Cincinnati style chili served over homemade goetta. It has become a holiday season tradition. #cincinnati

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

I don't understand why expensive postpone phone plans exist. Or rather why people (a majority of people apparently) pay for them.

The US is planning its largest nuclear power expansion since the 1970s with an $80 billion investment in AP1000 reactors. Will the program be dogged by the same cost overruns and delays of past AP1000 construction? @edcrooks.bsky.social with @woodmac.com explains.

COVER REVEAL: Our next issue (January 2026) features an extensive World of Warcraft: Midnight cover story! This special issue is larger to accommodate our Game of the Year lists and awards. Subscribers get early digital access today! @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com gameinformer.com/cover/2025/1...

"We've had the most success and we've done our best work with smaller-scoped titles," says Devolver's Nigel Lowrie, commenting on the million-selling Ball x Pit. "Our goal is to continue to find smaller games." www.gamesindustry.biz/how-devolver...

yea if Larian wants to use AI for ideas or whatever that's fine

Get ready for laptop price increases, coming as soon as the second half of this month. #ram #memory #consumertech

Just sent the ebook edition of LIFE IS STRANGE by @kaittremblay.bsky.social out to Kickstarter backers 😎

Definitely support this. I'm a freelance journalist and because I live in Portland, I count as a business. It's not make or break but it's like $500 each year. And it's galling to get that line on the tax bill while rich companies / individuals evade paying up. #PDX

Monsters and Memories is prepping for beta, early access, and Module 1 at the same time

34% of adults over 50 list privacy as a primary barrier to adopting health technology. That represents millions of people who could benefit from monitoring tools but avoid them because they don't feel safe.

It's been awhile, but I made some changes to my TTRPG combat tracker tonight. It helps you track combat in Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, etc. Fixed some bugs, made it so a mis-click would not remove combatants, and made dice rolls work better / more readable. ttrpg-tools.online #ttrpg #dnd

I've been enjoying Star Wars: Heir to the Empire a lot so far...why didn't they just adapt these for a new trilogy...? www.thriftbooks.com/w/star-wars-... #starwars

so this story is hinting at my biggest worry, and what should be every B2C computer/electronics company's biggest worry for 2026: already placed orders with sk hynix/micron/samsung prior to the current/future price explosion may go unfulfilled/be canceled. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

The memory pricing crisis isn't as bad as you've heard. It's worse. Prices on RAM kits for PCs are up 300 to 400%, sometimes more. The pain is mostly being felt among DIY PC fans right now...but that same pain is going to extend to the rest of consumer tech. #consumertech #ram #memory #crucial

This ends tonight!

This lil guy i drew in Canva has something to say

Last night was a good example of why I built my own personal weather station. Officially we just barely got below freezing in #PDX. But in my backyard we were below freezing for a good four-five hours! 🤯

A great time to pick up my book on #EverQuest - and a lot of other awesome books too!

Now this is what I call a Black Friday deal! spectrum.ieee.org/listen-to-pr...

I was impressed by Acer's Nitro V 16 AI. Not only because it's a budget gaming laptop that's priced at only $629. But also because despite that price, you get decent build quality and reasonable battery life. #consumertech #pcgaming #laptops #hardware www.pcworld.com/article/2969...

To say Windows on Arm is "ready for gaming" is a wildly optimistic headline. By and large games do not natively support Windows on Arm and performance suffers as a result. www.theverge.com/news/824783/...

The thing I don't really like about The Game Awards is how it ends up always being a very small selection of games nominated for all the awards. With a few exceptions like very specific genres, it's the same dozen or so games nominated over and over again.

What will it take for you to privately ask personal questions from your LLM?

if you need RAM or are planning on building a PC in the next few months, if you see a decent deal in the next 10 days, you should buy it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hLi...

Deal alert! The HP Omnibook 5 14 is now down to $550 on Amazon. If you're looking for a budget Windows laptop right now, it's a great pick. Here's my review. youtu.be/UBjqfM8INRs

Valve's Steam Machine is heralded as the next coming in PC gaming in the living room. Meanwhile Microsoft has had what's basically an x86 PC in living room for like...over a decade now? And they totally squandered that. #valve #steam #xbox

3D-printing was supposed to revolutionize prosthetics. Now the hype has passed we're seeing where it's really worthwhile, and the challenges that remain.

