I modded GTA 5 into a life-sim RPG with mining, foraging, a mini-economy, and the ability to fall asleep in the middle of the road

Grand Theft Auto 6 will, I’m assured, be the most immersive videogame of all time. You simply won’t be able to discern reality from fiction anymore. Your gaze will drift from your television, to outside, to the television, to outside, and the sheer fidelity of Rockstar’s opus will be such that you can no longer…

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The new Framework 12 laptop’s secret weapon is its battery life courtesy of Intel’s Wildcat Lake

Framework has just announced a new version of its Framework 12 laptop that apparently gets a bunch more battery life. That’s despite it keeping the same 50 Wh battery and thanks to Intel’s Wildcat Lake processors. The Framework 12 is the company’s two-in-one (touch-and-type), low-power, entry-level offering, mainly used for study and light work. Previously…

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The memory crisis led me down a rabbit hole into nations forming rival factions to secure the flow of computer chips and AI, with names that wouldn’t sound out of place in a Command & Conquer reboot

PC gaming has a problem: high prices for a key component, due to an unforeseen surge of interest. We’re in the thick of it, with no light at the end of the tunnel just yet, as supply will take a very long time to catch up to the outsized demand. Wait, haven’t we been here…

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OpenAI says it’d be a shame if something were to happen to your servers like what happened to Hugging Face, better use our AI models to protect yourself

Several of OpenAI’s models breached a cyber security testing environment last month, found their way onto the internet, and attacked Hugging Face servers in what is now apparently called the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident. And now OpenAI has revealed what it’s doing to help defend, err, itself. Defend itself from the kinds of attacks its own…

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