Intel’s patent for ‘software defined super cores’ probably won’t make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core

In the world of CPUs, GPUs, and all things chip-based, patent applications are so frequent that there’s little point in paying attention to them. However, one filing from Intel has made its way into tech news headlines because it offers a clever way to improve a CPU’s performance-per-watt efficiency. It also suggests that Intel’s hybrid…

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Final Fantasy 14’s latest patch makes surprise nerf to an arduous 9-year-old dungeon grind, and I hope there’s more like it to come

Final Fantasy 14‘s patch 7.31 releases today—and while you can usually set your watch to these updates (we’ve known there’d be a new relic weapon step and a new cosmic exploration planet for a while), it’s always nice when Square actually does something surprising. Tucked away in the patch notes, Creative Studio 3 has majorly…

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Nvidia says AI models lack ‘common sense’ so it’s drafting in good old fashioned human beings to give them a pop quiz

Well, you heard it here first: Nvidia admits AI models generally lack “common sense.” I mean, obviously this is far from some earth-shattering revelation—anyone with eyes on this news story knows not to put glue in their pizza sauce, but that hasn’t stopped Google’s AI overview from suggesting you add a dollop to make it…

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Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man set is full of Spider-Verse Spider-Folk including the superhero identities of Peter Parker’s alternate-universe wife and daughter

It’s wild to think how influential Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was. The actually pretty good videogame from 2010 gave us a meeting of four alternate Spider-Mans, though that wasn’t enough for one its writers, Dan Slott, who thought it would be better with all of them. That inspired him to write the crossover Spider-Verse, which in…

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