DeepMind's Chinchilla AI toasts FLAC and PNG at lossless data compression despite essentially being just a large language model
News Turns out that LLMs could be better at data compression than some data compression apps.
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Van Gogh Museum's event gets gatecrashed by Pokemon TCG scalpers in a prime example of 'why we can't have nice things'
News Team Rocket's out in force.
EU court rejects Valve appeal against €1.6 million fine for 'geo-blocking' Steam games, says policy existed to protect publisher royalties and 'the margins earned by Valve'
News The court likewise had no time for Valve's insistence that geo-blocking was pro-competitive, actually.
Larian's shared the most-played multiclasses in Baldur's Gate 3—and one of D&D's favourites is somehow second-to-last
News Sorcadin? Sorcadon't.
Final Fantasy 7's gacha game is making its way over to PC
news Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis is currently in development for Steam.
AMD Zen 5 and 6 CPU details and performance 'leak' and slightly disappoint
News IPC gains less dramatic than we previously thought.
Starfield's cursed rain orb lifts the veil on an old game design trick: 'pack it up boys, it's over'
News Pay no attention to that dev behind the curtain.
Nvidia's French offices raided by antitrust authorities following suspicion of 'anticompetitive practices'
News Nvidia's dominant position in AI data centres coming under increased scrutiny.
AMD FSR 3 and frame generation support is debuting in two games this week
News Two games to start with, and more to follow.
NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 29 (#110)
Hint What are Fridays for, if not winning another glorious game of Connections?
Today's Wordle hint and answer #832: Friday, September 29
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Thanks to a bug, players have found a 'realm of naked men' in Baldur's Gate 3
News Bug or feature?
12 years since release, The Binding of Isaac is getting proper online co-op soon
News It'll arrive as a free update to Repentance.
Intel begins high-volume production of Intel 4 node chips this week
News The second step on Intel's 'five nodes in four years' roadmap is all systems go.
Want to try a new playstyle in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty? Here's the director's 'warlock netrunner' build
News Hack 'em while you slice 'em.
Bethesda just released a new Elder Scrolls mobile game that's basically Fallout Shelter meets Skyrim
News The Elder Scrolls: Castles is currently only on Android, and apparently only in the US.
Cyberpunk 2077 player finds a Witcher 3 easter egg by calling a phone number scrawled on a dingy sticky note
news Hello? Can I speak with a Mr. White Wolf?
The Talos Principle 2 is coming in November, and this time there's a whole gang of robots to deal with
news What is a society? It's time to find out.
Even with its Warhammer 40K RPG coming in hot, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' developer is cranking out yet another big DLC
news Completing a DLC side story that began last April.
