The US Department of Justice is turning its eye to the 3D printing industry that is fueling the creation of devices that convert semi-automatic guns into fully automatic weapons.

The announcement came from Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, who issued a request last Friday asking the DOJ, along with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), to implement measures to prevent the growing number of machine gun version devices, or MCDs. According to the ATF, the number of MCDs of various designs has increased by more than 500% between 2017 and 2021. Monaco announced that new groups would be formed to track and tackle the issue of MCDs.

The Deputy Attorney has pleaded with the 3D printing community, along with software developers, technology experts, and any other relevant authority in the space, to help identify a solution to this problem, as "you know your industries and this technology better than anyone." The above image showcases an example of what an MCD can look like. These small devices can be the size of a USB drive and can be made out of a single sheet of plastic.

Iodyne has just introduced its new Pro Mini: a new Smart Drive external SSD with both USB4 and Thunderbolt 4, offering sustained 3GB/sec of read performance when you're on-the-go. Check it out:

The new iodyne Pro Mini features two of Frore's AirJet Mini Slim SSD active cooling devices, which combine the best of performance and reliability, enabling the Pro Mini to blast sustained 3GB/sec performance under intense workloads. If you're a professional with a laptop or PC with USB4 or Thunderbolt 4, you've got 4TB or 8TB capacity to choose from.

Inside, we've got RAID-6 data protection, XTS-AES-256 encryption, fleet management capabilities, Find My tracing (using a Chipolo chip), and device passkeys. The new iodyne Pro Mini consumes around 15W of power under load, and if you remove the 10W of power used by Frore's AirJet Mini Slim SSD cooler, the new drive only uses 5W. 15W for full-blast coolng, and full-blast performance.

Apple is continuing to lean into having more games on its platform with the company announcing a significant performance boost coming to its latest generation of iPhone scheduled to release on September 20.

The Cupertino company only recently wrapped up its Glowtime event where it announced the new iPhone 16 models, along with its next-generation Apple Watch, and AirPods. While Apple Intelligence and camera capabilities are certainly a focus for the iPhone 16s, Apple also pointed out during its presentation that all iPhone 16s will come with 30% higher sustained performance compared to the iPhone 15s. Paired with that announcement was a list of new AAA games headed over to Apple's platform.

Apple attributes these performance hikes to the new logic board layout and the new A18 chip that has paved the way for improvements to the GPU, thermal regulations, hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and overall better performance. Apple specifically pointed out War Thunder Mobile as an example of a title taking advantage of hardware-acelerated ray-tracing. This feature enabled developers to "more accurately represent the reflection of the Sun on the water," thus improving overall graphics.

It has barely been over 24 hours since Sony announced its beefed-up Xbox-killing PlayStation 5 Pro console, and now news has leaked that Microsoft is firing another 650 staff from its Xbox gaming division.

In an email memo sent by Xbox boss Phil Spencer and "obtained" by IGN, Spencer explained: "For the past year, our goal has been to minimize disruption while welcoming new teams and enabling them to do their best work. As part of aligning our post-acquisition team structure and managing our business, we have made the decision to eliminate approximately 650 roles across Microsoft Gaming - mostly corporate and supporting functions - to organize our business for long term success".

The cull isn't as drastic as the 1900+ workers that Xbox laid off across Activision, Bethesda, and Xbox Games Studios earlier this year, but it's another 650+ people from a division that can't compete with the PS5 Pro, and in the months leading into the holiday season.

Sony has pulled the curtain off the highly anticipated PlayStation 5 Pro, and the announcement has been somewhat of a mixed bag for Sony, with many fans criticizing the company for making concessions in places it shouldn't have, along with a price hike of $200 compared to the standard PlayStation 5.

Now that the dust has settled from the announcement, I wanted to give my overall impressions and where I believe Sony dropped the ball, ultimately leading to the public opinion of the PS5 Pro being controversial, as anecdotally represented by the Like to Dislike ratio on the announcement video (94,000 Likes vs 176,000 Dislikes at the time of writing). Firstly, all of the leaked specifications for the PS5 Pro were pretty much on the money, which meant that anyone who caught that news wouldn't have been surprised by any of the performance improvements.

