Apple agreed to refund money for the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max due to throttling, but the buyer loses $2000
The owner of a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 Max chip ran into serious overheating and clock speed drops while running AI workloads. The laptop cost A$8,949, roughly $6,362. A warranty replacement didn't fix...
LG OLED owner ripped microphone and Wi-Fi out of new TV and declared – this glass belongs to me
Earlier this month, YouTube channel Gamer's Nexus posted a detailed video breakdown of all the ways LG-produced smart TVs can spy on people. The video quickly spread online, even prompting LG to respond and deny...
Developer of PS5 Linux port abandons project after vibecoders leaked latest vulnerability to Sony
Andy Nguyen, the PS5 Linux forerunner, has announced he's dropping his entire port of Linux for PlayStation 5. The reason isn't technical difficulties – it's the behavior of newcomers generating code with large language models....
Gamer set GPT-6 Astra to play through Fallout 3 – the AI reached the ending in 59 hours and started paranoidally checking saves
An enthusiast going by imjustnewatai ran an experiment putting the GPT-6 Astra AI model through the main story of Fallout 3. Running on maximum settings through the Codex agent environment, the playthrough took roughly 59...
Microsoft executive called OpenAI's data collection the largest labor theft in human history
Newly unsealed court documents reveal that Microsoft and OpenAI executives discussed AI training on news content far more bluntly behind closed doors than in public. The New York Times reported on the filings, which came...
DeepSeek engineer explains why he's building an AI that will replace him – so the world doesn't become like Cyberpunk 2077
An engineer at Chinese AI lab DeepSeek published a lengthy post acknowledging the inevitability of his own replacement by artificial intelligence. The developer, known online as interestingLSY/intlsy, works on the company's kernel systems and says...
Developer creates 3D code visualizer supporting millions of lines at up to 120 FPS
The phrase "it's a Unix system, I know this" from Jurassic Park has long been a meme among tech folks. Behind that scene was an actual piece of software, Silicon Graphics' File System Navigator for...
Three years at 100 degrees – i7-12700K processor worked fine without thermal paste at all
A pre-built PC from a store sells itself on a promise of peace of mind: someone else already put it together, tested it, and got it running. Sometimes that promise turns out to mean there...
Valve quietly changed the Steam storefront, and indie developers are seeing traffic increase several times over
Steam discoverability has been a headache for years, with dozens of new releases hitting the storefront daily and making it easy for a lesser-known indie title to vanish. But according to analysts and publishers alike,...
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...
Enthusiast built an 8-bit computer with 460 vacuum tubes that needs 15 minutes to warm up
A self-taught electronics tinkerer named Mike built a working 8-bit computer that has no microprocessor, no microcontroller, and not a single modern integrated circuit inside it. All the logic runs on 460 Soviet-made vacuum tubes....
Daniel Vavra showed 4 versions of the heroine's face from Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 in the DLSS 5 debate
Daniel Vavra returned to the DLSS 5 debate once again, calling the panic surrounding the technology overblown. The Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 creative director posted a side-by-side comparison using Katherine, the game character played by...
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...
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...
