Noriyoshi Ohba x Rieko Kodama (2001) - shmuplations.com
Originally featured in the Sega Consumer History book, this interview with Noriyoshi Ohba and Rieko Kodama is a nostalgic look back at their careers.
In Israel, a rabbinical judge can force couples into divorce if the wife dresses indecently
Israeli rabbis are to clamp down on the growing number of devout Jewish women wearing the burka by declaring the garment an item of sexual deviancy.
Steam Controller: Reservations open May 8th - Steam News
How to reserve yours, and what we're doing to mitigate the challenges from earlier in the week
ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State.
Every ChatGPT message triggers a Cloudflare Turnstile program that runs silently in your browser. I decrypted 377 of these programs from network traffic and found something that goes beyond standard browser fingerprinti…
Vaultwarden update (an update to the update)
Notes The previous release contained an issue where Two Factor Remember Tokens and Recovery Tokens were not accepted at all. This has been fixed now in this release. What's Changed Fix MFA Remembe...
In Asia, the global oil crisis is turning into an everything crisis
One month into the war in Iran, a growing shortage of crude oil is threatening to morph into something worse: a shortage of nearly everything.
China requires approval for U.S. investment in AI startups
The move follows Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, which triggered a Beijing probe into foreign investment and tech exports
Half of teenage girls in Japan consult AI about their problems; less than 30% of men in any age group do
生成AIは勉強や仕事の手助けだけでなく、悩み相談の相手として若い女性に浸透している―。内閣府の消費者委員会が実施した生成AIに関するアンケートで、10代女性の52.4％が使用目的に悩み相談を挙げた。 ...
Developer of cozy tea shop adventure Wanderstop is shutting down: 'It's a particularly tough time for raising game funds'
The studio, Ivy Road, wasn't able to secure funding for its next game, Engine Angel.
Software bloat (2026)
What is software bloat? Throughout my life, and the decades before, I have heard over and over again about the advances in computer hardware. I have studied how computers execute instructions, designed simple ones in RT…
Valve's £85 Steam Controller divides gamers ahead of May launch
The pad will be compatible with PCs, Valve's handheld console, the Steam Deck as well as its upcoming gaming PC.
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
Review: Ground Zero - A classic survival horror feel that [pays] homage to the classics of the genre. It [stays] authentic to the survival …
Our comprehensive review of Ground Zero will tell you why this is a modern classic survival horror game worth playing.
It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites (game related site list)
...and YouTube channels, and podcasts, and physical magazines...
Physicists used a ferret to clean particle accelerator tubes.
In February 1971, physicists at the National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, began testing the biggest machine in the world: a ring-shaped, 200-billion-electron-volt (BeV*) proton synchrotron particle accel…
Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with ads
Video advertising seems contradictory to the digital signage’s originally intended purpose.
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.
Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon
Furores are fermenting in the forums
Microsoft finally agrees Windows 11 has problems, and K2 is its plan to fix them, claims report
Let's hope it's actually true.
Bus Bound is out!
Step into the driver’s seat in Bus Bound, the latest title from the creators of Bus Simulator 21. Explore a vibrant city behind the wheel of officially licensed buses, and help transform it into a pedestrian-friendly pa…
Sintopia, the management sim that smashes together Dungeon Keeper and Black & White, will stand before Steam's pearly gates for judgment in…
Team 17's Bullfrog-like strategy game releases next month.
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…
‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near
Android is about to become less open, and users aren't happy.
Building Tanks While the Ukrainians Master Drones
All news of Ukraine and the world, interviews, photos, videos. The latest breaking news, political news, business news, social news, cultural news, sports news from #Mezha
AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not …
Data centers are hurting the ears of the people living around them.
U.S. Lawmakers Work on Unified Site-Blocking Bill to Counter Online Piracy * TorrentFreak
Last week's Supreme Court decision in Cox Communications reshaped the piracy liability landscape, creating new urgency for site-blocking.
F-35 source code leaked
‼️🇺🇸 Lockheed Martin has allegedly been breached and 375TB of data is being offered for sale on what appears to be a Russian 'Threat Market'. They've priced the highly confidential data at $598 million...
8 in 10 Europeans don’t trust US, Chinese firms with data
Europe is rolling out measures to keep data local and reduce reliance on foreign tech.
Snapchat's gamification features negatively affect young people
Bits of Freedom komt op voor internetvrijheid door de online grondrechten op communicatievrijheid en privacy te beschermen.
"That is an $11,000 gold texture": Steam researcher says "supporter packs" make a lot of free money because PC gamers love to spend on thei…
Steam users will turn up for some day-one DLC, it turns out
Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge supp…
Right-to-repair feud gets aggressive.
Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase
Game consoles usually become cheaper in the years following their launch. Not so the PlayStation 5, which was launched in November 2020 for $399, but five and a half years later costs $599. This obviously has a drastic …
TIL about the "Apocalypse Early Warning System"
Local dashboard for monitoring tracked-aircraft concurrent-activity anomaly signals.
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
There’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one ask…
Self.Tube: a mobile client for TubeArchivist
TubeArchivist Client for Android and Linux
TIL chicken sold in supermarkets are often "plumped" with a salt water solution to increase sell weight, making up as much as 30% of the to…
Plumping, also referred to as “enhancing” or “injecting,” is the process by which some poultry companies inject raw chicken meat with saltwater, chicken stock, seaweed extract, water and additives,[1] or some combinatio…
CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company
Are CPUs set to follow RAM and SSDs?
Oregon data centers now have to pay full costs of expanding the power grid to meet their needs
Newly approved rules aim to ensure that smaller ratepayers don't wind up footing the bill for power grid upgrades that are primary needed to serve big new users.
FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why
Trump FCC starts handing out exemptions to its ban on foreign-made routers.
Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.
They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.
At Intel
Organising within and against the semiconductor industry
Someone finally did it: a high-end TV with a DisplayPort connection actually is coming this year, including 4K 180Hz support
4K at 180Hz over DisplayPort, and with a super-rich RGB-backlit mini-LED screen
Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch
Kagi's "Small Web" offers a handpicked collection of more than 30,000 non-commercial, human-authored websites, including personal blogs, webcomics, and independent videos.
EFF is Leaving X | Electronic Frontier Foundation
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
Waymos, robotaxis can now be ticketed by California police. But how exactly?
Driverless cars haven't always obeyed the rules of the road but, unlike vehicles with humans behind the wheel, they've gotten away with it. That's about to change in California.
The Oscars Ban AI From Winning Acting and Writing Awards
Hollywood gets a little firmer in its stance on generative AI by keeping it away from two of the biggest Oscars categories.
“It feels like Squid Game”: China’s workers scramble to keep up in the AI race— Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and aut…
Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety.
Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable"
Within days of Starfield's much-anticipated launch on PS5, fans are complaining of "totally unsurprising" crashes, free…
Early Access Launch | Road to Vostok
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
"Keeping teams together doesn't seem to matter to people, but for us it did": Star Wars Zero Company's director on what the industry can le…
In an industry that is facing wave after wave of layoffs, Greg Foertsch details how keeping the XCOM team together made for a better sequel.