Keeping to performance improvements, I believe this is where Sony totally missed the mark. The presentation showcased the PS5 Pro's impressive performance capabilities, which include an approximate boost of 45% compared to the PS5 and 2-3x faster RayTracing performance. However, Sony decided to showcase this performance jump on games that the majority of originally launched on the PS4. Even with the PS5 titles showcasing this performance increase, Sony touted background graphical improvements that weren't visually representative of a performance boost, or at the very least didn't warrant the $200 jump from the standard PS5.

Samsung is reportedly culling 30% of its global employees in its sales operations, according to a South Korean newspaper.

The South Korean electronics giant is struggling right now in multiple divisions: its semiconductor business can't keep up with TSMC, its HBM division can't beat SK hynix, and its smartphone sales aren't doing so well. Samsung replaced its semiconductor boss back in May, but we haven't seen much fruit from that tree so far.

Reuters' sources have said that one of their sources said that the job cuts at Samsung were being made in preparation for another slowdown in global demand for technology products as the global economy slows. Another source told Reuters that Samsung is "seeking to shore up its bottom line by saving costs".

After a beta testing period, Valve's new Steam Families is now available to all users. It allows households of up to five people or family members to share their game libraries. The new system includes the ability to pool multiple copies of games together so more than one person can play a title if there's more than one copy in the greater Steam Families library.

Expanded parental controls, including the ability to allocate 'Child' and 'Adult' roles, are also available. Adults can limit what games can be accessed, set playtime limits, and restrict access to Steam features like the Store, Community, and Friends Chat. More in-depth and robust parental controls are a big part of the new Steam Families system.

Another significant parental feature of Steam Families is a dedicated purchase request system for Child accounts. This system streamlines the process of approving and buying games for kids without using Steam's current 'gifting' system at checkout.

Google Search is about to get a fantastic improvement through a new partnership between Google and The Internet Archive, a non-profit research library that preserves large portions of the Internet for future accessibility.

The new partnership announced via an Internet Archive Blog explains that Google Search will now list archived versions of web pages with a simple link to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A user can access this feature by performing a normal Google Search, navigating to a link and the three dots located next to the link, and selecting the "More About This Page" option. After selecting this option, a user will be presented with a Wayback Machine link that showcases previous versions of a webpage.

The new feature will be available starting today, and it will, at its most fundamental, add historical context to webpages, enabling more thorough research to be conducted on topics and, ultimately, Google Search results to be more valuable. The Internet Archive celebrated the new integration, writing the new partnership "underscores the importance of web archiving."

AMD has released Technical Preview drivers for its driver-based AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 or AFMF 2 frame generation technology. Without waiting for per-game implementation like FSR 3 or DLSS 3, AFMF 2 sits within AMD's Radeon drivers or Adrenaline Edition software and can be enabled in thousands of PC games.

It's an exciting technology, and even though the image quality isn't on par with something like DLSS 3, it can be a game-changer for a range of Radeon GPUs. Especially in improved AFMF 2 for,

Today, we can add the integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics in notebooks with AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series APUs to the AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 compatible chips supported in AMD's Technical Preview drivers for AFMF 2. The new mobile chips also use the Variable Graphics Memory (VGM) tech as part of HYPR-RX to further boost performance.

Meta Platforms is reportedly putting the "final touches" on one of its new AI supercomputers, powered with over 100,000+ NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs.

In a new report from The Information, the new AI supercomputer from Meta will feature 100,000+ NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs and will be located "somewhere" in the US. The new supercomputing cluster will train the next version of Meta's Llama model: Llama 4. Meta's new 100K+ NVIDIA H100 AI supercomputer cluster will be fully completed by October or November, says The Information.

Meta's new AI supercomputer with its 100,000+ NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs reportedly costed over $2 billion for the H100 AI GPU chips alone, which means Mark Zuckerberg is signing some fat cheques to NVIDIA. Speaking of which, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently spoke with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, where Jensen said Meta now has 600,000+ NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs to which Zuck replied saying that Meta were "good customers for NVIDIA".

