Hubble discovers a second polar storm on Saturn – a decagon at the south pole
For more than forty years, the hexagonal vortex at Saturn's north pole has remained one of the strangest structures in the solar system. Now astronomers have spotted something similar on the opposite side of the...
An enthusiast launched an open database of coil whine — video cards, power supplies, and water cooling pumps are being added to it
Almost everyone who has built a PC themselves has run into this at least once – you install a new graphics card, your favorite game finally hits a high frame rate, and then a strange...
On day two, an AI-created clone of Cities Skylines already lets you build cities in the browser
A developer going by raw pushed a city-building simulator to a genuinely playable state after Claude Fable 5.1 built it from a single prompt. An early demo stopped at an empty landscape, and the main...
Linux kernel approaches 2000 vulnerabilities per release – maintainers can't keep up with the flow of AI-generated CVEs
The number of vulnerabilities fixed in each Linux kernel release has crept up close to 2,000, up from roughly 500 during much of the Linux 6.x era. The jump isn't down to sloppier code –...
Developer built a Cities: Skylines prototype on Three.js using AI and a single prompt, spending $203
A day after Claude Fable 5.1 launched, a Reddit user posted the results of an experiment that boiled down to a single prompt and an hour and a half of waiting. The model got an...
The Samsara wheel of PC Gamers – new technologies slow down old powerful graphics cards
Upscaling and frame generation were originally created for one purpose – giving weaker hardware a second wind. In practice, the industry quickly found another use for them: instead of optimizing a game for real hardware,...
Developer from Turkey used Claude Code to clean junk off Android TV and got a speed boost
AI engineer Mert Cobanov, currently a Senior AI Engineer at Refik Anadol Studio, shared on X how he spent one morning bringing his Android TV back to speeds it never had, even out of the...
Nexus Mods bought the fan database SteamDB – its creator burned out from supporting the project
SteamDB, one of the main services for tracking stats, prices and updates on Steam, has changed hands. Founder Pavel Djundik has handed the project over to Nexus Mods, which will take over its development going...
Promised 30% annual returns and an AI supercomputer for mining – businessman faces 280 years in prison
A Nevada jury found Las Vegas businessman Brent Kovar guilty on 15 counts tied to a $24 million Ponzi scheme. The charges include 11 counts of wire fraud, two counts of mail fraud, and two...
Detector in an abandoned gold mine caught an event that no known physics can explain
Deep beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, nearly a mile underground, physicists have spent years waiting for a collision that could reveal dark matter. This substance accounts for roughly 85% of the universe's mass...
Blogger showed DLSS 5 using Death Stranding 2 as an example, and characters instantly aged 20 years
GamerInVoid posted a comparison of five games running DLSS 5 neural rendering, building the defense of the technology around Death Stranding 2. The logic seemed simple enough: Kojima chased photorealism, so processing that pushes the...
A detective conducted an entire investigation to understand why his PC turns off when he leans back in his gaming chair
Diagnosing random computer crashes usually starts with the obvious suspects – the power supply, RAM, the graphics card. Stress tests pass, temperatures stay normal, drivers are up to date, and yet the PC keeps blacking...
Skyrim player launched DLSS 5 with 4000 mods on RTX 4080 Super
A YouTuber going by fjeldar tested a leaked build of Nvidia neural rendering tech in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, running it on top of a modlist with more than four thousand mods. The test...
NVIDIA reveals DLSS 5 performance – the model is 5 times faster, but it takes up to 60% of frames
NVIDIA shared the first performance figures for DLSS 5 on GeForce RTX 50 graphics cards. The new neural rendering technology promises next-generation visuals, but it demands serious computational resources. The first game with native DLSS...
Replacing thermal paste boosted FPS on RTX 2080 Ti almost twofold and lowered hotspot temperature by 10 degrees
A GeForce RTX 2080 Ti owner discovered that years of dried-out thermal paste had been quietly stealing half of the card's performance. After a quick repaste, the GPU started pushing out nearly twice the frame...
Kingdom Come creator claims all developers use AI – sparks massive DLSS 5 debate
Daniel Vavra, former creative director at Warhorse Studios, unleashed a series of statements on social media about AI use across the game industry. He argues the situation has gotten absurd – a small but loud...
Owner of a handheld console connected an RTX 5080 to it and asked if it's time to build a proper PC
A hybrid rig combining a premium handheld and a desktop graphics card worth roughly three and a half thousand dollars has racked up hundreds of comments and split opinions right down the middle. The owner...
Meteorologists recreated "satellite images" of the Normandy landing and found that the weather almost changed the course of the entire operation
Scientists from the University of Reading and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) have recreated satellite images that never physically existed back in 1944. Using modern weather data reanalysis techniques, researchers showed just...
DLSS 5 leak turns game characters into photorealistic mutants and has already split the community into two camps
An unofficial version of Nvidia upscaling tech that users have dubbed "DLSS 5" has escaped into the wild. The tool ended up in the hands of enthusiasts ahead of any official announcement, and people are...
X discovered a botfarm of 200,000 accounts from China, some of which fueled fears around AI data centers
X says it has identified a bot farm of roughly 200,000 accounts created by Chinese operators. Of those, 200 accounts stood out for posting content specifically against AI data center construction. According to X's Global...
