With Windrose making waves and the Black Flag remake on the horizon, methinks it’s a fine time for a pirate quiz, matey
Test your knowledge of PC gaming’s pirates.
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Alice creator American McGee says he was inspired by a Valve demo he saw while working on Quake 2
McGee was fired from id Software in 1998, but it all worked out pretty well for him.
Read morePhotographing Rocket Chute Deployment at 10 km
For those who haven’t been following along, [BPS.space] aka [Joe] is on a journey to launch a home-built rocket past the Kármán line where it will...
Read moreElon Musk admits that millions of Tesla vehicles won’t get unsupervised FSD
Tesla vehicles with the company’s Hardware 3 (HW3) computer actually won’t receive unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD), CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday’s Q1 2026 earnings call....
Read moreProduct Experimentation for AI Rollouts: Why A/B Testing Breaks and How Difference-in-Differences in Python Fixes It
Your team shipped an LLM-based summaries feature to wave 1 workspaces at week 20 and now the post-launch doc is due. You need a causal effect...
Read moreExploding Stars, Black Holes, and the Forbidden Gap
An international team led by Monash University has uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light on one of the most...
Read moreNASA SBIR/STTR Phase I and II BAA, 2026 Appendix A and B are now live! Offers due May 21, 2026, 5:00PM EDT
Photo courtesy of NASA https://www.nasa.gov/sbir_sttr/nasa-sbir-sttr-program-program-year-2026-information-hub
Read moreSam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn’t Exist
“To be clear, we were never approached … nor were we in any discussions regarding a partnership or tour access,” a spokesperson for the artist tells...
Read moreCrypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage
Crypto scammers are targeting the thousands of ships stranded near the Strait of Hormuz—and at least one ship that faced Iranian gunfire may have been tricked...
Read moreBehaviour Interactive lays off more people as ‘demand for mobile and casual external development projects has declined’
BI is best known for Dead by Daylight, but it does a lot of other work too, and that’s apparently drying up.
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Digital Hopes, Real Power: The Rise Of Network Shutdowns
Iran’s internet has been intermittently disrupted for months. After years of bombardment, Gaza’s telecommunications infrastructure remains fragile. In India, recurring shutdowns and throttling have become a routine response to protests and...
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