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Anyway, here are a few more news that may interest you, starting with Jensen Huang himself... well, not quite:

A fake livestream featuring an AI-generated, crypto-promoting Jensen Huang was broadcast at the same time as the Nvidia GTC keynote, gaining 5x more live views than the real thing
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/nvidias-gtc-keynote-was-overshadowed-as-120-000-viewers-fell-for-a-deepfake-stream-instead/
Nvidia streamed the keynote speech of its latest GPU Technology Conference yesterday—though unfortunately thousands of folks seem to have fallen for a deepfake Jensen Huang extolling the virtues of cryptocurrency instead. Just when you thought the dodgy reuploaders and react channels were bad enough, it turns out you've now got to worry about fully counterfeit event streams too.

For those that missed it, the official Nvidia GTC, originally streamed live from Washington, D.C. on October 28, can be viewed here. Though it's sitting pretty at nearly 200,000 views now, that wasn't the case during the stream; while about 20,000 tuned in for the official event as it went live, nearly 100,000 viewers were said to be watching the deepfake feed broadcast (hosted by a channel calling itself Nvidia Live) at the same time (via Tomshardware).

Almost 90% of Windows Games Run on Linux, Notes Report
https://www.techpowerup.com/342337/almost-90-of-windows-games-run-on-linux-notes-report
Linux gaming has quietly reached a new inflection point. A recent Boiling Steam summary of crowd-sourced ProtonDB compatibility reports shows that about 89.7% of Windows titles now at least launch on Linux systems. The numbers are spread into a few categories. Games rated "Platinum," meaning they install, run, and save on Linux without requiring user intervention, made up 42% of new releases tracked in October, up from 29% the previous year. At the same time the share of titles that refuse to launch, the so-called "Borked" cohort, has fallen to roughly 3.8%, a group that still includes deliberate blocks such as March of Giants, which explicitly detects Wine and Proton and exits to the desktop.
>> What the article doesn’t mention, is that the titles that have more problems tend to be the more anticipated AAA releases.

LastPass warns of a new phishing campaign involving death certificates and a nefarious email that demands you reply to it if you're not dead
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/security/lastpass-warns-of-a-new-phishing-campaign-involving-death-certificates-and-a-nefarious-email-that-demands-you-reply-to-it-if-youre-not-dead/
If you've recently been informed that a death certificate is being used to get into your LastPass account, you have fallen victim to bad actors.

LastPass, one of the most popular password manager providers, has recently posted a blog detailing a deceptive new scam that claims a death certificate has been uploaded on your behalf (via BleepingComputer). The scam claims that another family member is attempting to access your LastPass account via the death certificate, and "if you have not passed away and believe that this is a mistake, please reply to this email with STOP."

Replying to this fake email, according to Lastpass, will cause the scammers to create a fake case and ID number, then redirect you to a site where you're asked to reset your password. As you might be able to guess, the site recipients are sent to is a fake, designed to capture a user's email address and password details via a dummy form, which is then used to gain access to your LastPass account.