On Tuesday, Rockstar Games gave us some details about how Grand Theft Auto VI will look and run on current-gen consoles. But there was a fascinating buried lede in that blog post.
Specifically, it will actually be possible to play GTA 6 on a last-generation Xbox One console at launch. There is, obviously, a huge catch to that: You’ll only be able to play it that way by streaming the game over the cloud. The actual news here is that GTA 6 will be playable through Xbox Cloud Gaming, a feature available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers, starting at 1 a.m. ET on Nov. 19, the day the game comes out.
Using Xbox Cloud Gaming, you’ll be able to stream GTA 6 to an Xbox Series console or an Xbox One. I’m not entirely sure why you’d stream it to one of the newer consoles instead of just running it natively, but the option is there, nonetheless. If you play GTA 6 this way, the stream will use the Xbox Series S version’s graphics settings.
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Of course, there is one final very relevant detail here: Starting this month, Xbox has imposed strict hourly limits on cloud gaming. You can only stream games for five to 15 hours per month, depending on which version of Game Pass you pay for. There’s also the matter of game streaming being subject to the whims of internet quality, so things like buffering, latency, and poor visual quality can be part of the experience.
So, it might still be worth it to just try and find a current-gen console instead.
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Calvin & Hobbes is considered by many to be one of the greatest comic strip series of all time. It mixes the chaotic imagination of a child with unique observations that take a look at the world from a different angle. Bill Watterson made this comic about a boy and his stuffed tiger incredibly endearing and raucously funny.
While the comic is from the perspective of a child, it was still being written and drawn by an adult man. This means, naturally, that Watterson was able to make jokes that a child wouldn’t get. These “grown-up jokes” were not about topics inappropriate for children; rather, they made points about the complexity of the world which would easily go over a child’s head.
Calvin Imbues the Unliving with Existential Dread
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When snow begins to fall, almost every child’s first instinct is to build a snowman. It’s a common form of creativity that accompanies the colder season, and is as simple as rolling at least three balls of snow in decreasing size on top of one another, adding some facial features, and maybe adding a hat, some buttons, and a pipe.
However, this design is too simple and straightforward for Calvin. He wants a more raw and real snowman, so he gives his snowman the existential dread of knowing one is alive “weighed against the horror of nonbeing.” Hobbes compliments Calvin’s “willingness to put artistic integrity before marketability.” The dry and absurd humor is very reminiscent of Far Side comics. This coaxes Calvin into making a normal snowman too. Most children don’t have the existential dread that comes with wondering if you have lived your life in a meaningful manner. Adding the joke about marketability adds to the humor while still being outside of the average kids’ reach of understanding how capitalism works.
Children Don’t Understand Why Some TV Should Be Off-Limits
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Daytime television is a different beast, with countless soap operas and daily gossip talk shows that frankly either cannot or should not appeal to kids. Soap operas in particular tend to deal with mature topics not suited for children, but a sick day from school gave children the rare opportunity to access that daytime programming (streaming notwithstanding).
This comic shows Calvin watching what seems to be one of those soap operas while home sick from school. The program includes an affair, murder, and a “skimpy négligée,” prompting Calvin to say, “Sometimes I think I learn more when I stay home from school.” This suggests that Calvin is learning about a lot of concepts he shouldn’t be, and it’s a joke that really only appeals to adults.
The Futility of War is Hard to Grasp for a Kid
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Kids safe at home in America do not understand the weight and magnitude of war. Obviously, there are children around the world who have to experience its horrors firsthand, but Calvin certainly does not know what it is like to live in a war zone.
That is why Calvin and Hobbes decide to play war in this comic. They agree that the first to get hit by a dart dies, and then the two shoot one another at the same time. They agree it’s a stupid game, but this acknowledgment doesn’t quite communicate the point in an explicit enough way for a kid. Wars only destroy, not create. They are not fun, and they damage everyone involved. Calvin may not understand this yet, but this comic shows that he’s close.
There Is No Rock Bottom, and That’s Reassuring for Some Reason
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This single-panel comic makes a point about the world that is difficult for children to grasp, and if a child does understand this point, adults are often saddened by such pessimism. This comic shows Calvin floating from a balloon and saying, “That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.”
This thought accompanies a bird in the distance, likely getting so close that it could pop the balloon from which Calvin is floating. The comic demonstrates a point that many adults get, but children may not: there is no rock bottom. Things can always get worse. Most adults have experienced enough weary years to get to this point, but kids, most of the time, do not have the life experience to come to grips with how true this is.
