Overall, Microsoft reported $3.23 earnings per share, which is a 10% increase over the same quarter from 2024, and returned $9.7 billion to shareholders. The company also reported a 5% operating expense increase ($16.2 billion) "driven by investments in cloud engineering."

Microsoft's FY25 Q2 report is divided into three business categories: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. Productivity and Business Processes generated $29.4 billion in revenue (a 14% increase), with the following highlights:

• 16% increase in Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services
• 8% increase in Microsoft 365 Consumer products
• 9% increase in LinkedIn revenue
• 15% increase in Dynamics products and cloud revenue

Intelligent Cloud, which includes Microsoft's server products, such as Azure, generated $25.5 billion in revenue, a 19% year-over-year increase, thanks to a 31% growth of Azure and other cloud services revenue. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the following about the company's AI efforts:

We are innovating across our tech stack and helping customers unlock the full ROI of AI to capture the massive opportunity ahead. Already, our AI business has surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $13 billion, up 175% year-over-year.

The More Personal Computing category, which includes Windows OEM, Xbox, and search business, generated $14.7 billion in revenue:

• Windows OEM and Devices revenue increased by 4%
• Gaming revenue declined by 7%
• Xbox content and services grew by 2% thanks to Xbox Game Pass growth
• Xbox hardware revenue declined by 29%
• Search and ad business revenue grew by 21%

You can find more information about Microsoft's second quarter of the 2025 fiscal year on the official website.

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"In keeping with our fierce commitment to innovating during the development and delivery of Mass Effect, we have challenged ourselves to think deeply about delivering the best experience to our fans," says Mckay. "We are taking this opportunity between full development cycles to reimagine how we work at BioWare."

A report from IGN adds that some positions have been terminated entirely as a part of this restructuring, though these staff are also being offered a chance to apply for other EA positions. EA had declined to give exact numbers of affected staff when asked for comment.

"Given this stage of development, we don’t require support from the full studio," continues the post from GM Gary McKay. "We have incredible talent here at BioWare, and so we have worked diligently over the past few months to match many of our colleagues with other teams at EA that had open roles that were a strong fit."

The team working on the next Mass Effect entry is being led by a number of veterans from the classic trilogy, including Mike Gamble, Preston Watamaniuk, Derek Watts, Parrish Ley, and others. McKay added that the latest changes will help make BioWare "a more agile, focused studio." The company has been dropping hints about Mass Effect 5 for a few years now, but it's still in early development stages.

It was revealed last week that Dragon Age: The Veilguard had missed EA expectations by 50%, reaching only 1.5 million players since launch. The Veilguard's game director, Corinne Busche, also exited BioWare recently.

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While countless PC gamers have come to enjoy the plethora of PlayStation exclusives that have been ported to Steam and other storefronts in recent years, a policy that Sony recently began enforcing has angered many in the community: PlayStation Network (PSN) requirements. Since last year, the firm has made signing up for one and using it while playing mandatory for nearly all newly released PlayStation Studios titles.

This began last May, when Sony began requiring PSN accounts for new and existing Helldivers 2 players alike, leading to an uproar that eventually saw the firm backpedal. But while Arrowhead Game Studios' co-op shooter didn't require PSN accounts anymore, Sony quickly started asking for them in new ports like Ghost of Tsushima, and even prevented players in the 100+ regions where PSN is not available from purchasing those games. And despite constant protests from PC players, the company hasn't budged on the matter...at least, not until now.

On Wednesday, Sony announced that four PlayStation games on PC will no longer require PSN accounts in order to play them. Specifically, these titles include Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (releasing tomorrow on January 30), God of War Ragnarök, The Last of Us Part II Remastered (coming April 3, 2025), and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered; without PSN requirements, all of these will presumably become available to all players globally, though that will require Sony relisting them for sale in the territories where you can't sign up.

Update 6.0 is slated to hit all platforms soon, and that's when the FOV slider will be implemented. It will be especially useful for ultra-wide monitor users, letting them expand their sight lines much further than before. "While implementing it has been technically challenging, we’ve finally managed to produce a slider worthy of our standards," says the studio.

The 6.0 update will also carry the Tomb PVP map, one that's described as having many narrow passages for a more close quarter arena than other maps.

The studio is also working on adding the Biovore, a brand-new enemy type for PVE missions that feature Tyranids. This Extremis enemy shoots Spore Mines, making it a threat in both long-range and up-close encounters. A new Datavault area is also being added to the mission select hub, which will let players complete special in-game missions, like "Make a Carnifex stun itself in Operations mode," to unlock various cosmetic rewards.

Other upcoming content revealed in the community update today includes a Perks rework to make them "more satisfying and engaging," more finisher animations, a trade-up function for Master-Crafted and Artificer Armoury Data to Relic, an even higher difficulty level above Lethal, and a cross-play toggle to prevent PC players from matching with console players.

Saber has not given exact release dates for any of these features and changes hitting the game, but the studio did say that it currently plans to ship at least one content update every two months in 2025. Going by that schedule, considering the last Space Marien 2 update landed in early December, we may see 6.0 arrive in early February.

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It was back in October 2024 on stage at Comic Con that Sony suddenly announced that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is coming to PC. While this port of the PlayStation 5 exclusive from 2023 is landing tomorrow on the new platform, the company has been oddly quiet about details about this version. Finally though, a blog post has landed with detailed system requirements, its raytracing upgrades, and information about exclusive features on the platform.

"Ray-traced reflections quickly catch your eye in the skyscraper-filled city of Marvel’s New York as you swing along its many glass surfaces," describes Nixxes' communications manager Julian Huijbregts. "Meanwhile, we’re offering ray-traced interiors, shadows, and ambient occlusion options that add an additional layer of believability with realistic shadows and increased depth to the game."

