Random: “It Feels Like We Were In The Stone Age” – Ecco The Dolphin’s Japanese Localization Process Sounds Like A Nightmare

“There was no internet, no email, no Excel…”. Back in the early ’90s, Sega and Novotrade International released Ecco The Dolphin — a unique underwater adventure for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis starring a cute bottlenose dolphin and featuring a pretty bonkers plot about sunken cities, extraterrestrials, and time travelling devices. Originally hitting North…

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After months of back and forth, Nvidia has reportedly paused making its H20 chip due to security concerns, this time from China

Nvidia’s H20, an AI and compute chip specifically modified for use in the Chinese market, has reportedly stopped production in the midst of security concerns from Chinese officials. As reported by the Information, and citing “two people with direct knowledge of the communications”, Nvidia has reportedly “told some of its component suppliers to suspend production…

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The first reported case of an AMD RX 9070 XT melting a 16-pin power connector is here, but I’m not sure we should prepare ourselves for another ‘meltgate’ just yet

Ah, I almost feel nostalgic. Remember ‘meltgate’, in which 16-pin 12VHPWR connectors were regularly in the headlines for, well, melting under heavy usage or incorrect installation? The problem appeared to be limited to certain Nvidia cards like the RTX 4090, as they were the ones making use of the connector standard at the time, before…

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