Category: Hardware
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Last Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters at a private dinner that investors are overexcited about AI models. “Someone” will lose a “phenomenal amount of money,” he said, according to The Verge. The statement came as his company negotiates a secondary share sale at a $500 billion valuation—up from $300 billion just months earlier.…
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Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced that he’s leaving the Halo developer after working at the studio for more than two decades. In Parsons’ place, Justin Truman, a general manager on Destiny 2 and Bungie’s chief development officer, is taking over as studio head. “After more than two decades of helping build this incredible studio,…
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How badly does AI harm the environment? We now have some answers to that question, as both Google and Mistral have published their own self-assessments of the environmental impact of an AI query. In July, Mistral, which publishes its own AI models, published a self-evaluation of the environmental impact of training and querying its model…
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It actually happened: Silksong, the standalone sequel to Hollow Knight, has a release date. After seven years in development, and almost as many shrouded in silence, the game is coming out on September 4th. It’s welcome news for the millions of Hollow Knight fans who have been impatiently waiting. But it’s also part of a…
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Starlink operator SpaceX isn’t getting the broadband money it demanded from state governments despite the Trump administration rewriting the rules of a $42 billion grant program. Instead of directing the lion’s share of money to Elon Musk’s space and satellite company, early results indicate that states still plan to deploy fiber broadband networks to most…
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Apple released iOS 18.6.2 on Aug. 20 to patch a zero-day vulnerability that it says “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” If you’re an iPhone user, download this update as soon as possible — preferably right now. You can download iOS 18.6.2 by going to Settings, then tapping General. Next, select Software Update, then…
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Although China has been trying to move away from foreign chips for several years now, the Financial Times says that this effort has now intensified after being fueled by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick saying the aim was to make China “addicted” to US tech during an interview after Washington allowed Nvidia to resume the…
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We learned in July that Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl would come to PlayStation later this year. On Thursday, developer GSC Gameworld gave us a specific release date: November 20. That’s exactly a year after its PC and Xbox launch. The PS5 version will support adaptive triggers, haptic feedback, gyro aiming and more. Meanwhile, PS5…
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This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Hayden, a small town in the mountains of northwest Colorado, is searching for ways to diversify its economy, much like other energy communities across the Mountain West. For decades,…
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Microsoft has announced a new feature that will reduce initial load times called advanced shader delivery. According to the DirectX Developer Blog, this will move shader compilation from the device to the cloud, allowing you to download the necessary files directly to your device for caching. Aside from allowing you to get into your game…