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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World of Warcraft: Midnight’s lack of combat addons lets the devs make raids harder without resorting to ‘shoot more bullets at you’ design, says encounter lead

World of Warcraft: Midnight is a singular expansion in the game’s 20+ year lifespan, in that it’ll be the first of its kind to not feature combat addons after Blizzard took an axe to them in its pre-patch. To compensate, a lot of the game’s classes were redesigned, since they’d been built under the assumption…

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REPO’s upcoming cosmetic update is much more than just funny hats and clothes: ‘It has become way bigger and way crazier than we anticipated from the start’

REPO is gearing up to release its next update, the Cosmetic Update, and thanks to a shiny new video uploaded to the Semiwork YouTube channel, we’ve got a sneak peek into what exactly this launch will involve. It’s easy to assume that the update will only contain new outfits and accessories for the Semibots given…

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The upcoming Disco Elysium for D&D nerds just dropped a 90-minute supercut of its weirdly beautiful soundtrack

Over on YouTube, publisher Raw Fury has released “90 Minutes of Esoteric Ebb Music | A Lazy Day in Norvik,” a chill arrangement of the upcoming fantasy RPG’s soundtrack. The kicker is that it’s kinda spectacular, and very distinct from Esoteric Ebb’s primary inspiration, Disco Elysium. With Disco, we got the dreamy indie rock of…

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A Grok update was apparently delayed because Elon Musk wanted it to be better at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate

As well as praising Hitler and banging on about white genocide and creating naked images of actual women and children, apparently Grok can be a resource for answering questions about videogames. According to an investigation by Business Insider into what’s been going on at xAI since Elon Musk stopped being the de facto leader of…

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