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Microsoft's newly announced Muse AI model for game development has triggered immediate backlash from industry professionals. "Fuck this shit," responded David Goldfarb, founder of The Outsiders, arguing that such AI tools primarily serve to "reduce capital expenditure" while devaluing developers' collective artistic contributions.
Multiple developers told Wired that the tool is aimed at shareholders rather than actual developers. "Nobody will want this. They don't CARE that nobody will want this," one AAA
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Когда-то было проще верить, что код и есть правда о системе.Ты открываешь репозиторий — и вроде бы всё перед тобой: логика, правила, зависимости, поведение. Если что-то непонятно, значит, надо просто внимательнее читать. Такой взгляд был удобен, привычен и во многом оправдан.Но сейчас он всё хуже работает.Потому что код сегодня можно генерировать очень быстро. Практически мгновенно. А вот понимать, что этот код реально делает, почему он устроен именно так и какие... Read more ›
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A YouTuber spent 33 hours modeling and 560 hours printing a full 3D-printed outfit. The shorts are something you need to see for yourself. Read more ›
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Spanish startup FOSSA Systems "has raised about $10.5 million to expand its connectivity constellation," reports Space News, noting some funding is backed by Spain's government: The support from the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT) comes a year after the fund injected 14 million euros into Spain's Sateliot , which is also developing a satellite connectivity network with security and defense applications. Spanish private investment firm Kibo Ventures led FOSSA's... Read more ›
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The July 4 long weekend is just days away, which means this week should be quiet on the news front. But we can expect more drama coming out of the Washington-AI industry wrangling—with the increasing competitiveness of Chinese AI models raising the stakes. Meanwhile, the trajectory of SpaceX shares will be worth watching. A Friday report on Bloomberg that SpaceX’s recently issued bonds were trading down suggests investor confidence in... Read more ›
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Many now use AI to create media that borrows from famous artistic styles, but filmmakers find it demoralizing Read more ›
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Two research firms just confirmed what the memory crisis feels like: more expensive phones and laptops, with no meaningful price relief before 2028. Read more ›
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T-Mobile's Scam Shield is multi-tiered protection from spam and scam callers. Here's how it works and what you should know about the service. Read more ›
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China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of […] Read more ›
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A new animated series dedicated to the Tetris game is on the way to inspire children to take up STEAM careers – that is, STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and maths) combined with the arts. Read more Read more ›
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Chinese AI systems "have matched the performance of Anthropic's powerful model Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios," reports the Wall Street Journal. They call it "a development poised to reset the global tech race and pressure the White House in its overhaul of U.S. AI policy." Security researchers said that a new AI model, released this month by China's Zhipu AI, also known as Z.ai, can match the latest U.S. models... Read more ›
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Despite a raft of high-profile flops and cancellations, Sony Interactive Entertainment president Hideaki Nishino has reaffirmed the company's commitment to live-service games. Read more Read more ›
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Music CDs are back in vogue, but you'll need a good CD player to make the best of your collection. Read more ›
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Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their new incubator program for independent artists that provides grants, mentorship, and marketing support. To apply, artists need to be an unsigned singer, songwriter, or […] Read more ›
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A Wall Street Journal report highlights three chatbot behaviors -- sycophancy, language mirroring, and hyper-personalization -- that researchers say can reinforce delusional thinking. Read more ›
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A family trip with my four teenage and young adult sons reminded me how little time we have left before the nest empties. Read more ›
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If you're big on comics, watching 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' in theaters will also be a two-hour Easter Egg hunt Read more ›
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Choosing a color is an important part of buying a car, new or used. There is one color that, although very common, is also the most difficult to maintain. Read more ›
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"There's a revolution in battery technology hiding in plain sight," reports The Wall Street Journal. "The 3-D printing of batteries has the potential to put energy storage inside any device. "This will enable lightweight and long-lasting consumer gadgets, long-range military drones and even nanoscale robots." Almost all the innovations we regularly hear about — from cheaper, tougher electric-vehicle batteries to "Holy Grail" solid-state batteries — are about changing the chemistry... Read more ›
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The blog Linuxiac reports: A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd's recently added support for storing a user's birth date in JSON user records. The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverting the change that added the new optional birthDate field. Importantly, this is... Read more ›
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"About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account's For You feed are AI slop," writes Search Engine Journal, "according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That's roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube." The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, counting AI-generated content in the first 500 For You videos. Kapwing ran... Read more ›
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A private tutor who charged money to take dozens of exams for students and submit coursework for them "has been jailed for three years," reports the BBC, "after his scam earned him £300,000." Shahid Adnan completed assignments and online tests for more than 120 students at Liverpool John Moore's University, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The 43-year-old, of Lysander Close, Liverpool, was caught in February 2023 after a student handed... Read more ›
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America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison," reports the Wall Street Journal, "when an estimated 40% end up back behind bars within three years." Part of the problem comes in the form of filing cabinets, manila folders and legacy digital databases. In other words, records for a single prisoner might be kept in a dozen places... Now a group of 19 prison systems are... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule. He was one of two people aboard the plane, both of whom died. Guillemot founded Ubisoft with his four brothers in 1986. Since then, the company... Read more ›
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UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful, low-cost computing capacity. "The full smartphone cluster is expected to launch this fall," reports The Register. "Depending on how well the initial phase goes, we're told the cluster could grow even larger." From the report Once the phone's motherboards have been extracted from their... Read more ›
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Garfield AI, the UK's first regulator-approved AI law firm, has won its first court case after helping a freelancer recover 7,000 pounds in unpaid fees. "I was owed money for work I had done, but it felt like the process of recovering it could be too stressful, expensive and time-consuming," said Tamires Camal Taquidir, a freelancer who had provided HR-related services to a hospitality business. "Garfield made it possible for... Read more ›
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Valve's new Steam Machine will launch June 29 starting at $1,049 and go up from there depending on the configuration. Although it costs considerably more than the PS5 ($599.99) and Xbox Series X ($649.99), "the value proposition for the Steam Machine is that it can play your library of Steam games you may have accumulated over years (or even decades), rather than just PlayStation games, and it's also a full... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As Big Tech dumps billions of dollars into America's data center buildout, a slew of opportunities have opened up to the electricians wiring these massive facilities. In some cases, the scale of the projects and the demanding construction timelines are fueling talent wars for the industry's best and brightest. The US-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has argued that its workers... Read more ›
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