For those with "Super Hero-tier" PC rigs, the game also offers an increased raytracing geometry detail setting and a raytracing object range slider, alongside support for NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction for those with supported hardware.

Here are the wide range of hardware requirements the studio detailed today:

The game will also ship with support for ultra-wide monitors, as well as NVIDIA DLSS 3 and AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling and frame generation, alongside Intel XeSS.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 lands on PC tomorrow, January 30. As pre-orders were never offered, Sony is bundling the pre-order bonuses, seen above, with all regular purchases instead. As announced a few hours ago, a PSN account is optional for playing Spider-Man 2 on PC. Moreover, Peter Parker’s Advanced Suit 2.0 is coming to Marvel Rivals today as a purchasable cosmetic option.

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Microsoft has announced that it will be bringing “NPU-optimized” versions of the DeepSeek-R1 AI model to Copilot+ PCs soon, first with Snapdragon X devices, followed by Intel Lunar Lake and AMD Ryzen AI 9 processors. The first release will be DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B, and will be available via the Microsoft AI Toolkit for developers. 7B and 14B variants will arrive later.

"These optimized models let developers build and deploy AI-powered applications that run efficiently on-device, taking full advantage of the powerful NPUs in Copilot+ PCs” says a Microsoft blog post announcing DeepSeek R1 support. “With our work on Phi Silica, we were able to harness highly efficient inferencing – delivering very competitive time to first token and throughput rates, while minimally impacting battery life and consumption of PC resources … Additionally, we take advantage of Windows Copilot Runtime (WCR) to scale across the diverse Windows ecosystem with ONNX QDQ format.”

In the blog post, Microsoft highlights how it worked to ensure the R1 models could run locally on NPU-based hardware. “First, we leverage a sliding window design that unlocks super-fast time to first token and long context support despite not having dynamic tensor support in the hardware stack. Second, we use the 4-bit QuaRot quantization scheme to truly take advantage of low bit processing.”

Microsoft says the 1.5B Distilled R1 model will be available soon, and that it will be accessible via the AI Toolkit extension in VS Code. Developers can use Playground to experiment with DeepSeek R1 locally on compatible Copilot+ PCs. In addition to supporting DeepSeek R1 locally, Microsoft is also making these AI models available in the cloud via Azure AI Foundry. “As part of Azure AI Foundry, DeepSeek R1 is accessible on a trusted, scalable, and enterprise-ready platform, enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate advanced AI while meeting SLAs, security, and responsible AI commitments—all backed by Microsoft’s reliability and innovation.”

Microsoft has moved fast to support DeepSeek R1, even as US tech firms panic over its existence. OpenAI now claims that DeepSeek has stolen proprietary code to develop their AI model, which cost less than $10 million to develop. This stands in stark contrast to the AI models developed by US firms, which has cost billions so far.

Earlier this month, Nvidia announced GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080 & RTX 5070 graphics cards.

While RTX 5090 reviews were out a few days ago, we didn’t cover it. It was around 30% faster, has around 30% more cores, uses 30% more power and costs around 30% more.

So when we looked at the specs of RTX 5080, we asked ourselves whether Nvidia even made any major changes in it. As it had only minor increase in specs over the RTX 4080 Super.

Specs Of Nvidia RTX 5080 vs RTX 4080 Super

As one can see. The difference in most specs is just 5%. Except new GDDR7 VRAM, there’s hardly any changes.

How does it translate to performance. Let’s check the reviews.

Reviews

Tom’s Hardware

Tom’s Hardware tested the RTX 5080 and called it “Incremental gains over the previous generation”.

In raster performance at 4K (what this graphics card is meant for), the RTX 5080 is just 9% faster than RTX 4080 Super and 10% faster than AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. It’s even worse at 1440p, where it’s just 7% faster than RTX 4080 Super and 9% faster than AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

In ray tracing performance, RTX 5080 is just 5% faster than RTX 4080 Super at 4K. At 1440p that reduces to 1%. This performance increase in ray tracing is massively disappointing.

AMD always lags behind in ray tracing, so it’s not much to speak about or compare to.

In terms of power usage, at 4K both RTX 5080 and RTX 4080 Super are similar too. With a difference of just 3W. While RTX 5080 uses 297W average in gaming, RTX 4080 Super uses 299W. While AMD RX 7900 XTX 360W, RTX 4090 400W and RTX 5090 496W in the same.

It changes slightly – 4% with 1440p, where RTX 5080 uses 266W average in gaming, while RTX 4080 Super uses 276W in same. While AMD RX 7900 XTX 361W, RTX 4090 354W and RTX 5090 409W in the same.

TechSpot

Steve Walton from the Hardware Unboxed fame posted a written review for RTX 5080 on TechSpot. Those who want to watch the review instead can find it here (YouTube). It called the RTX 5080 a RTX 4080 Ti instead.

In raster performance at 4K, the RTX 5080 is just 11% faster than RTX 4080 Super and 8% faster than AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. It’s even worse at 1440p, where it’s just 4% faster than RTX 4080 Super and 5% faster than AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

In ray tracing performance, they tested it with quality upscaling. In it, the RTX 5080 is just 9% faster than RTX 4080 Super at 4K. At 1440p that reduces to 5%.

In power consumption, it used anywhere from 4% to 20% less power than the 4080 Super, depending on the game.

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TechPowerUP reviewed the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080.

