Intel is trying out on-chip water cooling too and I’m just happy I’m not the one having to place liquids so close to expensive electronics

If there’s one thing about the AI boom that doesn’t make my eyes roll or make me feel a disquieting sense of impending doom and existential dread, it’s the fact that many of the computing improvements for that industry will hopefully (emphasis on ‘hopefully’) trickle down into the PC gaming sphere. In-package liquid cooling seems…

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‘We were literally held hostage’: Overwatch 2 players are finding the matchmaking in Stadium tough, but the devs say they’re working on a couple of solutions

It’s been a couple of weeks since Blizzard launched Stadium in Overwatch 2, and since then, it’s been an enjoyable, albeit bumpy ride. Apparently, the new mode only uses internal MMR for matchmaking, but even still, players are encountering a bit of mismatch. “We were literally held hostage in Stadium,” one player says. “Got trapped…

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Eric Barone’s been playing lots of chess and reckons Elon Musk’s ‘tech tree’ idea isn’t awful: ‘What if someone did a Balatro treatment… a chess roguelike?’

PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon recently sat down with Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone to discuss everything from Jojamart to his next game, Haunted Chocolatier. One question was what Barone himself is playing, and the man is as old school as it comes. “Well recently I’ve been playing chess which is a great game,” says Barone….

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ChatGPT’s latest build is such a pathological ass-kisser OpenAI decided to roll it back: GPT-4o is ‘overly supportive but disingenuous’

OpenAI has rolled back its latest version of ChatGPT just 48 hours after release. The reason? Not a murderous LLM rampage, the impending demise of humanity or anything to do with AI overlords. Turns out, GPT-4o was agreeable to the point of ridiculousness. Or to use OpenAI supremo Sam Altman’s words, GPT-4o, “glazes too much.”…

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