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TITAN Xp Finally Runs on Windows XP Thanks to a Modded NVIDIA Driver
A modder going by SupraGSX has released an unofficial Windows XP driver on GitHub that adds support for NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 10-series "Pascal" graphics cards, including the TITAN Xp.
Called Forceware 382.69, it is a patched version of NVIDIA's 368.81 driver from July 2016 and only works on 32-bit...
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Hardware
Halo 2 Reportedly Runs at 30 FPS on a Jailbroken PS5 Thanks to New Xbox Emulator
A jailbroken PlayStation 5 can now run original Xbox games, which is quite ironic, to say the least.
Developer ZiZc3 has published XPSemu Alpha 1 on GitHub, a port of the open-source xemu emulator that runs as a native PS5 app. In the developer's own testing, an unmodified Halo 2 holds 30 FPS on...
Hardware
Intel Core Ultra 4000 Naming Reportedly Extends to "Nova Lake-HX" Mobile Processors
Intel's "new" four-digit Core Ultra 4000 naming apparently isn't limited to desktop chips.
Prominent leaker Jaykihn says on X that "Nova Lake-HX" laptop processors will use the same four-number format, while H-series and suffix-less mobile chips continue with the three-digit naming of the previous...
Hardware
Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve Smashes Series Steam Record With Over 52,000 Concurrent Players
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is off to the series' best PC launch by a wide margin.
The game came out on October 2 and peaked at over 52,000 concurrent Steam players a day later, according to SteamDB . That is nearly four times the 13,758 that Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown managed in 2019, while...
This Week in Gaming (Week 41)
Welcome to the first full week of October and boy do we have a packed week full of new releases and we have two major releases this week, with one being a prequel in a popular Xbox franchise and one being a sequel MMORPG.
As for this week's other releases, we start the week with some racing in the...
Homelab
OpenWorkers: an open-source, self-hostable Cloudflare Workers alternative (Rust + V8, MIT)
I've been testing OpenWorkers , which is in public beta.
It's an open-source serverless platform written in Rust that runs the Cloudflare Workers programming model. You can self-host it or use their hosted version. TypeScript runs with no build step. JS and TS run in V8 isolates, and Rust, TinyGo...
Modder Solders Dual 8-Pin Board to RTX 5090's 16-Pin Header, Wires Stay Below 40°C
Melting 16-pin connectors keep making headlines, and some RTX 5090 owners have started taking the protection of their expensive cards into their own hands.
Reddit user DallasGrave has modified an MSI GeForce RTX 5090 with two extra 8-pin PCIe power inputs that work alongside the card's original...
Jagex Announces RuneScape 4, a New MMO Built in Unreal Engine
Jagex has announced a fourth RuneScape MMO at RuneFest 2026.
It currently goes by the working title RS4, though most people are already calling it RuneScape 4. The game is being built in Unreal Engine, and Jagex hasn't said which version. It's the first numbered follow-up since RuneScape 3 arrived...
Security
Google halts open-source bug bounty program amid AI spam surge
Google has now suspended submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) after being flooded by AI-generated reports.
Homelab
[Feedback wanted] Puzzlarium — a local-first, optionally self-hosted jigsaw puzzle collection app
There is no public release or hosted service to promote yet — I am looking for early architectural feedback.
Hi everyone, I am prototyping Puzzlarium, an AGPL-3.0 jigsaw puzzle collection app. It is for cataloguing physical puzzle boxes, not for solving puzzles online. The direction so far is...