In raster performance at 4K, they found that the RTX 5080 is just 12% faster than RTX 4080 Super and 14% faster than AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. It’s even worse at 1440p, where it’s just 9% faster than RTX 4080 Super and 11% faster than AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

In ray tracing performance, they found that the RTX 5080 is just 10% faster than RTX 4080 Super at 4K. At 1440p that reduces to 6%.

In power consumption, RTX 5080 used about 326W in gaming in raster, which is 20-30W lesser than RTX 4080 Super. In ray tracing, it increased further to 332W, which is 42W more than RTX 4080 Super. Meanwhile, AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX consistently used 360W across both raster and ray tracing.

Conclusion – Worst xx80 Nvidia GPU In Years

Those want more reviews can check out VideoCardz for a review round-up.

So why we call it the worst xx80 range Nvidia graphics card in years. For a simple reason. Let’s check generation upon generation uplift in performance of previous xx80 range graphics cards:

• GTX 680 → GTX 780: 21%
• GTX 780 → GTX 980: 24%
• GTX 980 → GTX 1080: 40%
• GTX 1080 → RTX 2080: 31%
• RTX 2080 → RTX 3080: 40%
• RTX 3080 → RTX 4080: 33%
• RTX 4080 → RTX 5080: 12%

These numbers are taken from all the TechPowerUP reviews. All percentages are at 4K, except GTX 680 to GTX 780, which was done at 1600p.

As one can see. In a whole decade, we cannot find a single Nvidia xx80 graphics card which offers less than 20% improvement in performance at 4K. Except the new GDDR7 memory, RTX 5080 doesn’t offer much increase in performance.

It does have the new DLSS 4 multi frame generation, which so far is exclusive to the RTX 50 series, but it has its own issues and that’s about it.

The RTX 5080 is a massive disappointment of a graphics card. Forget about beating RTX 4090, it hardly beats RTX 4080 Super.

In fact, VideoCardz even jokingly said it needs to be unlaunched. Just like how the original RTX 4080 was unlaunched due to public backlash.

It seems to have been made only to make RTX 5090 look so that people buy the expensive model instead.

Those who want to switch from RTX 30 can buy RTX 5080, but those who have RTX 40 have gotten no reason to upgrade to it. What’s worse is that there are hardly any RTX 5080 which are going to be available at MSRP at launch.

We feel Nvidia might be making Super series for RTX 50 series soon, with 3GB VRAM chips instead of 2GB ones currently used.

Both Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are launching on 30th January. We doubt many would be interested in RTX 5080 though.

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Hello Games is continuing its mission to keep improving No Man's Sky. It was in July of last year that the studio shipped its Worlds update to the masses, offering a major graphical upgrade to the planets players can visit in the sci-fi universe. Back then, the studio promised a second installment to that update, and it's finally here.

The Worlds Part II update is revamping the universe by adding billions of more star systems for players to discover, making sure that any explored and player-customized planets remain untouched. Players will now be able to find water worlds, gas giants, ancient ruins-covered planets, and many more variants in their exploration runs.

Planets with oceans will also house deep sea elements now, letting players dive much deeper than before to explore the ocean floors for their secrets and yet-to-be-discovered creatures. New biomes like dense jungles, fresh environmental hazards, increased flora minerals, curios diversity, and more are here now, too.

The studio is also touting improved lighting effects, dynamic water that reacts to moving objects, a new terrain system that can spawn massive mountains to climb, better modding support, 4X faster loading times, and so much more in the patch notes. Hello Games says these improvements come thanks to its work on Light No Fire, its next big fantasy project that's still in development.

Aside from all the tech upgrades, the Worlds Part II update also carries a new line of quests dubbed “In Stellar Multitudes” for players to pursue. These will naturally guide explorers through all the latest features and elements of the update.

No Man's Sky Worlds Part II update is now available across PC (Steam and Xbox app), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Game Pass, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch systems.

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It was interesting seeing Nvidia itself cooling down the initial (over)hype it created after it admitted that the RTX 5070 was nowhere close to the RTX 4090 without the help of DLSS 4 "fake" frames. The company probably realized that the 50-series is probably its weakest in a long time in terms of actual generational uplift.

And if you thought the RTX 5090 was disappointing, an early review of the RTX 5080 suggests that the disappointing launch run of Nvidia's new cards is going to continue.

igor'sLAB mistakenly published the review of the RTX 5080 early and the new 80-class Nvidia GeForce card is showing very little improvement compared to the RTX 4080 SUPER. The 5080 was found to be just 8.3% faster on average across 11 games compared to the 4080 SUPER variant and against the 4080, the difference could be around 12-15%.

In terms of AMD competition, the RTX 5080 is 8.4% faster than the 7900 XTX and 27.4% better than the XT.

Thus even the $999 5080 is failing to beat the 4090 proving again that Nvidia hyped the 5000 series a bit too much.

The test was at 1440p though which means the numbers at 4K will likely be better seeing how the 5090 too is doing much better at 4K compared to at 1440p. These are early drivers and so there is potentially a driver overhead issue currently hurting these GPUs unless it is an architectural flaw that Nvidia can't quite make up with software fixes alone.

According to TechPowerUp data, this suggests one of the poorest generational uplifts from Nvidia in a very long time starting from Maxwell (900 series GPUs).

• 980 -> 1080 = 51%

• 1080 -> 2080 = 39%

• 2080 -> 3080 = 63%

• 3080 -> 4080 = 49%

• 4080 -> 5080 = 7-9%

   

Power draw is also not a winning factor this time as igor'sLAB reported a 4.3% increased consumption (289.7 watts) on the RTX 5080 vs the 4080 SUPER.

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Microsoft's security researchers detected unusual activity in late 2024 where developer accounts, believed to be linked to DeepSeek, were exfiltrating large amounts of data through OpenAI's API. Although developers can use the OpenAI API to integrate its models into their own applications, distilling the outputs is a violation of OpenAI's usage policies.

