Modders turn AMD's abandoned PS5-based mining GPU into a surprisingly capable FSR 4 gaming card
This crypto mining leftover is basically a PS5 GPU
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The Senate just killed crypto's shot at clear rules, and Bitcoin had its worst day since June
Crypto prices tumble as Senate blocks Clarity Act amid concerns over Trump family's crypto ties
Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today
Cheap solar panels are quietly breaking how power grids are supposed to work
Trump calls AI safety concerns a "hoax," says a "high IQ" president is the only guardrail needed
Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei have all called for more AI regulation
Lockheed Martin reveals more about Vectis, its autonomous fighter jet designed to fly alongside the F-35
Five aircraft are now planned, with the first prototype expected to fly by the end of 2027
Sega and Netflix team up for Crazy Taxi movie, new Sonic series, and more
The Crazy Taxi movie comes from the writers behind 2025's The Naked Gun reboot
Redditor finds RTX 3070 graphics cards worth $5,000 in abandoned crypto mining rigs
The rigs were last used during the Covid era for Ethereum mining
Thief designer says the graphics arms race should have stopped at Alan Wake... in 2010
Did game graphics really peak with Remedy's atmospheric thriller?
Graphics Matter: One of the original designers of Thief has some rather peculiar ideas about graphics in games. Randy Smith thinks the industry should have stopped advancing graphics around 2010 rather than spending massive amounts of money to relentlessly push photorealism in major AAA projects.
Hideo Kojima to part ways with Sony, will bring his new gaming projects to Xbox
Is anyone at Sony still interested in making video games?
Zoox is taking on Waymo in San Francisco with free rides and a very different robotaxi
Its purpose-built pods have no steering wheels or pedals
A hobbyist built a working computer out of 460 vacuum tubes, and it needs 15 minutes to warm up
The Tube Computer MK3 runs an 8-bit design on 460 Soviet-era 6N3P vacuum tubes
GOG's latest preservation push lets fans print box replicas for your digital games
Bringing a new physical layer to the store's retro gaming offering
In a bizarre twist, robots protest in Poland to warn that AI and automation could take human jobs
Around 30 machines marched, held signs, and "chanted" for tougher regulation
Corsair made a $200 gaming chair and then tested it like it was going into battle
It's Corsair's new entry-level chair
OpenAI claims 10,000 of its AI agents solved one of mathematics' hardest problems in 88 hours
The Navier-Stokes claim tests whether AI can do real mathematics, not just convincing mathematics
Google mapped a fly's nervous system and developers are using it to play Doom
The MaleCNS v1.0 dataset maps more than 166,000 neurons from an adult fruit fly's brain
Anthropic researcher resigns, warns the AI race could end in human extinction
A colleague puts the chance of AI killing all humans within a decade at more than 10%
Crystal ball: What's more concerning than the prospect of AI bringing about the end of humanity? It's the people working at these companies making the same warning. Hours after a former OpenAI employee quit Anthropic and said, "No other human activity poses this level of danger," a colleague said there is more than a 10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill all humans within the next decade.
Lucky enthusiast found $12,000 worth of RAM sitting in his garage
Salvaged from an old, decommissioned server
California city canceled Flock, removed its cameras, then found the company had put some of them back
Facepalm: Once again, Flock is making headlines it would rather avoid: the company has admitted that it reinstalled its cameras in a California city after the police force canceled its contract and took them down. Flock, for its part, is pointing to an automated system that thought the cameras going offline meant there was a fault, though it also seems to be blaming the city for removing its cameras too quickly.
Jeep, Ram, Hyundai, and Ford are turning to gas backup engines to save the electric truck
The extended-range approach also extends to three-row SUVs, addressing towing and charging concerns
CD and vinyl sales are surging as frustration with digital media keeps growing
CD revenue jumps 58%, while vinyl sales continues long-running revival
Miami wants to turn parts of the city into a real-life GTA Vice City, but sheriff opposes the plan
"Grand Theft Auto is a video game franchise built around criminal activity"
Steve Wozniak-signed Apple-1 motherboard could fetch $800,000 at auction
The lot also includes a letter to the original owner, signed by Steve Jobs
New York City bans generative AI for elementary and middle school students
The rules also ban companion chatbots and restrict teachers from using AI for grading
Range Rover's first EV packs a huge battery and a 22-minute fast charge
It pairs a 118.5-kWh battery with 542 horsepower