The Denshattack! demo sees you kickflipping, grinding, and joyriding a Ferris wheel into an active volcano on the world’s most tubular commute

Denshattack! is brave enough to ask, ‘What if you could do a kickflip as a train?’ Now, it’s unclear whether anyone was actually asking this question, but it sure is brave enough to ask it. Anyway, we can finally find out the answer to that via its Steam Next Fest demo, which is ‘You’d crash…

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Samsung is prepping PCIe 6.0 SSDs already but don’t expect to get your hands on them without screw-you AI datacentre money

They say the wheels of industry never stop turning, and it seems that’s true even when the chassis on top has fallen off, because as current-gen SSD prices continue to climb, the next generation is already being spun up. According to ZDNet Korea’s sources, Samsung is “embarking on full-scale preparations” for PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with…

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Rumours are swirling once again around Intel ditching its hybrid P-core and E-core chip architectures for a single, ‘unified core’ design, although it looks like we might have a long wait yet

Those familiar with Intel’s modern processor lines will also be familiar with the idea of Performance and Efficient cores. The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, for example, is technically a 24-core chip, with eight of those cores being high-powered Performance versions for heavy processing duties, supported by 16 Efficient versions for low-priority tasks. Intel’s processors…

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Reports claim an AWS outage last year was caused by an AI coding tool deciding to ‘delete and recreate the environment’ from scratch, while Amazon says ‘misconfigured access controls’ were to blame

A report from The Financial Times claims that, according to four of its sources, two recent AWS outages were caused by engineers allowing its Kiro AI coding tool to make changes without oversight. According to a senior AWS employee, at least two production outages in the past few months were caused by the AI agent…

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‘Evo is dead’: Major fighting game tournament is now wholly owned by Saudi megaproject Qiddiya, promises ‘traditions, values, and identity will remain unchanged’

The fighting game community has always been an inherently grassroots scene, which means more than a few eyebrows were raised last year when Saudi Arabian-owned megacity project Qiddiya acquired Evo co-owner RTS. It was still sharing the load alongside Indian esports org NODWIN—which had relieved Sony of its co-ownership in September last year—but that is…

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