Month: September 2023
Intel’s most expensive CPU can run without external RAM and yes, it can play Starfield
The Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480 CPU is one of the firm’s fastest CPUs that it’s manufactured to date – and most expensive – combining 56 cores with in-built RAM. No, this isn’t DDR4 or DDR5 RAM, but rather 64GB of HBM2e RAM, which is fitted into many GPUs and…
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Monster Hunter Now strips the MonHun experience down to its very basics
There are few game titles more literal than Monster Hunter. This is a world filled with monsters, and your job is to hunt them. But what makes the series so engrossing is the gameplay loop tied to those hunts: the way you prepare by collecting the right gear, weapons, and…
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Starfield on GeForce Now is among the best and worst ways to play
I’m not ready to upgrade my PC. Would I pay $20 a month to rent one that lives in the cloud? Starfield is the first game that’s actually making me consider the possibility. Today, Starfield arrived on Nvidia’s GeForce Now, a service that lets you tap into an RTX 4080-equivalent…
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Here’s the (boring) solution that could make 100TB hard drives easier to build
The next generation of HDDs, based on a technology known as heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), could see significant performance gains thanks to an innovative media lubricant. HAMR HDDs, developed by the likes of Seagate, have just hit the market after years of conceptualization, testing and prototyping; and hopes are high.…
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LAist employees clash over Bari Weiss ad campaign
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today I will cover a controversial ad campaign that has raised questions at LAist, a pivot at Clubhouse, and a group of late night hosts who are taking their podcast to Las Vegas. Before I start…
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Update everything: Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge just patched a big flaw
Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Brave have each issued critical security patches, reports Stack Diary. The patches address a vulnerability that an attacker could use to gain access to or run malicious code on your computer, and the companies acknowledge it’s been actively exploited in the wild. NIST classifies the vulnerability…
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