I wondered how Nvidia was able to cool that small yet so powerful system. I guess that, if what Carmack shares is trie, then the answer is that they aren't able to do it.

But that won't stop the first company that has broken the $5 trillion market cap.

Sometimes I wonder what will happen to Nvidia and Jensen once the AI bubble bursts. It won't be pretty.

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.

Their stock and revenue will only go further up as panicking investors recall Jensen's calming words: "the more you buy, the more you save."

Kinda' hoping the bubble bursts to bring things back into a pro-consumer alignment.

DDR5 is going to shit now as well.

I expect it to go like the dotcom bubble, where many involved companies lost up to 95% of share value, but are still around and kicking today.

Keep in mind NVidia losing 95% stock value would still leave them at about $200 Billion...

To be frank, I don't think there's any reason for big tech companies to ever stop investing some 10-20 billion a year each in datacenters and training runs, given the enormous potential payback.

I think they'll be fine unless CUDA and Nvidia fall entirely out of favor (say, IBM or AMD beat them handily in some new architecture, such as binary spiking chips and it's the next big thing like tensor cores were).

10-20 billions would be more than fine, the thing is that currently instead of 10-20 billions they're investing closer to 10-20 trillions, with ROI (return on investment) rates generally being less than 20% so far for the vast majority of AI companies. That simply isn't sustainable for long, especially since computer hardware depreciates in value very quickly.

Mmmm, the largest estimate I found is from McKinsey at $6.7 trillion by 2030 globally. That actually seems wild, maybe even unreachable with bottlenecks in energy and raw materials? Although the railroad boom in the 1800s was bigger as a fraction of the world's GDP.

But yeah, in that scenario, 10-20 billion a year from US big tech over 5 years would be just a tenth of that, with China and the rest of the world maybe doubling that number. It's probably unlikely to be enough to sustain Nvidia at these highs alone.

NVIDIA Becomes the First to Hit $5 Trillion in Market Cap as Jensen & Co. Manage to Keep Running the AI Bandwagon With Full Force

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-becomes-the-first-to-hit-5-trillion-in-market-cap/

NVIDIA’s CEO “Misspoke” About $500 Billion Revenue From Blackwell + Rubin In Next Five Quarters; Actual Figure Turns Out to Be Lower

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-misspoke-about-500-billion-revenue-from-blackwell-rubin/

AMD Confirms openSIL Support For Zen 6 Ryzen “Medusa” CPUs In 1H 2027, EPYC “Venice” In 2026

https://wccftech.com/amd-confirms-opensil-support-zen-6-ryzen-medusa-cpus-1h-2027-epyc-venice-2026/

Alleged Intel Core Ultra X7 358H & Ultra X5 338H “Panther Lake” Leak Points To Similar Multi-Thread Performance As Arrow Lake-H CPUs

https://wccftech.com/intel-core-ultra-x7-358h-ultra-x5-338h-panther-lake-leak-similar-mt-performance-as-arrow-lake/

GeForce RTX 5090 prices rise again as custom models exceed €2,600

https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-5090-prices-rise-again-as-custom-models-exceed-e2600

AMD disables USB-C power on Radeon RX 7900, moves RDNA2/RDNA1 GPUs to sub-branch in latest driver

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-disables-usb-c-power-on-radeon-rx-7900-moves-rdna2-rdna1-gpus-to-sub-branch-in-latest-driver

Strange af move disabling usb-c power

Nintendo “monster capture” patent rejected in Japan

https://videocardz.com/newz/nintendo-monster-capture-patent-rejected-in-japan

Patenting gameplay mechanics lol

Nvidia’s New Product Merges AI Supercomputing With Quantum

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nvidias-new-product-merges-ai-supercomputing-with-quantum-d0864f06

U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/30/tp-link-proposed-ban-commerce-department/

New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/new-physical-attacks-are-quickly-diluting-secure-enclave-defenses-from-nvidia-amd-and-intel/

The Thursday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Arc Raiders breaks 100,000 concurrent players in the first 30 minutes of going live and rising, soaring to the top of Steam's best sellers
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/arc-raiders-breaks-100-000-concurrent-players-in-the-first-30-minutes-of-going-live-and-rising-soaring-to-the-top-of-steams-best-sellers/
Arc Raiders is out, the day is today, you can finally go topside to strip evil AI Arc robots for parts and get more trinkets for Scrappy. I'll be playing (once I get this darn news story out of the way), and it looks like loads of other people are too.
Launching at 5:30am EDT / 2:30am PDT / 9:30 am GMT, there are already 103,975 players currently in the game, an all-time high and an incredibly impressive achievement. Especially when you take into account the US probably isn't awake yet, or if they are, Godspeed, that would probably kill me.
Alongside the impressive concurrents, Arc Raiders has also managed to climb to the top of Steam's best sellers list today, outshining games like Battlefield 6, The Outer Worlds 2, and Dispatch. It's all great news, especially for those of us who are banking on robbing a ton of people for loot once the game starts.
>> And that’s without Epic Store players (more on that in another article. By the way, don’t forget to upgrade your weapons (link)

The Epic Store gives away two games:

• Bendy and the Ink Machine: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/bendy-and-the-ink-machine-60cf5a
• FIve Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/five-nights-at-freddys-into-the-pit-99c563

Next week, they’ll give away Felix The Reaper and some bundle pack for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms.

GOG doesn’t have any new deal, but it looks like they’ve done some changes to the store.

