When I became a manager, I fully understood that scene when Yoda got so tired to reply that he decided to die

Mad music scientist mixed Lain anime soundtrack and Sin Episodes Emergence main theme! AI at its finest...

#Music #SoundDesign

Concord by #PlayStation (that they expected will be the next hit like HELLDIVERS II) is failing on Steam. Who would've guessed!

You can grab the game for #FREE but only for 24 hours!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486630/Intravenous/

Here's how developers of the most impressive platformer of our time created their own Game Engine and optimized the game for various platforms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmzS9vz6h30 #GameEngines #GameDev

Two months before its official launch date a fully-playable version of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 appeared on torrent websites.

#Piracy

First rule of Twitter: if you write a corporate article on Twitter, block the comments section!

Sorry, folks, no wise content for today, only Never Gonna Give You Up by Genshin Impact characters!

#meme

Just discovered the BIOS password on my son's laptop and it wasn't dropping even without a battery.

So here's the most useful solution that can generate engineering keys for all modern laptops:

https://www.biosbug.com/ — easy, free, you don't have to install anything, just type your code and get the key.

#Hardware #Hackers #TipsAndTricks

Corporate Windows machines and servers went down all over the world because of CrowdStrike antivirus. It blocked hospitals, airlines, and even governments for hours.

During the night, CrowdStrike released the update that ruined affected drives by adding files that were not allowing machines to boot up. It was tricky to remove files, but not as hard as people thought at first.

At first, media tried to blame Microsoft for it and cover the topic from the thesis that "Windows is just broken", when in reality the thing is that 3rd party antivirus is just a bad idea in 2024.

#Microsoft #Windows

Meanwhile, #NVIDIA believes their #OpenSource driver is finally as good as the proprietary one!

It's amazing for Linux users who will be able to get better drivers after all these years.

But unfortunately it will not make Nvidia's technologies open for public or for competitors in any way.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

"ベセスダ ブロス..." (Besesuda Burosu...)

Via Dredd

Microsoft is reportedly shuttering one of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) teams, according to an internal email sent by the team's leader to a significant number of Microsoft staff last week, in which the lead also accuses the company's executive leadership of "investigated and evidenced discrimination, harassment, and toxicity."

The email, first reported by Business Insider and corroborated by IGN, was sent by the former lead of one of Microsoft's key DEI teams. In it, they state that their "role and team were eliminated due to 'changing business needs' as of July 1st, 2024." IGN understands that the individual and a second person on their team were both laid off, but was not able to reach the sender for comment.

#Microsoft

No Man's Sky is ready for #PlayStation 5 Pro: the game received the update that has "Trinity" graphics preset (which is a codename of the new console).

Sony privately asked the developers to upgrade their games in spring and specifically focus on improved ray tracing capabilities. The official announcement is expected later this year.

Also, it's still impressive how Hello Games keeps making the game better after all these years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7-9Bf47yfs

♥️ Blender 4.2 LTS has been released!

Some highlights:

• New render engine: EEVEE got a complete rewrite, bringing global illumination, displacement, better SSS, volumetric lighting and shadows, viewport motion blur, and so much more.

• Cycles: Ray Portals, Thin Film Interference, better volume rendering, blue noise, and more.

• The Compositor: Can now utilize GPU acceleration for offline renders, it’s faster on CPU, and more nodes are supported in the 3D Viewport.

• Extensions: A new way to share, install, and update add-ons and themes online within Blender.

• Portable installation.

• Khronos PBR Neutral Tone Mapper.

• New sculpt tools.

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Many people are focused on EEVEE RTX (which is awesome), but bois, check our what Khronos PBR Tone Mapper do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ3m0CfuSmg

The original Mafia #GameDesign from the perspective of a racing game fan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baw3jzW8t-8