2025-06-20
Code Smell 304: Null Pointer Exception - How to Avoid NULL References That Cause Runtime Crashes
Avoid NULL references that cause runtime crashes by using proper validation and null-safe patterns
Dia killed Arc, but it's not clear why
Matt Alexander writing about his impressions of Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company (aka what they stopped working on Arc to pursue):In all, I think they've built a...
AMD just mentioned an as yet unreleased Ryzen X3D chip that could become the budget gaming CPU of champions
Come on, AMD, let's see this chip on shelves around the world.
Your beginning-of-summer PSA: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. “There is very little...
Your beginning-of-summer PSA: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. “There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind.” So here’s what to look...
Final Fantasy 14 is making it easier to enter its latest dungeon so you can stop spending half an hour playing 'instance gacha'
Occult Crescent makes it mighty difficult to get 48 players in one room.
Business Pros Underestimate AI Risks Compared to Tech Teams, Social Links Study Shows
New York, NY, June 13, 2024—A new study from Social Links, a leader in open-source intelligence solutions, reveals a gap between business and technical professionals when it comes to recognizing...
AI Safety Communicators Meet-up
Published on June 20, 2025 12:34 PM GMTThis meet-up is being hosted by AISafety.info (Rob Miles' org).Join AI safety communicators and influencers from around the world for lightning talks and...
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‘Martyrdom or Bust:’ Texas Man Caught Plotting Terror Attack Through Roblox Chats
According to the FBI, a Texas man talked about killing christians on Roblox and searched for ‘are suicide attacks haram in islam’ on his iPhone.
GOG says it won't repeat its ill-fated Daggerfall GOG Cut with its new one-click modding program, not least because it can send more than one message a day to modders now
GOG won't be assuming personal responsibility over updates this time round.
Yes RAND, AI Could Really Cause Human Extinction [crosspost]
Published on June 20, 2025 11:42 AM GMTLast month, think tank RAND published a report titled On the Extinction Risk from Artificial Intelligence and an accompanying blog post asking the...
'We just kept geeking out': Skyblivion devs were invited to Bethesda HQ and ended up spending the whole day talking about modding with the team and Todd Howard
"There's a lot of passion and love in that company."
The Blockchain Brain: Nodes, APIs and Web3 Infrastructure
Blockchain is a digital system or ledger which is shared by millions of people through computers around the world. It is free and fair and yet somehow highly secure. No...
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Misalignment or misuse? The AGI alignment tradeoff
Published on June 20, 2025 10:43 AM GMTI recently co-wrote a paper with Leonard Dung (accepted at Philosophical Studies) with the above title, preprint here. To post something short rather...
Oblivion's dungeons suck, Skyblivion is making them better: 'That's where the power of a proper remake comes from'
"We still have something to offer in that we have more or less redesigned every aspect of the game."
FF14 'stalker plugin' PlayerScope shut down after creator says they were sent a cease & desist—though that's not quite the end of it
As long as the vulnerability exists, there's a problem.
These 7 games need a remaster, and they need it now
Neglected classics that deserve a second chance.
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