How to get a Snorkel in Hello Kitty Island Adventure – Destructoid

How to get a Snorkel in Hello Kitty Island Adventure – Destructoid

There’s a ton of content in Hello Kitty Island Adventure that takes place underwater. You can find an entire city in the water, with one character, Hangyodon, residing within it. You’ll need a snorkel to reach this region, but making one requires traveling around the map for various resources. How to unlock Deep Diving in…

Microsoft updates Intel-based Surface PCs, but regular people still can’t buy them

Microsoft updates Intel-based Surface PCs, but regular people still can’t buy them

All the devices offer one of four possible Core Ultra CPUs (the 236V, 238V, 266V, and 268V); integrated Intel Arc graphics; 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB of storage; and either 16GB or 32GB of RAM. Some of the Qualcomm Surface devices offer as much as 64GB of RAM, but the Lunar Lake chips top out at…

How DeepSeek will upend the AI industry — and open it to competition

How DeepSeek will upend the AI industry — and open it to competition

Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s cost-saving techniques for training and delivering generative AI (genAI) models could democratize the entire industry by lowering entry barriers for new AI companies. DeepSeek made waves this week as its chatbot overtook ChatGPT downloads on the Apple and Google App Stores. The open-source AI model’s impact lies in matching leading US models’…

Alibaba introduces Qwen 2.5-Max AI model, claims edge over DeepSeek

Alibaba introduces Qwen 2.5-Max AI model, claims edge over DeepSeek

China’s Alibaba Group has launched an upgraded version of its Qwen 2.5 AI model, claiming it outperforms models from DeepSeek, OpenAI, and Meta, as competition in the AI market intensifies. “Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms … almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,” Alibaba’s cloud unit said on its WeChat account, according to Reuters. On its…

Microsoft first raises doubts about DeepSeek and then adds it to its cloud

Microsoft first raises doubts about DeepSeek and then adds it to its cloud

Despite initiating a probe into Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, Microsoft has added the startup’s latest reasoning model R1, to its model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. As part of the blog post in which Microsoft declared that it has added R1, it said that the model had “undergone rigorous red teaming and safety evaluations, including…

Legends of the Demon Blade set for April – Destructoid

Legends of the Demon Blade set for April – Destructoid

Folks looking for another promising roguelite action game to sink some time into can now mark their calendars for this spring. Game Source Entertainment locked in an April 24 launch date for Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade, a stylish-looking actioner that’s on the way to PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC….

US Government sued after mass emails to federal workforce allegedly sent from insecure server

US Government sued after mass emails to federal workforce allegedly sent from insecure server

When officials working for the incoming Trump administration decided they wanted to email the entire federal workforce last week, they didn’t hang about. Far from it: A new private class action lawsuit brought by two anonymous US executive branch employees alleges that they simply turned up at the HQ of the US Office of Personnel…

How to find Floyd and unlock the Field stage in Mortal Kombat 1 – Destructoid

How to find Floyd and unlock the Field stage in Mortal Kombat 1 – Destructoid

A feature that revitalized the game and brought its community together like never before, MK1 players can unlock an exclusive stage by finding and defeating the pink ninja Floyd. But as you can expect, unlocking the fight won’t be as simple as getting a 25-win streak. So that you can add the game’s most breathtakingly…