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has said that there is a mad scramble for companies to get their hands on the limited supply of Blackwell AI GPUs, and that is frustrating some companies, while raising tensions with others.

Jensen Huang was recently speaking to the audience at the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. technology conference in San Francisco, where he said: "The demand on it is so great, and everyone wants to be first and everyone wants to be most. We probably have more emotional customers today. Deservedly so. It's tense. We're trying to do the best we can".

He continued, adding that TSMC's "agility and their capability to respond to our needs is just incredible" said Jensen, adding: "And so we use them because they're great, but if necessary, of course, we can always bring up others".

We've covered AMD's Radeon RX 7800M GPU for mobile devices and gaming laptops in recent weeks due to its appearance in the upcoming ONEXGPU 2 external GPU from One-Netbook. The Radeon RX 7800M is a brand-new RDNA 3 Navi 32 GPU from Team Red for notebooks and portable devices below the flagship Radeon RX 7900M and the mainstream Radeon RX 7600M.

Early reports show the performance is impressive and roughly on par with the Radeon RX 7700 XT desktop GPU. As far as we can tell, it will compete with NVIDIA's popular GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU.

Today, we didn't get an official Radeon RX 7800M announcement from AMD, as much as confirmation that it exists. Instead of the usual press release with information about the GPU and its performance relative to previous generations and benchmarks comparing it to the competition, AMD has simply made the GPU spec page for the Radeon RX 7800M live.

GeForce Game Ready Driver 561.09 is here, and it's another big one because we're entering the holiday season when publishers release the biggest games of the year. The latest driver adds day-one support for Final Fantasy 16, Frostpunk 2, and God of War Ragnarok, three games on the horizon and set to launch with DLSS 3 and NVIDIA Reflex support.

GeForce Game Ready Driver 561.09 also adds day one support for EA SPORTS FC 25, EA's latest non-FIFA licensed football game, while adding one-click game optimization for Black Myth: Wukong, F1 Manager 2024, and Star Wars Outlaws in the GeForce Experience and the NVIDIA App. NVIDIA notes that its optimal settings, which tweak in-game graphics settings to maximize fidelity and performance, cover over 1200 PC games.

This functionality for a game in the NVIDIA App is great because it's like accessing the graphics settings menu without loading the game. That said, this driver is all about Final Fantasy 16 and God of War Ragnarok, two former PlayStation 5 exclusives finally ready to make their PC debut.

Sony has over 50+ million PS4 Pro owners globally, with users looking for a reason to upgrade says an analyst, up to the new beefed-up PS5 Pro console that Sony just announced for $699, debuting on November 7, 2024.

In a chat with Rhys Elliott, a Games Industry Analyst with MIDia Research, said he expects the new PS5 Pro to "sell well" to the existing 50,000,000+ strong PS4 Pro audience. Sony did debut the PS4 Pro with a killer feature at the time: 4K HDR, but the new PS5 Pro has 45% faster performance, 2-3x more performance in RT, and AI-powered upscaling through PSSR.

Elliott said that Sony would be silly to not market the console as "the best way to play Grand Theft Auto 6" ahead of GTA 6's game-changing launch in 2025. We've already heard rumors that Sony has "locked down the marketing rights" to GTA 6 for its PS5 Pro and PS5 consoles, with GTA 6 providing a big inticement to PS4 Pro gamers wanting a reason to upgrade to the new PS5 Pro.

Sony's new PlayStation 5 Pro console will cost $699 and it has split gamers: some hate it, and we all know millions will buy it, no matter what the PS5 Pro costs... especially for Grand Theft Auto 6. But, what about a PS5 Pro + GTA 6 bundle? That would surely be the biggest system seller in history.

I still remember in the late when Halo was first announced for the Apple Mac (yes, not the PC or Xbox) adn then Microsoft purchased developer Bungie, and made Halo an Xbox exclusive. It was a system seller, and started the life of the Xbox family of consoles. The same goes for games like Goldeneye 007 back on the Nintendo 64, or Mario Kart 64, and Half-Life for the PC. These games sold systems, millions of them... but what about GTA 6?

