Tenacious D’s tour cancelled after Trump assassination joke
dogwombleDuring a show in Sydney on Sunday night, Black asked bandmate Kyle Gass if he had a birthday wish. “Don’t miss Trump next time,” Gass responded.
OpenAI defines are 5 ‘levels’ for AI to reach human intelligence
The company shared a five-level system it developed to track its artificial general intelligence, or AGI, progress with employees this week, an OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg. The levels go from the currently available conversational AI to AI that can perform the same amount of work as an organization. OpenAI will reportedly share the levels with investors and people outside the company.
HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash
HP has finally been forced to discontinue its cheaper e-series LaserJet printers due to customers experiencing problems with their online-only and always tied to HP+ subscription requirements. Among other things, HP+ requires a permanent Internet connection, and customers only use HP-original ink and toners, not allowing for third-party alternatives to be used at all. There are benefits to HP+, including cloud printing and an extra year’s warranty, but the forced online requirement for a cheaper printer left a bad taste in the mouths of many consumers.
Intel Core i9-13900K/14900K stability issues drive game server providers to AMD
Intel’s 13th and 14th generation CPUs, specifically the 13900K and 14900K, have been plagued by stability issues, frustrating both games and data center operators. Reports of system crashed, blue screens, and intermittent errors have surfaced, making it difficult for users to fully rely on these high-performance chips. The problems seem to come from deeper hardware issues, not just BIOS or microcode updates. Many gamers, looking for high single-thread clock speeds, find their gaming experience disrupted.
Ammunition vending machines using AI to scan ID have come to supermarket
Customers at some grocery stores in Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas are now able to pick up ammunition with their foodstuffs from new vending machines. To verify the legality of the purchase, the machines scan a customer’s driver’s license and also perform a 360-degree scan of their face. Only consumers ages 21 or older can buy from the machines.
New xGeek.au feature!
After a bit of wrangling, xGeek now has a new feature! If you go into your posts in the forums, you will now see an Upvote and Downvote button at the bottom of each post (except of course for your own). My testing reveals that this works to improve your points balance which is also displayed in the forums! So now you can get yourselves massively upvoted or downvoted. This is a feature a few people have requested and took a bit of wrangling, but we got there! The only thing to watch out for is that the points balance won’t update unless you refresh the page – something for a weekend update perhaps. But in celebration, we now have the Rep Whore Thread! So get Rep Whoring!
Dark Mode Now Available!
This might be trivial to some, but I thought this was worthy of some front page love. xGeek now has Dark Mode! If you look towards the top right of your screen, you should see a nice orange flame icon which you can use to flip between light and dark modes. It’s kinda cheating a bit – it does some sort of “colour opposites” sorcery which is simple but works. I don’t think the colour scheme is bad – either still works – but am open to some comments. Also as a side note – I’ve also dome some changes that should improve the look of things when you quote people in the forums – some people may need to clear their browser cache to properly see this though (damn caching issues…)
xGeek Needs You!
So we’ve made it past the first few days of the site. I’ve already successfully added some of the extra fluff I wanted. We’ve also had a number of people join already with some action already in the forums. Contributing to the forums is of course something that I wanted, as well as submitting content for the front page! We also need the flying monkey squad sent out to spread the word as far as we can! So I put the call out to the people we have already to help us make this the best site it can be!
Japan finally stops using floppy disks
It’s taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices, with more than 1,000 regulations requiring their use. But these rules have now finally been scrapped, said Digital Minister Taro Kono.
Windows 10 just got a new lifeline
Micropatch provider 0Patch has announced it will continue supporting Windows 10 beyond its October 2025 end-of-life date, providing critical security updates and bug fixes