Jensen Huang’s first-ever post on X is in defense of open access to AI models, alongside Google, OpenAI, and Meta

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang joined X last month, and recently made his first-ever post. As you could probably guess, it’s about AI. He argues, alongside companies like Google, OpenAI, and Meta, that the US should not aim to restrict open models ‘prematurely’, as they’re important for the growth of AI (among other things). Taking a … Read more

Micron’s low power DRAM ‘consumes approximately one-third the power of DDR5’ in AI data center workloads, but I’m not sure that’s good news

AI’s hunger for both power and memory, plus the resulting supply crisis of the latter, has led to many industry players engaging in a spot of creative problem solving. Case in point, Micron and Meta have collaborated on an experimental data centre roll out of low power DRAM. Micron has developed SOCAMM2, a fresh form … Read more

‘Easily the dumbest thing I’ve ever built’: Guy puts spikes and taser on Steam Deck to stop family from using it

Have you ever been sick of your family using your electronics without asking, and thought ‘boy, I should put spikes and a taser on this thing’? If the answer is yes, then you’re like Redditor ConroyyJenkinss (presumably no relation to Leroy), who has done just that. Taking to the Steam Deck subreddit, they recently announced … Read more

Vatican scrambles to patch ‘phishing goldmine’ app promoted by the Pope: ‘Prayer infrastructure on the framework you learn in week 2 of a Node.js bootcamp’

On January 20, 2019, Pope Francis delivered his weekly Angelus to St Peter’s Square from a window in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. In it, he enjoined the faithful to join him on the Church’s then-new Click To Pray app—helpfully modelled by a nearby priest, wielding a tablet. Hundreds of thousands of people signed up in … Read more

Modder restores missing PS2-era visual effects to Metal Gear Solid 2, including ‘a ton of things that were literally left marked as BLUEPOINT TO-DO still in the source code’

I’ve said it before and, in all likelihood, will say it again several more times: one of the best things about PC gaming is that modders can come in long after a game has been set aside by its developers, and proceed to clean up all the nagging bugs and imperfections that continue to linger. … Read more