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    NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra servers surge for 2026

    NVIDIA's top-tier AI server for next year, the Blackwell Ultra GB300, is forecast to see a huge shipment jump of one hundred twenty-nine percent. Major clients like Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are driving this demand, with industry estimates predicting up to sixty thousand racks shipped in 2026...
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    Ubisoft tricks Switch 2 into smoother 30fps magic

    Ubisoft managed to get its newest AAA games, Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows, running on the Nintendo Switch 2. They even pulled off a technical trick involving the console's variable refresh rate, or VRR. Since the hardware only officially supports VRR above forty frames per...
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    Clair Obscur stripped of GOTY over sneaky AI use

    The indie hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just had its Game of the Year award revoked by the Indie Game Awards committee. The organization stripped the title, along with a win for Debut Game, after confirming developer Sandfall Interactive used generative AI in the game's creation. This violates...
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    Titan Quest II rides into Arkadia, centaurs beware

    The next big patch for Titan Quest II is coming out shortly, adding the entire third chapter of its story. Developer Grimlore Games detailed the new content on Steam. Players will travel to the Plains of Arkadia and Mount Olympos, encountering Olympians and fighting through battlefields swarming...
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    Marathon leaks again, Bungie’s redemption arc wobbles

    Marathon, Bungie's first non-Destiny project in over ten years, keeps having its closed tests leaked online. Roughly twenty-seven minutes of new footage recently appeared, showing an intro mission, puzzle mechanics, a new sniper rifle, and PvP action. This comes after a brutally difficult...
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    Intel’s foundry faces trust issues, rivals wary

    A former Intel board member, David Yoffie, says the company's foundry business has a huge credibility problem because it also makes competing chips. Big potential clients like NVIDIA, AMD, and Qualcomm are reportedly scared to hand over their designs, fearing Intel could access their proprietary...
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    iPhone 18 Pro rumors shrink, pill stays put

    Leakers are going nuts about the iPhone 18 Pro models, but the latest gossip says not to expect a big visual shakeup. A source called Fixed Focus Digital on Weibo claims the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will look basically the same as the iPhone 17 versions, with only minor appearance changes. This...
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    Samsung hands out fat bonuses, DRAM drama pays off

    Samsung is tossing out some absolutely wild performance bonuses this year, with its chip and memory division, called Device Solutions or DS, getting the fattest stack. Employees over there are reportedly seeing bonuses worth one hundred percent of their base salary. That insane payout, a huge...
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    Tiny team, huge hit, no plans to grow

    Sandfall Interactive, that tiny French studio with like 33 devs, just scored a monster hit with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. They made the whole thing on a budget under ten million bucks, and it somehow pulled in over eight million players. Their founder, Guillaume Broche, says the game did a...
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    Samsung skips the modem in Exynos 2600, efficiency takes a hit

    Samsung’s new flagship processor might have a big efficiency problem because of a strange design choice. The Exynos 2600, built on their latest 2-nanometer technology, does not have a modem built into the chip itself. Instead, phones using it will rely on a separate, external component called...
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    Kojima says MGS2 wasn’t prophecy, just a warning we ignored

    People keep calling Hideo Kojima a prophet for his old game, Metal Gear Solid 2. That title from 2001 showed a world drowning in digital noise and controlled information, which feels way too familiar now. But Kojima himself says he wasn't predicting anything. He was just giving a warning about a...
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    TSMC eyes 2nm leap at Kumamoto plant to chase AI demand

    TSMC might be upgrading its planned factory in Japan to make more advanced chips. Reports say the company is considering switching its second Kumamoto plant from older production tech directly to the newer 2-nanometer process. This move is a response to huge demand from AI companies for...
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    Kojima teases hidden clue in OD trailer for screamers only

    Hideo Kojima is doing his usual cryptic thing, teasing a hidden clue in the latest trailer for his mysterious OD Project. He told an interviewer that watching the teaser a hundred times might reveal something, specifically pointing to the phrase 'for all players and screamers' as a major hint...
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    GT7 still racing strong with 2 million monthly drivers

    Gran Turismo 7 is somehow still pulling in over two million active players every month, years after it launched. The studio's head, Kazunori Yamauchi, says the game's current health is the best the franchise has ever seen, with its audience actually growing. This is a first for both the series...
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    Apple bets big on Samsung as DRAM shortage bites

    Apple just locked down its memory supply for the next wave of iPhones by cutting a huge deal with Samsung. With its old chip contracts running out and a serious shortage driving prices up, the company moved fast. Samsung is now set to provide most of the DRAM, somewhere between sixty and seventy...
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    Apple’s AI edge fades as memory deals expire soon

    Apple's tactic of linking Macs together for AI work is facing a big price problem. They can pool the memory from several Mac mini or Apple Studio computers using Thunderbolt 5, creating a huge shared resource that beats out setups using NVIDIA's hardware in cost for some machine learning jobs...
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    Jatiya Dal boss ditches party, joins BNP ahead of polls

    The chairman of the Bangladesh Jatiya Dal just shut his whole party down to join the BNP. Syed Ehsanul Huda signed up as a member at the BNP's main office in Gulshan. He handed a bouquet to the BNP's secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. Alamgir said the move shows faith in the acting...
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    Tarique Zia to register as a voter in Dhaka

    The BNP says their acting chairman, Tarique Rahman, will get himself on the voter list this week. A party delegation met with election officials in Dhaka to discuss it. Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed stated the registration would happen on the 27th, a Saturday when commission offices...
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    Inqilab Moncho demands fast-track tribunal for Hadi murder

    The activist group is demanding that a special court be set up within one day to handle the murder case of their spokesman, Sharif Osman Hadi. They held a press conference at Shahbagh, with their member secretary Abdullah Al Jaber saying this is a major test for the government following the July...
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    Thailand bombs near Angkor Wat, truce talks stall

    This is a real mess. Cambodia is accusing Thailand of bombing its territory with fighter jets, hitting areas in Siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces. This happened right after diplomats from both countries, along with other ASEAN members, met in Malaysia, said they would hold new talks to stop...
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