Skull & Bones is delaying faction wars and ‘pausing work’ on some other key content for this year
Ubisoft has piped up today with a producer’s letter on Skull and Bones, and once you get past the first few paragraphs of glowing recap...
Huawei is making its Ascend AI GPU software toolkit open-source to better compete against CUDA
Huawei is planning to open-source its Ascend AI GPU toolkit in efforts to accelerate development and compete with Nvidia’s CUDA software ecosystem.
Getting To The Nub Of ThinkPad Design With David Hill
Those of us of a certain age are very likely to have used a ThinkPad at some time; an original IBM version, the later Lenovo...
Cloudflare Exposes Perplexity’s Deceptive Web Crawling Tactics
If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one would expect that it has the financial strength to access content for real-time answers to queries legitimately. Cloudflare has now exposed several
Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds opens today as devs tease the last three elite specs
As promised, Guild Wars 2 has reopened the Festival of the Four Winds today, sending players to Divinity’s Reach and the Labyrinthine cliffs. “This year’s...
Gamigo’s RIFT patches in seven mounts plus fixes for autumn events and invisible capes
Yesterday, we noted that the dataminers of The Ghar Station had dug up what appeared to be a third RIFT smol patch for the summer...
14 ex-Huawei employees handed down prison sentences in China — accused face up to six years for taking ‘chip-related business secrets’ with them to form startup Zunpai
China’s courts take tech secret pilfering seriously, if one of its homegrown companies appears to be the victim.
NASA’s New Chief Accelerates Plan To Put A Nuclear Reactor On The Moon
NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, made his first major policy move to fast-track plans to place a nuclear reactor on the moon. NASA has been on this for quite some time now, with the original plan to launch a 40-kilowatt reactor on the moon by 2030. But at Duffy’s order, the agency will now accept industry proposals for a bigger 100-kilowatt
World of Warcraft’s patch 11.2, Ghosts of K’aresh, goes live tonight at 6 p.m. EDT
Fighting ghosts in World of Warcraft is nothing new; it’s been in the game since launch in various forms. Turns out that ghosts are very vulnerable...
PCI-SIG Unveils PCIe 8.0 At A Screaming-Fast 1TB/s For Hungry AI Workloads
Sorry buster, but your fancy build with its PCI Express 5.0 support is obsolete. Old news. Yesterday’s tech. Woefully behind. And…we’re just kidding, so don’t go tossing your Intel Arrow Lake or AMD Ryzen 9000 series build in the garbage. That said, PCI SIG is always looking ahead and has now announced some preliminary specifications for