Nintendo has overreached with its attempts to patent basic gameplay mechanisms, which could damage key industry partners and risk Nintendo being "seen as unreliable or dishonest by patent authorities," says Rob Fahey. www.gamesindustry.biz/its-in-the-i...

The tech giant #Qualcomm has bought #Arduino, the open source microcontroller provider. This is the latest in a series of acquisitions by Qualcomm in low-cost, special-purpose electronics. The open source community is nervous. spectrum.ieee.org/qualcomm-ard...

Based on this photo what is the refresh rate of this monitor? Just kidding ;) I'll tell you. This baby is 500Hz! Should have a review up on PC World later this week or early next.

The Asus ProArt P16 is a master class on how to design for your target demographic. Check my review here: #asus #consumertech #laptops www.pcworld.com/article/2949...

If you're having a feeling of deja vu over the "famous people call to ban super-intelligent AI" headline, it's because it already happened...two years ago. #ai futureoflife.org/open-letter/...

Using AI to order groceries for you is the new Soylent.

You can't believe what you hear. Even if you think you're talking to a friend you've known for years. Even if you think you're talking to a family member. #ai #deepfakes #security spectrum.ieee.org/real-time-au...

Qualcomm's purchase or Arduino left everyone asking...why?!?! Well. I found out: spectrum.ieee.org/qualcomm-ard... #opensource #qualcomm #Arduino

I tried playing World of Warcraft to get ready for the new expansion and I just...couldn't. It feels too much like a F2P game. Which is to say, too much like a menu navigation challenge. A blitz of pop-ups, to-dos, and some ads, transparently optimized for engagement. #worldofwarcraft #wow

The IEEE Spectrum team had a spectacular time at the Folio Eddie and Ozzie Awards, with nine finalist nominations culminating in four award wins. Congratulations to:

Putting this out there if you were thinking of Cariuma shoes. The online complaints about shipping are true. I ordered shoes. Not special edition, not a pre-order. I was billed for them, but Cariuma can't tell me when they ship. Pretty sketchy way to run a business imo. #cariuma

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

Our October Scale Issue just dropped and it's all about how engineers are approaching enormous challenges at mind-blowing magnitudes. spectrum.ieee.org/magazine/202...

The irony of villainy of Portland is that in many ways Portland represents a lot of classic Americana. Lot of small businesses? Check. Neighborhoods where people can just like, walk around? Check. Beautiful parks? Check. #pdx

Nice piece on power consumption by LLMs & GenAI spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-use #energy #artificialintelligence #llms #genAI

Today, OpenAI's ChatGPT handles 2.5 billion queries per day; the electricity used is equivalent to fully charging 14,000 electric vehicles. Get the big picture on energy use as we scale up to all generative AI queries per year, both now and in 2030.

The scale of modern AI is absolutely gigantic. But just how big is it? How many queries, how many data enters, how much energy? I took my stab at this question for IEEE Spectrum. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-use

🚨 Apple M5 in next-gen iPad Pro 13 has leaked 🚨 If this really is the Apple M5 in an iPad Pro, well, it got a single-core score of 4,133. Feel kinda bad for Qualcomm—their single-core Arm lead with Snapdragon X2 does not appear to have endured for long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnzk...

In case you missed it... Qualcomm just announced a big upgrade for Windows on Arm. The new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme promises big gains in CPU, NPU, and GPU performance. #qualcomm #snapdragon #windowsonarm www.youtube.com/watch?v=plU2...

Looks like Caleb Denison is finally out of copyright jail. The detail here that he had legal advice 5 weeks before leaving Digital Trends and it still turned into a $65k legal battle for him suggests a lot about that split. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FABN...

New review of EVERQUEST by @mattontech.bsky.social up at @rpgfan.bsky.social's @paulskevington.bsky.social: www.rpgfan.com/feature/boss...