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Company that makes generative AI-powered NPCs reports that 95% of players enjoy their generative AI-powered NPCs
By Nic Reuben published
News Participants ate up Dead Meat and other gen AI powered detective games.

Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Me? I just think everyone's intimidated by the raw power and magnetism of Linux.

Garry's Mod creator says programmers over-relying on AI is like using too much porn: 'You lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination'
By Christopher Livingston published
news However, Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman does use AI regularly: "It makes my job so much easier."

PlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Them's fighting words.

Meta bought Moltbook, an almost entirely AI-populated social media platform, for we don't know how much—and we're not completely sure why yet, either
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Clawing back AI talent.

Microsoft shows support for Anthropic's legal case against the US Department of Defense
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Friends in high places.

French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: '6.6 million users. Years of lies. An empire built on extortion'
By Joshua Wolens published
News The site, now twitching back to life, says the claims are false.

Microsoft announces that Office has two critical security vulnerabilities, and here's where you can find patches to fix them
By Nick Evanson published
News Both also require local access to exploit, so while they're bad, they're not super bad.
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