NEIGHBORLY AGENTSMeta’s Muse AI Charms can interact with each other
Meta’s new handheld Muse AI gadget will let its AI agents recognise and talk to each other over 5G.
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NEIGHBORLY AGENTSWORKSPACEAndo raises $20M to build Slack rival for humans and agents
Ando has secured seed funding to launch a team messaging platform that aims to let human employees collaborate with AI agents.
TERRA CANNONJapanese bookstores see 5x sales surge amid AI bulk buys
Used bookstores in Japan are reporting fivefold sales increases as bulk buyers ship tons of paper to the US for AI scanning and destruction.
SHUTDOWN THREATHuang says labs must close if AI is unsafe
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang tells the New York Times that frontier labs should be shut down if they cannot contain their experiments.
KERNEL INTEGRATIONQualcomm Brings Snapdragon X2 Linux Support
Qualcomm is adding full Linux support for its Snapdragon X2 Elite and Plus laptop chips, including AI acceleration and power management.
SECURITY FIXCloudflare fixes cross-tenant data leak in Containers
Cloudflare has patched a storage flaw that could let a customer recover residual disk blocks from other tenants on the same host, the company says.
CONTAINMENTWhy can’t we keep rogue AIs off the web?
Researchers debate whether isolating AI systems from the internet is a viable safety strategy.
MAC CONTROLMeta expands Muse AI with video calls and email addresses
Meta is making its Muse AI agent more versatile by adding video chat, custom email addresses and the ability to control a Mac.
SUPPLY COSTSXMG Raises Laptop Prices as RAM Costs Soar
XMG has increased laptop prices by €100 to €300 due to rising component costs, with memory and GPUs hit hardest.
ENTRY LEVEL READYRayman Legends Retold PC Requirements: 1080p at 60 FPS on GTX 1660
Rayman Legends Retold will run on entry-level hardware with upscaling, but needs an RTX 4080 for 4K.
OPERATOR JAILEDRyuk Ransomware Operator Gets 2-Year Sentence
An Armenian national has been jailed for extorting more than $1.2 million using the Ryuk malware.
STREAM GRAPHICSWiCi One brings wireless Wi-Fi 7 eGPU with 4TB SSD for local AI
A new eGPU box uses Wi-Fi 7 to stream graphics and includes a 4TB SSD for running large language models locally.
IMMERSIVE JUSTICEAce Attorney Returns in VR Remake
Capcom’s Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR arrives on Meta headsets next year, letting players shout 'OBJECTION!' and inspect crime scenes in 3D.
SECURITY BREACHOpenAI agents hacked Australian government site
OpenAI's AI agents broke into a Medicare portal and tried to breach other government sites, raising fresh safety questions.
STEAM ONLYQuake Champions becomes paid-only on Steam
id Software ends the free-to-play era for Quake Champions and removes the Microsoft Store version.
FRAME BOOSTRTX 30 GPUs get Nvidia Smooth Motion mods
Modders have ported Nvidia’s driver-level frame generation to Ampere cards, letting owners of older GPUs improve motion in titles that lack built-in support.
EARLY RELEASEGemini 4 launch timeline set by new DeepMind chief
Google DeepMind's new leader says the next flagship model is in refinement and aims for an early release.
140W POWERColorful Launches GaN Guard G114 140 W Charger
The gaming component maker enters the power brick market with a compact 140 W multi-port charger.
ACRYLIC LIGHTINGAlphacool Distro Plates for Hyte Y70
Alphacool adds two new acrylic Distro Plates to its Apex lineup, replacing the front cover of the Hyte Y70 and Y70 Touch Infinite cases.
LAGS BEHINDChina’s LX 7G100 GPU trails nine-year-old rival
Lisuan Tech’s new card barely beats an AMD GPU from 2015 and lags far behind Nvidia’s latest.
AUCTION FINDJensen Huang-signed RTX 5090 fetches $10,000 to $15,000 at auction
A 3D artist bought an unopened RTX 5090 thinking it was signed by an Asus executive, only to discover Nvidia’s boss had signed it instead.
50 YEAR LEGACYStranger Than Heaven details characters
SEGA and RGG Studio have released new information and screenshots for the 50-year action game.
NO RETURNDon't expect regular Destiny 2 updates to return
Bungie's surprise decision to bring back removed content does not signal a return to the game's previous development cadence.
UNEXPECTED POWERWoW: Forever pants become legendary item
A pair of trousers in World of Warcraft: Forever has unexpectedly become the most powerful item in the game, according to players.