I think about the battle of New Orleans during the war of 1812 a lot for that exact reason. The war was over for weeks and they had no idea. Over 300 people died and thousands of casualties for nothing. To make matters worse, it made Andrew Jackson popular

It’s always felt punitive for the egg left on the US’ face following the collapse of Batista’s rule and subsequent loss of US business interests. The fact that Cuba hasn’t been a legitimate military threat to the United States for well over 50 years only reinforces that.

Ukraine is doing that. They have anti-drone drones called Sting

No emp because when it comes to drone warfare cost effectiveness is imperative. No use using a multi thousand dollar drone to down one that is a fraction of that cost.

Russia is pretty much doing the same as well. I just watched a video this past week of a drone of theirs skewering a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone with metal rods until the recon drone caught fire and crashed. The Ukraine war is definitely the cutting edge for drone combat.

They may have assets in the Russian intelligence apparatus. I feel like it’s likely even.

I really enjoyed this game

Xbox hasn’t quite left the market, they’re just slowly sleepwalking down a pier. We’ll see if they wake up before they walk off the end and end up drowning. I’m certainly not holding my breath.

The screen has some pretty lousy motion blur but otherwise it’s ok

DK Bananza is fun but I don’t think it’s worthy of buying a new system. It’s also pretty cool running Cyberpunk on such a slim system but there’s plenty of ways to play that. It’s got a strong third party base already, but I do think this calendar year’s first party releases will be really important for the system.

They also released an update so all switch 1 games can run in docked mode when the switch 2 is in portable mode, but that only benefits those that use the system portably often.

Am I crazy or is the aspect ratio on that screen a little weird

Come on, Satya’s bonus depends on it!

This is reminding me of how Ars Technica recently metaphorically stepped in it in regards to AI BS in a story less than a month ago. What an information nightmare we’re wading into

Windows Central? They’re not affiliated with MS, unless they also don’t like the nickname.

Quick resume is pretty much the only thing about the Series X that has stood out for me. It’s nice being able to hop into multiple games without waiting for loads and being right back where you left off. It’s by no means a must have though. It’s way better than the PS5’s equivalent.

Windows central is reporting that the windows 12 rumor is bs. I think they went so far as to call it an AI slop fabricated story.

Yeah, I’m hoping they don’t wall that stuff off from the general PC space for business reasons.

Their emulation work is one of the few bright spots of the Xbox platform on the past decade. Things like FPS boost and Auto HDR are nice for improving older games. I’m not sure if any third party emulators can do the same, admittedly.

The PC cannot currently play non-ported Xbox games at this time, though. I get why you’re saying “just a PC” but that’s a distinction worth noting. I hope the PC platform in general will gain the ability to play all Xbox games and not just Xbox branded hardware. I also hope PCs gain the ability to use some of the features that are nice about Xbox (mainly Quick Resume).

Nintendo has determined it’s not a benefit to their business model and they own a third of the Pokémon Company. Their new competitive game is coming to mobile phones in a few months though which is a pretty big change.

Yeah I trust Windows Central more than whatever this site is.

The Lebanese government wasn’t really in a position to be able to dislodge Hezbollah from southern Lebanon previously, as far as I can tell. Now that Iran is in chaos they may see this as an opening to make the attempt.