Calvin Makes Experiences a Poignant Moment of Pondering Mortality
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This comic starts with Calvin and Hobbes finding a dead bird. This triggers an epiphany in Calvin, and he begins to ponder the fleeting nature of life. He talks about how brutal nature can be and how quickly it can snatch the gift of life away. He talks about how this horror of life is probably why people get so buried in their own lives and do not take the time to think about what life means.
Calvin finishes this comic by saying, “I suppose it will make sense when we grow up.” The joke here, which is something only adults will understand, is that being a grown-up does not make all of this clear. Life can still seem random, cruel, and brutal. Adulthood only makes this reality more stark; it does not explain it.
Ants Sure Are Silly Little Guys
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This comic finds Calvin and Hobbes watching an anthill. Calvin begins making fun of the ants, talking about how mindless they seem, how hard they are working for something that could be instantly taken from them, and how pointless that work seems to be.
The joke here, of course, is that humans do this exact same thing. We work hard without questioning why and unaware of the fact that all which we gain from our work can be taken away from us by the cruel whims of the universe. Calvin doesn’t understand this, and your average child will not. However, an adult can understand how brutal this truth about the world really is.
The World Is Yours, Whether You Want It or Not
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This is a melancholy Calvin & Hobbes comic that finds Calvin observing the destruction of forestry. He sees a tree stump and begins commenting on how long it took the forest to grow versus how quickly it was razed to the ground. He laments about how quickly the area will be made into “a big strip.”
He then asks Hobbes, “If you can refuse to inherit the world.” Hobbes says, “I think if you’re born, it’s too late.” This makes another mature point children don’t usually understand. The world is cruel and fleeting. It’s not fair, and it is your problem the second you are born. The only thing one can do is to make the best of it and try to improve it where they can.
Calvin’s Dad Finally Understands Adulthood in a Way That Only an Adult Can
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This particular comic does not feature Calvin or Hobbes at all. Instead, it focuses on Calvin’s parents as they lay down to sleep for the night. However, Calvin’s dad can’t sleep, and he begins to ponder the nature of adulthood. He talks about how, as a kid, adults seem to have it together, but he now understands that no adult could.
He now understands that so much of adulthood is “ad-libbed.” No adult can understand how to tackle every problem and situation that comes their way. Instead, the best an adult can do is just try their best and use their common sense and wisdom. Children cannot understand this because they simply do not have the age and experience yet.
As Flock Safety looks to expand its already massive network of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) throughout the US, political lobbying has become a key tool for the extremely unpopular company to achieve its aims.
As the Chicago Sun Times reported in the wake of the US midterms, the controversial AI surveillance company Flock Safety has given nearly $500,000 to campaigns for local and state candidates in Illinois alone over the past two-odd years.
The political spending spree in Illinois comes as a result of two contracts with lobbying firms including Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies, which the Chicago Sun reports was first retained by the surveillance company in early 2024. Cozen O’Connor represents other startups-turned-tech-dynasties like Lyft, as well as facilitating loans between lenders and data center developers.
Flock has also contracted the firm Mercury Public Affairs to lobby federal politicians on both sides of the aisle, including the successful Democrat senate nominee from Illinois, Juliana Stratton. The company’s total lobbying spend on this election came out to more than $2 million across the country, as its surveillance network has ballooned to include nearly 150,000 ALPRs.
Despite all of Flock’s spending in races across the US, voters loudly rejected the company’s advances in local contests. In towns from Texas to Maine where ALPRs came up through ballot measures, voters rejected them, voting overwhelmingly to require voter consent for police to install new surveillance tools — or even to end ongoing contracts with Flock entirely.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today debuted a new line of central processing units for servers.
The Epyc 6 series, which is also known as Venice, comprises 10 CPUs that are organized into two groups. The first set includes chips with a large number of relatively slow cores. The remaining CPUs feature fewer, higher-frequency cores. Both chip collections feature optimizations designed to speed up artificial intelligence agents.
AI agents run their neural networks on graphics cards and use CPUs to power their tools, the applications with which they carry out work. CPUs also perform certain other tasks in machine learning clusters. According to AMD, Epyc 6 chips can support up to 3.3 more agents per watt than Nvidia Corp.’s Vera CPU. Additionally, the company says that its processor series significantly outperforms comparable Intel Corp. silicon.
Deploying an AI agent’s tools on CPUs with a relatively small core count can reduce software expenses in some cases. Certain enterprise applications, notably databases, are billed according to the number of cores on which they run. As a result, deploying a database on one high-frequency core is cheaper than using two slower ones that together provide the same amount of processing power.
