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After Fortnite stumbles and layoffs, Epic bets on a Disney extraction shooter
Last month, Epic Games laid off about 1,000 employees as part of a $500 million cost-saving push, following the poor performance of several new games and Fortnite updates. On April 16, Epic will shut down Fortnite’s Ballistic mode and Fortnite Festival Battle Stage. Rocket Racing will follow in October.
Valve engineer develops Linux VRAM fix that boosts gaming on 8GB GPUs
Natalie Vock, who works on Valve’s Linux graphics stack and the RADV Vulkan driver, has developed a set of kernel patches and user-space tools to address poor VRAM prioritization on Linux. As a result, games get priority for fast local memory, while less important tasks are pushed into slower system…
Study finds even the best AI models lose money betting on soccer
London-based AI start-up General Reasoning found that cutting-edge systems from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Elon Musk’s xAI consistently lost money when tasked with forecasting Premier League match outcomes over the 2023-24 season. The findings reveal how even top-tier frontier models still falter in dynamic environments, despite achieving rapid progress in…
South Korea to give 7 million mobile users free unlimited data after hitting monthly caps
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said that the country’s three major carriers – SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus – have agreed to the unlimited free data initiative.
Iran's internet blackout passes 1,000 hours as connectivity drops to near zero
NetBlocks first tracked the disruption intensifying on February 28, the same day joint US and Israeli military strikes targeted sites in Iran. By April 11, the organization reported that traffic was stuck at about 1% of its pre-blackout levels. “The outage had exceeded 43 days and was still ongoing,” the group posted.
Everything is becoming agentic, and we're not fully ready for it
Tools like Claude Cowork, Claude Code, OpenClaw, and NemoClaw are demonstrating capabilities that would have sounded far-fetched even a year ago. They can automate repetitive work, generate polished content, and even enable non-programmers to build functional applications.
Sam Altman's San Francisco home targeted by Molotov cocktail and gunfire in two separate attacks
A 20-year-old man was arrested over allegedly throwing the Molotov on Friday. The San Francisco Standard reports that he was booked into San Francisco County Jail on Friday afternoon on suspicion of attempted murder, arson, possession or manufacture of an incendiary device, and other charges.
We Tested Every Ryzen 5 and 7 X3D CPU: From 5800X3D to 9800X3D
Nine X3D CPUs, two platforms, and 14 games tested. We compare every Ryzen 5 and 7 X3D processor to find out how much performance has improved since the 5800X3D and where it actually matters.
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