Software engineer creates a real-life ad block using Snapchat’s AR smart glasses, but ultimately ends up making something far more distracting than ads

I utterly despise Google’s AI summaries. I dislike how they’re placed right at the top of the page, I dislike how prone to hallucinating the answers I’m searching for are, and I dislike that when it does offer something vaguely helpful, it’s almost definitely scraped from another human that actually did the legwork. Thankfully, the…

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After about a bazillion user requests, Windows finally lets you move the audio volume pop-up

Rejoice, for Microsoft has repented. At last, you can move the audio volume pop-up in Windows. At least, you can in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4452, released yesterday. Actually, you can now configure all of the hardware indicators, including brightness, volume, airplane mode, and virtual desktops, choosing between the existing default, which is bottom…

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How to revive your friends in Peak

There are tons of skills you’ll have to learn while you make your way around Peak, but knowing how to revive your friends is one of the first you should learn. For a game that gives you so many ways to hurt yourself, you’d think the ability to revive your pals would be fairly straightforward….

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‘I’m gonna crash out’: New climbing game Peak has sold 1 million copies in less than a week, outperforming its developer’s most popular game

Peak has well and truly broken containment, this little old climbing game from Aggro Crab and Landfall, known for games like A Crab’s Treasure and Content Warning, has risen to success in just six days. With over 10,000 very positive reviews on Steam, an all-time peak of 102,799 via SteamDB, and 1 million copies sold,…

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Goodbye 12VHPWR meltgate? Asus shows its cable-hiding BTF tech is capable of handling more power than an RTX 5090 will ever use

If you’re a regular browser of any social media relating to PC hardware, you’ll almost certainly come across a weekly occurrence, or three, of an Nvidia GeForce RTX with a melted 12VHPWR connector. Even though the design has been updated to help mitigate the problem, it’s still an issue for some people. However, Asus reckons…

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Modders plonk Executor into Elden Ring because if FromSoftware won’t give us Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2, we’ll do it ourselves

One of the most tantalising additions to Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree was the introduction of the Deflecting Hardtear, a buff that basically turns you into John Sekiro himself. The only problem? It’s locked behind a DLC that requires you to push over Mohg, and that boy isn’t exactly an early-game boss. Things looked…

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