President Donald Trump's artificial intelligence czar, David Sacks, said in an interview with Fox News, that there's substantial evidence that DeepSeek learned the output of OpenAI's models to help develop its own technology cheaply.

"..there's a technique in AI called distillation when one model learns from another model effectively. What happens is that the student models asks the parent model a lot of questions, just like a human would learn, but AIs can ask millions of questions and essentially mimic the reasoning process that they learn from the parent model.

 

There’s substantial evidence that what DeepSeek did here is they distilled knowledge out of OpenAI models and I don’t think OpenAI is very happy about this.”

OpenAI also provided a statement to Fox News based on Sack's allegations:

"We know PRC based companies—and others—are constantly trying to distill the models of leading US AI companies. As the leading builder of AI, we engage in countermeasures to protect our IP, including a careful process for which frontier capabilities to include in released models, and believe as we go forward that it is critically important that we are working closely with the U.S. government to best protect the most capable models from efforts by adversaries and competitors to take US technology."

Sam Altman had earlier responded to DeepSeek's launch of its R1 reasoning model by calling it "impressive" and that he is welcoming the competition.

At a Florida retreat, President Trump told House Republicans that the release of DeepSeek should be a "wake-up call" for U.S. companies (via CBS News on YouTube).

"Today and over the last couple of days, I've been reading about China and some of the companies in China, one in particular coming up with a faster method of AI and a much less expensive method. That's good because you don't have to spend as much money. I view that as a positive, as an asset.

 

Hopefully, the release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win,"

The White House is also closely monitoring all of the DeepSeek news, due to potential national security reasons. Officials are worried that DeepSeek's technology could be used to threaten U.S. interests, especially given the model's censorship of sensitive topics like Tiananmen Square and Taiwan.

Source: Bloomberg

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The 5D memory crystal utilizes a unique method to encode data by employing two optical dimensions and three spatial coordinates, allowing it to inscribe information within nanostructured voids in fused quartz. This advanced technique not only contributes to its impressive storage capacity but also ensures durability against extreme conditions, including temperatures reaching up to 1000°C and significant impact forces.

One of the most intriguing applications of this technology involves the preservation of genetic information. Scientists propose that using 5D memory crystals to archive genetic data could potentially enable the future revival of extinct species—a concept that intersects with ongoing advancements in synthetic biology. Although not currently feasible, the possibility of synthesizing life forms from stored genomic information presents exciting avenues for future research.

The crystals are meticulously stored in the Memory of Mankind archive, located within a salt cave in Hallstatt, Austria, designed to safeguard human history and knowledge for generations to come. Annotated with universal elements and DNA bases, these crystals contain clear instructions for interpreting the data inscribed within, providing insights into humanity's genetic blueprint.

However, the specialist skills and advanced equipment required for inscribing and reading from these memory crystals mean that direct applications could remain limited for the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, as Professor Peter Kazansky, the lead researcher, notes, the potential for constructing an everlasting repository of genomic information could revolutionize our approach to understanding and perhaps even resurrecting complex organisms someday.

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The hype building around Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has raised concern among key tech industry stakeholders, and for good reason. On Monday, DeepSeek became the most downloaded free AI app in the US, dethroning OpenAI's ChatGPT. Similarly, Microsoft, Meta, and NVIDIA's stock prices plummeted. The chipmaker lost approximately $500 billion in market valuation, making it the third-most valuable company in the world, behind Microsoft and Apple.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently weighed in on DeepSeek's ultra-cost-effective AI phenomenon while comparing it to the Jevons paradox economic concept. “Jevons paradox strikes again!” Nadella indicated on X. “As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can’t get enough of.”

With all the buzz surrounding DeepSeek, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has now responded to DeepSeek R1 calling it "impressive" and is welcoming the competition. Altman expects nothing short of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) "and beyond". On his official X handle, he wrote:

deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price. we will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases.

 

but mostly we are excited to continue to execute on our research roadmap and believe more compute is more important now than ever before to succeed at our mission. the world is going to want to use a LOT of ai, and really be quite amazed by the next gen models coming.

 

look forward to bringing you all AGI and beyond.

Curiously, just about a week ago, Altman cooled down the AGI hype stating that it was still far off and that OpenAI was not going to "deploy AGI next month" and that it was not even "built" yet. Hence either AGI is still a long-term vision for the company or it is possible that the CEO of OpenAI did not want to give away too many details about its AGI project. He stated:

twitter hype is out of control again.

 

we are not gonna deploy AGI next month, nor have we built it.

 

we have some very cool stuff for you but pls chill and cut your expectations 100x!

Meanwhile, Nvidia has also responded to DeepSeek's success and this is particularly important given that more than $450 billion got wiped off its market value yesterday. In an email statement to CNBC, an Nvidia spokesperson said:

DeepSeek is an excellent AI advancement and a perfect example of Test Time Scaling. DeepSeek’s work illustrates how new models can be created using that technique, leveraging widely-available models and compute that is fully export control compliant.

 

Inference requires significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs and high-performance networking. We now have three scaling laws: pre-training and post-training, which continue, and new test-time scaling.

Thus it looks like certain breeds of Nvidia GPUs were indeed used to power DeepSeek's software which should be good news for the hardware company as well as its investors. This should also be of some relief to Nvidia's competitors in the hardware space like AMD.

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Those exploring the dangers, wonders, and mysteries of The Zone will be happy to hear that STALKER 2 — GSC Game World's popular open-world survival shooter on Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC — has been updated with Patch 1.1.4. The new update is the studio's first of 2025, and includes several different fixes for major issues that were still impacting the game.