The two highest frequency Epyc 6 chips have a base speed of 4.05 GHz. They can boost their clock to 5.3 GHz when running demanding workloads. Both chips have 96 cores and a 384-megabyte cache.
The two densest Epyc 6 chips, meanwhile, include 256 cores with a base speed of 2.55 GHz. Each core can power two threads, or stream of calculations, for a total of 512 threads. That enables the chips to run a large number of AI agents at once. Some large language models spin up hundreds of agents or more when tackling complex tasks.
The Epyc 6 series is based on a new core architecture called Zen 6. Its IPC, a key measure of CPU performance, is 31% higher than AMD’s previous design when running AI workloads. The increase partly stems from the fact that AMD uses Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s latest two-nanometer node to make Zen 6 cores.
The cores come in two editions. There’s a version called simply Zen 6 that is optimized for clock speed and a scaled-down edition, Zen 6c, that is designed to power CPUs with high core counts. Zen 6c core features an enhanced out-of-order processing mechanism not included in the standard edition. The mechanism speeds up programs by performing some calculations well before the results are needed.
Zen 6 also includes AI-specific optimizations. The architecture is compatible with the FP16 data format, which makes it possible to lower agents’ hardware footprint by compress the information they process. There’s also improved support for VNNI-INT8, a technology that condenses multiple AI calculations into a single operation to save time.
“AI is significantly expanding the role of the CPU across every layer of the data center,” said Dan McNamara, the senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Compute and Enterprise AI unit. “With 6th Gen AMD EPYC, customers can standardize on the proven x86 foundation while choosing a workload-optimized solution to run more agents.”
AMD says that a number of major data center suppliers have already started shipping servers equipped with Epyc 6 chips. Additionally, the processors power a pair of Microsoft Azure instances optimized for AI inference workloads and chip design software.
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Two weeks after announcing Gemini 4 Carbon for cybersecurity professionals, Google is expanding access to its latest frontier AI model to even more people. It’s now available to developers, enterprises, scientists and consumers.
As with all new AI models, there are improvements across the board, but Gemini 4 Carbon particularly excels in areas such as knowledge work, agentic coding, science, mathematics and cybersecurity. Google says Carbon outperforms its Argon AI model and competitor models from OpenAI and Anthropic in benchmark tests across a series of areas.
The model is also said to have improved spatial reasoning and physics simulations for 3D game engines and creative coding. Previous Gemini models were already good for vibe-coding apps and games, and Carbon should be even better.
As these frontier models become more advanced, virtually all AI companies are prioritizing the mitigation of risks of misuse and cyberattacks such as prompt injections. The model scored a 0% prompt-injection attack success rate on the Gray Swan IPI benchmark test.
The everyday user may not reap as many of the benefits from the new model, but cybersecurity experts, scientists and other professionals are more likely to make use of the improvements Google has made to its latest model.
Gemini 4 Carbon is available for developers via its AI Studio and Android Studio, and everyday users who are subscribed to the AI Ultra plan can access the model from the Gemini App.
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Gege Akutami’s original Jujutsu Kaisen story reached its conclusion with the release of Chapter 271 on September 30, 2024, in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 44. However, the world of Jujutsu Kaisen continued beyond that. Almost a year later, Gege Akutami made an official comeback with a sequel to Jujutsu Kaisen, called Jujutsu Kaisen: Modulo, which is set 68 years after the conclusion of the Sukuna Raid.
In this new story, Yuji Itadori, the former protagonist, was shown to be at the prime of his powers and standing tall as a Special Grade Sorcerer. Naturally, by adulthood, Yuji Itadori has gained many powerful abilities, and he is confirmed to have become Japan’s strongest sorcerer. Yuji has also reached a level of strength where he has surpassed both Gojo and Sukuna, which means that his overall sorcery level is far beyond anything that we have seen in the story. Yuji Itadori has also officially upgraded his domain expansion powers, given his control over his new cursed techniques, and that is exciting for all the fans to see.
Gege Akutami Gives Perfect Cursed Technique Control To Adult Yuji Itadori
Image created by the author Rei Penber using official Jujutsu Kaisen assets.
Yuji Itadori first awakened his Domain Expansion in the Shinjuku Showdown arc of Jujutsu Kaisen, but the basis for it was established by Gege in chapter 257 of the series when he awakened his Cursed Technique. This chapter was released on April 22, 2024, in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump issue 21, and it saw Yuji tap into the same power as Sukuna, known as Shrine, and gain the power to launch powerful Dismantles, especially targeted at the soul.
