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    MSI AGESA BIOS update flops, memory fix brings headaches

    MSI dropped AGESA BIOS version 1.2.8.0 for some X870E and B850 boards like the MPG X870E Edge Ti WiFi, MPG X870E Carbon WiFi, and MAG B850M Mortar, claiming it fixes memory compatibility. At least one person on Chiphell said their X870E Carbon WiFi bricked after the update and kept crashing...
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    Monster Hunter Wilds toughens up, easy days are history

    Monster Hunter Wilds producer Yuya Tokuda admitted at the PlayStation Partner Awards that the game launched way easier than it should have been, and he wants people who bounced off it to give it another shot. The team apparently overdid the accessibility tweaks after studying where beginners got...
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    Nvidia supercharges MoE AI, GB200 cluster grabs the crown

    NVIDIA claims its GB200 NVL72 cluster delivers 10 times better performance than the older Hopper setup when running Mixture of Experts models like Kimi K2, which is a 32-billion-parameter open-source thinking model. The breakthrough came from a co-design approach that splits token batches across...
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    Clair Obscur outshines rivals, Xbox Game Pass gets its star

    Sandfall Interactive dropped its first-ever game and it absolutely crushed the competition on Game Pass, beating out even the surprise Oblivion remaster that landed the same week. Creative director Guillaume Broche said the studio was super nervous about launching their debut title, but Xbox...
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    Samsung trademarks DeepPix sensor, next-gen cameras in the works

    Samsung dropped trademark filings for something called DeepPix in America, the EU, and Argentina, which looks like a brand-new camera sensor lineup that could eventually replace the ISOCELL branding they have been using since 2013. The Argentina paperwork specifically calls it a CMOS image...
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    MLB The Show Mobile launches in Philippines, global play up next

    Sony dropped MLB The Show Mobile as a free-to-play game exclusively in the Philippines for testing, with San Diego Studio building the entire experience from scratch for touchscreen controls and card-based team building. The company might be waiting to see how it performs before launching...
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    App Store growth halves as rivals bite, EU rules take a toll

    Apple's App Store revenue growth got cut in half since the summer, according to Sensor Tower data that Goldman Sachs analyzed, dropping from 12 percent year-over-year expansion down to just 6 percent. The gaming category that makes up 44 percent of store spending actually shrank by 2 percent...
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    Helldivers 2 slashes PC size by 85 percent, saves your SSD

    Helldivers 2 just got a massive storage diet after Nixxes helped Arrowhead slash the PC install from 154GB down to 23GB, saving players about 131 GB of precious drive space. The devs measured how many people still run the game on ancient spinning hard drives and found only 11 percent of the...
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    NVIDIA drops GTX 900 and 10 series from Linux driver updates

    Nvidia cut off Maxwell and Pascal GPUs from getting regular Linux driver updates with the beta 590.44.01 release, meaning GTX 900 and GTX 10 series cards are stuck with quarterly security patches instead of game-ready optimizations. The company kept these decade-old cards on life support longer...
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    Resident Evil Requiem shows combat, Leon tease lingers

    Capcom dropped some fresh Resident Evil Requiem combat clips showing Grace blasting zombies with a handgun in third-person sequences that feel straight out of RE4, but the footage still has zero confirmation about Leon Kennedy being in the game. The clip aired on Japanese TV in censored form, so...
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    Apple faces Dutch trial over fees, EU ‘gatekeeper’ tag grows

    Apple just got slapped with another court battle after the EU's top judges ruled that Dutch courts can actually prosecute the iPhone maker over App Store commission abuse, potentially costing the company around 743 million dollars. Two consumer advocacy groups claim Apple's 30 percent developer...
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    Panther Lake Ultra 7 366H GPU leaks, just edges GTX 1050 Ti

    Intel's Core Ultra 7 366H just showed up on Geekbench with four Xe3 graphics cores that basically match the old GTX 1050 Ti mobile, beating AMD's Radeon 840M by about 26 percent but getting destroyed by the Radeon 860M. The chip runs 16 cores total with four performance units, eight efficient...
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    iPhone 17e to stay basic, low sales hint at quiet launch

    Apple plans to push out only 8 million iPhone 17e units with BOE handling most of the OLED screen orders, and the phone basically looks like a minor spec bump over the 16e rather than any kind of major redesign. Samsung and LG are chipping in some display panels for the budget model launching...
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    AMD readies new EPYC Embedded chips, Zen 6 set for a leap

    AMD has three fresh EPYC Embedded chip families coming down the pipeline, according to leaked info, with the Venice lineup packing up to 96 Zen 6 cores on TSMC's 2nm process and supporting PCIe Gen6 alongside DDR5 memory. The Fire Range series targets mid-tier applications with 16 Zen 5 cores...
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    Eidos Montréal hit by more layoffs, vampire revival bites the dust

    Eidos Montréal just axed more people for the third round of cuts since early last year, and leaked resumes show they were cooking up a dark fantasy action RPG with melee combat and parkour that was pretty clearly a Legacy of Kain revival before it got canned. The studio already lost workers when...
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    Samsung goes all in on custom chips, Exynos set for a shakeup

    Samsung just set up a Custom SoC Development Team because they're tired of getting dunked on by Apple and Qualcomm while relying on ARM's off-the-shelf CPU cores. Vice President Park Bong-il is heading up the effort to build chips completely from scratch instead of outsourcing designs, and the...
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    First Descendant update shakes things up, overhaul looms

    The First Descendant devs dropped their December patch details and pushed Season 4 all the way back to summer because they need to basically rebuild the entire endgame loop from scratch. Ultimate Yujin is getting added as a hybrid character who can either go full combat mode or play support...
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    Samsung teases Exynos 2600, 2nm chip gets its cool moment

    Samsung just dropped a teaser for the Exynos 2600, which marks the first 2nm GAA chipset anyone's actually made, and the company seems desperate to prove they fixed all the overheating garbage that plagued earlier models. The trailer hints they've been grinding away on this chip for a while...
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    Bannerlord sails into a new era, naval battles make waves

    Mount and Blade II Bannerlord just dropped its War Sails expansion for about 25 bucks, and it finally brings naval combat after years of the community begging for it. TaleWorlds Entertainment is wiping old saves to give everyone a clean slate with the new maritime warfare system, which adds the...
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    Muguka loses its grip as new lessons pull kids to class

    Kids in Mbeere, Embu county used to ditch class constantly to work the muguka farms with their parents, chasing quick cash instead of dealing with boring memorization-heavy lessons they couldn't connect to real life. The old 8-4-4 system had them cramming facts for exams without understanding...
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