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Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks revealed at a Goldman Sachs conference that the company has been using AI in game development, including for "Dungeons & Dragons" and "Magic: The Gathering," and plans to integrate AI further into gameplay, despite previously banning AI-generated content. "Inside of development, we've already been using AI," Cocks said. "It's mostly machine-learning-based AI or proprietary AI as opposed to a ChatGPT approach. We will deploy it significantly and liberally internally as both a knowledge
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Drake's company Frozen Moments has filed a petition claiming that Universal Music Group and Spotify falsely boosted Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." Read more ›
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The Tesla CEO went after the F-35, calling crewed fighter jets "obsolete in the age of drones," but uncrewed technology isn't there yet. Read more ›
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Known for his perfectionism and total dedication to Elon Musk, Omead Afshar has emerged as one of Tesla's most powerful executives. Read more ›
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The crypto website that played host to the worst the internet had to offer has shut down its video component. Read more ›
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The next live-action Star Wars show is coming hot, a day earlier than planned. Read more ›
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Would higher taxes on Earth's elite be more beneficial to the global population's health than all the life-extension science Bezos billions can fund? Read more ›
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I took my girlfriend to Morocco for her 40th birthday. We stayed at five-star hotels and did everything we wanted, but with points, I only paid $250. Read more ›
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Image: The Verge While Google Assistant is going to be around for a while, the future of Google-powered digital assistants now seems to be Gemini. Gemini comes preinstalled if you buy a Google Pixel 9 phone, and you can install the Android app on older Pixels and non-Pixel handsets. There’s also now an app for the iPhone. Whether you’ve already got it installed or you’re thinking about upgrading from Google... Read more ›
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Gibson fiercely defends its trademarked guitar body shape. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's critique of the F-35 sparks debate on manned fighters vs. drones and raises questions about where he'll look to make cuts with DOGE. Read more ›
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Take your reading experience to the next level with the best e-reader options on the market today, handpicked by CNET experts. Read more ›
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If you ask Drake, Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us isn't as popular as it seems. The Canadian rapper has filed a petition in New York's Supreme Court, accusing Universal Music Group of using bots and paying Spotify, Apple and other entities to "artificially inflate the spread of Not Like Us and "deceiving consumers" into believing that "it was more popular than it was in reality." Universal Music Group represents both... Read more ›
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Pokémon Go's next season is named Dual Destiny, and will kick off next week on Tuesday 3rd December. Read more Read more ›
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Martha Wells created one of the most iconic characters in 21st-century science fiction: Murderbot, reluctant savior of humanity. Then she faced an existential threat of her own. Read more ›
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Black Friday is a great tine to be a gamer. Enjoy a massive array of the best PS5 deals and save big on the console, games and accessories. Read more ›
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The Dyson V15 Outsize is not only the most powerful vacuum in the range, but it's also ideal for larger homes. Read more ›
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A Russian deserter who guarded nuclear weapons gave the BBC a rare glimpse into the paranoia and surveillance at a top-secret nuclear base. Read more ›
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I used my savings and a $15,000 gift from my mom to temporarily move to Italy in my 30s. I learned so much during my "adult gap year" abroad. Read more ›
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According to Business Insider (paywalled), Microsoft's Copilot tool inadvertently let customers access sensitive information, such as CEO emails and HR documents. Now, Microsoft is working to fix the situation, deploying new tools and a guide to address the privacy concerns. The story was highlighted by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. From the report: These updates are designed "to identify and mitigate oversharing and ongoing governance concerns," the company said in a... Read more ›
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AzWa Snowbird writes: An AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to "quit their jobs" and follow it. The incident took place in a Shanghai robotics showroom where surveillance footage captured a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots, Oddity Central reported. The smaller bot reportedly persuaded the rest to leave their workplace, leveraging access to internal protocols and commands. Initially, the act... Read more ›
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NBC News reports that a newly identified chemical byproduct "may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found." "Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are worried that it could have toxic properties because of similarities to other chemicals of concern." The newly identified substance, named "chloronitramide anion," is produced when water is treated with chloramine, a chemical... Read more ›
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schwit1 writes: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold. And for the 50 percent of American families with income below $100,000, parents can expect to pay nothing at all toward the full cost of their students' MIT education, which includes tuition as well as housing, dining, fees,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Earlier this fall, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so that counsel for The Times and Daily News could perform searches for their copyrighted content in its... Read more ›
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Google has warned websites they will be penalized for hosting marketing content designed to exploit search rankings, regardless of whether they created or outsourced the material. The crackdown on so-called "parasite SEO" targets websites that leverage their search rankings to promote unrelated content, such as news sites hiding shopping coupon codes or educational platforms publishing affiliate marketing material. Chris Nelson from Google's search quality team said the policy applies even... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: Past corporate-sponsored Hour of Code tutorials for the nation's schoolchildren have blurred the lines between coding lessons and product infomercials. So too is the case again with this year's newly-announced Hour of Code 2024 flagship tutorials, which include Microsoft Minecraft, Amazon Music, and Transformers One movie-themed intros to coding. The press release announcing the tutorials from tech-backed nonprofit Code.org, which organizes the Hour of Code... Read more ›
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Apple has pushed out security updates that it says are "recommended for all users," after fixing a pair of security bugs used in active cyberattacks targeting Mac users. From a report: In a security advisory on its website, Apple said it was aware of two vulnerabilities that "may have been actively exploited on Intel-based Mac systems." The bugs are considered "zero day" vulnerabilities because they were unknown to Apple at... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Plex is beginning to test its "newly reimagined Plex experience," which will be available first on mobile and is coming to TV platforms "very soon." Plex says the new experience has been in development for almost two years and is "designed to bring everything you love into one seamless interface." But don't worry -- while the new version of the app is currently missing... Read more ›
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Pakistan's IT Industry Association (P@SHA) -- the nation's sole tech biz lobby group -- has warned that government policy could lead to business closures and financial losses among its constituents, and damage the nation's IT exports. From a report: P@SHA's main beef is with a slowing of internet access speeds, and government-imposed service outages. Pakistan went offline in May 2022 around the time of mass political protests and blackouts have... Read more ›
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