Manor Lords achieves Steam’s most successful city builder launch ever
Publisher Hooded Horse recently confirmed that Manor Lords sold over 1 million copies and reached a peak concurrent player count of 170,000 on its first day on Steam Early Access.Read More →
Intel issues statement on Raptor Lake crashes, asks mobo makers to revise extreme BIOS defaults
According to a leaked message seemingly intended for motherboard manufacturers, which was obtained by Igor’s Lab, Intel says the root cause hasn’t been pinpointed yet, but it has spotted aRead More →
FTC distributes $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers from privacy settlement
The settlement stems from charges that Ring failed to properly safeguard video footage from its popular doorbell cameras and indoor security cams. According to the FTC’s complaint, Ring employees andRead More →
DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes
For those not in the know, DARPA has been working on self-driving military vehicles for two decades now as part of its RACER (Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency)Read More →
Microsoft’s Phi-3 Mini boasts ChatGPT-level performance in an ultralight 3.8B parameter package
Weighing in at just 3.8 billion parameters, Phi-3 Mini is the first of three compact new AI models Microsoft has in the works. It may be small, but Microsoft claimsRead More →
Nintendo Switch 2 will likely be larger and feature magnetic Joy-Cons
Sources have provided details to the Spanish gaming blog Vandal regarding the size and controller connectivity of the Nintendo Switch 2. While rumors should always be taken with a grainRead More →
Police arrest high school athletic director for deepfaking principal’s voice
According to NBC News, police arrested former Pikesville High School athletic director Dazhon Darien as he was attempting to board a flight to Houston, Texas. Transportation Security Administration officials detainedRead More →
Nintendo DMCA lawyers shut down everything Mario on Garry’s Mod
On Wednesday, Garry’s Mod developer Facepunch announced that it would pull all Nintendo-related content from Steam Workshop. The takedown is in response to Nintendo serving DMCA notices to several contentRead More →
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS lands with Gnome 46, Linux 6.8, and Raspberry Pi 5 support
The biggest Linux distro release of the year, Ubuntu 24.04 brings a new app center and firmware updater based on Flutter, an updated toolchain, and experimental support for TPM-backed fullRead More →
Adobe Firefly and Photoshop receive new AI enhancements, hilarity ensues
Adobe’s new AI-based foundation model, Firefly Image 3, is now in beta. Available in Photoshop and the Firefly web app, the update enhances the performance of the company’s generative AIRead More →