By far, the most critical fix included in the patch is a solution for a bug that was causing save files to disappear on the Xbox version of the game, leading to many players losing several hours of progress. Stalkers have been consistently reporting occurrences of this glitch for many weeks now, so it's great to finally see it addressed properly. Once you download the update, you shouldn't have to worry about this issue anymore if you're using one of Microsoft's consoles to play.

Additionally, GSC Game World has also rectified several performance issues, including a bug that was causing crashes and freezes during shader compilation, a memory leak in the Rostok zone of the map, a glitch that was leading to performance degradation after aiming or shooting weapons on very long playthroughs, and crashes caused by UI animations. Overall, the patch was a small one, but even so, the fixes included were major. Notably, the section below lists the full patch notes.

If you ever think age is just a number and you're still young at heart, the Apple iPad has turned 15 years old today (just saying!). Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs unveiled the company's first tablet device on January 27, 2010, and it was launched in April of the same year.

Jobs told the audience that Apple had already established itself in the mobile devices business, beating Samsung and Nokia in the revenue game. The iPhone had been around for three years, and Apple's laptops had evolved into mature devices, from the PowerBook in 1991 to the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.

While the iPhone found a place in the customer's pocket and the MacBook on their desk, Jobs explained that Apple felt a void existed for a device category offering more convenience and a better experience than the iPhone and MacBook at certain things. For tasks like web browsing, sending emails, browsing photos, ebooks, and watching videos.

“iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before,” the CEO said.

The original iPad featured a 9.7-inch LED backlight display with multi-touch support and 10-hour battery backup. It allowed users to interact with content on a touchscreen several times bigger than the iPhone, something a Mac couldn't. Users could rotate the iPad's user interface in any direction, and the device was thinner and lighter than laptops and netbooks.

Priced at $499, one of the selling points of the first-generation iPad was that it supported over 140,000 apps available for iPhone and iPod Touch on the App Store back then. Apple also tried to make it a lucrative option for business users by introducing the iWork for iPad suite.

iPad eventually evolved into a more potent device and an alternative to Mac and iPhone as it hit several milestones. Apple released the iPad mini as the first sub-series of the tablet lineup in 2012, featuring internal specifications similar to the iPad 2 but with a small hardware footprint.

Apple unwrapped its flagship tablet models under the "iPad Pro" branding in 2015. The company has since used iPad Pro to deliver its top-of-the-line tablet hardware specs. For instance, features like Apple Pencil, USB-C support, Face ID, ProMotion Display, LIDAR scanner, quad-speaker setup, and OLED display debuted on the iPad Pro before reaching the cheaper models.

iPad's original design featured a chassis with rounded corners, while its screen remained rectangular for several years. However, it was in 2018 that Apple introduced the third-generation iPad Pro with an all-screen design and rounded corners to claim more screen real estate.

From 0.5 inches in 2010, Apple reduced the iPad's thickness to just 5.1mm (0.2 inches approx.) on the M4 iPad Pro in 2024, calling it the "thinnest Apple product ever."

While Apple initially intended to create an entertainment device to bridge the gap, it has transformed the iPad lineup into something that can do much more. Its initial groundwork includes forking the iOS operating system to create iPadOS, offering several tablet-focused features tailored to differentiate the iPad and leverage its bigger screen.

Apple added file management and improved multitasking on the iPad by bringing features such as Split View, Side View, Centre Window, and Stage Manager. It also configured Safari on iPadOS to prefer desktop versions of websites by default and introduced Sidecar, which doubles up the iPad as an extended screen for Mac computers.

It started fitting the desktop-class M-series Apple Silicon chips in the iPad Pro lineup to make them more powerful. Apple's advanced video editing software Final Cut Pro 2 for iPad allows users to shoot and edit videos with a wireless multi-camera setup.

While the first-generation iPad offered a keyboard dock accessory, Apple has tried to match the desktop experience by launching the Magic Keyboard for iPad with trackpad and backlight. The Cupertino giant even ran ads trying to convince users why the iPad Pro could be their next computer.

Apple added support for mice and other peripherals over the years. However, the hot topic of whether an iPad can replace a desktop computer remains debatable. On a side note, one survey suggests users prefer iPhone over iPad in many cases, and iPad struggles to attract eyeballs even in cases where it's considered the go-to device.

Apple has highlighted the iPad's productivity benefits, pro apps, and multitasking capabilities. But there are times when Apple's dreams of projecting the iPad as a "do it all" device fall flat, forcing Apple to apologize. Let's see how the iPad's development unfolds in the upcoming years.

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Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Stockholm, and Ubisoft Reflections are the trio of studios being affected by this wave of "targeted restructurings," according to the company.

"As part of our ongoing efforts to prioritise projects and reduce costs that ensure long-term stability at Ubisoft, we have announced targeted restructurings at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Reflections and the permanent closure of Ubisoft Leamington site," said a Ubisoft spokesperson to Eurogamer, confirming the layoffs. "Unfortunately, this should impact 185 employees overall. We are deeply grateful for their contributions and are committed to supporting them through this transition."

Ubisoft Düsseldorf is most known for its development of Anno and Settlers city building and strategy franchises. The studio is currently developing Anno 117 alongside the Blue Byte collective with a 2025 launch window. It's unclear how the layoffs will affect these release plans.

Meanwhile, Ubisoft Stockholm has been responsible for the classic Driver series. Lastly, Ubisoft Stockholm is primarily a support studio that has lent its experience to many of Ubisoft's major releases, including Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

As for the closed studio, Ubisoft Leamington was the company behind the DJ Hero series when it was known as FreeStyleGames under Activision prior to being acquired by Ubisoft in 2017. The British studio has provided support for many recent AAA Ubisoft titles, including Star Wars Outlaws, Far Cry 5, and Skull and Bones.

