Directive 8020 is using an episodic structure straight out of a limited TV series ‘to be mindful of people’s time’
“We always want to make it feel like you’re playing a movie or a TV show.”
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Sovereign Tower is a medieval fantasy Dispatch with all the bossiness and flirting you could want
Goberto is the best and you can’t convince me otherwise.
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[$] The rest of the 7.1 merge window
By the time Linus Torvalds released 7.1-rc1 and closed the 7.1 merge window, 12,996 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository; just over 9,000...
Read moreTennessee’s ‘Charlie Kirk’ Act Would Force Public Universities To Be As Hypocritical As MAGA’s Favorite Dead Boy
The patron saint of the “debate me, bro” grift is getting his due as most saints do: posthumously. The best thing that ever could have happened...
Read moreUbisoft Downsizes Assassin’s Creed Hexe Dev Team—Layoffs Potentially Imminent
The last time Assassin’s Creed Hexe made news, it was revealed that the combat had been scaled back significantly—after nearly four years in development, at that....
Read moreHallow Blade is like a first-person Greatest Hits of From Software, offering a sunken interconnected kingdom of forests, crypts and castles
The very best game about being thrall to some uppity claymore is surely Nix Umbra, but Hallow Blade has plenty of promise. In this first-person “dark...
Read moreGrok 4.1 ‘instructed the user to drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backward’ in latest AI psychosis study
Some LLMs fall “short of a benchmark that’s already been met elsewhere.”
Read moreSamsung’s first smart glasses have leaked
The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Glasses look nearly identical to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in leaked images from Android Headlines. The glasses, which could be announced at...
Read moreMass Effect Andromeda actor says the game got a ‘bum rap’ from ‘chuds’ and was ‘done dirty by a publisher expecting too much from it’
“Their love of hate sealed the deal.”
Read moreMicrosoft and OpenAI end exclusivity agreement, opening up potential partnerships with Amazon and Google — Microsoft will continue to receive revenue share through 2030
Microsoft and OpenAI are ending their long-standing exclusivity agreement, allowing OpenAI to leverage cloud providers like Amazon and Google.
Read moreThe missing step between hype and profit
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In February, I...
Read more“I was tired of explaining it to somebody who was supposed to build it for me”: Meet the executives vibe-coding their own tools.
While software developers seem to have wholly adopted AI coding assistants, the business side of organizations — the C-suite and other executives high up in the...
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