Gamers have started reselling RTX 5090 cards they managed to buy before the insane price surge on top-tier graphics cards
Usually hardware behaves predictably: you buy a flagship, it's worth a third less a year later, and by year two you're almost embarrassed to list it for sale. But the GPU market has managed to...
Fans ran Fallout New Vegas through DLSS 5 seven times and got a real nightmare
Anyone who has been anywhere near the gaming space over the past couple of weeks has probably seen folks messing around with DLSS 5, NVIDIA's AI-driven neural rendering tech that pushes games toward photorealism in...
Old SSDs turned into Steam game cartridges, and it works better than it sounds
Digital libraries took away the shelf full of game boxes and replaced it with a list of icons and endless redownloading. The longing for physical media never really went away, though, and sometimes it takes...
Four ways to save a PC system unit from a cat
The most expensive space heater in any gamer's apartment sits under the desk, costs as much as a used car, and is officially registered as a gaming PC. Cats figured out this detail long before...
WoW fans are thrilled with the new lighting, fog, and water in WoW Forever running on Blizzard custom ray tracer
The debate over whether a twenty-year-old game can get a graphics overhaul without losing its identity just got a detailed technical answer. On the second day of BlizzCon, the panel "Evolving a Timeless World" brought...
AI GPT-6 Astra mined a diamond in Minecraft overnight by directly controlling a computer
Developer Wuyang Zhou gave GPT-6 Astra one task – mine a diamond in Minecraft – then hit record and went to bed. By morning the diamond sat in the inventory, and the toolkit that made...
Futurologist Ray Kurzweil joins a startup that wants to replace brain implants with a nasal spray containing nanoparticles
Ray Kurzweil, one of the most well known futurists and AI pioneers, has joined neurotechnology startup Subsense. The company is developing a brain-computer interface that skips surgery entirely. Kurzweil's career kicked off back in the...
Web development veteran compares AI's impact on frontend to an asteroid impact
Developer Nolan Lawson published a piece on August 23 on his blog Read the Tea Leaves about what's happening to frontend development in the age of agents. The main metaphor made it straight into the...
In six weeks, AI built on the Godot engine created a full-fledged fishing game
Indie developer Hakim Eiqbal has released the first downloadable build of a fishing game he's building entirely with AI. The project started as an experiment and by week six turned into a playable build available...
Japanese modder launched DLSS 5 together with ENB in Fallout 4 – the game now looks like a photograph
A Japanese player going by ピピ (pipi_rossa) got DLSS 5 and the ENB graphics mod running together in Fallout 4. The two have historically clashed since both hook into frame post-processing. Turns out the fix...
Dawn of War from 2004 with DLSS 5 causes split among gamers over art style again
An RTX 5080 owner has spent the past few days running DLSS 5 through every old game they can find. The latest batch of screenshots came from the original Dawn of War, released 22 years...
Sent an RTX 4090 in for warranty service and got back money from 2023
Warranty coverage is supposed to work as insurance against trouble, but in a world where graphics cards get more expensive faster than they wear out, it can end up working against the owner instead. A...
Three weeks of Cyberpunk 2077 at night – how a younger brother figured out how to hijack a powerful PC via Steam Remote Play
A home PC feels like a completely personal thing, until a teenager with motivation and a free evening shows up in the house. Then it turns out your graphics card has its own nightlife, and...
Enthusiast spent $700 on tokens, but ChatGPT-6 Astra couldn't even get through the tutorial in Cuphead
X user Miłosz Szewsky asked ChatGPT-6 Astra to complete the hardcore platformer Cuphead. After several hours and $700 worth of tokens, the result was, to put it mildly, not the most impressive. Judging by the...
New utility overlays Nvidia DLSS 5 onto the entire Windows desktop – including movies and YouTube
The DLSS 5 leak keeps producing unexpected results. The NeuralScreen mod applies Nvidia neural rendering not just to games but to any Windows window, from YouTube videos to movies. The tool creator, a modder going...
US Department of Energy approves $1.9 billion loan to restart a dead nuclear power plant in Iowa for Google
NextEra Energy secured a loan of up to $1.9 billion from the US Department of Energy to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center nuclear plant in Linn County, Iowa. The plant has a capacity of...
iPhone Duo hands-on impressions – 7.6-inch screen, under-display camera, and a fold in the center
It's been almost 10 years since the iPhone X set the design language for Apple's flagships, and the company hasn't released such an unconventional gadget since. The iPhone Duo is Apple's first foldable smartphone, and...
Google mapped the fruit fly's brain with 166,000 neurons, and engineers immediately ran Doom on it
Google Research announced the completion of work neuroscientists had been waiting decades for. For the first time, the brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly have been fully mapped. The model...
Scientists studied 26 thousand Chinese schoolchildren and revealed negative impact of AI
Economists from Stockholm University and the University of Hong Kong published a paper tracking how generative AI affects academic performance among 26,811 Chinese students. The sample covers students from grades 7 through 12, meaning teenagers...
A mod brings DLSS 5 neural rendering to a second GPU and almost eliminates the 50–60% performance drop
Developer Marcelo Guibout published on GitHub an add-on for ReShade called mgpu_bridge, which offloads DLSS 5 neural rendering workloads to a second graphics card in the system. This approach almost entirely eliminates the massive frame...
