Macron tries to blame video games for riots
It can't possibly have anything to do with me
In a desperate attempt to blame something else other than his own government or police, French President, Emmanuel Macron is trying to pin video games for the spread of violence in France.
Gamer sentenced for swatting Ubisoft's Montreal office
Banned from the game so called the cops
A Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Siege gamer who called in a fake emergency to Ubisoft's Montreal office was sentenced this week to three years of community service, according to The Montreal Gazette.
Boffin who pulled power from air said it was an accident
Only wanted to make a simple humidity sensor but forgot to plug in the power
A boffin whose team discovered a way of creating electricity from thin air has admitted that it was an accidental discovery.
Google claims "quantum supremacy"
You will all be exterminated
Google is once again claiming to be the first company to achieve "quantum supremacy" with its machines able to things that it would take a supercomputer 47 years to match.
Reddit loses key spam defence
Quitting because of the management’s "antagonistic actions"
Reddit’s key defence against rogue submission and comment bots which monitors 3,650 subreddits is joining the exodus away from the site.
AI fails at being an editor
Would be fired on first day
Cash-hungry media barons who thought they would save a bob or two by using AI instead of real reporters found themselves on the receiving end of content which could have been written in crayon by a three year old.
RTX 4060 Ti out on 18 July
Rumour
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that the RTX 4060 Ti, with its increased memory buffer, is scheduled to hit the shelves on 18 July.
Intel kills off the last of the Cascade Lake Xeons
Rome conquered
Intel has pulled the plug on the last of its Cascade Lake Xeon processors after years of competition from AMD's EPYC Rome lineup.
Meta's Twitter rival scores 30 million sign-ups
Even a Zuckerberg offering is better than Musk
After surpassing 10 million sign-ups in the first seven hours, Meta's new Twitter rival, Threads, has reached a new milestone: 30 million sign-ups in less than 24 hours.
Emojis are contractually binding
At least in Canada
A Saskatchewan judge says an emoji can amount to a contractual agreement and ordered a farmer to pay more than $82,000 for not delivering product to a grain buyer after responding to a text message with a thumbs-up image.