OpenAI announces another $110 billion in investment funding including $30 billion from Nvidia, but says Microsoft is still its best friend forever

More money for the money god. OpenAI has announced a new $110 billion investment in its business, which breaks down to include $30 billion from Nvidia, $30 billion from Japanese investment titan SoftBank, and $50 billion from everything-else-giant, Amazon. “We’ve also signed a strategic partnership with Amazon and secured next-generation inference compute with Nvidia”, says…

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PS5 Pro owners will soon get an improved PSSR AI upscaler, while PC gamers with RDNA 2 and 3 GPUs are still praying for AMD to add official support for FSR 4

You might not be fully aware of this, but PC gamers with RDNA-based GPUs in their graphics cards share quite a lot in common with anyone who has a PlayStation 5 or PS5 Pro. That’s because there are quite a few architectural features common to both. However, while only RDNA 4 users officially get FSR…

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Wooting 60HE v2 review

There’s no doubt in my mind that the Wooting 60HE v2 is the best keyboard that Wooting has ever made. I’ve used the lot, from the original Wooting One through to the Wooting 80HE I use today, and while each one has improved on the last, the Wooting 60HE v2 is the first that can…

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Balatro meets Scrabble in this new roguelike from the creators of TimeSplitters—and I’m just thrilled to finally find a word game that lets me score with swear words

So, the latest game from FPS legends Steve Ellis and David Doak—who worked on GoldenEye and Perfect Dark at Rare before co-founding Free Radical and creating the TimeSplitters series—is… a spelling game. But putting any disappointment that it’s not a shooter aside, the question is: is it any good in its own right? Based on…

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A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup

The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures. Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal). The bill states,…

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Resident Evil Requiem’s path tracing is tough on GPUs but it probably won’t take as long as ray tracing did to become a mainstream option in games

With the launch of Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem, PC gamers can add another game to their libraries that sports one of the most impressive and most inaccessible of rendering technologies: path tracing (or full ray tracing, as Nvidia prefers to call it). If you want pixel-perfect lighting, shadows, and reflections, only path tracing will do,…

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Intel Foundry exec leaves to head up Qualcomm’s semiconductor biz as Intel shake-up continues

Kevin O’Buckley is departing from Intel following nearly two years as senior VP and GM of Foundry Services. Qualcomm has snapped him up to run its own semiconductor operation. Taking on the lofty-sounding role of executive VP of global operations and supply chain, O’Buckley will be in charge of “global semiconductor operations across manufacturing engineering,…

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‘An absolute eyesore’: Marathon’s biggest issue seems to be its poor UI design that’s confusing players, ‘I have no idea where I’m at, what I’m looking at’

The time is finally upon us, Marathon’s server slam has begun as players now get to see what’s on offer over the course of the weekend. And while initial reactions seem to be pretty positive, if not quite bloody, there is one thing that people just can’t seem to get over: the UI. “Marathon gotta…

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