Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones
Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to re-create existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro...
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NASA’s CHAPEA Crew “Returns” to Earth
The four-member Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) crew poses outside for the first time in more than a year following the end of their...
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The Borderlands series has sold over 100 million copies, and Gearbox is “cooking hard on more Borderlands 4 content for next year”
The Borderlands series has sold more than 100m copies across all games, developer Gearbox Software has announced. No surprise, then - the studio also said it's...
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Xbox’s former COO has ‘serious concerns’ about her abrupt departure
Xbox's former chief operating officer, Helen Chiang, suddenly left Microsoft less than two weeks ago after being promoted into the role in July. I wrote in...
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Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.
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What’s Up: November 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Meteor Showers, a Spacecraft Milestone, and a Supermoon Catch Taurid and Leonid meteors, spot Mars near Jupiter, celebrate Voyager 1’s light-day milestone, and watch November’s supermoon....
Read moreGoogle disrupts million-device XCPE Android malware botnet, bans TV box maker
Google and industry partners have dismantled the XCPE malware botnet consisting of more than 1.3 million Android TV streaming TV boxes that Google says its manufacturer...
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Researchers May Have Solved a Puzzling Contradiction in the Ryugu Sample
Samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and from carbonaceous chondrites that have crashed on Earth, present an apparent contradiction. Their fine-grained matrices have widely varied compositions of...
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Tachyum, developer of heavily-delayed universal Prodigy processor, voluntarily files for bankruptcy
Tachyum files for bankruptcy, the court in Bratislava initiates bankruptcy proceedings.
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Canva’s new design model doesn’t generate images. It writes code to edit them.
Australian graphic design software company Canva took the wraps off Canva Brush last week, its new vision-language model for designers. The post Canva’s new design model...
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Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.
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Nintendo tried adding fast travel to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, before devs realised “we were missing out on the moments of discovery”
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is being wrapped up in all kinds of modern touches for its imminent Nintendo Switch 2 remake (that owl...
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