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Acer Nitro V 16 AI review
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Acer Nitro V 16 AI review

Ignore the AI moniker; if you can get this thing at a reasonable price with the right spec, it's a real treat.

Ahead of Myrient's RAM crisis-linked demise, volunteers are working to archive its entire collection
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Ahead of Myrient's RAM crisis-linked demise, volunteers are working to archive its entire collection

Earlier this week, the operator of ROM distribution site and self-described "video game preservation service" Myrient announced plans to shut it down as of the end of this month. They advised folks to download any files from the collection that said folks were keen to hold onto ahead of the closure. A group of volunteers have decided to take that to another level, working together to archive all of Myrient's files so they can be preserved for posterity. Read more

The Division 2's new Realism Mode chops back the HUD, ammo and health regen, and is free for a month
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The Division 2's new Realism Mode chops back the HUD, ammo and health regen, and is free for a month

It seems like a million years have passed since the release of Tom Clancy's The Division 2, the squalid shooter-looter set in banged-up Washington D.C. In fact, it's only been seven. Which is quite a lot of years, in fairness, but that period also spans a lot of upheaval - the Covid pandemic, Trump's re-election, the exploding popularity of generative AI, the onset of chronic live service apathy, the lingering undeath of NFTs, and the literal invasion of Washington D.C. by the National Guard. B

Attempt to get copyright on wholly AI-generated art gunned down by US Supreme Court
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Attempt to get copyright on wholly AI-generated art gunned down by US Supreme Court

The highest legal authority in the USA has refused to take a case involving a Missouri computer scientist who wants to copyright art created by his own generative AI system. The compsci guy in question, Dr Stephen Thaler, appealed to the Supreme Court justices after lower courts upheld a US Copyright Office decision that his art doesn't make the cut for copyright protection, because it wasn't created by a human. As reported by Reuters, Thaler's generative AI tech is the winningly dorkish "Devic

No Fallout New Vegas remaster teases here, Iron Galaxy say, we're just really enthusiastic about meetings
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No Fallout New Vegas remaster teases here, Iron Galaxy say, we're just really enthusiastic about meetings

Have you ever noticed your next company-wide meeting's due and thought the following: 'Oh, we should post an image prominently featuring a screen from a game rumoured to potentially be getting the remake or remaster treatment, but solely to illustrate how much we love meetings'? Well, Iron Galaxy Studios - co-developers of Skyrim's Switch port and support studio on Fallout 76 - say was what happened late last week. The studio say their social media posts featuring Fallout: New Vegas' 'Please St