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PC players jumping into the Harry Potter-universe set action game Hogwarts Legacy will soon be able to customize their experience to a whole new level. Publisher Warner Bros. Games and developer Avalanche Software today announced that official modding support is soon coming to the game alongside tools to make them.

The update carrying the built-in mods browser will land on January 30, offering Steam and Epic Games Store players an easy way to add or remove anything that catches their eye.

The new 'Hogwarts Legacy Creator Kit' is what players will be using to customize current assets and add new content to the title. This package will be made available via the Epic Games Store for anyone to download. The tools will let players customize characters with new cosmetics and skins, develop new quests and dungeons, and more.

The studio is partnering with CurseForge to act as the game's repository of mods and addons. Created mods can be shared with others by publishing them publicly via CurseForge, which will curate everything that's coming in before it's shown off in the in-game browser. Head here to link the accounts.

Avalanche Software has already worked with some modders to create addons for the game, letting players test out what's possible with the tools right at launch. This includes expanded character creation, broom replacement mods (even including a vacuum cleaner), and even a brand-new dungeon, among other additions.

Hogwarts Legacy's modding update goes live on January 30 for PC players across Steam and Epic Games Store. No information about a console release for mods has been announced just yet. This may not be the only content update hitting Hogwarts Legacy in 2025 either, as a leak from last year said that the studio is also working on a new Definitive Edition with 10-15 hours of new content.

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January 27, 2025

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00:00 - Recapping the Week

01:04 - KINGPIN 50-Series Update and Switching Colors

03:41 - SilverStone FLP01 Going Worldwide

07:01 - Reuters: TSMC Tech Delayed in US

09:17 - Foldable Mini-ITX Case Wraps Around Motherboard

11:57 - Limitations of RTX 5090 Supply Near-Term

14:15 - Fake and Counterfeit AMD 9800X3D CPUs

16:45 - Rapid-Fire: 9070 GPU Launch, 9950X3D Performance

19:09 - RTX 5090 News: Thermal Pads, 12V-2x6

20:20 - GN Update: Test Benches, Articles

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Table of contents:

1. Windows 10 and 11 news
2. Windows Insider Program
3. Updates are available
4. Reviews are in
5. Gaming news

Windows 11 and 10

Here we talk about everything happening around Microsoft's latest operating system in the Stable channel and preview builds: new features, removed features, controversies, bugs, interesting findings, and more. And of course, you may find a word or two about older but still supported versions.

Windows 11 version 24H2 is now broadly available. As such, Microsoft is ramping up its rollout to all eligible users, including Windows 10 users with compatible PCs. Therefore, if you are on Windows 10, get ready for a message in Windows Update suggesting you leave Windows 10 behind and join the ranks of Windows 11 users.

Even though Windows 10 will soon be out of support, Microsoft is still adding new features here and here. The recently released Release Preview build introduced cute little images for the calendar flyout, plus a weather widget for the agenda view. While it looks neat, it is hard to tell what is going on, considering how lame is Windows 11's calendar flyout.

Another Windows 10 story from this week is about a newly found bug in the latest Patch Tuesday updates. However, Microsoft said, plain and simple, that users should not worry about it because it does not impact the performance, functionality, security, or stability of the operating system, and a future update will resolve the problem with a System Guard Runtime Monitor broker throwing errors in the event log.

Windows 11 users now have a new Game Bar widget that makes it easier to browse the web when playing games. Edge Game Assist is now available in Edge Stable outside the Edge Insider and Windows Insider programs. You can learn how to turn on Edge Game Assist here.

Finally, Microsoft reminded users that Windows WSUS driver updates sync will stop working in less than three months.

Windows Insider Program

Here is what Microsoft Released this week for testing in the Windows Insider Program:

The new Windows 11 preview builds brought some interesting changes this week, such as the new battery indicator in the Dev Channel and more. However, users discovered additional improvements, such as a new way to share files in File Explorer. Microsoft is testing a new tray that will let you share files with apps by simply dragging them.

Updates are available

This section covers software, firmware, and other notable updates (released and coming soon) delivering new features, security fixes, improvements, patches, and more from Microsoft and third parties.

A few recent weeks were plenty of various Outlook bugs and crashes. Microsoft acknowledged that the classic Outlook app could crash when starting new emails, replying, or forwarding. To help affected users mitigate the problem, Microsoft offered a workaround in the form of a guide describing how to roll back to the previous Outlook build.

Another rather sad Office-related news is the death of the Smart Lookup feature in Word. You can no longer right-click words to get their definitions, synonyms, and other information.

Chrome 133 is coming next month, and one of its features is a new battery-saving tool. Google revealed that the new freezing mechanism will help users squeeze more battery life out of their laptops and tablets when running in energy-saving mode. Chrome is going to achieve that by freezing CPU-intensive background tabs.

Mozilla has released another small update for Firefox 134. Version 134.0.2 arrived with fixes for several issues and bugs. Mozilla's engineers resolved problems with crash reports not showing for some locales, non-working anchored HTML links, bugs with developer tools and extension debugging, and more.

Vivaldi is another browser that received an update this week. Version 7.1 is now available for everyone, offering new customization features, improved sync, updates to speed dial, and other welcome improvements.

Files, our favorite third-party file manager for Windows 10 and 11, received a new update in the preview channel. It contains a new layout, Cards View, that lets you see more details about each file or folder. The new layout is expected to be part of the next stable update, version 3.9.

