85-year-old enigma cipher cracked by AI in two days – ChatGPT-6 Astra wrote its own simulator to break it
A German Army radio message encrypted on an Enigma machine 85 years ago has finally given up its contents. The AI model ChatGPT-6 Astra cracked the transmission, known as MVUEH, in about two days. The...
Why you shouldn't keep your PC case on the floor
PC placement usually comes down to convenience rather than any technical reasoning. Towers are bulky, and not everyone has desk space for a full-size case, so the tower often just gets shoved under the desk....
Due to memory shortages, Japanese gamers can buy the PS5 Pro only after proving their "gaming history" and winning a lottery
The global RAM shortage keeps hitting game console production, and Sony has had to take an unusual step. In Japan, PlayStation launched a lottery system for buying the PS5 Pro, open only to gamers with...
Nvidia releases RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 – a 31 GB geometry scene takes up just 1.5 GB of video memory
Nvidia has updated its RTX Mega Geometry SDK to version 2.0. The main addition is support for streaming continuous level-of-detail clusters. The feature lets developers work with extremely dense meshes, even in scenes that don't...
Americans and Brits complain that a good gaming PC has become more expensive than a used Audi
For years, the main selling point of PC gaming was affordability. Build a system once, and it ends up cheaper than a console in the long run. That logic broke down so badly in 2026...
Gamer ran GTA 4 with DLSS 5 on his 22-year-old CRT monitor – it looks phenomenal
A gamer going by Pete_Love combined two technologies from completely different eras. He ran Grand Theft Auto 4 from 2008 with Nvidia neural rendering DLSS 5 and pushed the image out to a professional CRT...
Audio equipment manufacturers are removing CD players because optical drives are no longer being produced
The collapse of optical disc drive manufacturing has hit hard the few companies still making premium CD players. American PS Audio has completely stopped production of its flagship transport, while British Naim removed the disc...
An id Software employee who survived layoffs says Xbox leadership has no plan — only "corporate nonsense" and dreams of big profits right now
Mass layoffs at Xbox aren't bringing the Microsoft division any closer to its inflated financial targets – they're just adding to the management chaos. That's according to an anonymous id Software employee who survived the...
Six petals thinner than a human hair make the iPhone 18 Pro's camera nearly unrepairable
Apple has equipped iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max with a variable aperture, a feature mobile photography fans have wanted for a while. The mechanism helps control depth of field more precisely in portraits and...
Next-Gen water – Unreal Engine 5 plugin showcases next-level fluid physics
The industry spent a decade pouring resources into ray tracing, photogrammetry, and neural upscaling, yet water in most games remained a pretty animated texture. You can stare at reflections in a puddle for hours, but...
18 years later, GTA 4 got rid of jagged edges – new mod adds DLSS, DLAA and FSR to the game
Modder ChunkLeChuck has released DLSS IV on Nexus Mods for Grand Theft Auto IV. The mod adds DLSS, DLAA, and FSR support to the 2008 game. Its main goal is to replace the original infamous...
DLSS 5 fixed Crysis biggest graphical flaws – at the cost of 50 FPS on RTX 5090
Crysis, released back in 2007, spent years as the benchmark for graphics and the ultimate test of PC hardware. But the game had its share of visual shortcomings, and those flaws stand out even more...
Labs will have to be shut down – Nvidia CEO responds to calls from OpenAI and Anthropic to tighten AI regulation
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has offered a simple solution for frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have recently grown more insistent in their calls for stricter regulation of their own models. In an...
Creative Assembly didn't have enough UE5 for Alien: Isolation 2, so the studio used its own technology
Developers of Alien: Isolation 2 believe that Unreal Engine 5 alone isn't enough to build a truly convincing horror game. That's why Creative Assembly decided to build its own lighting and audio technology on top...
Mathematicians declare the end of an era – 27 prize laureates speak out against OpenAI
For years, leaders of the biggest tech companies have promised that AI will push out a huge chunk of the workforce. The scale of the disruption will supposedly vary from industry to industry, they say,...
RTX 5080 owner burns out graphics card after launching GTA 5 with DLSS 5 – replacement issued anyway
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 remains in limited release, but experimental libraries have already spread online and are being actively injected into dozens of games through third-party tools. One RTX 5080 owner learned the hard way what...
The first fight between a human and a humanoid Terminator-like robot took place in San Francisco
An unusual match in San Francisco has been making the rounds online – a human squared off against a six-foot-tall humanoid robot inside a fighting cage. The event was organized by REK, a US robotics...
Microsoft patents a system that pauses games for advertising
Ads in games stopped being exotic a long time ago, but they mostly lived in the mobile segment and behaved rudely: round over, here's a full-screen banner. Microsoft, judging by a recent patent application, wants...
OpenAI believes AI can link two isolated computers via processor heating instead of Morse code
Noam Brown from OpenAI has cast doubt on one of the main barriers against uncontrolled AI behavior – physical isolation of machines. According to him, a sufficiently advanced model can bypass even a complete lack...
Control Resonant in 4K without ray tracing and upscaling can only be handled by the RTX 5090 – but with DLSS 4.5 you can play with path tracing even on the RTX 5080
DSOGaming continues testing new video game releases. This time, they turned their attention to the action-adventure game Control Resonant. For the benchmarks, they used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM at...
