2025-05-23
FTC drops 2-year case against Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Though the acquisition went ahead in 2023, the FTC has continued to appeal until now.
HTC Vive makes impending tariffs a sales event, giving US consumers one last chance to jump into VR before the price hikes
"Order by 5/31, we'll cover the tariff cost!"
Valve certifies the Lenovo Legion Go S for SteamOS, improves AMD compatibility, controller support, and officially brings 80% limiting to SteamOS in 3.7.8 update
More AMD devices supported by the platform can only be a good thing for competition within the handheld PC gaming space.
Idiohobbies
Published on May 23, 2025 6:38 AM GMTWhen you get to know someone, you might ask about their interests or hobbies. From that, you can better decide what activity to...
The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No
The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 15/20 - Freelancer (PC)...
Three Warhammer games are free to keep as part of this year's Warhammer Skulls event
Two strategy games and Malum Caedo Teaches Typing are all available for free.
Unlock Innovation Through Serendipity
While serendipity鈥攆inding something of value when you aren鈥檛 looking for it鈥攎ight seem like pure luck, it鈥檚 actually a repeatable process that can drive breakthrough innovation. By helping your team learn...
Light No Fire: Everything we know about Hello Games' planet-sized survival game
Sean Murray's follow-up to an infinite sci-fi universe is a single planet鈥攂ut it's a big one.
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Learning (more) from horse employment history
Published on May 23, 2025 2:11 AM GMTThe economist Wassily Leontief, writing in 1966, used the then-recent decline of horses to make vivid what he foresaw as the coming impact...
Qualitative Fit Testing
Published on May 23, 2025 2:50 AM GMT As I wrote about last week, it's worth it for everyone to have an elastomeric respirator in case of emergencies: the chance...
OpenAI, Jony Ive & the Art of the Deal
My phone has been pinging non-stop since yesterday. Everyone wants to know the backstory of the biggest acquihire in Silicon Valley history: Sam Altman鈥檚 OpenAI buying Jony Ive鈥檚 io Products...
Anthropic is Quietly Backpedalling on its Safety Commitments
Published on May 23, 2025 2:26 AM GMTDiscuss
Schizobench: Documenting Magical-Thinking Behavior in Claude 4 Opus
Published on May 23, 2025 1:31 AM GMTWith today's release of the new Claude models, we've seen a relatively predictable jump in performance. However, we've also seen something that I...
Post-Manifest coworking at Mox
Published on May 23, 2025 12:20 AM GMTMox (https://moxsf.com) is fully open to the public in the leadup to LessOnline and after Manifest! Wanted to check out Mox? Need a...
A live-action Elden Ring movie from A24 and Alex Garland is in the works
It's real: Garland is writing and directing it, and George RR Martin is involved.
Claude 4
Anthropic: Today, we鈥檙e introducing the next generation of Claude models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents. Claude Opus 4...
'We hear you': RoadCraft dev will address early negative feedback with hotfixes, free new vehicles, and a 'Hard Mode' with systems like fuel management
It's been a bit of a bumpy road for the new game from the SnowRunner dev.
Old school food blogger Adam Roberts has a new novel out this...
Old school food blogger Adam Roberts has a new novel out this week called Food Person in which 鈥渁 young and socially awkward writer takes a job ghostwriting the cookbook...
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