LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back at Minas Morgul, the good Mordor expansion
As I mentioned last week in our retrospective series looking back through the Lord of the Rings Online expansions, 2017’s Mordor was an unfortunate misstep...
AMD Radeon GPU Prices May Spike Again Next Month, Upgrade Before They Do
You don’t need us to tell you that late 2026 isn’t a great time to be buying a PC. Just a couple of months ago, NVIDIA’s GPUs skyrocketed in price, again, and there hasn’t been much availability for GeForce RTX cards, particularly the high end
‘Ghost Students’ using AI to apply for student loans with stolen identities — DOJ’s Operation Ghostbusters busts $200 million ring faking online college attendance, unsuspecting victims saddled with student debt they didn’t sign up for
Fraudsters are using the identities of high school graduates who skipped college to apply for student loans and steal the excess proceeds that do not go to schools. They use AI to keep the charade going and make it seem like the fake student is actually going to class.
ASRock B860 Challenger Wifi Motherboard Review: Entry-level ATX at a great price, with drawbacks
ASRock’s B860 Challenger Wifi covers the basics and performs well, but slower USB ports, weaker VRMs, and a dated BIOS keep it from standing out, even at the lower price.
Grab a new 3D printer this Halloween weekend, with prices as low as $199
Pick up a bargain 3D printer, thanks to these big discounts on resin and filament 3DP models from big names like Creality, Elegoo, Prusa and more.
Final Fantasy XIV: Evercold confirms Zephyr class, new areas, new gearing, and a delay to February 2027
Let’s start off with the worst possible news from the final Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival of this particular cycle. While pre-orders for the expansion will...
WRUP: I ate a lot of dog food and now there are angry dogs here and I don’t care, ask me anything edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about the celebrity deaths that...
Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs — Darkbloom network sees earnings drop to $1.23 a day as Anthropic tokens fall 77%
Mac users sharing their compute for AI inference are seeing declining revenues as token prices continue to drop, with Anthropic token falling 77% in under five months.
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AI agent used to perform controversial brain surgery on a mouse, Anthropic Sonnet controlled motorized surgery rig
The team had to use Sonnet after Opus 5.5 outright refused to run the experiment, while Opus 5 warned that it could stop working in the midst of the operation.