One day the silicon in this $7000 Asus RTX 5090 will be worthless, but you’ll still have a whole 6 grams of solid gold to make up for it

Graphics cards are very expensive these days. Hardly news, of course, and the most powerful of these have been ludicrously pricey for quite a few years now. Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has a painful MSRP of $1,999 and other models are considerably more expensive. Enter stage left, the Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX…

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Trump administration reportedly fires the head of the US Copyright Office as it tries to tackle AI’s use of copyrighted materials

The Trump administration has fired Shira Perlmutter, the prior register of copyrights and director of the US Copyright Office, by email—according to reports from The Washington Post and Tech Crunch. A statement from US democrat representative Joe Morelle alleges that the termination is a “brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis” and, in the…

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Ouch—Warner Bros throws Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League under the bus in the most corporate way possible, side-eyes it for closed studios and cancelled games

WB Games has had a bit of a rough time recently. That’s as per a finance report that unveiled a cliff-sharp drop in gaming revenue in the first quarter of 2025. While the report doesn’t have its own segment purely for gaming, it does go into the numbers pulled in by videogames in its highlights…

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