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The new GeForce Game Ready 577.00 WHQL driver is now available via the NVIDIA App and GeForce.com, adding day-one support for the new Soulslike action-RPG WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers. The game is set to arrive on July 24 with DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation support, including NVIDIA Reflex.

The latest driver also adds support for Valorant's Unreal Engine 5 upgrade, which is set to launch later this month. The game is transitioning to a new engine to enhance performance, while also laying the groundwork for future visual updates and enhancements that will be introduced to the popular 5v5 competitive shooter.

The new GeForce Game Ready 577.00 WHQL driver also adds DLSS 4 support to 11 new games via the DLSS Override feature in the NVIDIA App, including titles like Monster Hunter Wilds, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, and the standalone RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business expansion.

Samsung Display has announced that its new foldable OLED panel inside of its new Galaxy Z Fold 7 foldable smartphone remained fully functional after a huge 500,000-fold durability test, with it capable of handling over 100 folds per day for over 10 years.

The new Galaxy Z Fold 7 foldable test can has been proven to last over 10 years of folding for regular users, or over 6 years for heavy users who fold their handset over 200 times a day "without durability concerns". Samsung says that advancements in shock resistance further widen Samsung Display's technological lead in the foldable OLED display market.

The foldable panel was tested and verified by the global testing, inspection, and certification company Bureau Veritas, with Samsung Display raising its internal durability testing standard from 200,000 folds to 500,000 folds, which is 2.5x its previous benchmark, with the company explaining that this underscores its confidence in the panel's long-term resilience. The panel in question is from the recently launched Galaxy Z Fold 7 foldable smartphone.

Google has officially teased its next-gen Pixel 10 smartphone, with a reveal of the new handset on its website ahead of its August 20 reveal.

The next-gen Pixel 10 family of smartphones will be powered by its in-house Tensor G5 processor, with the new Pixel 10 tease on Google's website showing us the Pixel camera bar before zooming out to show us the entire phone. Google hasn't said whether this is the Pixel 10 or Pixel 10 Pro smartphone, but from recent render leaks it looks like the higher-end Pixel 10 Pro.

Google's new regular Pixel 10 smartphone is meant to have a few differences inside and out, with a new telephoto camera for the Pixel 10, meaning the new Pixel 10 has a downgraded camera system from the Pixel 9, which is unfortunate. We will see Google unveil its new Pixel 10 smartphones on August 20, with all of the details and new products like the Pixel Watch 4, as well as the foldable Pixel 10 Pro Fold smartphone.

SIXUNITED recently unveiled its new STHT1 Thin Mini-ITX motherboard, ushering in AMD's new Ryzen AI Max 300 series "Strix Halo" APU to the PC enthusiast market. Check it out:

AMD's new Strix Halo APUs have only been released inside of high-end laptops and Mini-PC systems so far, with the new Strix Halo APU featuring 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power, enhanced RDNA 3.5-based integrated graphics with the Radeon 8060S GPU with up to 40 GPU cores, and support for up to 128GB of RAM.

SIXUNITED is a Chinese ODM that has just unveiled its new Mini-ITX motherboard with the Strix Halo APU ready with a non-socketed design that allows builders to choose between three different Ryzen AI Max series processors, with TDPs of between 45W and 120W.

It seems that Endgame Gear has been offering a configuration utility for one of its gaming mice which was infected by malware - though the corrupted tool has since been taken down and replaced with a clean executable.

This issue was first reported on Reddit (see the above post), as Igor's Lab highlighted (via PC Gamer), with the compromised tool - for the OP1w 4K V2 mouse - being located on the official Endgame Gear CDN (and not a third-party mirror).

The Redditor who first stumbled on the malware (Admirable-Raccoon597) observed that after installing the app, they noticed suspicious behavior, and following further analysis, they confirmed a malware infection.

Ubisoft has confirmed in a recent financial report the release window for the Assassin's Creed Shadows expansion titled Claws of Awaji.

