Cloudflare apologises for ‘the pain we caused the Internet’ and admits a file size error brought down large parts of the web yesterday, not a malicious cyberattack

Just about everybody who was online yesterday will have noticed something was wrong with ye olde internet. A major issue at network service provider Cloudflare brought down everything from and X and ChatGPT to order screens at McDonald’s restaurants. Now Cloudflare has posted a full explanation of the outage and it turns out the problem…

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This $150 controller from Honeycomb Aeronautical has not one, not two, not three, but four integrated Throttle Levers for the flight sim sickos

Personally, when I hear Honeycomb, I think of ice cream—and then the consequences my lactose intolerant-self would have to face were I to indulge. However, for flight sim fans, there’s only Honeycomb Aeronautical—and lucky for them, they’ve just dropped a brand new gamepad. The Echo Aviation Controller is specifically geared towards playing flight simulators on…

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AMD is the hardware of choice for France’s first ‘AI factory’ supercomputer

Move over Nvidia—France’s first Exascale Supercomputer will be powered by AMD hardware. Eyponomously named the Alice Recoque, after the French computer scientist who passed away in 2021, the supercomputer is a collaboration between AMD and Eviden. Europe’s second supercomputer to date, the Alice Recoque will be built with next-gen AMD EPYC CPUs, codenamed “Venice,” and…

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Half-Life fans are in a frenzy over the prospect of a Half-Life 3 announcement that there’s (almost) no good reason to believe is happening

Half-Life 3 fever has once again broken out across social media, and the Half-Life subreddit is full of both earnestly hopeful and sarcastically dismissive posts about the supposedly imminent announcement of a sequel to Valve’s landmark 2004 shooter—probably the most speculated-about game ever not to exist. You might think that all this anticipation was prompted…

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Despite ‘Mixed’ Steam reviews and a touch of AI slop, strategy city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana has the best launch in series history

The latest game in the long-running Anno strategy city builder series has had a great launch week—depending on where you’re standing, at least. Anno 117: Pax Romana, which released on November 12, has been met with “Mixed” reviews on Steam and has been the target of complaints about the use of AI to create in-game…

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