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Why reinvent the CPU wheel when you can spend your time engineering a way out of your dependence on Nvidia?

Every quarter, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asked about the growing number of custom ASICs encroaching on his AI empire, and each time he downplays the threat, arguing that GPUs offer superior programmability in a rapidly changing environment.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last year, we reported on the efforts of classic iPod fans to preserve playable copies of the downloadable clickwheel games that Apple sold for a brief period in the late '00s. The community was working to get around Apple's onerous FairPlay DRM by having people who still owned original copies of those (now unavailable) games sync their accounts to a single iTunes installation via a coordinated Virtual Machine. That "master library" would then be able to provide playable copies of those games to any number of iPods in perpetuity. At the time, the community was still searching for iPod owners with syncable copies of the last few titles needed for their library. With today's addition of Real Soccer 2009 to the project, though, all 54 official iPod clickwheel games are now available together in an easily accessible format for what is likely the first time. [...] Now that the consolidated clickwheel game collection is complete, though, owners of any iPod 5G+ or iPod Nano 3G+ should be able to sync the complete library to their personal device completely offline, without worrying about any server checks from Apple. They can do that by setting up a Virtual Machine using these GitHub instructions or by downloading this torrented Internet Archive collection and creating their own Virtual Machine from the files contained therein. The effort was made possible by GitHub user Olsro, with help from other iPod enthusiasts. To Olsro, completing the project "means this whole part from the early 2000s will remain with us forever." He also expressed hope that "this Virtual Machine can also be useful towards any security [or] archeologist researcher who want to understand how the DRM worked."

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Sky Sinclair, a 35-year-old 'blonde haired, blue eyed' actress from Glasgow has won more than £18,000 in a race discrimination case after her boss at a bar where she was working described her as 'Aryan'.

Dame Sheila Hancock has admitted she still talks to her late husband John Thaw when she is feeling lonely.

Angelina Jolie cried as she recalled her late mother's struggle with cancer at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. She stars as a woman diagnosed with the disease in Couture, which debuted on Sunday.

'Stop this garbage already!'

The latest release candidate for Linux is out, but before its release, Linus Torvalds had something he wanted to get off his chest in his usual style.…

Africa has officially joined the push to demand reparations from Britain and other former colonial powers for 'historic crimes', including slavery and imperialism.

As I gaze out from my balcony across the beautiful village of Cotignac, Provence, I feel the soft glow from my glass of rosé make me feel light-headed.

Like a snake eating its own tail

ai-pocalypse  Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the top of organic search results, are drawing around 10 percent of their sources from documents written by ... other AIs, according to a recent report.…

Hilda Vasquez was arrested by New Orleans police on charges of negligent homicide after her son was killed in an alligator attack and found dead in a lagoon near their house.

Kevin Barry, founder and sole developer of Nova Launcher, has left parent company Branch Metrics after being told to stop work on both the launcher and an open-source release. While the app remains on Google Play, the launcher's website currently shows a 404 error. The Verge reports: Mobile analytics company Branch Metrics acquired Nova in 2022. The company's CEO at the time, co-founder Alex Austin, said on Reddit that if Barry were to leave Branch, "it's contracted that the code will be open-sourced and put in the hands of the community." Austin left Branch in 2023, and now with Barry officially gone from the company, too, it's unclear if the launcher will now actually be open-sourced. "I think the newer leadership since Alex Austin left has put a different focus on the company and Nova simply isn't part of that focus in any way at all," Cliff Wade, Nova's former customer relations lead who left as part of the 2024 layoffs, tells The Verge. "It's just some app that they own but no longer feel they need or want." Wade also said that "I don't believe Branch will do the right thing any time soon with regards to open-sourcing Nova. I think they simply just don't care and don't want to invest time, unless of course, they get enough pressure from the community and individuals who care." Users have started a change.org petition to ask for the project to be open-sourced, and Wade says it's a "great start" to apply that pressure. Wade said he hasn't personally seen Barry's contract, so couldn't corroborate the claim of a contractual obligation to open-source Nova. Still, he said that the community "deserves" for the launcher to be open-sourced. "Branch just simply needs to do the right thing here and honor what they as a company have stated as well as what then CEO Alex Austin has stated numerous times prior to him leaving Branch."

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Prince William gave an amusing insight into his children's sibling relationship today, describing Prince Louis as a 'character' who 'likes to wind his brother and sister up.'

Ronald Lord, 71, was handed a six-year prison sentence after being found with eight kilograms of the class A drug in the back seat panel of his scooter when he was stopped at Gatwick Airport.

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a new threat targeting iPhone users. Hackers are using Apple's own servers to trick users into handing over their banking details.

The tragedy took place at the car park of Hitchin Town FC on Saturday at around 2pm. Paramedics announced the pair dead at the scene while a third man was also treated for minor injuries.

CRAIG HOPE IN BELGRADE: Harry Kane says England's players will walk off if they are subjected to racist abuse in Belgrade on Tuesday night.

Former jockey Jonathan Creswell fatally strangled Katie Simpson, 21, in August 2020. He died by suicide in April 2024 after the first day of his murder trial.

Jason was seen posing with his wife Amanda Anka, 56, and their daughters Francesca, 18, and Maple, 13. Bateman married Anka - who is the daughter of singer Paul Anka - on July 3, 2001.

James, who made a name for himself with his irreverent radio banter, died last month aged 74 following a long battle with cancer.

Russell Crowe enjoyed a date night with fiancée Britney Theriot at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday.