What I want from Fortnite’s Simpsons mini season: a decent sniper rifle, a flying skateboard, and proper comms from Epic

Fortnite’s Chapter 6 final flourish appears to be a Simpsons mini season with an entirely standalone Springfield-themed map. Leaks hint at what’s coming: the key art shows new skins and at least two of the weapons—the classic assault rifle, aka the SCAR, and the Thunder shotgun—while the full leaked map shows iconic Simpsons locations. But…

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This ‘shunt modded’ Asus RTX 4090 laptop beats the latest RTX 5090 portables but you’d be very brave to do this to your own machine

Back when Nivida’s RTX 4090 mobile GPU was the latest hotness for laptops, we took the view that it didn’t actually make sense compared to the cheaper RTX 4080. That’s because it was often constrained by the limited power budget of mobile form factors. Well, it turns out the laptop RTX 4090 is quite the…

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Fanatical is offering $209 worth of perilous, atmospheric The Witcher comics for just $12 as it continues to expand its offering of book bundles

Did you know digital games store Fanatical is doing comic and book bundles these days? They’re worth keeping an eye on—this month, for example, they’ve done a whole series of really excellent value horror comics deals that I’ve enjoyed taking advantage of. But to keep this on the topic of games, there’s one bundle in…

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Google claims the ‘security breach impacting millions of users’ is simply ‘inaccurate reports stemming from a misunderstanding’

Earlier this week, reports came out claiming that 183 million Gmail passwords were exposed in a data leak. Google has since come out to dispute this claim (via its X account), attributing “inaccurate reports” to “stemming from a misunderstanding of infostealer databases.” As spotted by Bleeping Computer, this report was picked up by major outlets,…

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Researchers discover that dehydrated mushrooms can function like biological RAM after they’ve been zapped with electricity

Mushrooms are the coolest. Not quite flora, not quite fauna, they are a secret third thing—isn’t that neat? Many types of fungi have also been observed to form symbiotic relationships with the root systems of plants. Sometimes mutualistic, sometimes parasitic, this root-meets-fungus network is called ‘Mycorrhiza’—and a similar web of mycelium may one day come…

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‘This isn’t a one-time effort’: The Sims patch set to fix over 150 of the community’s most reported bugs, from making kids look more like their parents and ensuring nude Sims no longer wear hats

As I have written time and time again at this point, The Sims 4 is a mess. One that only gets more complex with every kit, game pack, and expansion that gets stuffed into its spaghetti code. EA has been making a more concerted effort to address the multitude of bugs and glitches since it…

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