A few days ago I sold my 7800X3D + 5070 Ti 32GB Windows PC secondhand, and I got $1,000 more than the $2,000 I originally paid for it. ....I should have skipped stocks and just hoarded physical RTX 5090s instead.

A developer built Papermorph, a Claude skill that turns a PDF into an animated, narrated, interactive web book with quizzes, using only Claude Opus 5.5. → The pipeline goes PDF, book plan, storyboards, narration, animation and quizzes, then the web book → It started as a skill for turning a book into a series of teaching videos → It currently uses only Opus 5.5 and the skill, with no image models → Next, he plans to add image models for storyboarding to handle picture books and documentaries Reddit:

A(nother) great viz from the current best in the game, @jburnmurdoch Good visual display of benefits or lack there of across multiple populations. Probably worth exploring similar things in AI economic research

A German Valorant player says Riot blocked them over cheating done by the previous owner of their CPU. They bought a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D on Kleinanzeigen in late September. The game launched, then kicked them out immediately. Riot told them the CPU serial was already blacklisted in Vanguard, hardware-banned on August 12 after the last owner cheated. The player says Riot then flagged the rest of the rig, so swapping the chip would not clear it. They left the report up as a warning to other used-part buyers.