It was reported in early June that Ubisoft was targeting a September release for Claws of Awaji, with the company moving the date from October back to September to give gamers some breathing room from release of the Ghost of Tsushima spiritual successor, Ghost of Yotei, which is scheduled to release in October.

For those who don't know, Claws of Awaji will include approximately 10 hours of additional gameplay, a new region to explore, new weapons, side activities, gear, and new skills. The premise of the DLC is that players will be "hunted" and have the opportunity to reclaim lost treasure while mastering a new weapon type called the Bō staff. As for when the DLC will be released, Ubisoft wrote in its report that it's planning on debuting the expansion sometime in Q2, which is by the end of September 2025.

In Ubisoft's latest financial report, the company has blamed Steam, internet trends, and gamers as a whole for the failure of Star Wars: Outlaws.

The comments from Ubisoft come after the company revealed that it actually believes it is adding microtransactions into its games, making those games more fun for players. In what appears to be another completely checked out statement from the company that has been experiencing a tumbling stock price and recent parachute cash injection from Tencent to support its new company managing its top IPs, Ubisoft is now refusing to take any accountability for the quality of its product and instead, blames gamers for the failure of Star Wars: Outlaws.

Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot blamed the failure of Outlaws on the lack of popularity of Star Wars at the time of release, saying, "Outlaws was released at a time when the brand that it belonged to was in a bit of choppy waters." Guillemot must not have heard about the massive success of the hit Star Wars TV shows The Mandalorian, Andor, or Tales of the Empire.

Microsoft's SharePoint server platform was confirmed to be suffering from an exploit that has resulted in at least 54 organizations being breached, including a private university, a federal government health organization, and a California-based energy operator.

Microsoft has since responded to the vulnerability in a new security blog post, stating that over the last few days, it has evaluated the vulnerability along with the breaches associated with it and determined that they are linked to hacking groups affiliated with the Chinese government.

According to Microsoft, it has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, who are exploiting the vulnerabilities in the SharePoint platform. Additionally, Microsoft says it has identified another China-based group taking advantage of the vulnerabilities, known as Storm-2603.

Battlefield has confirmed when it will be dropping the official reveal trailer for the highly anticipated Battlefield 6, and it's right around the corner.

In new social media posts and a video on YouTube, the name of the next Battlefield title has been confirmed to be Battlefield 6, which means the promotional packages that were sent out to creators and then leaked online were real. Additionally, the announcement confirms that the official reveal trailer for the upcoming title will be dropped on July 24.

Moreover, this announcement from the team behind Battlefield confirms previous rumors that a 3-day event for the upcoming game will be held at the end of the month, with the previous rumors saying the event will take place over 3 days and feature various creators that have been flown out to experience the title. There have been several leaks of Battlefield 6 pre-alpha footage, and for players curious about what it will entail, judging by gameplay, it seems Battlefield 6 will be a mixture of Battlefield 3 and 4.

Old School RuneScape has seen a surge in popularity this year, with the classic MMORPG recently surpassing a staggering 200,000 concurrent players, causing developers, Jagex, to upgrade the servers to balance the newfound growth.

RuneScape, a game that was originally released in January 2001, has gone through its many ups and downs throughout its lifetime, with the release of the Evolution of Combat in 2012 resulting in a mass exodus of players, to Jagex's petition to roll the servers back to classic 2007 RuneScape as an entirely separate game blowing far past its 50,000 needed mark with a staggering 449,351 votes.

That 2007 version of RuneScape is now far and away more popular than the original version of the game, and since its release in 2013, it has continued to grow in popularity, attracting both new and old players.

ChatGPT usage has jumped in a big way over the course of 2025, and according to a new report, the AI is now dealing with over 2.5 billion queries every day.

As you might expect, those are mostly from free users, and this is data from Axios, which contends that 330 million daily prompts are from people in the US.

To put these figures into perspective, as TechRadar (which flagged the report) observes, at the end of 2024, Sam Altman told us that ChatGPT was crunching through around a billion prompts on a daily basis.

