Former Nippon Ichi Software president says the “salaryman-ification” of Japan’s game industry is why there are fewer “individual creators” …
Former Nippon Ichi Software President Sohei Niikawa talks shares his opinions on the current state of Japan's game industry.
RSS feeds are beginning to break once xslt support begins being dropped by browsers soon
XSLT makes RSS feeds readable for normies. Chrome is removing it by 2026. Here's why that matters for podcasters and the open web.
The OnlyFans inheritance: how its owner’s death could reshape the porn money-making machine— Leonid Radvinsky’s widow left with power on wh…
Leonid Radvinskyâs widow has been left with a crucial role in deciding what happens to the business that made her husband a billionaire
Self.Tube: a mobile client for TubeArchivist
TubeArchivist Client for Android and Linux
Try not to get scammed while looking for work | Bogdan Chadkin
Couple weeks ago a CTO contacted me about a role at their company. After three failed calls, I figured they are trying to access my machine.
New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games
There are rumors of a new Xbox Game Pass tier coming from Microsoft, and this one would offer only first party games.
Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to SSD Shortage
Sony has announced that it is suspending fulfillment of all orders for nearly its entire SD and CFexpress memory card product lines.
Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns
Chatbots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs in delusional chatbot users, an analysis found.
Meerkat - a personal relationship and contact manager
CRM for the personal life. Contribute to fbuchner/meerkat-crm development by creating an account on GitHub.
Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made"
Owlcat has confirmed it is using generative AI for prototyping and placeholders in The Expanse Osiris Reborn, despite previous backlash.
Sources: Nintendo is planning a new Star Fox and a major Zelda remake this year, but no 3D Mario | VGC
A ‘classic-style’ Star Fox game will be released for Switch 2 this summer…
iPhone New iOS Age Verification Sparks Outrage as Users Say 'I Will Switch to Android'
Apple's new iOS age verification in the UK sparks outrage as users warn they may switch to Android over privacy and ID concerns.
TIL that the song 'Enola Gay' by 'Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark' was an anti-war song about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
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Called it months ago.
Apple's iconic tower is gone, succeeded by the Mac Studio.
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given …
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Official Gameplay Trailer
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is a third-person action RPG set in the universe of The Expanse.You’re no hero — just a mercenary caught in the wrong place at the...
Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For
First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…
Some People Are So Desperate To Hate Marathon They’ve Embraced A Fake Conspiracy About Paid Reddit Posts
Some folks on the internet have fallen for a very obviously fake story about Sony and Bungie paying people to promote Marathon on Reddit
Content Creator Alanah Pearce Launches Charred Pictures in Partnership With Game Devs; ‘Faith: The Unholy Trinity’ Film Adaptation, Two Mor…
Content creator Alanah Pearce launches Charred Pictures, a production company focused on involving game devs in film and TV adaptation projects.
OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot
OpenAI has "indefinitely" abandoned plans to release an a erotic chatbot for adults following concerns from employees and investors.
Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, or 70+% of the total yearly US government budget
But for TeraFab, money is not the only limitation.
Hubzilla 11.4 Docker Image
A multi-arch docker container for Hubzilla, based on Alpine Linux, Nginx, and Postgres/MariaDB - dhitchenor/hubzilla
Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK go…
UK users can confirm their age by scanning an ID or using a credit card.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000…
Moral of the story? Look on the bright side.
Pragmata's newly revealed New York stage was painstakingly made by human developers to look "AI generated," according to director - AUTOMAT…
Pragmata director Cho Yonghee and producer Naoto Oyama talk about the creative process behind the game's "AI-generated" New York stage.
Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial; Ordered to pay $3 Million
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Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with ads
Video advertising seems contradictory to the digital signage’s originally intended purpose.
Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant
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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
by Samantha Lawler, Aaron Boley and Hanno Rein
Oklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall.
Residents in communities across the U.S. are taking a radical step to oppose the AI building boom.
Sony Has Apparently Shut Down Dark Outlaw Games
Sony has closed Dark Outlaw Games, its second studio shutdown this year. Founded by Treyarch’s Jason Blundell, the studio never released a title, impacting around 50 employees amid broader in…
Deadhaus Sonata Q&A: Denis Dyack on Tarot Cards, Loot Based on Quantum Physics, and Building a Spiritual Successor to Legacy of Kain
Denis Dyack discusses Deadhaus Sonata's tarot card skill system, deterministic loot, and building a spiritual successor to Legacy of Kain.
As UK game development suffers its ‘sharpest recorded decline’, trade association calls on UK Government to act | VGC
TIGA says employment fell for the first time in 15 years and the number of studios is dropping…
Amazon acquires ‘approachable’ humanoid maker Fauna Robotics
Fauna's first product, called Sprout, is a $50,000 bipedal robot that's 3 feet, 6 inches tall and designed to be "approachable and human-friendly."
OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform
OpenAI is planning to discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024. Disney has ended its partnership for Sora.
Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive
: Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft
A Ukrainian corps is battle-testing exoskeletons that can fold into a briefcase
The 7th Air Assault Corps has released a video of troops using the exoskeletons to load artillery rounds onto a self-propelled Howitzer.
Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production
Nintendo's Switch 2 got off to a roaring start but demand has started to sag, particularly in the US. Where are the big games to reverse this?
Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support
The project removes the birthDate field systemd added last week in response to age verification laws.
The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore pro…
Whoa, that escalated quickly. This just got sent out by the press folks at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC says it has decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are henceforth pr…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman in a Monday podcast interview that he believed AGI had been achieved, then seemed to slightly walk back the claim.
Nacon faces existential crisis: Cyanide, Spiders and Kylotonn slide into insolvency.
Shock for GreedFall & Styx fans: Nacon's top studios are insolvent. What the bankruptcy means for upcoming releases and the developers.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive
You're not productive if you don't use a lot of AI.
Bluesky raises $100 M Series B as new CEO takes charge
Bluesky disclosed a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April, and a new CEO takes charge.
Video Game Developer Heart Machine Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union
Workers at the studio behind ‘Solar Ash’ and ‘Hyper Light Drifter’ will soon be represented by a Burbank-based Communications Workers of America Local.
GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information
Doesn’t care if its devices can’t be sold in regions that require ID verification.
Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul
Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity.
Iran social media strategy pivots to information war amid US-Israel attack
Cyber experts say influence operations in ‘asymmetric’ campaign to intensify moral pressure on US and Israel
"We have no desire to be a media empire," says Palworld publishing head, but Pocketpair would be stupid to let the survival game die out
Pocketpair aren't "trying to turn Palworld into this big, big, big, big, big, big thing"
I built a simple runner game for the browser because I missed the days of instant, no-nonsense gaming
Play Echo Runner - an exciting browser-based arcade game with ghost echo mechanics, powerups, and daily challenges. Free to play online!