Sony has reportedly locked down the marketing rights to GTA 6 for its standard PS5 and newly-revealed PS5 Pro consoles, and now that we have the official PS5 Pro announcement -- 45% faster, 2-3x faster in RT, PSSR upscaling -- I wonder (and have since the PS5 Pro rumors began) how a PS5 Pro + GTA 6 bundle would sell.

Sony unveiled its new PlayStation 5 Pro console a few days ago, with its $699 price seeing many gamers in mixed reaction, but an analyst said that the $699 PS5 Pro console is for "Superfans" and that we could expect 13-15 million PS5 Pro consoles sold.

Rhys Elliott, a Games Industry Analyst at MIDiA Research talked with our friends at Wccftech, where he said that the PS5 Pro is for "Superfans" and that we could expect 13-15 million PS5 Pro consoles sold. The analyst said:

Oracle is pushing all-in with the data center market, promising to spend $100+ billion over the next 4 years, with NVIDIA to get 40% of that $100B as it's the global leader in AI GPUs.

Right now, Oracle has 162 cloud data centers in operation and under construction across the world, explains Oracle chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison. He said: "the largest of these datacenters is 800 megawatts and will contain acres of NVIDIA GPU Clusters for training large scale AI models".

He continued, adding: "Oracle could operate up to 2000 data centers in the future, a significant increase from the 162 currently in operation". It's not just this news, but the Oracle CEO added: "So we're in the middle of designing a data center that's north of the gigawatt that has -- but we found the location and the power place we look at it, they've already got building permits for 3 nuclear reactors. These are the small modular nuclear reactors to power the data center. This is how crazy it's getting. This is what's going on".

Oracle has announced it's spending over $100 billion on 2000+ new data centers, expanding on the 160 data centers in operation, with NVIDIA getting 40% of that business for AI hardware. Not only that, but not one, not two, but three nuclear reactors could power the new Blackwell AI GPU supercluster.

NVIDIA and Oracle will be launching zettascale OCI superclusters with over 100,000 AI GPUs, with new infrastructure to accelerate AI training and deployment of generative AI models. NVIDIA GB200 liquid-cooled bare-metal instances for large-scale AI applications will be introduced, with Oracle to offer NVIDIA HGX H200 Tensor Core GPUs, connecting up to 65,536 AI GPUs for real-time inference.

Oracle CEO said: "So we're in the middle of designing a data center that's north of the gigawatt that has -- but we found the location and the power place we look at it, they've already got building permits for 3 nuclear reactors. These are the small modular nuclear reactors to power the data center. This is how crazy it's getting. This is what's going on".

After revealing that 75% of PS5 owners prefer to play their games in 60FPS Performance Modes, Sony console architect Mark Cerny infers that 30FPS gaming is sub-par.

It sounds like Sony is starting to recognize that 30FPS console gaming isn't up to the standards that gamers expect--or at least the standards that they prefer--hence the PS5 Pro, which was created to deliver more consistent 4K 60FPS gameplay in current-gen titles.

The new $700 mid-gen PS5 Pro was created as a way to bridge the compromise between graphics and frame rates, which has plagued console gaming from the get-go (the PS4 Pro was also likewise made to deliver new graphics and FPS options, giving gamers more choice while trying up-sell 4K UHDTVs).

PS5 architect Mark Cerny reveals an interesting tidbit about player preferences regarding the age old graphics vs frame rate trade off.

While most game developers offer two distinct modes for their PS5 games--Fidelity or Performance--Sony has long known that players prioritize in-game frame rates over higher-end graphics. That's according to Sony Interactive Entertainment console architect Mark Cerny, who says that around 75% of all PS5 users prefer to choose performance modes for better and more responsive gameplay.

"When asked to decide on a mode, players typically choose performance mode about three-quarters of the time," Cerny said in the PS5 Pro reveal video.