breaking down the Netflix 'extended look' event

We're cataloging everything we learn about GTA 6 from the Netflix reveal, as well as reactions from around the internet.

The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."

China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix

The target would require YMTC to nearly double its market share in 16 months.

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

Kennedy and his allies have a history of downplaying vaccine-preventable deaths.

Trump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claims — January's data center exemptions may be scrapped

The Trump administration is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would extend duties beyond chips to products built with them.

Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRAM

At Hot Chips 2026, Cerebras revealed the next two generations of its wafer-scale accelerator roadmap. It also discussed the benefits of its new Nexus rack design for the CS-4 rack-scale accelerator and the performance of the thre…

Glass substrate roadmaps examined — Absolics in final qualification and a first product that keeps slipping

Glass-core substrates, the replacement for organic chip packaging that Intel promised in September 2023, are now in final qualification but still not in a single commercial product

Why did 1,000 world citizens bury their underpants?

Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.

Nvidia expects to sell $20 billion of Vera Rubin systems in Q3 as shipments begin — figure would account for 20% of its data center revenue mix, marks fastest ramp in company hist…

Nvidia expects Vera Rubin to become its fastest-ramping data center AI platform as it projects sales of Vera Rubin hardware to hit 20% of data center revenue in its third fiscal quarter.

Samsung's new Odyssey G6 monitor hits a ridiculous 1,100Hz refresh rate at 720p — displays each frame for less than a millisecond

Ironically, the display with the four-digit refresh rate is actually the bottom of the display stack Samsung is showing off at Gamescom 2026.

Many talks between data center developers and local governments are wrapped in secrecy behind non-disclosure agreements — residents question the need for NDAs, but developers argu…

Researchers discovered that most negotiations between data centers and local governments are protected by NDAs. These documents keep details in secret, with residents having a difficult time finding information about these projec…

Save up to 61% on gaming PCs, laptops, and more in HP's Labor Day 2026 sale — huge discounts on a range of hardware, monitors, and peripherals

HP is hosting a Labor Day sale with up to 65% off our favorite tech products.

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[$] Using steal time to moderate CPU demands

Virtualization can increase CPU utilization by allowing a large number of virtual CPUs to share a smaller number of physical CPUs. The amount of CPU time that is actually available does not change, though, so heavy activity on to…

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A space telescope was falling from orbit. Its rescue mission fell apart too

NASA’s attempt to save the falling Swift telescope failed, revealing the realities of the burgeoning field of satellite servicing.

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Eight stable kernels for Thursday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.1, 7.1.11, 6.18.47, 6.12.106, 6.6.154, 6.1.185, 5.15.218, and 5.10.267 stable kernels. Each of these has important updates throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.

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AI searched 100 million possibilities and found a cheaper way to 3D-print a NASA rocket alloy

Researchers used AI to search through more than 100 million possible settings for 3D-printing a high-performance NASA alloy. After only 40 experiments, the system identified six successful configurations, including one that worke…

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Mindre kommuner skal ikke måtte velge mellom nærhet og kompetanse

Små kommuner har de samme digitale oppgavene som de store. Forskjellen er at de ofte må gjøre det med langt færre mennesker og mindre økonomisk handlingsrom.

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Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (assertj-core, attr, firefox, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, grafana, gstreamer1-plugins-good, httpd, kernel, mingw-openssl, mod_http2, nginx, nginx:1.24, pam, polkit, and sqlite), Debian…

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“I jumped from my chair” – Astronomers spot Betelgeuse’s hidden companion

Astronomers have captured their clearest image yet of Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion, potentially ending a search that lasted about 100 years. The surprisingly massive hidden star could help explain Betelgeuse’s changing b…