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MacBooks are great, but if you're like me, then having to hunch over one brings back and neck pain. An iMac is a perfect though costly solution, but right now, it's a bit more affordable (emphasis on a bit). Apple's 2023 iMac with an M3 chip is down from $1,299 to $1,149 a return to its record-low price. The 12 percent discount applies to the Green, Blue and Silver models with an 8-core CPU and 256GB. Apple released its latest iMac in late 2023 and garnered an 86 in our review. The big difference between this model and its 2021 predecessor is the M3 chip. The addition gives this latest iMac extreme speed and allows us to do anything from editing photographs to playing games without delays or hiccups. The 24-inch iMac has a 4.5k resolution and 500nits of brightness. It also offers Apple's TrueTone technology and support for the Wide P3 color gamut. Plus, with just an 11.5mm thickness and a weight under 10 pounds, it's easy to maneuver if you work in different places of your house or need to bring it to an office space every once in a while. Follow @EngadgetDeals on Twitter and subscribe to the Engadget Deals newsletter for the latest tech deals and buying advice.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apples-m3-imac-is-down-to-a-record-low-price-130621105.html?src=rss
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It might be arriving a few months later than expected but Fallout: London is finally here. The expansion-sized mod for Fallout 4 is out now on Steam and GOG. Buying it from the latter (which has a DRM-free policy),means the mod will work with both the Steam and GOG versions of the base game. There are some caveats, though, as the launch version of Fallout: London is incompatible with the recent major Fallout 4 update. Developer Team Folon is working to remedy that. In the meantime, you can download a pre-patched version of Fallout 4 from GOG now (the game is currently 60 percent off there). GOG and Team Folon have created a one-click installer for the mod to make it as easy as possible to jump in. Things are a bit different on Steam, as the current version of Fallout 4 is incompatible with the mod. To play Fallout: London via that storefront, you'll have to downgrade the original game manually. That'll take a little work, but you can find a step-by-step guide on Team Folon's website. Fallout: London features a fresh story and environments, fully-voiced characters and new weapons, factions (including Camelot knights) and gameplay features to get to grips with. A trailer (with a Cockney rhyming slang-filled voiceover from someone who sounds like they're from the Manchester area) gives a decent overview of what's in store: Fallout but with a decidedly British slant on the post-apocalypse, innit. It took Team Folon a collective of hobbyist and professional developers over five years to craft the mod. The original plan was to release Fallout: London back in April, but Bethesda's recent patch threw a spanner in the works. In any case, the lengthy development process looks to have fallen in Team Folon's favor. There's been a major surge in interest in Fallout since the success of the TV show that debuted on Prime Video earlier this year. Bethesda and Microsoft weren't ready to capitalize on that with a new game (though a Fallout: 76 expansion dropped last month), so Team Folon might reap the benefits.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-long-awaited-fallout-london-fan-mod-is-finally-here-130031260.html?src=rss
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Last month, AMD unveiled the Ryzen 9000 series Zen 5 desktop processors including the 16-core 9950 it called "the worlds most powerful desktop consumer processor." Those chips were set to be released on July 31st, but AMD SVP Jack Huynh announced on X that they'll be delayed up to two weeks "out of an abundance of caution." The company found that initial production units didn't meet quality expectations, so it plans to replace them with fresh units. "The Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X processors will now go on sale on August 8th and the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X processors will go on-sale on August 15th," Huynh wrote. We appreciate the excitement around Ryzen 9000 series processors. During final checks, we found the initial production units that were shipped to our channel partners did not meet our full quality expectations. Out of an abundance of caution and to maintain the highest quality Jack Huynh (@JackMHuynh) July 24, 2024 There's no issue with the design of the Ryzen 9000 silicon, and specifications will not change for the processors, a spokesperson told Tom's Hardware. Rather, it's related to an issue with product testing that resulted in "a small number of products reaching the market that do not meet our quality standards," the company said. Chip buyers may be nervous about such issues right now. Reports of instability problems with 13th-gen Intel desktop CPUs started in late 2022 and persisted with 14th-gen models. Earlier this week, Intel announced that it finally found the cause and promised to roll out a fix sometime in August. However, that won't work for chips that have already degraded those will need to be completely replaced by Intel. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/amd-delays-ryzen-9000-chip-release-for-up-to-two-weeks-to-address-quality-issues-120033465.html?src=rss
