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Claude Code has become one of the modern darlings of the vibe coding revolution, being a terminal-based coding assistant that’s been used for a raft of creative software projects, including a, err, game created by a dog. Unfortunately for Anthropic, the company behind the AI coding whizz, the latest package also included a source map…
Arc Flex Rubber is one of the first materials you’ll need to donate to the High-Gain Antenna project in Arc Raiders‘ Flashpoint update, but that doesn’t mean it’s simple to collect. It’s got only a few limited sources, though the new Close Scrutiny map condition does give you an advantage, providing you’ve got the gear…
Google published a whitepaper yesterday that dramatically pulled in the horizon on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Google Quantum AI researchers claim that cracking the cryptography protecting many major coins, including bitcoin and ether, could require a quantum computer with fewer than 500,000 physical qubits, something in the order of 20 times lower than previous estimates,…
For the first time ever, I am genuinely worried about Fortnite’s future. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced this week that 1,000 people—about a fifth of all staff—would lose their job. The company brings in an estimated $6 billion a year but is “spending significantly more” than it is making, Sweeney said, citing a “downturn…
MindsEye is a bit of a mess. The first proper effort of Build a Rocket Boy, a studio helmed by former GTA developer Leslie Benzies, the game fell flat on its face mostly because it was just wasn’t great. The studio hasn’t given up on it though, in part because it was apparently all because…
We’ve finally uncovered another Overwatch hero, and while we don’t know her name yet, Hero 51 is looking cool as all hell in the bottom right corner of the new heroes image alongside Mizuki, Domina, Emre, Anran, and the infamous Jetpack Cat. Hero 51 looks to be a modded human, kitted out in tactical gear…
Crimson Desert‘s moment is continuing. Pearl Abyss’s open-world romp is obtuse and a bit divisive, but that doesn’t seem to have been an obstacle. Today, the studio announced that it had hit another sales milestone. In just shy of two weeks, Crimson Desert has sold 4 million copies—an impressive result for the studio’s first singleplayer…
Is the worm finally turning for the poor beleaguered PC gamer, pummelled by painful component pricing? Yesterday, we covered a report claiming that spending cuts at OpenAI had “hit” memory chip prices. Now market analyst Trendforce says that retail DDR5 kit pricing is falling “sharply” in the US, Europe and China. “Recent sharp price corrections…
One of the most popular JavaScript libraries, Axios, was recently the victim of an attack that had fake, malicious versions available to roll out to developers. These malicious versions install a remote access trojan (RAT), which is, as the name implies, a kind of malware that allows an attacker to access compromised devices from a…
As the ongoing memory crisis continues to make DRAM unaffordable for the majority of us, I’d imagine many are choosing to hold onto what they’ve got. But can you run a PC with no system memory at all? That’s the question that YouTube channel PortalRunner has been investigating, and the answer is… No, not really….