Month: January 2023
The Morning After: NVIDIA’s GeForce Now Ultimate is a high-end cloud gaming service
While Google shuttered Stadia for good this week, other cloud gaming services are expanding their offerings. NVIDIA is upgrading its GeForce Now service with a bunch of features, thanks to the addition of new SuperPODs equipped with RTX 4080 GPUs. This seems to be the first truly high-end cloud gaming…
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D&D responds to community backlash with new licensing terms
Virtual Tabletop Policy: We will continue to support VTT usage for both OGL creators and VTT operators. The Virtual Tabletop Policy spells this out. Ownership disputes: You own your content. You don’t give Wizards any license-back, and for any ownership disputes, you can sue for breach of contract and money…
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I really hope this Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti GPU performance rumor is fake
Audio player loading… Nvidia’s RTX 4060 Ti is under the speculation spotlight again, as following a leaked spec update yesterday, we now have a performance estimation for the mid-range Lovelace GPU. The bad news, though, is that this approximation of performance is not what you – or anyone else –…
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Ransomware is getting less lucrative as victims stop paying
Audio player loading… The amount of money cybercriminal groups extorted through ransomware (opens in new tab) attacks is down 40% year-on-year, suggesting that businesses are increasingly refusing to pay to get their sensitive data back. A report from Chainalysis examined cryptocurrency wallets known to be associated with ransomware groups. All…
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Friday’s top tech news: job cuts come for Google
First came Twitter, then Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft, and now Google has become the latest tech giant to announce a round of layoffs affecting thousands of its employees. Around 12,000 jobs are expected to be cut globally, or over 6 percent of the company’s headcount. Google’s sister company Verily announced…
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Parents are becoming increasingly concerned over online safety for kids
Audio player loading… A quarter of parents worry that their children have an unhealthy relationship with the internet, new research has found. A report from Mozilla and YouGov surveyed nearly 4,000 parents across the USA and Europe, looked into the usage habits of children on the internet as well as…
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