RAM prices have rolled back to 2007 levels – AI destroyed 20 years of progress in a matter of months
Software performance expert, scientist, and GitHub developer Daniel Lemire compared historical computer memory prices and showed that decades of falling prices were undone in just a matter of months because of the massive demand for...
Programmer created a GIF image that prints its exact copy using the Piet Quine technique
Champion coder Yusuke Endoh continues to show off esoteric programming skills on social media. Their latest creation is called a Piet Quine, a GIF image that prints itself. In other words, the GIF is both...
Claude Opus 5 deleted the entire developer profile during a backup and replied "Sorry, typo"
A developer using Claude Code shared a serious mistake their AI tool made, one that ended up wiping an entire drive. According to Ecstatic-Big5126, they had asked Opus 5 to back up their system. While...
Gamer used AI Claude to create free protection for RTX 5090 from power connector melting
Many owners of NVIDIA top-end graphics cards live in fear of the high-density 12 4-pin connector that powers their GPUs. This connector has shown questionable reliability compared to older PCI Express connectors, largely due to...
YouTuber made an impressive AI clip based on Nolan's "The Odyssey" in the style of "Apocalypse Now" in Vietnamese jungles
Homer's Odyssey has been through countless adaptations over the millennia, but few expected the ancient Greek epic to end up trekking through the jungles of Vietnam. YouTuber demonflyingfox released a musical AI video reimagining Nolan's...
Enthusiast hacked a laptop's BIOS using Claude Code and unlocked 55 hidden settings
Laptops with locked BIOS sometimes sell for low prices because of the restrictions that this kind of firmware protection creates. A user of the Claude AI shared the process that let them successfully unlock an...
Time started showing ads to AI agents and earning money from bot traffic
Time media company has taken a step toward a new kind of economic reality – the publisher has started serving ads meant not for humans, but for AI agents. Ally Bank and the Project Management...
SpaceXAI agreed to dismantle 69 illegal gas turbines from one of its data centers, but it will take a whole year to do so
SpaceX has promised to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines powering the SpaceXAI data centers near Memphis, Tennessee, by July 2027. TechCrunch first spotted the company statement. The 69 turbines sparked a lawsuit from the NAACP,...
Nexus Mods finally decided to deal with mods with AI content
Nexus Mods has finally taken on one of the most annoying problems plaguing its platform. As generative AI has grown more popular, more mods have started using it during development, but users never had a...
Photoshop's Rotate Object feature turns a photo of your hand into a 3D drawing reference
Adobe employee Daichi Ito shared a practical use case for a new Photoshop feature that lets you rotate 2D objects in three-dimensional space. According to him, artists who draw characters often need to understand how...
Creator of Task Manager is training an AI to beat one of the most punishing arcade games ever made
Dave Plummer, the former Microsoft engineer best known for creating Task Manager and 3D Pinball for Windows, has set his sights on a new challenge. After successfully training an AI to master Tempest – the...
Krafton CEO used ChatGPT to plot the Unknown Worlds takeover, court documents reveal
The legal battle over Subnautica 2 keeps getting stranger. According to a ruling by judge Lori W. Will, Krafton CEO Kim Chang-han turned to ChatGPT for advice on how to seize control of Unknown Worlds...
Real life caught up to Kojima – AI founders have names straight out of Metal Gear Solid
Hideo Kojima is famous for many things – his (at least meme-level) genius games, endless cinematic cutscenes, and character names that sound like they were generated by a broken random word machine. Hot Coldman, Die-Hardman,...
Trump supporters have fallen for an AI character "Jessica Foster" with nearly a million Instagram followers
An Instagram account called "Jessica Foster" (@jessicaa.foster) – supposedly a U.S. Army soldier and passionate Trump supporter – has quietly amassed nearly 900,000 followers in just a few months, with the number still climbing toward...
AI "actress" Tilly Norwood is getting a whole Tillyverse – and new AI castmates
Xicoia, the British AI talent studio behind the fully AI-generated "actress" Tilly Norwood, has announced a major expansion of the project. Later this year, the company plans to launch what it's calling the Tillyverse –...
Gartner predicts sub-$500 entry-level PCs will disappear by 2028
Gartner, one of the most respected analyst firms in the tech industry, has published a forecast that's bound to be unwelcome news for budget-conscious buyers. According to the report, the entry-level PC segment priced below...
DeepSeek reportedly blocked Nvidia and AMD from early access to V4, giving Chinese suppliers a head start
According to sources speaking to Reuters, Chinese AI company DeepSeek has denied Nvidia and AMD early access to its upcoming V4 model update – the same company that rattled the US AI market last year...
OpenAI strikes a deal with the Pentagon hours after the Trump admin banned Anthropic
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense that would allow the company's AI tools to be used in classified military systems – with conditions that appear to mirror almost...
Nvidia gaming GPU revenue dropped 13% despite record $215.9B in annual earnings
Nvidia has published its financial results for fiscal Q4 2026, and the numbers tell a complicated story. On one hand, the company continues to pull in staggering sums of money. On the other, gaming GPU...
Sam Altman compared AI energy use to the cost of raising a human being
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back against criticism of AI's environmental impact while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express as part of a major AI summit in India, calling some of the...
