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Archives for October 2024

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Nvidia’s new GPU driver is ready for Black Ops 6 and more.

Nvidia has released a new Game Ready driver (566.03) that includes support for Alan Wake II: The Lake House, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Red Dead Redemption, and more. The 566.03 release also includes support for 32 new G-Sync compatible monitors. If you use Bluestacks or Corsair iCUE equipment, hold off on this driver as there’s a known high CPU usage issue.

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Apple iPad Mini 2024 review: missing pieces

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Apple’s smallest tablet got an upgrade — but it won’t feel like much of one unless Apple Intelligence is better than it seems.

David Pierce
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Let there be (AI-generated) light.

Smart lighting provider Philips Hue is reportedly testing an “AI Playground” that allows users to generate custom light effects with text descriptions, such as “create a scene for a Halloween party.”

Govee and Nanoleaf already offer a similar feature. We don’t know when Hue’s offering will be available, but it’ll likely be restricted to recommending existing scenes at first, with the capability to create new ones coming later.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Ward Christensen, co-creator of the first online bulletin board, has died.

Christensen was a computer scientist credited with creating the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in 1978, which let users exchange information through a dial-up connection.

Although Christensen devised the CBBS to communicate with other members of his computer club, it helped lay the groundwork for social media platforms to come.

Christensen was 78.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The FTC’s rules on fake reviews are officially in effect.

The new rule bans companies from creating and selling AI-generated reviews — and that includes ones generated using AI. As noted by FTC chair Lina Khan, that means you can now report any potential violations to reportfraud.ftc.gov.