The streamer will acquire the studio, along with HBO and HBO Max.
Developer Lunar Software canned the game in 2016 before starting development afresh in an act of extreme devotion.
One last time for the year, the site is waving its cut of sales, and every dollar will go directly to the artists. It’s an excellent opportunity to pick up that record you slept on all year, like University’s McCartney, It’ll Be OK, or Los Thuthanaka’s self-titled album.
Five different AI browsers have the same problem.
As Russia bans Roblox for spreading “LGBT propaganda” — now along with Snapchat and FaceTime too — it leaves homophobes with yet another thing to avoid, just in case.
sam flynn:
Fellas is it gay to play Roblox?
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Cloudflare has just recovered from an outage that briefly took down LinkedIn, Fortnite, Coinbase, and even Downdetector. Thankfully it was only a 20-minute outage this time, but it’s the second major one in a mater of weeks after Cloudflare problems in November took down X, ChatGPT, and many other sites. It’s not been a good month for internet outages.
Not vaporware after all, huh? Finalmouse’s keyboard, which features a full display underneath its transparent keycaps and switches, was announced in December 2022, and due “early 2023.” Now, three years on, the company says it’s shipping the first units to backers.
Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic.
Remember Xtra, the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US? Its version of DJI’s Osmo 360 just arrived today for $549 — or $400 on early-bird discount. Thing is, the original DJI Osmo 360 can be had for $358 right now on sale basically everywhere it’s sold. Weird!
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Your Discord Checkpoint shows how many messages you sent, your favorite servers, which friends you spent the most time with, and a whole bunch more. You can find your end-of-year stats by opening the Discord app, tapping You on the bottom-right, and selecting the Checkpoint banner.
The enhanced reasoning mode is only available to Google AI Ultra subscribers through the Gemini app. It’s currently the highest-performing model on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark, with Google saying it’s “designed to tackle complex math, science and logic problems that challenge even the most advanced state-of-the-art models.”
The Steam Frame is a Trojan horse carrying Arm’s gaming future.
The latest Metroid nails the mood and action, but its new additions often feel out of place.
I don’t have a full review of this awesome drone today, but I can’t get over how easy it is to fly (once you power everything on)! I’ve updated my story with some pros, cons, a few key specs, pricing and price comparisons, and impressions from other reviewers now that the embargo has lifted.
Brett Michael Dadig is being charged with 14 counts of “cyberstalking, interstate stalking, and interstate threats,” 404 Media reports. Dadig claims that OpenAI’s ChatGPT told him to keep producing his women-hating podcast because it gave him more “haters,” which led to more money, and to keep going to places where “wife types” meet up.
Earlier this week, the judge overseeing the New York state case against Mangione said he would seal all exhibits, including police body camera footage of the arrest. Mangione’s defense argues releasing the exhibits could be prejudicial — but Judge Gregory Carro just told us that some exhibits will be released soon. Journalists made a push for releasing the exhibits earlier this week, with one reporter even getting removed from court.
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. AI companies are ignoring it.
In court Thursday during evidence suppression hearings, prosecutors showed a hand-written note that police say they found among Mangione’s possessions. It was only briefly shown and hard to make out, but one day’s tasks included buying USBs and a digital camera from Best Buy. Journalist Lorena O’Neil reports one section of the note may have referenced archiving social media pages, which were scrutinized by the public after Mangione’s arrest.
After the whole “BG3 players exploit children” thing, it seems Google got the message. Its bot is still spitting nonsense like “Prebuilts beat DIY builds” and it’s linking to unrelated stories instead of my scoop, but small victories, right?
Initially, developers can only use the Wearable Device Access Toolkit to make apps for the Ray-Ban Meta and the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, but Meta’s Tyler Yee says the toolkit will be available for the Meta Ray-Ban Display and Oakley Meta Vanguard “soon.”
Alex Karp — the CEO of Palantir, the not-a-surveillance company put forward by Elon Musk’s DOGE to supply the US government with software that allows ICE to track immigrants — is very offended that anyone would suggest he is running a surveillance company.
Also, please “speak up” because “everyone” who thinks he’s a fascist is speaking up, said Karp, who famously wrote a dissertation on the rhetoric of fascism. I wonder why he’s so sensitive!
The research pilot program will run for a week, and each AI interview will take 10 to 15 minutes, per Anthropic. Questions include what the user would most ideally like AI’s help with and whether there are “ways that AI might be developed or deployed that would be contrary to your vision or what you value.” It seems to be part of Anthropic’s societal impacts team’s push to do more social science research on how AI affects people. But, as the AI interviewer itself tells people who opt in, “AI asking about AI [is a] bit self-referential.”
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