TIL Valnet owns most of the world's so-called "gaming journalism" and other pop entertainment websites.
The owner of entertainment websites Screen Rant, Collider, CBR and MovieWeb faces a lawsuit over exploitative work conditions.
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.
There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev
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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.
The Battle of Sixth Grade: A Story of the Cuban Revolution
Could education secretary Charles Clarke learn a lesson or two from Cuba's handling of its illiteracy crisis in the 1960s?
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.
A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 5: Upgrades & Maintenance - elenarossini
A post that explains how to keep a YunoHost server running healthily with system updates and how to run application updates (and revert back to a snapshot if things go awry).
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…
STRANGER THAN HEAVEN confirmed for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC
STRANGER THAN HEAVEN will be available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store when it launches, publisher SEGA and developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio announced. It will al…
Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC
Sony confirms hardware price hikes; PS5 Pro will cost $900 from April 2…
Play Five Nights at Epstein’s Online for free
Five Nights at Epstein's Sneaking onto the island to investigate was a bad idea… You were discovered by him and barely escaped,...
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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Kadokawa’s activist shareholder Oasis Management raises stake to 11.85%, exceeding Sony’s
Oasis Managament Company raised their stake in Kadokawa to 11.18%, becoming one of the largest owners of the Japanese publisher.
TIL the US state of Missouri's governor signed a Mormon extermination order in 1838 which wasn't formally rescinded until 1976
Missouri Executive Order 44 (known as the Mormon Extermination Order) was a state executive order issued by Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs on October 27, 1838, in response to the Battle of Crooked River. The clash had …
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 …
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.
Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying
US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.
Hubzilla 11.2 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.
PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real
The controversy around PlayStation dynamic pricing continues, as evidence shows people are being charged nearly twice as much as others.
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.
Tycoon god game Sintopia is Black & White above, Dungeon Keeper below, and it's releasing in April
Sintopia is a god sim parked on top of a management game - cleanse the souls of mortals so that they can resurrect on Earth without sparking a demon invasion.
Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant
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Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field
: Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows
Meta found liable in child sexual exploitation case
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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."
Crimson Desert sales top three million
Total sales for open-world action adventure game Crimson Desert have surpassed three million units, developer Pearl Abyss announced.
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.
Bethesda has no plans to slow down on paid mods, Todd Howard says he wants to get Creations 'in front of more people'
Bethesda's Todd Howard says the company is 'really happy' with how its Creations content program is going, including the premium-priced paid UGC mods.
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.
"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"
NaiHe – small encrypted chat for people who can't speak freely, looking for forks
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To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic
'They're playing games. It's just that their attention and needs are changing,' says Astrid Entertainment CEO Sharon Tal Yguado.
Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
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RUBATO - Launch Trailer
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Google told staff worried about Pentagon AI deals that the company is 'leaning more' into national security contracts
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told staff it's "incumbent on us to work with democratically elected governments."
Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disint…
Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is faulty design
"You're swimming against the tide making games like this": Why more developers didn't copy Firewatch's reactive storytelling
Firewatch was meant to spark a subgenre but its influence didn't spread. A decade on, we ask why Roblox and Minecraft are more
Street Fighter 6’s Latest DLC Ending Is Upsetting Fans Because Alex Marries His Sister-Cousin
Alex's arrival saw the game break its all-time peak player count on Steam
Portabase v1.10 - database backup/restore tool, now supporting Firebird SQL
Portabase - Database backup & restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Firebird SQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis and Valkey (more engines coming soon 🚀) - Portabase/portabase
TIL porcupines eat brake linings.
Imagine slogging your way back down a trail after a weekend of backpacking, eager to get back to the hallmarks of civilization: hot showers, beer, and nachos. And imagine the trailhead comes in sight! You quicken your p…
AI is making us think and write more alike: Large language models are standardizing human expression — and subtly influencing how we think
Large language models may be standardizing human expression and subtly influencing how we think, says study led by USC Dornsife researcher
Fake rooms, props and a script to lure victims: inside an abandoned Cambodia scam centre— Sprawling compound, including mock-up banks and p…
Sprawling compound, including mock-up banks and police offices, uncovered by Thai military during border clashes
RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More)
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Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions
Records show DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities
Google Korea union warns of strike over stalled talks
Google Korea union warns of strike over stalled talks