Intel’s mythical Big Battlemage GPU pops up in the MESA Linux driver making a launch later this year that little bit more likely

We’ve covered Intel’s purported plans to launch a bigger, badder version of its latest Battlemage GPU tech on several occasions. Mostly, those centred on a GPU codenamed G31 being spotted in Intel shipping manifests. Now, the very same G31 has popped up in the official MESA OpenGL drivers for Linux, and there’s even more reason…

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‘We have people working on fixing the goomba stomping’—Dune: Awakening’s PvP is getting dominated by packs of rabid ornithopter pilots squishing their enemies

Dune: Awakening’s PvP meta has evolved—on the sand-blasted lands of Arrakis, one weapon has been dominating all others. That weapon is ‘let’s repeatedly try and squish someone with our ornithopters like we’re the world’s most inefficient flock of seagulls fighting over a single chip’. As observed by Bombe18 on the game’s subreddit, vehicles in Dune:…

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Wikipedia pauses AI summary experiment after editors say it ‘would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source’

AI summaries are all up in our search engines these days, and I think it’s fair to say the response has been varied to date. The Wikipedia editor community, however, appears to have taken a strong stance on a recently proposed experiment by the Wikimedia Foundation to add AI-generated summaries at the top of Wiki…

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