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Igor

@igorbonifacic.bsky.social
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Senior reporter for Engadget covering all things AI. Say hello at igor(dot)bonifacic(at)engadget(dot)com.

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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ugh, Bo. This is awful news. Wish there was something I could do to help you and your team.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I had to make the same adjustment. I think the main thing is young Link looks so much more detailed than the rest of the characters who inhabit the world. It's a shame, since other elements, like the interplay of light in shadow in the Deku tree, were really lovely.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Mate and marrow 🙂
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Blogged about Star Wars Zero Company, which I fear may never get to a good technical state. www.engadget.com/2248910/star...
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Star Wars Zero Company is a great game that's busted and may never be fixed - Engadget
It's hard to be confident about Star Wars Zero Company's future after the studio that made it furloughed most of its staff.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Glad the Rooks decided to be friends at the end of it all.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I chatted with Perplexity about its new Hybrid Compute system, which allows you to split sensitive tasks between cloud and local AI models. www.engadget.com/2248548/perp...
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Perplexity's Hybrid Compute splits sensitive tasks between cloud and local AI - Engadget
Local processing could keep costs down too.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Same narrative designer as Fallen Order and Survivor. I just wish it wasn’t a technical mess. It has awful traversal stutter and input lag on PC. It’s a shame because everything else about the game is peak.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I chatted with child safety experts about ChatGPT for Teens. Main takeaway from me was parental controls have never a good mechanism for protecting young people from the harms tech platforms can pose to them. www.engadget.com/2241179/chil...
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Child safety experts are skeptical of OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens - Engadget
They say the company must prove it can be trusted before products like these get a pass.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So glad you're making a stop in Toronto. Can't wait to read the book.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
OpenAI's long promised ChatGPT for Teens, which automatically gates the chatbot behind stronger protections for young users, is beginning to roll out today. I spoke to Lauren Jonas, the company's head of youth and families, about the release. www.engadget.com/2238773/chat...
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ChatGPT's stricter teen mode starts rolling out today - Engadget
OpenAI will attempt to automatically enroll all young users in the new experience.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
PC is up and running again. The Fractal North was so great to build in. My only complaint is the thumb screws were a bit fiddly. Otherwise, I think this is my cleanest build yet.
A photo showing the inside of a Fractal North ATX build. A photo showing the back of Fractal North with neat cable management. A white Fractal North tower PC stands on a marble countertop.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I spoke to advocates from the NAACP, @selc.bsky.social and @ainowinstitute.bsky.social about how communities can organize to decide if and how a data center is built near their home. www.engadget.com/2227325/how-...
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How to fight a data center - Engadget
If you're worried about noise, utility costs, or pollution: here's how to fight against a data center.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What makes it a Frankenstein Tele?
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My PC would decide to die during a RAM crunch 😔
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
He always posts great stuff, but I have to admit "a humble non-profit dedicated to safe development" absolutely sent me.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Cautiously (very) optimistic for this one. Kamiyama and EnJoe are real ones, and all the designs look super cool.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
When we humans are gone, this bear will inherit the Earth.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New from me.
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Smart speakers could help OpenAI lose even more money - Engadget
A smart speaker won't save OpenAI.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Ben is the best, and I feel so grateful for all the times he included me on the show.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So proud of my US colleagues for working to organize themselves. I wish I could join them.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I got a sneak peak at some of the other studios Jess interviewed for her new column, and I can’t wait for everyone to read what she has cooking.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
New feature from me 🙂I hope it comes through that @jumpovertheage.com is one of the coolest people to interview. Can't wait for the new game. www.engadget.com/2198793/fung...
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'Fungalpunk' RPG Signet City isn't afraid to be weird and political - Engadget
Gareth Damian Martin drew on diverse inspirations for Signet City, from horror manga to a musical from Sting.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ah, so sorry, Gareth! I should have clarified. Either way, I'll get that fixed. :)
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
After speaking to six different sources about this, the conclusion I came to was that you could argue they're feasible, but to do so at the scale Musk has suggested would see SpaceX monopolize one of the Earth's most important orbits to the great harm of the planet. www.engadget.com/ai/orbital-a...
