AI targeting weapons feels like.... a bad thing. Right? Like a step too far? A bit crossing a line maybe?

This is a lie. Legally the FTC is an "independent agency" under the law. Stop bootlicking the fascist in chief.

I mean, I think what it comes down to is two things: 1) They weren't first 2) They aren't best So, they needed a niche that they can stake a claim to that will drive people to choose their product specifically. Being the definitive cornerstone of the "open" landscape of a groundbreaking piece of tech is a pretty damn good choice. The analogy is probably outdated, but they couldn't be McDonalds, so they chose to be Burger King.

Nope, they're talking about a literal key on your keyboard. They show, and talk about, it in the article source link. It's super dumb.

I mean, kind of fitting that they did it for Cyberpunk of all things.

The penalty for these kinds of egregious violations of their legal responsibilities should be nothing less than complete liquidation of the company with all proceeds going to those affected by their negligence, and a permanent ban from holding executive positions for all C-suite level execs and members of the board. Without those kinds of harsh penalties, this kind of crap will just keep happening.

Packing the microchromosomes into larger chromosomes could have an advantage in that it's less "work" to coordinate chromosomal replication and segregation into the daughter cells with a smaller number of larger chromosomes. Less energy spent on the microtubule assembly to "run" mitosis. Fewer chances that a chromosome that didn't attach to the assembly properly stalls the process, etc. There are lots of areas where the larger assemblages could present an advantage that evolution could work on.
On the other hand, having smaller chromosomes means that if something does go wrong, there are potentially fewer genes affected by it so assuming the affected genes aren't super dosage sensitive, the resulting cells are more likely to be viable overall.
Evolutionary biology is always fascinating!

The problem was not just with AMD's chipset drivers, that only affected preferred core selection, it was also Microsoft's changes to Windows 11 itself which affected cache performance (and was the much bigger performance hit)

In a world where people actually use their brains: voters. Alas...

Right... because scientific endeavors can totally afford to scale up budgets dramatically just because one special interest drove up prices to astronomical levels. That's totally how budgets applied for years in advance work... /s

I don't give a shit about cryptocurrency, but mysidia is abolutely right about the demand for GPUs for research, deep-learning, and scientific applications. Crypto could completely die out (I don't think it will, but also, don't care either way) and the scientific applications will still be growing to make their investments in production capacity worthwhile. Nvidia is *definitely* being short-sighted by not dramatically scaling their manufacturing capacity.

fMRI doesn't really track brain activity, it tracks blood oxygenation which is used as a reasonably good approximation of actual activity. Just a little nitpick.