Whatever happened to Victorian gaslamp survivalbox Nightingale?
Nightingale has always been an odd duck of a game in the survival sandbox sub-genre, with a pleasing Victorian transrealmic aesthetic but a troubling update...
World of Warcraft posts update notes for next week’s Legacy of Arathor
World of Warcraft players looking for a summer vacation from The War Within will soon get their wish thanks to next week’s update. Patch notes...
PCI Express 7.0 Specs Finalized With An Optical Twist As PCI-SIG Sets Sights On PCIe 8.0
If you just bought a motherboard with PCIe 5.0 connectivity, there’s a chance you may already see it as a little outdated. How so? The PCI-SIG has formally announced the finalization of the PCIe 7.0 protocol, allowing an x16 slot to carry up to a whopping 512GB/s of bidirectional communications.
Much like the previous-gen interface, PCIe
Anker Recalls 1.1M Power Banks Over Fire Hazard, Check If Yours Is Affected
Anker is recalling over 1 million power banks with potentially defective lithium-ion batteries that pose a fire safety risk. The popular accessory maker said it initiated the recall “out of an abundance of caution” and is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to put the word out and replace affected models that were sold
The Daily Grind: Does your MMORPG friend list look like a graveyard?
A throwaway comment on Reddit the other day made me vicariously sad: A player named IVRYN posted about “those dudes you have on your friend...
Palia’s Radiant Rising update arrived with a ton of new quest content – and the Free Realms minipet
As promised, Palia’s Radiant Rising update dropped for beta players yesterday afternoon, with a whole raft of content and quality-of-life revisions. Let’s tackle the content first:...
Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam
Another Rosetta 2 holdout gone
University researchers tout using smartwatches to steal data from air-gapped systems — SmartAttack paper proposes using wearable as a covert ultrasonic signal receiver
A new air-gap attack dubbed ‘SmartAttack’ theorizes using a smartwatch to capture covert signals and steal information.
AMD deploys its first Ultra Ethernet ready network card — Pensando Pollara provides up to 400 Gbps performance
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be the first major cloud provider to deploy AMD’s Instinct MI350X GPUs and Pensando Pollara 400GbE Ultra Ethernet NICs as part of a massive zettascale AI cluster.
AMD unveils ROCm 7 — new platform boosts AI performance up to 3.5x, adds Radeon GPU support
AMD launches ROCm 7 platform that boosts AI inference performance by up to 3.5X, adds support for FP4/FP6 formats and distributed workloads, and extends compatibility to Windows and Radeon GPUs on Ryzen systems.