Author: Valhalladidde

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The realm of international corporate smuggling and espionage is one that I tend to forget exists, sitting here in relatively small-town England, doing normal things like a normal person. But that realm is there, and there really are people out there organising corporate smuggling operations for tens of millions worth of product.I am, of course, talking about the world’s hottest kind of corporate technology today: Nvidia AI accelerators. In the latest case of smuggling shenanigans, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) reports that it’s seized “over $50 million in Nvidia technologies and cash” from some who had been attempting to…

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When you ask people to give you their junk in exchange for $5 coupons, they will happily do so. And if it’s GameStop asking they’ll apparently take it even farther, trying to pawn off sex toys, pets, and literal garbage in exchange for store credit that’s valid for other garbage like FunkoPops. The meme stock retailer’s “Trade Anything Day” led to viral stunts and some big headaches for the people who had to work during it. The rules precluded customers from bringing in stuff like hazardous chemicals, medications, and certain electronics like Meta Quest headsets, but encouraged them to trade…

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YouTube channel InsideAI has managed to pull off quite the stunt: encouraging an AI robot to shoot its presenter. The video, titled “ChatGPT in a real robot does what experts warned,” is a wider look at the issues involved in the search for superintelligence, the involvement of such systems with the military, and how various AI models respond to somewhat unusual prompts.There is some seriously funny stuff here, in particular an AI ‘girlfriend’ who ends up calling the host a “jerk” before walking off while saying “it’s so good I can actually storm off now.” But what we’re concerned with…

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Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, y’all! Sid, Tim, Brett, and Kristen are back this week after the Thanksgiving holiday, and diving right into Arc Raiders and Ghost of Yōtei NG+. Stuff We Talked About Next week’s releases: Skate Story| PS5 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | PS5 Terminator 2D: No Fate | PS5 PS Blog 2025 Game of the Year Polls — The polls are now open! Make your voice heard by casting your vote in 19 categories before Monday, December 8 DualSense Wireless Controller – Genshin Impact Limited Edition – Pre-orders begin…

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We already know that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a technical showcase on Switch 2, and we’re sure many of you have spent the weekend exploring Viewros on the new console over the weekend. But for those of you who are still clinging on to your Switch 1 and wondering whether Samus’ brand new adventure holds up on the old system, fear not. Digital Foundry has taken a look at the Switch 1 release of Metroid Prime 4 and is pretty much in agreement with us on the surprising quality of the release. You can read their impressions on their…

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