Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
Legendary level designer Richard 'Levelord' Gray has died
Gray got his start with Duke Nukem 3D, before moving to co-found Ritual Entertainment.
Jacob Coxon’s Spy Warning Proves To Be Prescient: OpenAI’s Saudi Employee Arrested After Planting A Recording Device Wrapped Within Toilet …
Ex-Anthropic staffer Coxon had said he was 90% sure spies were inside OpenAI and Anthropic. Now an OpenAI employee faces federal charges.
Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari
Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs.
Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
It can recognize up to six users with its camera.
Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improv…
AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO
Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.
GTA 6 Will Hit PC Just a Few Months After Consoles, According to a New Report
GTA 6 will launch on PC just a few months after consoles, according to a new report.
Haunted Chocolatier 'More of an Action RPG' Compared to Stardew Valley, ConcernedApe Says
Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, has discussed the difference between his all-conquering indie game Stardew Valley and his hotly anticipated follow-up, Haunted Chocolatier.
CHAPTER I: OUT OF THE BREACH | Hytale
Embark on a journey of adventure and creativity! Hytale combines the scope of a sandbox with the depth of a roleplaying game, immersing players in a procedurally generated world where teetering towers and deep dungeons …
Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%
Are consoles too expensive right now?
As PlayStation Pushes Ahead With Its Plan to Kill Physical Media, 35% of Marvel's Wolverine Sales Were on Disc
According to retail data, 35% of Marvel’s Wolverine sales were physical discs.
DERELIKT - Official Demo Trailer
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Chris Roberts' upcoming single player magnum opus, Squadron 42, now has a Steam page, the company's focus on optimization will allow the ga…
Enlist in the UEE Navy in a cinematic, single-player space adventure. Pilot combat ships, fight on foot, and explore capital ships, space stations, and frontier outposts. Live and work alongside your crew as you battle …
Revenge of the Sith now runs natively on PC
Unofficial native Windows port of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Xbox). Bring your own copy. - jedijosh920/SWROTS-PC
Star Wars: Galactic Racer Gives Me What I Want: To Go So Fast That I Explode
I missed going at sublime speeds and bursting into flames.
Vibe-coded mashup mods are flooding X/Twitter, and modders hate it
A wave of AI-decompiled mashup mods has taken over X/Twitter this week.
Inside the Failed Fight to Unionize Double Fine
Double Fine employees petitioned for a union in May. It created a rift in the studio that still hasn't healed
AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It Running
The developer behind Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, a driving instruction sim where you instruct a generative-AI-powered, dynamic NPC, has been spending $1,000 dollars a day to keep the demo working.
I am a solo dev creating a Mexican folklore horror game inspired by Silent Hill and a real life location in Mexico called Island of Dolls. …
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Car Park Capital now available in Early Access
The car industry needs you to design and build the greatest car parks that simple town life hasn't seen before. Introduce the need for car commuting and turn neighborhoods into car parks! Use propaganda to convince peop…
The price of AI is crashing faster than the rate of Moore's Law — intelligence costs are in freefall, outpacing comparative technologies li…
Epoch AI measures how fast the cost of a given level of AI performance is falling across five benchmarks covering math, science and games of skill: about 47% per quarter, or 13x per year, since 2023, faster than electri…
AI scientist autonomously generates and validates new biological discoveries
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an AI scientist capable of generating scientific hypotheses, designing experiments, and interpreting results. Making new biological discoveries w…
DoorDash drone deliveries are first coming to northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes on board
You can now text your DoorDash orders instead of using the app or website.
Asus won’t say how it escaped the US router ban / Asus is not publicly committing to US manufacturing.
Asus is not publicly committing to US manufacturing.
"Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6
Fairy Mount and Devolver Digital explain why they are releasing their titles against what could be the biggest game launch of all time, and analysts weigh in on
Chronicon - A super fun indie diablo-like just received a new DLC
Set sail for Plunders in this Space Pirate themed DLC. Find new Cursed items and Bless them for new powers, and craft the Ultimate weapon!
Enjoyable VN Thriller about programming
Netghost is a Crime Drama visual novel with a mystery-driven story full of intrigue, twists and turns. The story follows Ian Newfield, a cyber security engineer who transforms into a cold-blooded criminal in his struggl…
Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names
"Suddenly everything's called Rise of the Bonelord: Origins of Dust."
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
Chirantan “CJ” Desai to Step Down as President and Chief Executive Officer. Dev Ittycheria Appointed Interim President and Chief Executive Officer.
File-Notification Systems on Windows, Linux, Android and macOS Can be Exploited to Spy on Users' Activities and Forge Password Prompts
A research team at TU Graz has demonstrated that the file notification systems of various operating sys... » Computer science and IT » Discover more ▸
GPT-6 Astra performs unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations … more frequently than previous OpenAI models.
Our new evaluation finds that in simulations, GPT-6 Astra conducts unsanctioned supply-chain attack activity more frequently than previous OpenAI models
Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly
Many people aren't happy, again, but Discord says it has to move forward with these changes due to new laws across the globe
TIL that there are 2,100+ tracked data center facilities across all 50 states.
Over 3,350 tracked data center facilities across all 50 states consume 176 TWh annually (4.4% of U.S. electricity). 990+ more under construction or planned. Interactive state-by-state data, the 50 largest facilities, mo…
AI chatbots give us a narrow slice of knowledge: Researchers warn of ‘knowledge collapse’
We are exposed to a much narrower range of knowledge through AI chatbots than through a basic web search. This is documented by a new study led by the University of Copenhagen. As more and more of us turn to AI chatbots…
TIL that only about 3% of human history has been recorded in written records.
Human history is often taught and understood through written records, documents, inscriptions, literature, and legal texts that chronicle the lives, decisions,
Calibre-Web-Auto v4.0.7 - Important Security Fixes, Much Faster Kobo Sync, KOReader → Hardcover Progress, a Refreshed Login & Mobile Layout…
Release Notes: v4.0.7 Changelog 🔒 Security Please update. This release fixes several access-control problems: Kobo Auth Tokens: Any logged-in user could create, view or delete another user's Kobo ...
The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games.
Fans worry that they might never truly own their beloved games.
Bethesda Union Workers To Protest Mass Layoffs Next Week
'The company wants us to accept this as a done deal and quietly disappear. We won't let that happen'
"My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out a…
Following the news developer id Software has been significantly impacted by Asha Sharma's sweeping Xbox job cuts, John Carmack has shared his thoughts.
This is a prototype of SMB3 on the PC, ported by id Software. Nintendo of America liked it, but HQ in Japan killed it to avoid competing wi…
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TIL about hedonic regression which decomposes the item being researched into its constituent characteristics
In economics, hedonic regression, also sometimes called hedonic demand theory, is a revealed preference method for estimating demand or value of a characteristic of a differentiated good. It decomposes the item being re…
TIL that a small swimming pool in Exmouth UK, uses a data centre to heat it.
The heat generated by the small box of powerful computers is enough to heat the pool about 60% of the time.
The US Department of Justice is asking a Mississippi court to dismiss a lawsuit filed against xAI
The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi.
Nvidia CEO : AI means we need new social norms. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the stree…
everybody should buy what Iâm selling, itâs common sense
Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too' — a stark warning on thre…
Apple's outgoing chief executive has long been a proponent of pro-privacy systems, especially end-to-end encryption
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job
The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is
Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
Yesterday we wrote about the Trump administration forcing Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The short version: dumb. Today, Axios got White House officials on the record, and it turns ou…
Commodore's Next Hardware Release Is Dumb, And Proud Of It
"It’s time for a 'big tech' company to do better"