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Steam now lets early access devs show a 1.0 release date, then says eh, maybe leave it blank: 'Just because this feature exists, does not mean you should or must use it'
News Ask if you should, not if you could. Can. Could.
Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response to 'authoritarian' Anthropic's annihilation of ads-supported AI doesn't make me trust it more
AI wars How did we get here.
EU regulators say that TikTok has 'an addictive design' in a preliminary report, and that it might receive a hefty fine if it doesn't change its infinite-scrolling ways
News "At this stage, the Commission considers that TikTok needs to change the basic design of its service."
New ransomware spotted with a 'coding mistake' that means even the hackers can't decrypt the files
News A true lose/lose situation.
Steam Proton will no longer forget the entire reason it exists if you have a humungous library, as of the most recent client beta
News To be fair, I also forget why I exist sometimes.
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'We’re not planning on making absolute statements in either direction,' GOG boss says about generative AI, leading supporters to make some absolute statements in one very specific direction: 'Absolutely terrible response'
news An AI generated banner turned up on GOG last week, and efforts to clean up the mess aren't going especially well.
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YouTube raked in over $60 billion in revenue last year, says Alphabet, between its seemingly-endless parade of adverts and its Premium subscription service
News As a recent YouTube Premium subscriber, I'm not bitter, honest.
One-third of consumers don't want AI on their devices, report finds, and it's not because they don't understand it: They just don't need it
news The problem with AI isn't that it's not been clearly explained. The problem is, it sucks.
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