The Daily Grind: What are your early access MMORPG must-haves?
My distrust of early access MMORPGs and really all early access games is hopefully well established at this point, but if not… y’all, I’m not...
Save $400 on a new 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 — 48GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 16-core processor for $2,699
Save a whopping $400 on a brand-new Apple MacBook Pro at B&H Photo. This 14-inch beast uses the latest 16-core M5 chip and 48GB of RAM.
1994 Sega 32X gets first-person Backrooms game with raycasting engine — retro hardware tour de force includes yellow rooms, buzzing fluorescents, endless procedurally generated levels
Developer PaisleyBoxers has released Backrooms 32X, with the strap line ‘welcome to the cutting edge of 1994.’ This is a Sega 32X game set in the Backrooms, the internet phenomenon given a huge boost with the release of the psychological horror indie film earlier this year.
SMIC’s third-gen 7nm node shows smaller metal pitch than Intel 18A, higher transistor density than TSMC N6 without EUV — analysis of N+3 shows significant advancement for Chinese semi manufacturing
SMIC’s N+3 process technology can achieve transistor density comparable to TSMC’s N6 without using EUV lithography, but it fails to deliver performance or efficiency of modern production nodes.
Google reportedly developing ‘Frozen v2’ chip with Gemini’s architecture etched into the silicon — engineers project 6 to 10 times more tokens per watt than latest TPUs
Google is developing a server chip, informally dubbed “Frozen v2,” that would etch part of its Gemini model’s architecture directly into the silicon.
PC modder bolts 5.5-pound aluminum heatsink to RTX 4060 — convection-only cooling seems to work fine in a testbench-style installation
A PC gamer has DIYed a passive Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card system incorporating a 5.5-pound aluminum heatsink.
$399 Nintendo Switch 2 back in stock Woot for new customers, $427 for returning customers with code — get $100 off the most recent price hikes
Get a brand new Nintendo Switch 2 for less.
Nvidia’s new Synthetic Video Detector can identify fake AI videos with up to 92% accuracy — microservice based on cutting-edge research looks to combat misinformation in broadcasts with just 22ms processing time
Nvidia has just created an antidote to the virus that is AI misinformation. The company’s new Synthetic Video Detector can help broadcasters assess 1080p footage at scale with processing times of just 22ms and up 92% accuracy for uncompressed videos.
Conqueror’s Blade: Three Kingdoms’, Set in a Significant Part of Chinese History, Free DLC Launches This Week
This week, Conqueror's Blade: Three Kingdoms, a new free DLC, will launch alongside a standard new season, offering a tactical, persistent Three Kingdoms era China...
The Stream Team: Squashing No Man’s Sky’s Swarm
Previously, a timing bug prevented Massively OP’s MJ from finishing up No Man’s Sky’s expedition. Neither a bug nor a full Swarm of them is...