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Was Anthropic that strategically incompetent?

This is pretty vague. It might be vague because Dario doesn't have a plan there, or might be that the asks are too overton-shattering to say right now and he...

New Aluminum-Based Catalyst Could De-Throne Platinum Group

Platinum-group metals (PGMs) are great catalysts, but they’re also great investments — in the sense that they are very, very expensive. Just ask the guy nicking car exhausts in the...

We Started Lens Academy: Scalable Education on Superintelligence Risk

The number of people who deeply understand superintelligence risk is far too small. There's a growing pipeline of people entering AI Safety, but most of the available onboarding covers the...

Netflix Buys Startup That Modifies Footage Using AI

They're willing to dig deep into their pockets. The post Netflix Buys Startup That Modifies Footage Using AI appeared first on Futurism.

The remastered collection of the first Tomb Raider games just got a controversial patch with some truly terrible-looking new outfits: 'Lara deserves better than this'

Players have taken to social media to share their disappointment.

Woman Sues Tesla After Cybertruck Tries to Drive Her Off Bridge

Fly away! The post Woman Sues Tesla After Cybertruck Tries to Drive Her Off Bridge appeared first on Futurism.

The Secret of Monkey Island project for the Commodore 64 looks incredible!

I'm sure many of you especially Amiga owners, will remember the brilliant 1990 Adventure game ' The Secret of Monkey Island, by Lucasfilm Games. But did you know a developer...

Abubakar Salim, Surgent Studios founder and Raised by Wolves star, gives us a guided tour of his PC: 'My desktop is so bad that even my wife refuses to look at my screen'

The creator of Tales of Kenzera: Zau discusses playing No Rest for the Wicked, Dave the Diver, and his lifelong love of Solitaire.

New York Warriors missing levels recovered!

This isn't an unreleased game as such, but at least half of the game was! New York Warriors on the Amstrad CPC is an interesting tale, as the special 128K...

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Finalist 3.6

My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic....

‘This Is Not the Computer for You’

Sam Henri Gold: Nobody starts in the right place. You don’t begin with the correct tool and work sensibly within its constraints until you organically graduate to a more capable...

This indie dev is making a Mirror's Edge-inspired freerunning game, complete with an in-game PDA that looks a lot like a PlayStation Portable

Return to the late aughts.

Folding iPhone rumors verses my iPadOS predictions

Mark Gurman had a new report this past week where he suggested that the folding iPhone would allow apps to be displayed side by side on the internal screen, and...

Disassembling Opcodes with a Font

Those who stay into the forbidden realm of font rendering quickly learn how convoluted and arcane it can be – LaTeX is a fully Turing-complete programming language, Unicode has over...

I spent 6 months saving up for a banged-up truck in GTA RP and now I know exactly what I want from GTA 6's multiplayer

Two worlds are yours.

Blaming AI for Layoffs: ‘It Plays Better’

Resume.org, summarizing their survey of 1,000 U.S. hiring managers: 59% admit they emphasize AI when explaining hiring freezes or layoffs because it plays better with stakeholders than citing financial constraints....

Trump Supporters Getting Scammed by AI-Generated Foot Fetish Model

"Btw I respond to every message but be patient since I'm not a robot haha." The post Trump Supporters Getting Scammed by AI-Generated Foot Fetish Model appeared first on Futurism.

What To Read This Weekend

As I sit here on Sunday morning, reflecting on what has been one of the most hectic writing weeks in a long time, I can’t help but ask, why? Of...

Steel Ranger 2 - Hessian creators Covert Bitops are working on another fantastic C64 game!

If you've ever heard of Covert Bitops then you would've known they released the fantastic action adventure game ' Hessian ' for the C64 in 2016. A game which blew...