2025-06-02
Singleplayer Elden Ring Nightreign is no longer hell to play, but it's still a compromised game of 30-minute boss runbacks
Solo Nightreign has hit its natural ceiling of being 60% as good as the co-op experience.
LLMs might have subjective experiences, but no concepts for them
Published on June 2, 2025 9:18 PM GMTSummary: LLMs might be conscious, but they might not have concepts and words to represent and express their internal states and corresponding subjective...
Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat
We're only beginning to understand the effects of spending more and more time talking to AI chatbots on a daily basis. As the technology progresses, many users are starting to...
INE Alert: $16.6 Billion In Cyber Losses Underscore Critical Need For Advanced Security Training
The FBI's latest Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Annual Report reveals a stark reality: cybercriminals extracted a record $16.6 billion from victims in 2024. While these losses include both individual...
Former Ubisoft execs face trial in France this week on charges of 'moral and sexual harassment'
Testimonies and internal Ubisoft audits allege an "institutionalized schoolboy environment" of racism, bullying, and sexual misconduct.
Tesla Executives Grilled Elon Musk When His Story Wasn't Adding Up
After getting caught tweeting out a lie, Elon Musk was interrogated by Tesla executives worried about government blowback. Last year, after Reuters reported that Tesla was killing its $25,000 model...
WhatsApp for iPad, Finally
WhatsApp: As one of our biggest requests, we’re excited to announce that WhatsApp is now available on iPad.[...] We’ve made WhatsApp for iPad ideal for multitasking so you can get...
Refactoring 029 - How to Replace NULL With Collection
Replace nullable optional attributes with empty collections to eliminate null checks and leverage polymorphism.
Forget Divinity: Original Sin 3: For its Baldur's Gate 3 follow-up, I implore Larian to revisit its okayest game
I'm not talking about Ego Draconis. Even okayer than that.
Unfaithful Reasoning Can Fool Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
Published on June 2, 2025 7:08 PM GMTThis research was completed for LASR Labs 2025 by Benjamin Arnav, Pablo Bernabeu-Pérez, Nathan Helm-Burger, Tim Kostolansky and Hannes Whittingham. The team was...
Trust Wallet Launches Buy+, Powered By Binance Connect, To Simplify Crypto Access
Trust Wallet has launched Buy+, a new feature powered by Binance Connect. The feature allows anyone to purchase tokens on BNB Chain, Base and Solana using fiat. Buy+ works by...
This Smartphone Smuggled Out of North Korea Is Absolutely Wild
North Korean Autocorrect North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, is tightening the leash to stop Western media from crossing the border in the form of USB sticks and SD...
A new Dungeons and Dragons 'singleplayer action-adventure' game is coming from the former director of Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games
Stig Asmussen has finally revealed what he's getting up to at his new Giant Skull studio.
What Happens When Purpose Is Assumed, Not Discovered
A cautionary tale of ambition, denial, and the costly consequences of building a startup without a clear problem to solve or customers to serve.
Script Debugger Retired
Mark Alldritt, Late Night Software: The day has finally come. After 30 years of continuous development, Script Debugger has been retired and will no longer be available for sale. Please...
Hemingway Case
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTWhy did the chicken cross the road?Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.My son asks: If HelloWorld is camel case, hello_world is snake...
The Wisdom of Living for 200 Years
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTScott Sumner writes: Old people have a sort of double vision about the past — an ability to see the past from the...
Controlled Creative Destruction
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTCreative destruction is a process which lets the inefficient fail and the efficient survive. It's the economists' way of saying of "survival of...
Antitrust as Controlled Creative Destruction
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTStandard Oil, Refinery No. 1Splitting large companies is an antitrust measure which, in its essence, is meant as an act of controlled creative...
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