Daily Tech News 26 August 2024

• Black Myth Wukong is utterly mediocre and undeserving of all the attention it has been getting thanks to games and tech media trying to destroy it. (The Verge)
  
  Black Myth Wukong is a new Chinese computer game based on the 16th century novel Journey to the West. One of many such adaptations, including the TV show Monkey and the anime Dragon Ball.
  
  Anyway, as far as journalists are concerned, the developers of Black Myth Wukong made the unforgivable error of not actively hating their own customers, even going so far as to not hire expert bankruptcy generators Sweet Baby Inc. (Which is a whole 'nother drama in itself.)
  
  That, coupled with guidance encouraging independent reviewers not to be hyper-partisan communist ratbags, spelled death for the game according to journalists. (The Gamer)
  
  Black Myth Wukong has sold ten million copies.
  
  In three days.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Dustborn, a game which - and I quote - "let me smash fascists and flirt with my situationship on a road trip across America" - in other words, a game that has done everything right according to those same journalists, launched at the same time and has sold... We don't know. (PC Gamer)
  
  The developers have gone very, very quiet after release.
  
  But it has 74 reviews on Steam.
  
  Black Myth Wukong has 379,672 reviews.
  
  Dustborn peaked at 83 simultaneous players.
  
  Black Myth Wukong peaked on the same day at 2,415,714 players. On Steam alone; Black Myth Wukong is available on console as well.
  
  Of course, Dustborn is a much smaller title and was never going to be as popular, but 3,000,000% is a hell of a delta.

• If you always wanted a Sinclair Spectrum - and I don't know why you would, because it was never actually good, just cheap - well, you can now get one for about $99. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, an Android emulator in a Spectrum case with a Spectrum keyboard. In other words the worst parts of the original Spectrum have been faithfully reproduced, while the parts that worked have been replaced with software.
  
  
  
• Asus is showing off GaN PC power supplies. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  GaN power transistors are becoming common in laptop and phone chargers because they are compact and... Well, that's it really. How much this matters for PC power supplies is another question.
  
  
  
• Well, yes, but actually no. Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? (Cryptography Engineering)
  
  This question is suddenly important with the recent arrest of Telegram's CEO by French fascists. The answer remains... Kind of.
  
  
  
• The Port of Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport have been eaten alive by a cyberattack or maybe they're just incompetent. (Tech Crunch)

  Late Saturday evening, the airport said it was still experiencing outages: "There is not an estimated time for return and Port teams continue to work to restore full service." It also encouraged travelers to use airline apps to get their boarding passes and bag tags, and to allow extra time to reach their gates.

  Well, that's definitive.
  

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