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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, the largest open-weight model yet: a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (16 of 896 experts active), 1M-token context, native vision, Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, in K3 Max and K3 Swarm variants. Moonshot's own benchmarks show K3 beating Anthropic's Opus 4.8, while independent Artificial Analysis scores it clearing Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 but losing to Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol; it lists at $3/$15 per million tokens, roughly half Opus's cost per task. Ask it who it is and it says "I am Claude" — the tell of the distillation Anthropic documented in February (3.4M exchanges from Moonshot, 16M across three Chinese labs via 24,000 fake accounts). Also: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines ships its first model, the 975B open-weight Inkling; an autonomous AI agent breaches Hugging Face and is caught with the open-weight GLM 5.2; and NotebookLM becomes Gemini Notebook with a sandboxed cloud computer in every notebook.
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A Grand Theft Auto (GTA) modder has developed a mod that lets you run (GTA 3) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (GTA VC) as mini games right inside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA SA) . The modder, DryxioGTA , demonstrated the feat in a video posted on YouTube on Thursday, running the game on a Windows virtual machine on macOS . In the video, GTA SA’s main character, CJ, can be seen stepping up to a TV, apparently inserted into the game by the mod. Once in front of the TV, the option to start either GTA VC or GTA 3 appears. The selected mini-game immediately starts running on the TV. Gamers can switch between controlling the main GTA SA game or the mini game, using the F10 key. When controlling the mini-game — say, GTA 3 , as in the video — players can play it as normal while the rest of the outer SA game continues to run, with characters roaming about. Similarly, switching control back to the outer SA game leaves the mini-game running on the TV. Just a few hours after uploading a brief gameplay video, the modder released another video demonstrating an even more mind-blowing mod, this time running GTA Vice City inside GTA 3 , inside GTA San Andreas ! As shown in the clip, the game starts with GTA SA , where players can walk up to a large screen to activate and start running GTA 3 . Within GTA 3 — now running on the large screen inside San Andreas — gamers can drive to another specific screen and launch GTA VC . So you can be playing GTA SA , switch to a fully functional GTA 3 within SA , and then switch again to play Vice City right inside the GTA 3 sandbox, all while the other games are simultaneously running. The remarkable mods are just one of thousands that developers have created since the game was first released on PC over 20 years ago in 2005. There are also several Mods for other GTA titles . Older GTA games have seen renewed interest as anticipation builds for GTA 6 , which is scheduled to be released on consoles on November 19 after several postponements
AMD launched the Ryzen 7 7700X3D a couple of days ago to universal acclaim, with reviews praising its consistently excellent gaming performance while critiquing the price point. It's officially priced at $329, which is just shy of what the Ryzen 7 7800X3D goes for these days, rendering the newest X3D chip a bit pointless. However, thanks to a new promo code on Newegg, you can purchase it for as low as $279 right now. Get the Ryzen 7 7700X3D on Newegg Just add the CPU to your cart, and at checkout, the promo code "PKC337" will be automatically applied to give you a $49 discount. That should bring the price down to just $279 before tax. At that price, the Ryzen 7 7700X3D suddenly becomes much more feasible thanks to its improved value proposition. Now, there's at least $120 separating the Ryzen 7 7700X3D from the Ryzen 7 7800X3D , freeing up money you can put toward other upgrades. For context, both chips are essentially the same; you can look at the Ryzen 7 7700X3D as the binned-down version of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D silicon that couldn't be used for the more expensive SKU. Both are 8-core, 16-thread parts with 104MB of combined cache and 120W TDPs. The Ryzen 7 7700X3D can boost up to 4.5 GHz, while the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a 5 GHz boost clock. That's enough to just barely edge the Ryzen 7 7700X3D in gaming performance. On the other hand, if you're looking for an all-rounder that also excels in professional workloads, then Intel's latest Arrow Lake refresh chips are better. Both the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus are faster at productivity tasks than the Red Team's offerings in the same class. But now that there's a clear price distinction among them, the Ryzen 7 7700X3D makes sense if you're just gaming. The Ryzen 7 7700X3D is also a Newegg exclusive in North American markets till Q4 2026 so it makes sense that the retailer can discount it this quickly. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is also on sale, but it has not received any promo codes on the site as of
TrashBench recently decided to test whether adding more and more fans to what used to be one of the best graphics cards would improve its performance. The result wasn’t significantly faster performance, sadly, even when the thermal headroom was used for overclocking (vs. stock OC). Nevertheless, lessons were learned, and the self-described “punk-rock GPU death lab” was still proud of the temperature reductions, plus the GPU contraption's “awesome” looks and sounds. The experiment began with an overview of the Asus ROG GeForce RTX 3080 , a nice example of the breed. But it was a choice that would perhaps end up making the 11-fan wonder look like less of an accomplishment. TrashBench stated the goal was to add more and more fans, plus duct tape and cable ties, then see whether the reduced temperatures from the boosted airflow result in more frames. After cleaning and repasting the guinea pig GPU, a baseline was set with the stock cooler. Running 100% fan speed on the Asus ROG resulted in a stable temperature of 63°C (down from 70°C) during stress testing with the Unigine Heaven benchmark. Replacing the Asus ROG cooling shroud with a trio of Arctic case fans dropped the reported GPU temperatures to a stable 52 degrees Celsius. That’s a decent result. Next, the trio of case fans was swapped for thicker server fans, shaving another 2 degrees Celsius off the GPU temperature, bringing it to 50 degrees Celsius precisely. Duct tape was added to prevent air venting from the sides of the server fans. Oops, the GPU temperature actually stabilized at a warmer 54 degrees Celsius. So, that was the end of fans-at-the-front modifications. TrashBench next looked at adding a quintet of tiny Arctic server fans that run at up to 15,000 RPM along the top of the card. This jet-engine-soundalike configuration didn’t shift the needle, though. The RTX 3080 still wouldn’t hold below 50 degrees Celsius when tested for any length of time. SOTTR 1440p tests Cooling config Performance Stock 178 F
The next generation of server memory is slated to get even faster. At Computex 2026 Micron was showing off DDR5-8000 RDIMMs, while Samsung had uber-fast 12,800 MT/s second-gen MRDIMMs The post Next Gen Server Memory On Display: DDR5-8000 RDIMMs and MRDIMM Gen2 Hits DDR5-12800 appeared first on ServeTheHome .
Now, if you want to, you can use Google's 3D emoji in your own creations. The company shared some details about how it went about designing the little pictograms and why, as part of World Emoji Day on Friday. Things you might not necessarily worry about in a 2D illustration suddenly become very important when […]
A 360-degree camera is a great way to ensure you capture every bit of the action, but prices tend to be on the high end for models worth your attention. That’s why it’s notable that the GoPro Max 2 accessory bundle is discounted to $369 at Amazon (a dollar more at Best Buy and GoPro). […]
Two frontier models shipped the same day, one at a quarter of the other's price. The durable skill in 2026 is not choosing an LLM. It is building so you can swap the one you chose in an afternoon. A builder's routing policy, eval harness, and the only cost number that matters.
In the first quarter of 2026, AI startups raised as much as they did in all of 2025, and two-thirds of it went to three companies. That concentration is the tell. The durable money in mid-2026 is not in the frontier labs everyone is crowding into. It is one layer down, in the model-agnostic scarcity every lab has to pay for no matter which one wins, ranked by how hard that scarcity is to build.
A safety classifier locked me out for trying to secure my own network. It read the words an attacker would use and could not see that the devices were mine. That false positive was not a glitch. Providers widen the safety margin on purpose, and this is how to do real security work without tripping it.
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