AI, Crypto-harm, and bad PC ports :(

It's tough going in PC gaming land right now, with seemingly every single big game release suffering from performance woes on the PC. There doesn't seem to have been a launch this year that wasn't beset by problems, and PC gamers are getting real fed up with it. Rightly so.

In fact, it's got to the state where modders are having to take things into their own hands to improve performance, like this dude who jammed DLSS 3 into the hot mess that is Jedi: Survivor.

In a galaxy a little closer to home, NASA has figured out how to extend Voyager 2's mission out in the cosmos basically by sticking it into the late '70s hardware version of power-saver mode. And if that's a bit too techie, someone's created a transistor made of wood. Which is mostly interesting because Hope's perfect pun headline is worth your click all by itself.

The owner of GPT4free, a free GPT4 AI chatbot, could be in some legal hot water as OpenAI has threatened to take him to court. Why's that, you wonder? Because his chatbot lets you use ChatGPT4 without paying for it. GPT4free circumvents ChatGPT4's $20-a-month paywall by pulling queries from sites that use ChatGPT4's API, like Quora and You.com. It piggybacks answers from sites that pay to use the API licenses.

If you're looking for an RTX 4080 gaming PC, you probably don't want to make many sacrifices on your spec. That's why we like this iBuyPower PC. It has the GPU and CPU we're after, but it's also great on storage space and system memory. And that NZXT case is better quality than some cheaper chassis we see on pre-built PCs.   View deal

You don't have to spend a lot on a gaming monitor in 2023. This ASRock screen proves it. Just take a look at that specs list, and for $145? It's exactly what we need for modern day gaming on a budget or mid-range gaming PC, and nothing more.   View deal

It's getting harder to recommend RTX 30-series machines in the face of the newer RTX 40-series, especially without a good discount. And while the CPU is a couple of generations old in this MSI machine, the rest of the spec is decent for a $775 gaming system.   View deal

Intel's Core i3, i5, and i7 branding has been around for well over a decade now, starting with the release of Nehalem chips back in 2009. It's been through a few iterations since then, namely the introduction of a higher Core i9 tier back in 2017, but its biggest shake-up might be on the way with next-gen Meteor Lake chips. Intel might be ditching the 'i' from Core i3, Core i5, etc., and in some cases replacing it with the word "Ultra".

Cryptocurrency mining in the US sucked down more energy that every computer in the entire country. Every. Single. Computer. Yes, even Macs. Hell, at 50 billion kWh, crypto mining in the US almost used more power than all the televisions. And there are quite a few TVs in the States, in case you'd forgotten.

On April 30, 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web to the planet, free-of-charge. The "collaborative information system" was used by the scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, to communicate without delay across countries and continents, but deciding this tool was too useful to keep to themselves, the boffins over at CERN handed out the concept and code for everyone to use.