Supermassive Games has announced via a recent social media post that it will be laying off several employees at the development studio and moving the release date for the anticipated Directive 8020.

The developer has cited the games industry being a "challenging and ever-evolving environment" as the reason for the now confirmed layoffs of 36 employees, and that the studio doesn't take these changes lightly. However, Supermassive writes that in order to adapt the new team structure to align with industry changes, it had to begin the redundancy process of employees, with the developer writing that it will be offering its full support to those affected.

As for the projects the developer is currently working on, Supermassive has decided to move the release date of Directive 8020 to "the first half of 2026." The developer praised the response gamers have had to the title, and said this delay will enable the studio to further polish the title to deliver the best experience it can for its fans.

Users of the cryptocurrency browser extension MetaMask have confirmed what some users are reporting, unusually high disk writing that has been tracked to 5 MB/s, which works out to just shy of 500GB of data per day (432GB to be exact).

That cryptocurrency extension is MetaMask, quite a popular browser extension that is typically used for some off-the-beaten-track cryptocurrencies that aren't on popular exchanges. The response from Consensys, the creators of MetaMask, comes after GitHub users discovered a critical bug within MetaMask after installing the extension on a fresh install of a Chromium-based browser.

According to reports, the bug results in the extension writing 5 MB/s continuously in the background, even if the user is logged out of the app. Notably, SSDs don't live forever, and while most are extremely well built, they still have a lifespan, and that lifespan is determined by how much data is written to the drive. Reading does impact the lifespan, but not as much as writing.

2004's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is a cult classic, one of the first non-Valve PC games to utilize the Source engine, delivering a memorable RPG that is still widely regarded today. With the action taking place in 21st-century Los Angeles, this urban setting gave the game a unique, gritty look, which was unusual for a world with vampires, werewolves, and demons.

And thanks to the work of modder 'Safemilk,' Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines looks stunning. This RTX Remix mod, which makes use of NVIDIA's groundbreaking tool for remastering older PC games, is one of the more impressive mods currently in development as it features all-new "remodeled, retextured, and re-lit" visuals. And yes, this includes full path-traced lighting.

The only problem for fans of this classic game with a capable GeForce RTX GPU is that it's still very much in early development. However, the latest 0.0.2 update, called Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, is available to download and shows great promise. The incredible visual upgrade reminds us of the also-impressive Half-Life 2 RTX project, which is currently in development.

With the introduction of its new Radeon RX 9000 Series of graphics cards, AMD also introduced its new AI-powered FSR 4 upscaler, exclusive to its new RDNA 4 GPUs. With its significant improvement in image quality compared to FSR 3, FSR 4 finally sees AMD catch up to NVIDIA DLSS as a viable alternative. The only problem is that FSR 4 support is limited, especially when compared to the hundreds of games that support DLSS.

This is where the third-party, open-source OptiScaler comes in, an innovative tool that "intercepts upscaler calls from the game," allowing you to redirect them to your preferred upscaler. For GeForce RTX gamers, it offers them the ability to replace Intel's XeSS, AMD's FSR, or older versions of DLSS with the latest DLSS 4 technology. For Radeon gamers, it allows you to swap out DLSS with FSR, covering both Super Resolution and Frame Generation.

As part of OptiScaler's latest update, the tool now supports FSR 4 for Radeon RX 9000 Series owners. Yes, this means that you can enable FSR 4 in hundreds of DirectX 11 and 12 titles with DLSS, dramatically expanding FSR 4's reach.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X to confirm that the AI firm will have over 1 million GPUs online by the end of the year, which is an impressive statistic to visualize. However, as you try to picture what 1 million cutting-edge GPUs looks like, Sam Altman added that he'd much rather see 100 million GPUs go online.

After saying that he's "very proud of the team" for reaching the 1 million GPU milestone, he joked that they "better get to work figuring out how to 100x that." To put this figure into perspective, xAI's headline-grabbing Grok 4 model is powered by around 200,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, which suggests OpenAI is working with five times the GPU power as xAI.

