RTS sequel Ashes of the Singularity 2 promises to let you gleefully watch hundreds of thousands of units blow each other up in 2026

Oxide Games and Stardock’s absurdly massive-scale RTS Ashes of the Singularity is returning. Ashes of the Singularity 2 is expected out next year, a decade after the first game let us cover its war-torn maps with thousands of mechanical units. If you’re all about scale, this might make you very happy indeed. Set in 2031,…

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Where to find milkweed tufts and chunks in Grounded 2

While exploring Brookhollow Park in Grounded 2, you’ll find it full to the brim with natural resources you can harvest, from grass to acorns. While milkweed isn’t the most valuable, as milkweed tufts are only used in a few recipes and chunks in construction, they’re frustratingly hard to find. Below, I’ll go over where you…

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‘There is no such thing as a good secret backdoor,’ says Nvidia, reiterating that there are no kill switches, spyware, or secret ways to access its GPUs

After US export restrictions were lifted on Nvidia’s H20 AI processors, China’s Cyberspace Administration summoned the company to explain whether or not the chips had any backdoor access. Nvidia denied that this was true, and in a new blog, it not only reiterated this statement but explained why the whole concept of a secret backdoor…

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All Grounded 2 missing optical disk locations

You’ll find missing optical disk locations around Brookhollow Park in Grounded 2; they’ll be marked on your map almost right away. Since you’re told where to look, you’d think they’d be easy to find, but they’re missing for a reason. In fact, the map markers can be somewhat misleading, as grabbing the missing optical disks…

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Microsoft’s anniversary edition Windows XP-themed Crocs are definitely a look, but I’m not entirely sure I could carry them off

Die-hard Windows XP fans rejoice, your footwear of choice has arrived. Microsoft has launched special anniversary edition Windows XP-themed Crocs. Yes, that’s Crocs as in the famously ugly foam clogs. And, yes, these special edition versions have been plastered liberally with an XP-inspired colourway. That, of course, means they’ve been fitted up with the iconic…

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‘I won’t show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live’: Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu ‘huge breasts’ when Pokémon first came to the US, and no, it wasn’t a mistranslation

Some facts about videogame canon you wish you could scrub not just from the internet, but your very own mind. Unfortunately, I am burdened with the unenviable task of informing you of things that are true, and it is apparently very much true that a bunch of well-paid Americans, sitting around a room, had the…

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Security researcher quips maybe it’s time to get ‘a real job’ after being paid meagre $1,000 bug bounty by Apple

We have a lot to thank security researchers for. Between uncovering yet more vulnerabilities in Google Chrome, and exposing an embarrassing data leak in a popular sex toy app (no, really), these white hat hackers tend to make our digital existence safer in the long run. Surely some compensation from the multi-million dollar corporations caught…

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