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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Playtron explains how immutable file systems are not (but could help with?) Linux anti-cheat.

    Playtron CTO Franck De Girolami:

    The immutable file system from Fedora Silverblue will be very helpful in implementing our anti cheat system but it is not our anti cheat system. We are planning to generate signatures for each version of our OS (easy with Silverblue) as well as all the DLLs we install dynamically. Basically using our SDK, a game developer will be able to obtain a signature of the current config on the device then call our backend to verify that this is a genuine Playtron version.

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    Sean Hollister
    With new AI image search, Nvidia’s Chat with RTX might replace Google Photos for me someday.

    The free no-cloud chatbot can now pull up photos based on your queries thanks to CLIP integration. Google Photos hooked me in 2015 with free unlimited photo storage, but now that’s gone, photo search is the biggest reason I stay. Maybe I’ll just hook up a future Chat with RTX to a photo-filled NAS and call it a day?

    Also, it now does voice chat: I asked it a sentence in basic spoken Japanese and it knew what I meant. Both features are coming “soon,” says Nvidia’s Kedar Potdar.

    The Chat with RTX app window.
    The Chat with RTX app window.
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    Sean Hollister
    Nvidia CEO says his Blackwell B200 AI GPU will cost $30K–$40K a pop.

    Will the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI actually cost up to 25 times less than the H100? Maybe not per part: Huang told CNBC that the B200 chip costs between $30,000 and $40,000.

    That was the going rate for H100 cards on eBay, so it doesn’t sound like they’ll be cheaper. (But maybe he meant you get two? Nvidia is selling them in pairs as the GB200 “Superchip.”)

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    Sean Hollister
    Here, watch a video of my actual chat with Ubisoft’s AI-powered Neo NPCs.

    This should give you a way better idea than the partial transcript I originally included in my story!

    The delay before each answer is annoying, but InWorld CEO Kylan Gibbs tells me that’s because text-to-speech and other microservices are running in the cloud — future chips with onboard AI coprocessing might run them locally instead.

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    Sean Hollister
    Go read Digital Foundry on the PS5 Pro.

    The most trusted source for console analysis has just corroborated and analyzed the leaks.

    “Those hoping that PS5 Pro will turn CPU-limited 30fps titles into super-smooth 60fps experiences will be disappointed,” writes Richard Leadbetter — but he thinks PS5 Pro “should be able to deliver a far higher perceptual increase in resolution vs PS5 than the PS4 Pro did against its junior variant.”

    Lots more nuance here, including how PS5 Pro has 1.2GB more RAM for games:

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    Sean Hollister
    You can watch Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s AI keynote right here, live, at 4PM ET.

    He’s expected to show a new high-end AI chip dubbed the B100, Reuters reported last week; apparently the new server-grade Blackwell GPUs can consume 1,000 watts each. Nvidia’s GTC keynote kicks off at 1PM PT / 4PM ET — just 15 minutes after I first published the words you’re reading.

    Playtron: the startup hoping to Steam Deck-ify the world

    What if Steam Deck, but not just Steam and not just Deck?

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Duck Game will continue.

    When Warner Bros. announced it would be capriciously removing Adult Swim games from Steam, my heart went out to Duck Game developer Landon Podbielski, whose zany quackfest helps keep my circle of friends playing together year after year.

    So I’m very pleased to report that Podbielski not only owns the rights to the Duck Game IP, he’s promising to keep it going: “I will never stop updating it as long as my hands and eyes work,” he writes. Full blog:

    The Future Of Duck Game

    [Duck Game Unleashed]