Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Many businesses around the world use old PCs to run machinery or handle inventory, simply because you don’t need a latest-generation processor to churn out a bit of code. Eventually, though, they will fail, but what happens when new prices for parts are sky-high because of the global memory crisis? According to one source, it…

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AMD’s senior director of AI thinks ‘Claude has regressed’ and that it ‘cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering’

Anthropic’s Claude has reportedly gotten much worse at generating code recently. That’s according to a head member of the AI Group at AMD. Last week, user StellarAccident took to the Claude Code GitHub to vent their frustrations at Claude’s AI-generated code. This account was soon discovered to be tied to Stellar Laurenzo, the senior director…

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Adventure Land – by Ryan Burger

Before home computers ever had an “adventure game,” there was Colossal Cave Adventure (1976- 1977) by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Often referred to simply as Adventure or ADVENT, it ran on a PDP-10 mainframe, a machine that cost about $150,000 in the 1970s, roughly $1,000,000 in today’s dollars. That kind of setup made sense…

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Introducing The Playerbase, bringing PlayStation’s biggest fans into blockbuster PlayStation Studios games

Introducing The Playerbase, bringing PlayStation’s biggest fans into blockbuster PlayStation Studios games

For over 30 years, we’ve continued to look for ways to celebrate our gaming community, which has a vital role in PlayStation’s history and future. Today, we’re excited to offer an opportunity to bring some of our devoted PlayStation fans even closer to the PlayStation experience.   We’re introducing‘The Playerbase, a unique opportunity for PlayStation’s biggest…

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