Sean Hollister
Say it with me: 3D-printed chocolate.
I’ll have a bit more to say about this printer later in the week — but I wasn’t going to miss showing off the Cocoa Press for Valentine’s Day!
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Is your Facebook... chirping? Here’s how to fix it.
“It’s not you, it’s us! And it’s an unfortunate technical error that we’re in the process of fixing,” writes Meta’s Andy Stone.
In the meanwhile, here’s a stopgap:
Sean Hollister
Your Core 2 Duo and Athlon 64 might not run Windows 11 anymore.
Originally, Microsoft made it hard — but not impossible — to install Windows 11 on older machines. That’s reportedly changing. Bob Pony:
So HUGE discovery found in Windows 11 Version 24H2, since build 25905.
A CPU with the instruction “POPCNT” IS NOW REQUIRED!
“That effectively bars mid-2000s Intel Core 2 Duo systems and early Athlon 64-era PCs from booting Windows 11 at all,” writes Ars Technica.
Sean Hollister
SpaceX will dispose of 100 orbiting Starlink satellites because of an undisclosed glitch.
[T]he Starlink team identified a common issue in this small population of satellites that could increase the probability of failure in the future. The satellites will follow a safe, circular, and controlled lowering operation that should take approximately six months for most of the vehicles.
It’s a small fraction of the 5,828 Starlink sats in orbit, and SpaceX says it’s deorbited 406 sats previously. Unusual to decommission so many at once, though.
Sean Hollister
I guess we’re about to test the Infinite Monkey Theorem.
Sam Altman, ChatGPT’s master and would-be chip czar:
openai now generates about 100 billion words per day.
all people on earth generate about 100 trillion words per day.
Sean Hollister
Ubisoft won’t increase VR investment after Assassin’s Creed disappointment.
We have been a bit disappointed by what we were able to achieve on VR with Assassin’s Creed, it did okay, and it continues to sell, but we thought it would sell more, so we are not increasing our investment on VR at the moment, because it needs to take off. We have been very impressed by what Apple came with, and we think it’s fantastic hardware, but we continue to look at this VR business as something that we have to look at but not invest too much in, until it grows enough.
Totilo’s right: no publisher has supported VR like Ubisoft. But it reportedly canceled Splinter Cell VR, and now this...
Sean Hollister
Lego’s new Medieval Town Square is packed with personality.
Maybe not the GOAT, but it comes with a goat... and you can put a cheesemaker, shieldsmith, town guard, weaver, carpenter, minstrel, and barkeep to work in their own little shops and posts. Then rob them blind with the thief or the tax collector. Hey, somebody’s gotta pay for that castle, right?
The buildings are hinged like the castle, too, opening up for play. $229.99, coming March 1st.
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After $74,500 in damage, Cablemod is fully recalling its Nvidia 12VHPWR GPU power adapters.
Technically, it began a voluntary recall in December — “STOP USING THEM IMMEDIATELY,” it wrote — but now the US Consumer Product Safety Commission is involved. Full refunds or $60 store credits are available. 25,300 units were sold, with 272 reports of loose, overheated, and melted adapters. Nvidia’s own adapter had a similar issue in 2022.
