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One of our favourite pieces from the past 12 months. Originally published 22 July, 2022.

It takes a whole lot of GPU power to run today’s most powerful AI models. Even the most extreme gaming PC build wouldn’t be able to handle the kind of oomph needed to get the best AI Dungeon models up and running. In order for Latitude to power what’s essentially this less numbers-heavy, more free and creative online D&D campaign, you’d need something truly beastly.

According to Nick Walton, the CEO of Latitude and the software engineer who helped design the initial code for the D&D-inspired story generator, “If you wanted to run the largest AI for AI dungeon, you would need not just a high-powered GPU, but a cluster of eight or 16 massive high-powered GPUs.” Even those would need to be more powerful than the best graphics cards on the consumer market.

Language models such as AI Dungeon’s Dragon experience, based on the 178 billion par…

All the help you need to solve today’s Wordle is on this very page, whether you’re after a quick brush-up of your general skills or an easy win. There are tips, a clue written for the September 12 (815) puzzle, and of course, today’s Wordle answer ready and waiting to go.

Today’s puzzle turned out to be a real rollercoaster of emotions for me, veering from utter despair to four green letters, then from four green letters to please be the answer please oh thank goodness. Never has being almost completely right been so very wrong. Let’s hope tomorrow’s Wordle isn’t quite so stressful.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Tuesday, September 12

If you were cooking or baking and needed to beat lots of air into some eggs, you’d probably use today’s answer to do so. This word can also mean to quickly take someone or something away to another place too. There’s only a single vowel to find today. 

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Remember the guy with the balls so big he sued Amazon and JRR Tolkien’s grandson, claiming they infringed on his Lord of the Rings fanfic with the Rings of Power TV series? In a shocking turn of events that no one (except literally everyone) saw coming, he lost badly and now owes the Tolkien estate $134,000 in legal fees.

The whole thing began back in 2017 when Demetrious Polychron registered his book, “The Fellowship of the King,” with the US Copyright office. He then sent a letter to Simon Tolkien, director of the Tolkien Estate and grandson of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien, describing the book and requesting a review of the manuscript.

After receiving no response, he hired a lawyer in 2019 and contacted the Tolkien Estate again with another proposal to collaborate on the project. The estate quickly said “no,” at which point he personally delivered a copy of his manuscript to Simon Tolkien’s home for consideration. 

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Twitch has taken back a rule change it made just two days ago. After seeing what some streamers did with the freedom to stream “artistic depictions of nudity,” the site said it “went too far.”

The change was one of several adjustments to Twitch’s policies on sexual content and nudity made on Wednesday, and lifted a ban on “drawn, animated, or sculpted” depictions of breasts and genitals. The adjustment was intended to permit Twitch’s community of visual artists to share their depictions of the human figure.

Some of the spicy streams that followed violated even the relaxed rules, says Twitch. (Depictions of “fictionalized sexual acts” were still prohibited, for example.) But some of the imagery that was allowed under the new guidelines was “met with community concern,” the company said in a blog post today. 

Dexerto, for instance, declared that Twitch’s art category had been “overrun by explicit furry and anime content,” although that’s not what Twitch specific…

Intel’s next graphics architecture, Xe2, will be more widely compatible with games and less clunky, says Intel Fellow Tom Petersen. The improvements announced so far for Xe2 include many specifically designed to correct issues widely reported with current Arc discrete graphics cards. But they’re also designed to and put it in line with the more popular architecture of the day. 

The new Xe2 architecture powering Intel’s latest Lunar Lake processors is the same as what’s set to arrive inside its Battlemage graphics cards. We’re still none the wiser as to when Battlemage will be released, though Lunar Lake is coming later this year, in Q3. 

Over at a Lunar Lake event, Petersen has spoken about what we can expect from the forthcoming graphics architecture: “When you think back to Alchemist, and as new games launch, we have a lot of issues and we require lots of bug fixes and driver fixes. And DX9 specifically needs a lot of work.

“We’ve made a tremendous amou…

Whether you’re just about to start today’s Wordle or one line away from disaster, you’ll find everything you need to win right here. Find a fresh angle with our general tips and tricks, guide your guesses with a clue for the May 16 (1062) game, or turn everything around in an instant with today’s answer.

My first two guesses didn’t look like much: a pair of yellow letters surrounded by grey boxes and nothing more. But today they were all I needed to win, my third attempt turning everything a winning shade of green in an instant. What a great game.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, May 16

To hold someone or something up, especially if you’re trying to buy time. You might also use this word when a car’s engine suddenly stops—or even to describe a market trader’s stand.  

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Is there a double letter in Wordle today? 

Yes, there is a double letter in today’s puzzle. 

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The release of Call of Duty: Warzone 2 in November was, for the most part, a clean break from the original game. It had largely the same features, a great new map, DMZ mode, and lots of neat quality-of-life updates. The one thing that Warzone 2 did not have, to the dismay of a huge chunk of its community, was a small map. Activision plans to remedy this in Season 2 with the return of Resurgence mode and a new small map to accompany it, but it’s taking some extra time to deliver.

Warzone 2 Season 2 has been delayed two weeks, and is now planned to start on February 15. Activision explained the delay on the official Call of Duty Twitter account, saying that it’s “making several changes based on what we have heard from our player community.”

One of those changes is, possibly, the fast-tracking of a small map and Resurgence mode, a battle royale variant that allows squads to respawn if at least one teammate is alive. The Warzone community’s love affair with …

It brings me great pleasure to report that Uber-Lilith has fallen: The first recorded Hardcore mode kill of the Diablo 4 pinnacle boss, the game’s toughest single fight, has been accomplished by Ben, a Twitch streamer and self-described “gamer just trying to game.”

The end of the Diablo 4 campaign is not the end of the game. Once Lilith has been properly dealt with, you can continue on the live-service grind to take your character all the way to the maximum level of 100, if that’s what you’re into. But there’s more than just a three-digit character level waiting at the end: There is also the Echo of Lilith.

Echo of Lilith—aka Uber-Lilith—is a very, very powerful version of the base boss, designed to give the game’s most accomplished and overpowered players something to worry about. To even meet Echo of Lilith, you need to have defeated the campaign and reached World Tier 4, Diablo 4’s highest difficulty level. In a pre-release interview with GamesRadar, assoc…

It’s been 25 years since the release of the original Half-Life, one of the most important videogames of all time, and to celebrate the big birthday Valve has released a major new update to the game that adds new features and support for modern displays, restores cut and lost content, implements full Steam Deck support, and a whole bunch more—and it’s giving the full game away to one and all until November 20.

Okay, fair enough: The odds are that you already own Half-Life, or maybe the Black Mesa remake, or at the very least you’ve played it at some point over the past half-century. But this is not the Half-Life of days long ago—I mean, it is, but there’s a whole lot more going on courtesy of the 25th Anniversary Update.

“We launched Half-Life on November 19th, 1998,” Valve wrote. “We are very proud of what we built back then and we remain extremely grateful for the community of players who have been enjoying it ever since. The game hasn’t received as much att…