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...
NASA astronaut shows how the switch to LED lighting changed Earth's cities as seen from orbit
NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared a series of photos showing how cities around the world have changed in recent years after switching from sodium lamps to LED lighting. Across 23 years and four missions to...
GPT-6 Astra was trained on one hundred thousand Nvidia video cards – Jensen Huang is ready to allocate 400 thousand video cards for the next model
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra access to a limited number of organisations this week. According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang via X, the model was trained on "~100K Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72" server racks,...
30 DDR4 64GB RAM sticks worth $10,000 found in garage – leftovers from a decommissioned server
While RAM prices keep breaking records, ordinary components have turned into an asset nobody used to think twice about. Reddit user VastOption8705 found a stash of DDR4 modules in his own garage that's now worth...
AI GPT-6 Astra assembled an isometric Diablo-style game under 2MB in size and shot a trailer for it
Designer Meng To, founder of the Design Code learning platform, showed off an isometric RPG built entirely by GPT-6 Astra. The model didn't just write the code in Three.js – it also recreated every scene...
Japan begins mass procurement of 3D-printed Terra B1 interceptors - winner of a competition among 38 companies
Japan's Self-Defense Forces have signed an agreement for mass procurement of Terra B1 interceptor drones, whose bodies are manufactured using 3D printers. The device is built on the already combat-tested A1 model from Terra Drone....
Memory-less DDR5 modules go on sale from $43 – V-Color asks $300 for a kit with one real module
V-Color has finally launched what it teased earlier this year – 1 1 DDR5 kits pairing a real memory stick with a dummy filler module. The second stick has no actual memory chips inside, just...
No Man's Sky became the first game where DLSS 5 impressed even critics of the technology
Spanish blogger Oskar1up posted footage of No Man's Sky running with DLSS 5 neural rendering enabled. The reaction turned out to be unexpected for a topic that spent the last week collecting nothing but backlash...
AI GPT-6 Astra created a three-dimensional world inspired by six paintings by Vincent van Gogh
Developer Peter Gostev built a walkable 3D world based on Van Gogh paintings and made it publicly available. According to him, GPT-6 Astra (Max) delivered a working result on the first try. He also published...
GTA 6 on PC may be released earlier due to hardware shortage
The PC version of GTA V from Rockstar Games arrived more than a year and a half after the console release. Rumor has it GTA VI might not make PC players wait nearly as long....