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Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process - Engadget
If executed at the scale, Musk's orbital data center plan could have devastating effects on the environment and the sustainability of low Earth orbit.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I wrangled the @engadget.com team to write about their favorite #gameboyadvance games for the 25th anniversary of the console's North American release. www.engadget.com/2191800/enga...
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Engadget's favorite Game Boy Advance games - Engadget
Join us for a trip down memory lane on the 25th anniversary of the GBA's US release.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Damn. I don’t remember there being zombies in novel? As I recall, Josh Brolin’s character was paranoid about survivors. This seems to completely misunderstand the intent of the original work.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Atlus really gave us Marie before FeMC 😔
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It gave you the DLSS 5 treatment 🫩
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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast, starting at 11A ET! www.youtube.com/live/oHvKfy_... @igorbonifacic.bsky.social and I will dive into everything Google announced this week, especially new Android 17 features and the seemingly pointless Googlebooks AI laptops
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Everything new coming to Android 17 + Who needs Googlebooks? | Engadget Podcast
YouTube video by Engadget
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My addition to the pile. tommisch.bandcamp.com/album/full-c...
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Full Circle - Digital Download, by Tom Misch
11 track album
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
His first collection of short stories is also exceptional.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
If I saw correctly, the book that he finds on his office desk is titled "Brain Rot," which could just easily apply to his character as it does the subjects of the book.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Long story short, we should all strive to be more like the beaver.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Join @devindra.bsky.social and I for what should be a fun chat.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Just wild to me how many people are treating orbital data centers like some inevitability.
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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I love nerds www.engadget.com/gaming/plays...
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This Frankenstein PlayStation PCB reads games from microSD and outputs video over HDMI
Over the past couple of months, YouTuber Secret Hobbyist has been working to design, prototype and build the ultimate PlayStation PCB.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Alex said in a recent DF Direct he’s been dealing with a back injury that’s made it really difficult for him to travel to events like CES and GTC, so I imagine that’s part of the reason things played out the way they did.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
NVIDIA, please leave Leon alone. He's perfectly handsome without an AI slop filter over his shit-eating grin 🥲
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It’s so funny, though so much of the humor is specific to Toronto and Canada in the mid aughts.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I must have played through the campaign of Allies Assault at least a hundred times.
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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast in a few minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUd6... I'll be chatting with @igorbonifacic.bsky.social about the Xbox mess and Samsung's Galaxy S26 family!
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Xbox's big shakeup + Samsung's Galaxy S26 is here | Engadget Podcast
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Kevin 👽 @astro-kevin.com · 19/02/2026
This is indeed a very thorough piece on the engineering and environmental ramifications of orbital data centers. Too many “journalists” take the word of CEOs like Musk uncritically, Igor certainly doesn’t.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Really proud of the amount of work that went into this piece, and thankful to people like @astro-kevin.com for being so generous of their time. www.engadget.com/ai/orbital-a...
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Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process
If executed at the scale, Musk's orbital data center plan could have devastating effects on the environment and the sustainability of low Earth Earth orbit.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I bought the game today. I’m not sure what performance was like before, but it could be better. There’s noticeable input lag.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Such a classic.
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Engadget @engadget.com · 30/01/2026
dlvr.it
NASA used Claude to plot a route for its Perseverance rover on Mars
No, the chatbot did not crash Perseverance.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
New from me. Analysis of NASA's 2026 funding. www.engadget.com/science/spac...
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Senate passes minibus bill funding NASA, rejecting Trump's proposed cuts
After a tumultuous 2025 that saw it lose around 4,000 employees, NASA finally has an operating budget for 2026, and one that largely preserves its scientific capabilities.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And the original video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yteN...
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The RTX 5070 Ti Has Been Killed Off
YouTube video by Hardware Unboxed
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
My story updated with comment. www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/as...
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ASUS has stopped producing the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB, saying they've reached 'end of life'
YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed is reporting that NVIDIA has "effectively" discontinued the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB due to the ongoing memory crunch.
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Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Great reporting by @hardwareunboxed.bsky.social on the RTX 5070 Ti. NVIDIA just responded to my request. "Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained. We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working closely with our suppliers to maximize memory availability."
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