The Elbrus processors are no where near the performance quality of even the Nintendo Switch.

Here is a link describing some benchmarks a Youtuber apparently ran on it back in 2023, with Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (which is 20 to 25 years old) having frame rates drop as low as 30fps. Other more modern games (with medium settings) could no do better than 10 to 20 frames per second.

In comparison, Google’s Chrome browser has a solid market share of 35.4 billion users in 2024

How in the world (literally) can there be 35.4 billion users, when there are only 7.5-8 billion humans on the planet?

This is the problem with politicians and technically illiterate individuals setting policy, based on the pop-culture representation of AI in movies, television, video games and so on... O_o

The fact that these AI models were recommending that someone put glue on their pizza solely because someone mentioned it on Reddit really shows the limitation of the "intelligence" aspect of this software. They are highly sophisticated and capable of interpreting queries that can sound human, but are utterly lacking in reasoning. Calling them a search engine with natural language processing capabilities would be a bit of a misnomer because they are much more than that, but the media gives these AI models much more credit than what they are in reality.

This has been the case for months now, since the middle of last year at least (https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/159k3gh/youtube_not_showing_recommended_videos_without/).

It seems like the author of the article just happened to finally notice it the other day and decided to write an article about it

Reading this makes reading some of the snippets from Denuvo's main site rather amusing:
    * "Recent release of [Denuvo-protected] Just Cause 3 has pushed the Chinese piracy group's (3DM) cracking abilities practically past their limits. "In two years' time I’m afraid there will be no free games to play in the world."
    * "Chinese hackers have admitted defeat in their attempt to pirate a new video game release and warned that increasingly sophisticated software could wipe out piracy in the gaming industry altogether. "

It may be business saviness, or the naive hope that "this time, it may work" or "it's better than nothing", which keeps developers & publishers buying into their product, though short a fundamental re-thinking of how their technology works, I can't imagine integration of their Denuvo into new games continuing to accelerate like it did in the back half of 2015 and on through 2016.

What affect it will have on future releases, I don't know. AAA games previously only the domain of consoles began to come to steam before Denuvo hit the market, and I would presume that will remain the case, though it may some companies from bringing some titles.

I do expect that if Denuvo "goes away" though, that (for gamers) will be a self-defeating, since any future solution will replaced with something only more draconian.

I'll be eagerly looking forward to the soon-to-be-announced reality TV version of "Orange is the New Black", starting the members of The Dark Overlord hacker group.

There is a difference between providing a general purpose search engine that serves millions of legitimate needs (as well as a handful of illegitimate needs) and a site whose sole purpose is to provide people with easy access to electronic movies, music, games and other software that they would normally be required to purchase.

That difference? Intent.

I'm not saying that copyright law isn't broken, and certainly any service can be abused (including Google's search engine). But seriously...the organizational goals and company operations for Google and KickassTorrents are nothing alike.

For a modern, well-functioning commerce and legal framework to work, law enforcement have to be able to distinguish between the two. It's not black and white.

The university said there was no indication that research data or personal information was stolen in the attacks, though usernames and passwords had been compromised.

Because you know...who would consider passwords to be personal information...

Honestly, based on all indicators from the press over the last couple years, Weev has been a fairly miserable human being on most accounts, interested in causing disruption and not much else. The New York Times in particular did a very good expose on a number of individuals (Including Weev), covering their behaviors over the last couple of years, and their admitted trolling behaviors.
  * http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08...

Here is a gem, highlighting some of his conduct.
Weev, the troll who thought hacking the epilepsy site was immoral, is legendary among trolls. He is said to have jammed the cellphones of daughters of C.E.O.’s and demanded ransom from their fathers; he is also said to have trashed his enemies’ credit ratings. Better documented are his repeated assaults on LiveJournal, an online diary site where he himself maintains a personal blog. Working with a group of fellow hackers and trolls, he once obtained access to thousands of user accounts.

I first met Weev in an online chat room that I visited while staying at Fortuny’s house. “I hack, I ruin, I make piles of money,” he boasted. “I make people afraid for their lives.” On the phone that night, Weev displayed a misanthropy far harsher than Fortuny’s. “Trolling is basically Internet eugenics,” he said, his voice pitching up like a jet engine on the runway. “I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed. Blogging gives the illusion of participation to a bunch of retards. . . . We need to put these people in the oven!”

I don't know why people would do, or admit, things such as what the New York Times describes (usually it involves some kind of mental disorders)...but in the end, it all caught up to him.

The problem George Broussard has with the issue is that companies like 3D Realms (while they were actually still a game development studio, and now during it's quasi-half-existence as a publisher) cling desperately to old properties as their their only source of revenue. They've failed miserably at actually releasing any updates to their own works or creating new properties, and so their revenue streams has devolved to porting Duke Nukem 3D to the Xbox, PlayStation, Steam and any other platform that comes to mind, and licensing everything else out to separate studios (such as the Duke Nukem Forever, and last year's Shadow Warrior update).

The later, I assume, is the only thing that is holding them together as a corporate entity, along with anything that might of come out of the settlement with Gearbox (if they got anything).

Take away their copyright to those IPs, and companies like 3D Realms would not last another year.

As a result, his reaction to these kinds of comments is totally unsurprising.

Why do you say that? He's an established scientist and has a Bachelors in Physics and a Graduate/PH-D in Astrophysics. He's held positions at several universities and is the director of the Hayden Planetarium. Sure he goes on television more than your average physicist, but so did Carl Sagan. He's charismatic, and it works well for him. Nothing wrong with that.

Dr. Phil is a pool of waste that puts people on television and exposes their issues to millions of viewers, for the ratings and a fat pay check. He doesn't add anything to his profession, and his discussions on television don't enlighten anyone.

There's a huge difference.

I'm confused - What "exciting new techniques" did the candidates came up with? Using Twitter? Writing a blog? Campaigns and PACs soliciting donations or informing people of important dates through text messages, phone calls, emails or applications on phones?

Wow - What an age we live in...if you ignore that the underpinnings of these technologies have been around for years if not decades.

All they did was leverage what was there to spam everyone and rake in money for advertisements, travel, staff expenses and otherwise. The tools may be relatively new, but the "technique" is a century old.

What you said is not true - Do your homework. Origin was launched on June 3rd of 2011. Crysis was pulled on June 14th
      * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(digital_distribution_platform)
      * http://kotaku.com/5811996/crysis-2-pulled-from-steam-now-only-on-eas-origin

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was also on Steam, and only missed being the piracy top-dog by about 10%.
      > Whether that difference has to do with being available on digital download services, or just because people are attached to the online play for Black Ops over Crysis and needed legit copies to play, it's hard to tell.