Best Witch starter build in Path of Exile 2

If Path of Exile 2‘s best early game Witch build had a motto it’d be ‘work smarter, not harder.’ Well, either that or ‘burn them all and let god sort them out.’ The Witch is PoE 2’s answer to Diablo’s Necromancer, and a lot of your play will revolve around configuring your retinue of skeletal…

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Firefox is getting rid of its ‘Do Not Track’ setting and what it’s being replaced with is a bit of a bait and switch for privacy concerns

Anyone else feel like the past decade has been one of the gradual normalisation of privacy-defiling practices? If so, you’ll be saddened to hear that Mozilla is binning the ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) privacy option in version 135 of Firefox. It’s already gone in the Nightly developer release and it should be gone from the…

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Intel Arc B580 review

I dread to think how bad things would have been had Intel released this Arc B580 graphics card back in the summer. All year long we’ve been expecting the new Battlemage GPU architecture to arrive in a new suite of discrete Intel graphics cards, but we’ve had to wait until the very last minute of…

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If you’re too stressed to prep anything for your D&D group this month, WoTC and Kobold Press both had the exact same idea to give you an advent calendar of adventures for free

Christmas is a wonderful time of year. It’s full of reunions, hot chocolate, presents, and organisational stress. Most people are bogged down with travel plans, parties, presents, gift wrapping, and the like—which is a bit of a stressor for us DMs, who are already perpetually organising something for our players. Luckily, there’s going to be…

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Josef Fares is bragging about how good Hazelight’s next game is going to be (again): ‘A lot of people say I’m cocky, but it’s impossible to not be cocky when you have a game like this’

It’s been four years since It Takes Two, the phenomenally good dedicated co-op adventure that was Hazelight’s last outing. That game has sold an astonishing 20 million copies and is by far the biggest success that EA’s Originals label has seen: So no surprise the publisher has signed up the studio’s next joint, and the…

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Pat Gelsinger rallies against claims some chipmakers are struggling to produce good wafers: anyone using yields as a % ‘doesn’t understand semiconductor yield’

The $10 million he’s reportedly receiving in severance pay must soften the blow, but I can’t help but assume ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger must surely feel the sting of Intel’s current situation and all reporting of its dire straits. The company is, after all, one he guided on a new journey towards increasing reliance on…

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