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When Reddit said last month it would block unauthorized data scraping from its site, most of us assumed it was to tackle chatbot training. It turns out the site/service/fandom battleground also appears to be blocking search engines other than Brave and Google, the latter of which reportedly inked a deal earlier this year with Reddit worth $60 million annually. A Reddit spokesperson told Engadget the empty search results are because these engines wont agree to the companys requirements for AI training. The company says its in discussions with several of them. Bing and DuckDuckGo both appear to be affected. Mat Smith The biggest stories you might have missed Our favorite budget webcam is on sale for only $48 right now Intel has finally figured out its long-standing desktop CPU instability issues Some police in Arizona will start using drones as first responders You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! A Call of Duty game is coming to Xbox Game Pass But its Modern Warfare III. Its been hard to accept Microsofts Xbox Game Pass price hike, especially given its recent lackluster game offerings. In an attempt to make up for it, it is adding a Call of Duty game. Unfortunately, its Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, one of the lowest-rated games in the series. Sorry, folks. Continue reading. The Engadget guide to the best smartphones Our top phone choices arent all flagships. Engadget So youre after a new phone. If you know you want an iPhone, your decision-making process is a bit easier. If youre an Android person, you have a lot more options. At Engadget, we review phones a lot and have tested dozens over the years; so far for 2024, our top picks remain the same, with Apples iPhone 15 Pro and Googles Pixel 8 Pro topping our lists. Our recent refresh includes new picks for top foldable. Continue reading. CrowdStrike tried to offer Uber Eats credit to partners, but it got flagged for fraud It was sent to those dealing with last weeks outage. Last weeks CrowdStrike outage plunged many companies into a messy world of blue death screens. The cybersecurity company tried to apologize with an Uber Eats gift card. Unfortunately, when people tried to use it, the offer had been rescinded by the issuing party. CrowdStrike said Uber had flagged it as a fraud because of high use rates. CrowdStrike blamed the global system outage on a boot loop bug that knocked out systems in banks, airports and even hospitals. Continue reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-reddit-is-blocking-ai-search-engines-that-dont-cough-up-for-access-111537431.html?src=rss
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Metas Oversight Board is urging the company to update its rules around sexually explicit deepfakes. The board made the recommendations as part of its decision in two cases involving AI-generated images of public figures. The cases stem from two user appeals over AI-generated images of public figures, though the board declined to name the individuals. One post, which originated on Instagram, depicted a nude Indian woman. The post was reported to Meta but the report was automatically closed after 48 hours, as was a subsequent user appeal. The company eventually removed the post after attention from the Oversight Board, which nonetheless overturned Metas original decision to leave the image up. The second post, which was shared to a Facebook group dedicated to AI art, showed an AI-generated image of a nude woman with a man groping her breast. Meta automatically removed the post because it had been added to an internal system that can identify images that have been previously reported to the company. The Oversight Board found that Meta was correct to have taken the post down. In both cases, the Oversight Board said the AI deepfakes violated the companys rules barring derogatory sexualized photoshop images. But in its recommendations to Meta, the Oversight Board said the current language used in these rules is outdated and may make it more difficult for users to report AI-made explicit images. Instead, the board says that it should update its policies to make clear that it prohibits non-consensual explicit images that are AI-made or manipulated. Much of the non-consensual sexualized imagery spread online today is created with generative AI models that either automatically edit existing images or create entirely new ones, the board writes.Meta should ensure that its prohibition on derogatory sexualized content covers this broader array of editing techniques, in a way that is clear to both users and the companys moderators. The board also called out Metas practice of automatically closing user appeals, which it said could have significant human rights impacts on users. However, the board said it didnt have sufficient information about the practice to make a recommendation. The spread of explicit AI images has become an increasingly prominent issue as deepfake porn has become a more widespread form of online harassment in recent years. The boards decision comes one day after the US Senate unanimously passed a bill cracking down on explicit deepfakes. If passed into law, the measure would allow victims to sue the creators of such images for as much as $250,000. The cases arent the first time the Oversight Board has pushed Meta to update its rules for AI-generated content. In another high-profile case, the board investigated a maliciously edited video of President Joe Biden. The case ultimately resulted in Meta revamping its policies around how AI-generated content is labeled.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/meta-needs-updated-rules-for-sexually-explicit-deepfakes-oversight-board-says-100005969.html?src=rss
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