The 100 million GPU figure is not currently feasible, as earlier this year, Sam Altman announced that OpenAI was delaying the release of its GPT 4.5 model because it was "out of GPUs." Which is a good problem to have if you're NVIDIA, as companies like OpenAI, xAI, Microsoft, and others are buying up GPUs as quickly as they can be produced.

The Atari 2600 was first launched in 1977, and the iconic wood-paneled video game console is widely regarded as the first device to bring gaming from the arcade to households. In 2025, the Atari 2600 is what you'd consider a relic, with primitive hardware and games that rendered large chunky pixels with a resolution of 160x192 on NTSC televisions.

You might be surprised to learn that you can still buy a brand-new Atari 2600 in 2025, but thanks to retro enthusiasts keeping old-school gaming, that's precisely the case. And with Atari partnering with Bandai Namco Entertainment America, you can pick up an Atari 2600+ PAC-MAN Edition console in signature PAC-MAN yellow.

It ships with a custom wireless joystick (something that wasn't available back in the late 1970s) and a PAC-MAN: Double Feature 2-in-1 cartridge, which includes both the Atari 2600 version of the game and the Atari 7800 version. Although it looks identical to the original Atari 2600, the Atari+ 2600 is built for the modern era with HDMI output and the ability to play both Atari 2600 and 7800 games.

At Computex 2024, AMD and Stability AI announced a partnership that introduced the world's first block FP16 stable diffusion model for image generation, offering improved quality and accuracy. This week, AMD is announcing another world's first, the FP16 SD 3.0 Medium model optimized for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series XDNA 2 NPUs.

Promising a "significant increase in image quality" for AI image generation using Stable Diffusion, those with compatible Ryzen AI-powered laptops can download Amuse 3.1 by Tensorstack to test it out today. As long as you've got 24GB of memory, Amuse 3.1's HQ mode will deliver 16-bit quality without the need for a dedicated GPU.

The results are impressive, with the ability to create Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium model-powered images at a 4MP resolution (2048x2048) with XDNA Super Resolution. Best of all, it's free and doesn't require a subscription.

The handheld gaming device market is heating up with a bunch of options for gamers to sink their teeth into, and with Xbox officially joining the fray vicariously through ASUS ROG and the Ally devices, it was only a matter of time before other brands decided to make the same performance offering of those devices with their own handheld. Enter the Legion Go 2.

The Xbox Ally and Ally X are the first handheld devices to be rocking AMD's powerful Z2 Extreme AI APU, but those handhelds are now not alone, or at least according to In Yo, who posted a video of what they are claiming to be a prototype of Lenovo's Legion Go 2.

According to the video, the Legion Go 2 will also be rocking the Z2 Extreme AI APU, but it will be based on the Zen 4 process and not Zen 5 like the ROG Xbox Ally. The big difference between the two handhelds is the size of the display. The Legion Go 2 seems to feature an 8.8-inch screen, while the ROG Xbox Ally has a 7-inch screen.

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) has been recognized as the premier mathematics competition for some of the world's brightest young minds since 1959. With participants from a wide range of countries, each competitor is tasked with solving six "exceptionally difficult" problems spanning fields such as algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory.

Only 8% of participants earn a gold medal, and now we can add Google's Gemini Deep Think AI to the list. This advanced version of Gemini solved five out of the six problems "perfectly" according to Google, which was enough for it to achieve a gold-medal performance. If you're wondering what the math problems were and the solutions, head here (PDF). But fair warning, it's a lot more advanced than 12 + 57.

"We can confirm that Google DeepMind has reached the much-desired milestone, earning 35 out of a possible 42 points - a gold medal score," IMO President, Prof. Dr. Gregor Dolinar said, adding that it was not only the solutions that were impressive, but how well laid out and easy to follow they were. "Their solutions were astonishing in many respects. IMO graders found them to be clear, precise, and most of them easy to follow."