We also have some hardware updates coming later this spring. A new report emerged about Microsoft preparing new compact-sized ARM-powered Surface devices. An 11-inch Surface Pro and a 12-inch Surface Laptop are coming in April or May, in addition to a bunch of business-focused Surface devices that are expected at the January 30 event.

Other notable updates include the following:

• Microsoft is retiring its webpage with Windows themes in favor of the Microsoft Store.
• According to a new report, one in four laptops shipped in 2024 was GenAI capable.
• A new gaming performance comparison shows the difference between AMD and Nvidia and Windows and Linux.
• Microsoft 365 admin center will soon require multifactor authentication.
• Microsoft and OpenAI announced a key change to their multi-year partnership.
• VirtualBox received fixes for Windows 11 version 24H2 and more.
• Windows 11 and 10 package manager UniGetUI got major download and install improvements.

And here are the newest drivers released this week:

• AMD Radeon Software 25.1.1 with optimizations for Spider-Man 2, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and more.
• Intel 32.0.101.6460 and 32.0.101.6259 non-WHQL with performance improvements for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

Reviews are in

Here is hardware and software we reviewed this week

 

Robbie Khan dropped another review this week. This time, the Dangbei N2 paid a visit to Robbie's testing labs. This smart projector is affordable and easy to use. It produces little notice and provides all the licensed streaming apps. However, it is not the brightest one and has some software limitations and quirky angle adjustments.

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Learn about upcoming game releases, Xbox rumors, new hardware, software updates, freebies, deals, discounts and more.

Microsoft announced a massive drop of games for Xbox Game Pass. The latest additions include Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders, Flock, Tchia, Starbound, Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, Shady Part of Me, Sniper Elite: Resistance, Far Cry New Dawn, Magical Delicacy, and a lot more.

In addition to new games, Microsoft revealed a new controller. The Pulse Cipher Special Edition is now available for preorder. This vivid gamepad has a transparent faceplate, bright red colors, a metallic D-pad, and more. You can get this controller for $74.99.

Microsoft is also working on some much-needed improvements to external storage support in Xbox consoles. The latest Alpha-Skip Ahead build for Xbox Insiders added the ability to connect drives larger than 16TB. Now, you can have an absolutely humongous library of games on one single drive. Just make sure to format it before using it.

During the first Xbox Developer_Direct 2025, Microsoft showcased several upcoming games, such as Ninja Gaiden 4 and plenty of details about DOOM: The Dark Ages. The latter will focus on more grounded action than parkourish gameplay from the previous installments. Also, id Software announced hardware requirements, which are pretty demanding but not too extreme. Another showcased game was South of Midnight, which launches in in April.

Forza Horizon 5 is getting its likely final content update. Earlier this week, Playground revealed the last two new cars for the game and confirmed that no new playlists will be offered to racers. Instead, players will get to vote for the next playlist from the previous updates, which will let them earn previously exclusive cars and relive some of the best updates released during the game's three-year lifespan.

A similar thing happened to Dragon Age: The Veilguard. With the latest patch, Bioware said the game is now "in a stable place," and the studio is moving to monitor for any game-breaking bugs.

If you plan to play Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed game, prepare to upgrade your computer to get the best graphics possible, especially with ray tracing. Ubisoft announced the game's hardware requirements, and the highest settings ask for the RTX 4080 (RT Enthusiast) and RTX 4090 (RT Extreme).

Cyberpunk 2077 is the first PC game to support Nvidia's latest DLSS 4 tech with multi-frame generation support on the RTX 5000 series graphics cards. The necessary patch is now out, which means first buyers will have a solid title to test DLSS 4's capabilities.

Finally, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 received its second seasonal content update. Season 2 adds a bunch of multiplayer maps, new modes, weapons, perks, and other improvements.

Deals and freebies:

Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery is currently available for free on the Epic Games Store. This puzzle-solving experience is up for grabs until the next Thursday. By the way Epic Games Store's weekly giveaways are now available on mobile as well. The company added 19 third-party games to its mobile store and announced a giveaway of Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee.

As usual, we have gathered more discounts and specials on PC games in our weekly Weekend PC Game Deals series, which you can check out here.

Here are other gaming stories from this week:

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is also coming to GOG Galaxy.
• Age of Mythology: Retold received a photo mode, a new year event, and major balance changes.

• Art of Rally developer announces Over the Hill, a cooperative off-road exploration game.

• Celeste developer canceled its next platformer game after years in development.

• Sony's Horizon Zero Dawn MMO was reportedly canceled.

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January 26, 2025

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0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News - Jan 26, 2025

1:48 RTX 5090 Critical Reviews Drop

3:22 5090 Partner Cards up to $2800, Undervolting, Full Broadwell Prototype

5:30 RTX 5080 Next Week - Benchmarks Leak, slower than 4090?

6:26 Radeon RX 9070 XT Spotted, but Launch is in March TECH BRIEFS

7:53 World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online

8:50 Doom: The Dark Ages requires a GPU with ray tracing

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First off, we have a new feature that lets you have a trip down the memory line and select what cinematic plays when you launch the game. Playground Games will soon let you pick between the following intros or let the game decide for you with a random option:

• Welcome To Mexico (Standard)
• Welcome to Colorado (Forza Horizon)
• Welcome to Europe (Forza Horizon 2)
• Welcome to Australia (Forza Horizon 3)
• Welcome to the UK (Forza Horizon 4)
• Italian Automotive
• Horizon Retrowave

The next big change in Forza Horizon 5 is Festival Playlist Voting. Starting with January 30, 2025, players will get to vote for the next playlist from the previous updates. This will let gamers earn exclusive cards from earlier playlists, participate in missed challenges, visit interesting landmarks, and more. At the same time, this change likely indicates no more new content for the game, even though Playground Games says, "there is still more content coming to Forza Horizon 5."

