The Daily Grind: How many MMORPGs have you played to date?
A while back, a poster on the MMORPG Reddit put out a question lamenting that he’d “played MMOs for 13 years and [had] never once...
Apple revealed the first Mac Pro 20 years ago today — its Intel Xeon-powered flagship desktop took the reins from the Power Mac G5
20 years ago today Steve Jobs took to the Apple WWDC stage to unveil the first-ever Mac Pro desktop computer. This is when Mac workstations transitioned from PowerPC to Intel Xeon chips.
Nvidia sells RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP during QuakeCon 2026 — graphics cards sold at launch prices more than a year after release are now considered an attraction
The Nvidia booth at QuakeCon 2026 is offering Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 GPUs at MSRP. Supplies are limited, though, so you should head out ASAP if you want to snag one right now.
Elon Musk’s massive Terafab chip-making facility starts to take shape — 100 million square feet of manufacturing space and $16.8B initial capital investment
SpaceX and Tesla officially begin to build the massive Terafab facility that will be three times bigger than Samsung’s Pyeongtaek campus.
Save $370 on this 1440p gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — formidable ABS Cyclone Aqua rig ships with 20-core Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5 and a 1TB SSD, now only $1,329.99
Save $300 on this Newegg-made ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC, featuring an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD for $1,399.99 right now.
Anthropic co-designing custom AI inference chips to bypass costly Nvidia GPUs — Samsung reported as manufacturing partner for Claude maker
Anthropic has announced its building a team to co-design custom ASIC chips for AI inferencing workloads. This will give it greater control over its compute buildout and allow it to make its AI models specifically more efficient for its designs.
Claude Opus 5 mistakenly deletes dev’s entire profile directory during routine backup, responds with ‘Sorry, typo’ — AI tool mistakes user’s home directory as temporary backup, proceeds to wipe everything to undo the error
An AI agent got confused with file path conventions and mistakenly deleted its user’s entire profile folder. Claude Opus 5 apologized to the user, who called it “the funniest and most painful AI moment I’ve had.”
The Stream Team: Controlling the Chaos in Wayfinder
Massively OP’s MJ’s first foray in Wayfinder went pretty well. She selected her character (in record time!), started the story, tested out a dungeon, and...
Massively Overthinking: What year of MMOs would you pick to repeat forever?
A while back on the podcast, Justin joked that if he could pick one year to lock in and live in forever, it would be...
Fantasy Online 2 is an early access pixel art MMO for Steam, browser, and Android
No, that’s not a typo: This game really is called Fantasy Online 2, and you’re unlikely to mistake it for Phantasy Star Online 2 in...