Steam has new deals and sales:

• Drill Core will be 30% off until the 5th of November: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2821800/Drill_Core
• Lost in Random: The Eternal Die has a demo and it will also have a 40% discount until the 12th of November: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2564520/Lost_in_Random_The_Eternal_Die
• Session: Skate Sim is going to be 75% off until the 12th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/861650/Session_Skate_Sim
• The Lost Battalion: All Out Warfare gets a 90% off until November 12: https://store.steampowered.com/app/364890/The_Lost_Battalion_All_Out_Warfare
• And these are the new sales/events:
  • Publisher QUByte Interactive celebrates its QUByte Connect 2025 Sale has games with up to 50% discounts until November the 3rd. The sale started today so new deals may appear leter: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40644789/sale/QUByteConnect2025
  • Gaijin Publisher Sale has games and DLCs on sale, between 50 and 80% off until the 3rd of November: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/gaijin_publishersale2025
  • Bilibili Publisher Sale has games up to 65% off. The deals will end between later today and November 5: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/bilibili25publish
  • Capcom Halloween Deals bring up to 80% discounts until the 11th of November: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33273264/sale/halloween
  • Curve Games celebrates its Fright Night Sale with up to 90% discounts. The deals will end between the 5th and the 12th of November: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33019968/sale/CurveFrightNight2025
  • Citizen Sleepr Franchise Sale has games up to 70% off until November, the 12th: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33025617/sale/CitizenSleeper
  • GrabTheGames Publisher Sale has updoming titles and games with up to 94% discounts until the 12th: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33066823/sale/publishersale
    • As part of this sale, they’re giving away Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis until the 1st of November: https://store.steampowered.com/app/439250/Space_Pilgrim_Episode_III_Delta_Pavonis

Humble Bundle has the new Microids Mega Mix 2025 Bundle, with up to 23 items to get (22 games + 1 coupon) during 20 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/microids-mega-mix-2025.

Fanatical brings the new BYO Pixel Power Bundle (Fall 2025) has 13 gams to choose for your 3+, 5+ or 7+ bundles during 34 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-pixel-power-bundle.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Intel Arc GPU Graphics Drivers 101.8247 WHQL Released
https://www.techpowerup.com/342416/intel-arc-gpu-graphics-drivers-101-8247-whql-released
Intel has released its latest version of Arc GPU Graphics Drivers, version 101.8247 WHQL. The latest drivers update is the same as the previously released 101.8247 Beta version but with WHQL certification, so it brings Game Ready optimizations for ARC Raiders, Europa Universalis V, Football Manager 26, Jurassic World Evolution 3, The Outer Worlds 2, and Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 games.
>> Videocardz didn’t have an article about is at the time of writing.

The latest Steam beta adds 'a suspicious chat warning' when you receive a potentially malicious message, something it probably should have done years ago
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the-latest-steam-beta-adds-a-suspicious-chat-warning-when-you-receive-a-potentially-malicious-message-something-it-probably-should-have-done-years-ago/
If you've ever fallen for a scam deployed by an account that looks like one of your friends but isn't, Steam is implementing a new pop-up warning that's intended to flag potential bad actors before they can send you links.
In the latest Steam client beta, Valve announced a handful of changes and fixes, like better Xbox 360 controller mapping in Linux kernel 6.17, fixed timeline markers in game recording, and, most importantly, a new change to chat. Now, when you receive a "potentially malicious" message, Valve will add a "suspicious chat warning that will appear at the top of the chat window."
Given that Steam launched over two decades ago, and there were millions of dollars put into skins in games like Counter-Strike 2, it's a bit of a surprise we didn't have this already. Players can emulate others through similar profile pictures or usernames, so it's not out of the question to think bad actors could fake credentials to get access to Steam users.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Modders are working on an online mode for Rockstar’s BULLY
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/modders-are-working-on-an-online-mode-for-rockstars-bully
BULLY fans, get ready for something really cool. A modding team is currently working on a mod that will allow you to play the first BULLY game with your friends.
BULLY Online promises to allow you and your friends to play minigames, roleplay, compete in racing, fend off against NPCs, and much more.
To celebrate this announcement, the team has shared a trailer for it. This trailer highlights the key features of BULLY Online. So, be sure to watch it as it will give you a pretty good idea of what you can expect from it.
The team aims to release the mod in Early Access this December. This Early Access will be available only to those who support it on Ko-fi. Rest assured, though, that the final version will be free to everyone. However, there is no ETA on when this final version will come out.
>> The video is over 5 minutes long.

GAMING NEWS

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Patch 1.0.2 Released & Detailed
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-patch-1-0-2-released-detailed
The Chinese Room has released Title Update 1.0.2 for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 and shared its full patch notes. So, let’s see what this new patch brings to the table.

Resident Evil Requiem PC Requirements Revealed, Denuvo Confirmed
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/resident-evil-requiem-pc-requirements-revealed-denuvo-confirmed
Capcom has revealed the official PC system requirements for Resident Evil Requiem. Moreover, the team confirmed – via the game’s Steam page – that it will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.

NCSoft’s MMO tactical shooter, Cinder City, Gets New Cinematic Trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/ncsofts-mmo-tactical-shooter-cinder-city-gets-new-cinematic-trailer
NVIDIA has released a new cinematic trailer for NCSoft’s upcoming MMO tactical shooter, Cinder City. This trailer packs in-engine footage, so it will give you a glimpse at the game’s visuals.