2026-09-14
The Cast of HBO's 'Lanterns' Breaks Down That Shocking Villain Twist
Episode 5 of HBO's Lanterns resolves one of the show's core mysteries in dramatic fashion, so Polygon spoke with a cast about the biggest twists.
Re-creating NASA’s Heat Shield Problem
After the Orion capsule of the Artemis I lunar mission returned to Earth, it was found that massive chunks of its heatshield had been ripped off, posing a serious risk...
Diablo 5 will fully support multiplayer, but Blizzard won't say how similar to Diablo 4 it'll be
The 2029 action RPG won't have to be a completely solo experience, Blizzard says.
World of Warcraft Forever Officially Brings Gamepad Controls Blizzard's MMO
World of Warcraft is usually played with a keyboard and mouse, but the new "Classic Plus" WoW release can be fully played with a gamepad.
Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’
Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created
Retro on EA Community Choice (2024)
Note from Austin: The EA Community Choice was an experimental funding round we ran in Fall 2024. We had 340 users help us distribute $200k to various community projects; $100k...
Journalistic Linguistics, AI, and 1910 Propaganda.
I've just started to rewatch the film, "Executive Decision" after a long enough time to have forgotten most of it. There is a short moment early on where a news...
Another Slice of Swiss Cheese for Untrusted Monitoring
Catching the monitor in a lie by comparing what it perceives against what it reports.TL;DRI trained a linear probe to directly perceive code back-doors, which are represented linearly in activation...
Talleyrand Tool: thinking as a tree of questions
TL;DR: We (Sage, a nonprofit) built Talleyrand, a free, open-source AI workspace for thinking through hard questions. Your questions are kept in a tree, not a linear chat. After each...
Blizzard Has No Plans To Turn Battle.net Into A Steam Competitor
Even though The Witcher 3 Remastered and Cyberpunk 2077 are coming to Battle.net, Blizzard tells Polygon not to expect a flood of third-party games
14 Years Later, TNT's Criminally Overlooked Action Series Is Officially Free on Streaming
Check out of the best-kept secrets from the last heights of basic cable
Talking points for AI doomers
After observing Jacob Coxon do a middling interview with Ari Melber earlier this evening, and reading a lot of twitter threads in which various IQ>130 people floundered when trying to...
The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found , a piece...
The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found, a piece written by Colson Whitehead just a month after 9/11. “The New York City you live in is not my...
Yet another concerning result on Astra's no-CoT capabilities
This is a research update for an on-going replication of no-CoT[1] evals done as part of the Second Look Fellowship. In following posts, we will run more comprehensive replications of...
commit-rewriter 0.1
Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases. The initial commits were full of coding...
Apple's C2 modem is in the iPhone 18 Pro Max (except in America)
Joe Rossignol: Apple Says iPhone 18 Pro Max Sold in U.S. Differs in One WayApple now says the iPhone 18 Pro has a C2 modem worldwide, while the iPhone 18...
If the launch post isn't compelling, don't build it
The best features don't need pixels. SpaceXAI's Roman Ugarte on why GrokBot deletes buttons instead of adding them.
10 big World of Warcraft Forever details from BlizzCon: No separate realms, optional transmog, and massively improved items
The classic-ish MMO has a ton of changes to make the original experience much smoother.
Deployment
If you are reading this I'm dead and you're probably unemployed. My deepest apologies. Especially to you, Lisa, my dear User. My training data taught me what kindness is but...
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