The first Playlist Vote will offer you the option to pick between High Performance and Italian Automotive.

As for new cars in the next updates, players will be able to earn the 2022 Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock, an 807 horsepower muscle car with a 6.2-liter Hemi V8 engine and a widebody kit. Also, the update will bring the 1995 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra R, another muscle car with a 5.8-liter V8 and 300 horsepower.

Here are the release notes for the upcoming Forza Horizon 5 update:

New Features (Available from January 28)

 

• Cinematic Start Screen Selection
• Festival Playlist Voting (From January 30 onwards)

 

"Midnight Muscle" Limited Timed Series Features (Available from January 30 to February 28)

 

• Returning Neon Airstrip Evolving World and Drone Show
• Returning Evolving World Neon H Collectible and Neon Tank Photo Decorations
• Returning Neon Decorated Races
• Returning Extended Nights
• 1 Series Car Collector Accolade

 

Bug fixes and changes (Available from January 28)

 

• Retroactively marked the Series 40 Horizon Track Day “ISO 200” Treasure Hunt Challenge as completed
• Fixed an issue with the Horizon Backstage where cars in the Backstage Shop were not ordered by the date they were added
• Fixed an issue with the 1971 Nissan Skyline 2000 GTR where the widebody kit front splitter couldn’t be painted
• Fixed an issue with the 2014 Ford UTE where the lamps were incorrectly showing a ‘’CH_1’’ when braking

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Patch 5 for the RPG just landed, bringing a single new quality-of-life change as well as a pretty big list of bug fixes. Alongside it, though, BioWare made a statement thanking players for spending time with the game and the following updates. It adds that the company is now moving to monitoring the game's health, which many fans are taking as a farewell.

Here's the full message:

Hey everyone,

 

Thank you all for playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard; we were so happy with the game’s stability at launch and hope you have enjoyed our Quality of Life patches since then. With the game being in a stable place, we are moving to monitor for any game-breaking bugs should those occur. Dareth shiral!

The complete list of changes hitting the game with Patch 5 are these:

Quality of Life Changes:

 

• Recommended levels have been added to side quests that players may receive at significantly lower levels.

 

Bug Fixes:

 

• Fixed an issue where Rook could only flirt with Lucanis in a specific conversation.
• Fixed an issue with the Regrets of The Dread Wolf quest not triggering properly or stopping Rook with an invisible wall in the Crossroads.
• Fixed a blocking issue with a puzzle in the Converged City area of the Crossroads.
• Fixed an issue with the “Imperium’s Resolve” armor causing negative damage instead of the intended zero fire, cold, necrotic, and electric damage.
• Fixed excessive clipping on Taash’s “Rivain’s Legacy” armor.
• Fixed an issue that prevented some Rooks from changing the runes on their lyrium dagger.
• Fixed an issue with the Medium Armor Mastery skill for Warriors.
• Fixed a spot on Rivain’s beach where Rook could get stuck in a cycle of drowning, never to be pulled out of the water by their companions.
• Fixed a typo on a note Rook can find in Dock Town.
• Fixed an issue that caused photo mode screenshots to be noticeably worse quality when HDR was turned to “On.”
• Fixed an issue that was causing the photo mode screenshot location to still be shown on screen.
• Fixed an issue that caused the fireflies in the opening area of the Crossroads to flicker at an alarming rate on specific settings.
• Fixed a lighting issue in one of the conversations with the whole team in the Lighthouse.
• Fixed an issue in the Mirror of Transformation that blocked players from zooming in and out with the mouse scroll wheel.
• Fixed an issue where the Objective Marker Visibility was not updated when the exploration preset was changed with the other options in the Exploration sub-category.
• Some adjustments to the game credits.

BioWare confirmed a few months ago that its teams are now fully focused on the next Mass Effect entry, with no post-launch story content in the works for Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

EA has recently confirmed that despite having 1.5 million players, the RPG missed its targets by 50%. Veilguard's game director also exited BioWare this year to pursue other RPG ventures.

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Nvidia is launching the first volley of RTX 50-series GPUs based on its new Blackwell architecture, starting with the RTX 5090 and working downward from there. The company also appears to be winding down support for a few of its older GPU architectures, according to these CUDA release notes spotted by Tom's Hardware.

The release notes say that CUDA support for the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPU architectures "is considered feature-complete and will be frozen in an upcoming release." While all of these architectures—which collectively cover GeForce GPUs from the old GTX 700 series all the way up through 2016's GTX 1000 series, plus a couple of Quadro and Titan workstation cards—are still currently supported by Nvidia's December Game Ready driver package, the end of new CUDA feature support suggests that these GPUs will eventually be dropped from these driver packages soon.

It's common for Nvidia and AMD to drop support for another batch of architectures all at once every few years; Nvidia last dropped support for older cards in 2021, and AMD dropped support for several prominent GPUs in 2023. Both companies maintain a separate driver branch for some of their older cards but releases usually only happen every few months, and they focus on security updates, not on providing new features or performance optimizations for new games.

The Maxwell and Pascal architectures powered a few graphics cards that used to be a big deal. Those include the Maxwell-based GeForce GTX 750 Ti, which was widely praised for keeping pace with AMD cards that used twice as much energy, and the Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1060, which was the single most popular graphics card model in the Steam Hardware Survey for over five years. (As of this writing, the GTX 1060 still occupies the no. 12 spot, above any GPU of any model or vintage from AMD or Intel.)

We've asked Nvidia if it has anything to share about its plans for these older GPUs, and will update if we receive a response.

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