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OpenAI’s hilarious new patent diagrams have ‘HBM stacked up like rice cakes’

I wouldn’t claim to be an AI datacentre expert—good ol’ fashioned PC gaming circuitry, that’s my bread and butter—but I, along with everyone else and their collective brothers, know that those servers stack memory like nobody’s watching. That’s the reason we’re living through a veritable RAMpocalypse, after all. So I can certainly laugh along with…

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‘We have no choice but to impose a severe punishment’: Ex Samsung researcher sentenced to 7 years in prison for leaking DRAM tech to a Chinese competitor

A former researcher for Samsung Electronics has been sentenced to seven years in prison by a South Korean court, for leaking core DRAM semiconductor tech to a Chinese competitor, CXMT. The Korea Economic Daily reports reports that the 56-year-old defendant, identified only as Mr. Jeon, was arrested and indicted last May. According to “legal circles”,…

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‘Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively’: Firefox CTO raves about Claude Mythos’ bug hunting capabilities after it finds 271 vulnerabilities

When you create anything, whether that be software or a short story about two characters that never meet, there’s no telling what a fresh pair of eyes will bring to the work. Once a work breaches containment, your adoring audience may reward you with a short work of fanfiction—or make you kick yourself by immediately…

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Pragmata is yet another launch day fail for Intel’s GPUs, but its quick response to game issues shows it’s still working hard for gamers

Getting an Intel Arc card can be a good option in this otherwise eye-wateringly expensive market, especially as many of the GPUs’ initial wrinkles have been ironed out. But problems still remain, and they sometimes surface with the release of new games, as some Intel Arc gamers found with the launch of Pragmata. But the…

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Owlcat’s had some unusual problems writing romance: ‘we realized we had three female romanceable characters, and all three were cannibals’

On the CRPG-developer-romance spectrum, Obsidian are at one end—generally anti-romance—while BioWare and Larian are at the other end. As is Owlcat, whose Rogue Trader and Pathfinder games all feature romanceable companions. The reasoning behind that, and the particulars of how romance works in Pathfinder, is the topic of discussion in the studio’s latest developer blog….

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Reminder: Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard From Vampire Survivors Out Now For Switch 1 & 2

Transforming the “original hit” into a tactical deckbuilder. If you loved Vampire Survivors and want to dive back into this universe, here’s your reminder that Poncle’s newest game is now available for Switch 1 & 2. It’s officially titled Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors and it turns the “snowballing thrill of Survivors”…

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