Atari releases a new cartridge for the 2600 console
Save Mary took decades to get to the shops
Game maker of the 1980s Atari has just released pre-orders for a game it started developing in the 1980s called Save Mary.
Man inspired by AI to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II sentenced
Star Wars plot gets nine years
A man who admitted attempting a Star Wars style assassination of Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow after discussing his plan with an AI chatbot has been sentenced to nine years for treason.
Lenovo puts Android on desktop
Partners with Esper
Lenovo has teamed with an outfit named Esper to create an Android-based ThinkCentre M70a: a desktop all-in-one.
Lobbied US politicians want to abandon RISC-V
We should push a US or nothing strategy
The White House is under pressure from “lobbied” politicians to restrict US companies from working on RISC-V.
Age of Empires shows boffins the secrets of Ant Warfare
Unplug the jukebox and do us all a favour
Aussie boffins have discovered that one of the best ways to model Ant warfare is to use Microsoft's classic computer game Age of Empires.
AI users suffer from a placebo effect
If we tell you it is good it will be wonderful
Humans will think an AI is good or bad depending on what a person in authority tells them about it.
Microsoft says it is a changed company since the Ballmer daze
Still can’t get on with Google
Software King of the World Microsoft claims it is a reformed personality since the days of the shy and retiring CEO Steve [there’s a kind of hush] Ballmer.
AI Copilot does not play nice with AMD Adrenalin
I am sorry Dave those settings are wrong I will correct them for you without permission
AMD Adrenalin users of are less than happy with Microsoft after it installed AI Copilot into Windows 11 a week ago.
US Army gives Microsoft a contract for advanced mixed-reality goggles
Vole made them less likely to make soldiers throw up
The US Army is awarding Microsoft with another order of advanced mixed-reality goggles designed for combat situations.
Epic Games jacks up prices
Making everyone miserable
A week after laying off almost 900 employees, Epic Games has said that it's increasing the price to use Unreal Engine and not for the game development community.