Intel fires 15,000 employees as it intensifies focus on AI

Intel fires 15,000 employees as it intensifies focus on AI

Intel is making a strategic shift toward AI as it grapples with significant financial difficulties, including an 85% year-on-year drop in second-quarter profit. The company has also announced that it’ll slash over 15,000 jobs as part of its effort to reallocate resources toward AI technology. In light of ongoing financial struggles and escalating competition from…

Helldivers 2 players hammer bots even harder as “Kill 5” Personal Order returns – Destructoid

Helldivers 2 players hammer bots even harder as “Kill 5” Personal Order returns – Destructoid

The infamous “Kill 5” Personal Order has returned to Helldivers 2, causing confusion for those who didn’t see it the first time around. However, we now know how to complete this objective, and thankfully, it aligns with our current Major Order. The “Kill 5” Personal Order in Helldivers 2 requires you to kill 5 Automaton…

Testing shows “significant durability” problems with edge-lit LCD TVs

Testing shows “significant durability” problems with edge-lit LCD TVs

Enlarge / Samsung’s 2022 The Frame is one of the edge-lit TVs that RTINGs tested. Samsung Thin LCD-LED TVs are appealing because they’re easy to find space for and are aesthetically pleasing. To stay slim, most thin TVs, like Samsung’s The Frame pictured above, use edge-lit backlights. But beyond the image quality limitations of these…

Apple reports record revenues despite stagnant iPhone sales

Apple reports record revenues despite stagnant iPhone sales

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. Lionel Hahn/Getty Images Apple reported its earnings results for the third quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, and it satisfied investors’ expectations at the top level with 5 percent growth year over year. The company set a third-quarter record with $85.8 billion in revenue. Despite that growth, a couple…

Predecessor 1.0 will finally be released later this month – Destructoid

Predecessor 1.0 will finally be released later this month – Destructoid

Developer Omeda Studios has announced that its third-person MOBA Predecessor will finally be leaving its early access phase and launching as a 1.0 release on August 20, 2024. The game has been in development for years and is itself a resurrection of an even older title, but the work is far from over. Through 2024,…

World of Assassination – Destructoid

World of Assassination – Destructoid

The Mystery of the Unicorns challenge in Hitman World of Assassination is fairly simple to complete, provided you have good map knowledge. Without it, you’ll struggle, which will make any Silent Assassin attempt even more difficult. Developer IO Interactive added the Mystery of the Unicorns challenge to Hitman World of Assassination as part of the…

Sticky Business expands its sticker shop with nature-themed DLC Camp Zinnias

Sticky Business expands its sticker shop with nature-themed DLC Camp Zinnias

If you’re a fan of cozy games that inspire creativity, challenge organizational skills, and feature a ton of unlockables, then I’m willing to bet you’ve heard of Sticky Business. Just a year after its launch, developer Spellgarden Games has a new DLC on the way.  This will be the second Sticky Business DLC. The first,…

Senators propose “Digital replication right” for likeness, extending 70 years after death

Senators propose “Digital replication right” for likeness, extending 70 years after death

Enlarge (credit: Maria Korneeva via Getty Images) On Wednesday, US Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R.-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act of 2024. The bipartisan legislation, up for consideration in the US Senate, aims to protect individuals from unauthorized…

Microsoft says 365 outage was amplified by internal errors

Microsoft says 365 outage was amplified by internal errors

Microsoft’s latest outage on Tuesday might have been amplified by its own unforced errors, the company said in an incident report. “While the initial trigger event was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which activated our DDoS protection mechanisms, initial investigations suggest that an error in the implementation of our defenses amplified the impact of the…