Meet the players who lost big money on Peter Molyneux’s failed Legacy
After millions in NFT sales, the hyped “play to earn” game was effectively dead in weeks.
DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two …
"AI-Driven SSD Prices Soar Another 50% in Q2... NAND Joins HBM in Steep Surge"
Driven by the expanding demand for artificial intelligence (AI) servers, the price of solid-state drives (SSD) has recently continued its steep upward ...
The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
Due to some lucky circumstances, I recently had the chance to appear in one of the biggest German gaming podcasts, Stay Forever, to talk about the technology of RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999). It was …
AMD: Ryzen Desktop CPUs Reportedly See a Price Increase of Over 50% in Some Countries
The Ryzen 9000 series CPU lineup is "particularly notable for its price increases."
U.S. companies back Sam Altman’s World ID even as much of the world pushes back
The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to verify users.
Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says
Powerful forces are exploiting parents’ fears to strengthen their toxic business models. Here’s how we stop them.
Google Uses Cox Ruling to Kill Last Copyright Claim in Textbook Piracy Lawsuit
Google is trying to put an end to the liability claim in its textbook piracy battle with several educational publishers.
Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In
Following yesterday's polarizing news of Canonical to begin shipping AI features in Ubuntu Linux over the course of the next year, Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical has now provided some clarifications ar…
Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women
Gambling companies are reaching young men – the group most likely to exhibit problem gambling behaviour – on social media at more than double the rate of
Canonical lays out a plan for AI in Ubuntu Linux
AI features are coming to the most popular Linux distro.
Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment
Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages
‘Stop Killing Games’ Got Its EU Parliament Hearing
Progress may be slow, but it’s still progress. While I’ve been talking about the importance of video game preservation as a function of our own overall cultural preservation, very few p…
The AI-designed car is taking shape
Experts say the increasingly reliance on AI could lead to job losses.
Taylor Swift files to trademark her voice and likeness in era of AI deepfakes
The move comes months after actor Matthew McConaughey filed similar trademarks to protect his likeness against unauthorized replications.
Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials
If you're one of millions using element-data, it's time to check for compromise.
Wuthering waves Aemeath Casual Outfit Mod Gameplay
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Wizards of the Coast Developers Form Union with CWA
A supermajority of game developers behind the popular digital game Magic: The Gathering Arena has announced their intent to form a union with CWA, also marking the first unionization effort at Hasbro subsidiary Wizards …
Magic: The Gathering Arena Team Unionizes At Wizards of the Coast
A group of workers at Magic: The Gathering Arena maker Wizards of the Coast is asking management to voluntarily recognize the union.
At Intel
Organising within and against the semiconductor industry
New FTC Data Show People Have Lost Billions to Social Media Scams
New data from the Federal Trade Commission show that, in 2025, nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam said that it started on social media, with reported losses reaching a stagger
Wishlisted Indie Game Showcase is LIVE NOW | 70+ trailers, world reveals and more! (4/27/2026)
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Steam Controller (2026) - PCGamer Review
There's nothing quite like the Steam Controller in how it mimics a mouse—a clever combination of trackpads and gyro controls. If you're often gaming from your couch or bed, it's worth a look, but if you're just after a …
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Clau…
PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.
California’s 3D Printer Law Would Criminalize Open Source, Enshittify The 3D Printing Space
There’s been a flood of new state laws placing restrictions on 3D printing that are driven by sloppy moral panics about 3D printed guns (and a desire by large manufacturers to dominate the ma…
OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps | TechCrunch
There have been plenty of rumors about OpenAI's hardware plans, which involve launching a pair of earbuds. A new note from industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that the AI company might be working on a phone in collab…
Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash
I don’t know what the first video game I ever played was. I would have been too young to remember. It very likely could have been a Flash game running in a web browser, patiently downloaded over a dialup connection. I g…
Call of Duty was never the right fit for Game Pass | Opinion
Believing CoD fans want a subscription option - or Game Pass subscribers would swallow price hikes to play COD - betrayed a misunderstanding of both audiences
Google DeepMind to open its first AI campus in the world in Seoul
Google DeepMind will open its first-ever AI campus in Seoul after Demis Hassabis signed an MOU with South Koreaâs Science Ministry on Monday.
Even experts are surprised by AI’s latest ‘vibe-mathing’ advance
A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses
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Upcoming AAAA game: MAGA Simulator 2077 (sarcasm)
The year is 2077. The fewchur is here! Prezidint Trump is on his 14th turm. He's still cleening up the mess the Liburals made. Still Mayking America Grate! You are one of his most biggest supporturs. Fight thuh libs! Fi…
Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename
I noticed that Notepad on my production PC was auto-updated, and it no longer has any reference to Copilot, but AI integration is not gone.
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AI is making it very easy for the government to spy on you. Some lawmakers are worried.
AI’s increasing ability to sift through data and track Americans’ locations has some lawmakers reconsidering parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
TIL Trenton, New Jersey, councilwoman Kathy McBride fell victim to the hoax during a 2013 City Council meeting believing the Blue Waffle di…
Blue waffle is a fictitious sexually transmitted disease said to affect only women, causing severe infection and blue discoloration to the vagina. The disease has been confirmed as false. According to Dr. Elizabeth Bosk…
Quantum Computers Are Not A Threat To 128-bit Symmetric Keys
There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.
Fact Check: Did Alien Resurrection invent Dual Analogue First-Person-Shooters?
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TIL that Glencore is the largest company in Switzerland is a dominant player in african mines . The company is known for neocolonialism is …
Joint briefing on behalf of Resource Matters, ANEEJ and Spotlight on Corruption
Happy 40th birthday, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A!
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Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233/month With Zero Downtime
A real-world production migration from DigitalOcean to Hetzner dedicated, handling 248 GB of MySQL data across 30 databases, 34 Nginx sites, GitLab EE, Neo4j, and live mobile app traffic — with zero downtime.
The amazing mail sent to a video game publisher
An old Activision idea from the 1980s has led to some incredible things in the 2020s for Panic, the publisher of Despelote, Arco and Time Flies: “The range of things we received was wild."
Former PlayStation Exec Wonders How Sony Will Maintain Investment in First-Party Games Without Releasing Them on PC
Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has suggested that Sony will struggle to recoup the huge budgets invested in its first-party games without porting them to PC.
The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog
Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser.
China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US
With the price of fuel rising China's BYD says it is positioning itself to benefit from the global shift away from fossil fuels.
Action RPG The Awakener: Battle Tendency launches on May 5 for PC | RPG Site
Taner Game's other RPG, The Awakener: Risen, is still in development.