“Black Flash releases Yuji’s inner potential. Amidst a shower of black sparks, Yuji Itadori awakens!” — Yuji unlocks Shrine, Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter #257
Yuji Itadori was able to push back the King of Curses and eventually even defeat him in combat, which was amazing for all of us to see. Naturally, as the battle continued, Yuji took these abilities beyond all limits and created his own Domain Expansion. Yuji Itadori’s Domain Expansion, which remains unnamed to this day, was unveiled in Jujutsu Kaisen chapter 264, released on July 29, 2024, in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 35. Inside his domain, we could see all the places that Yuji grew up in, which he holds dear to his heart. It was in this domain that he dealt the final blow to Ryomen Sukuna by launching a powerful Soul Dismantle Sure Hit, and defeating him for good. While this Domain Expansion was already powerful enough on its own, it was not a depiction of Yuji at the peak of his powers, meaning that his new Domain Expansion, which has now been upgraded in the Modulo era, is much more powerful.
Why Yuji’s Domain Expansion Has Been Upgraded With Shrine And Blood Manipulation Mastery
Image created by the author Rei Penber using official assets.
In Jujutsu Kaisen: Modulo, Yuji Itadori is stronger than ever before. On May 1, 2026, with the release of Modulo Volume 3, Gege Akutami confirmed to us that Yuji Itadori is not only the strongest sorcerer of all time but also classified as a Special Grade now. Gege also went on to confirm that Yuji has perfect mastery over not one, but two cursed techniques. In Modulo Chapter 19, which was officially released on January 26, 2026, in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 9, Yuji Itadori demonstrated fully mastered Blood Manipulation beyond anything that we had ever seen. A week later, in Modulo Chapter 20, Yuji unleashed his newly mastered Shrine Technique and showed usage far better than Sukuna ever did.
“What’s all this? You completely failed to gather them up. Well, can’t help it. They’re still new to this. Dismantle!!” — Yuji unleashes a massive Dismantle, Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo Chapter #20
Clearly, Yuji’s control over both Shrine and Blood Manipulation has reached an entirely new level, and he was even able to slice through Mahito’s attacks without even lifting a finger. His control over cursed energy, cursed techniques, and even things like incantations and hand signs has reached such a level that he is essentially a god of sorcery.
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In other words, Yuji Itadori’s domain expansion, which was half-baked when he fought against Sukuna, has now been fully mastered. His new domain expansion is likely to be similar to Malevolent Shrine, only much more dangerous and deadly. Furthermore, Yuji can also possibly imbue his Blood Manipulation inside his domain to create a completely new sure-hit, giving him access to two different variants of the technique and making him incredibly special in the process.
There is absolutely no denying the fact that Yuji Itadori is one of the deadliest Domain Expansion users to ever exist, but unfortunately, we have yet to see him going all out in battle. What little we have seen, however, confirms him as the strongest of all time among humans.
Yuji’s Full Power As An Adult
Image by Rei Penber created using Jujutsu Kaisen assets
In the Jujutsu Kaisen: Modulo era, Yuji Itadori’s full strength has not been revealed, but Gege has shown us enough for us to conclude that he is the strongest of all time. For starters, Yuji Itadori’s Blood Manipulation is far better than that of any other sorcerer. At the same time, his control over Shrine has surpassed that of Ryomen Sukuna, with him being able to launch Dismantles that span over kilometers. On top of that, he is able to tear through enemy attacks and shred them without even using incantations or hand signs, which is a mark of a remarkable sorcerer.
Yuji: You’re quite sturdy! Don’t worry, this won’t kill you! Black Flash!
Sorcerer: Such precision. I didn’t even sense any Cursed Energy from him until it collected in his fist!
— Yuji uses Black Flash at will, JJK Modulo Chapter #20
Furthermore, Yuji Itadori has become the first sorcerer to be able to hit Black Flash at will. This was seen in Modulo Chapter 20, where a glimpse of his true strength was revealed to us. With all these incredible abilities, Yuji is already a god of jujutsu sorcery. He is also part spirit and part human, which means that his body ages significantly slower than an average human. Yuji Itadori is already in his 80s, but he’s set to live for 300 more years.
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In other words, Yuji will continue to remain in his prime and amass more experience and gain further strength as he grows older. His strength as an adult sorcerer is far beyond that of Sukuna and Gojo, and there is absolutely no denying that fact. Hopefully, Gege Akutami eventually makes a return to Jujutsu Kaisen and shows us how strong Yuji truly is in his prime, and all fans would absolutely love to see that.
All chapters of Jujutsu Kaisen and Modulo by Gege Akutami are available to read via Manga Plus and Viz Media.
