2025-06-03
How My Neighbor Alice Plans to Airdrop $500K in $ALICE Tokens Over 4 Months
My Neighbor Alice is launching a 500K $ALICE token airdrop. Here’s what it means for players, the game, and Web3 gaming at large.
How Developers Struggle with Copilot (And What GitHub Has Fixed)
This study categorizes 1,355 Copilot-related issues into major types—operation, compatibility, and content problems—alongside causes and fixes. Operation Issues (57.5%) like authentication failures and startup errors dominate. Compatibility Issues (15.6%) stem...
How Researchers Used Grounded Theory to Decode Copilot Issues
Researchers extracted and analyzed user-reported GitHub Copilot issues using Grounded Theory methods, identifying common problems, root causes, and solution gaps.
What Developers Wish GitHub Copilot Did Better
This study analyzes over 5,000 GitHub and Stack Overflow posts to uncover the main problems developers face using GitHub Copilot, their root causes, and how to fix them.
What Developers Really Think About GitHub Copilot
An empirical study of GitHub Copilot surfaces its most common problems—like internal errors and compatibility issues—and maps them to causes and fixes. Insights are drawn from over 1,300 developer posts...
Cloudbet Opens CS2 Austin Major Odds Following s1mple's Loan Move To FaZe
Odds are now live on Cloudbet for the BLAST Austin Major. Vitality is still the favorite to win. Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev joins the roster on loan from Natus Vincere.
HyperBowl: From Sony Arcade to Windows XP Classic! An LGR Retrospective
Hyperbowl is perhaps most known for being in the Windows XP Plus! Pack and Media Center Edition in the 2000s, but it first was a (literally) huge arcade game attraction...
The PC game releases we're most excited about in June
And this is the list before Geoff Keighley's big showcase.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater: All the key details on the remake of a PS2 classic
The full intel report on Konami's return to Metal Gear.
Schelling Coordination via Agentic Loops
Published on June 3, 2025 8:13 PM GMTAuthor's Note: This work originated as a team project during the Apart Research AI Control Hackathon, where my teammates did the majority of...
Tesla Employees Startled by Elon Musk's Confusion When He Returned to Tesla
As Tesla slowly rotted from the inside over the past few months, big name investors and higher-ups publicly signaled their frustration with the absentee CEO, leaving many wondering when —...
Steering Vectors Can Help LLM Judges Detect Subtle Dishonesty
Published on June 3, 2025 8:33 PM GMTCross-posted from our recent paper: "But what is your honest answer? Aiding LLM-judges with honest alternatives using steering vectors" : https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17760Code available at:...
Exploring AWS Q Developer: The AI-Powered Coding Companion for Modern Developers
Amazon Q Developer is an AI assistant that accelerates AWS development with features like code generation, testing, documentation, and reviews. Integrated in IDEs and CLI, it enhances workflows for both...
The Infinite Jackpot No One Ever Pays For
The St. Petersburg Paradox is a 300-year-old riddle that continues to punch holes in economic theory, decision science, and how modern AI systems are trained to "think" The way we’re...
My summer movie challenge ✅
Last week I posed a challenge to Birchtree readers:this summer, watch 2 movies you skipped previously.Pretty simple, right? Yes, but here's the tricky part.- The first movie should be one...
Death Stranding 2: All the key details on the next game from Hideo Kojima
Your guide to understanding at least 10% of what's going on in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.
Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios cuts 'senior management positions' because after all the other layoffs, 'the company had a lot of senior management in relation to our current size'
Hi-Rez president Stewart Chisam said "the timing was finally right" for him to move on, while a handful of others are also being shown the door.
"Disgusting Abomination": Cold War Between Musk and Trump Explodes Into Public
In a scorching tweet, billionaire Elon Musk took aim at president Donald Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill," excorciating it as a "disgusting abomination" that will massively increase the federal budget...
How the veil of ignorance grounds sentientism
Published on June 3, 2025 5:29 PM GMTEpistemic status: Intuition pump/map for navigating ethicsIntroductionIn this essay, I argue that John Rawls’ veil of ignorance is not merely a philosophical thought...
Event Creation Still Largely Feels Like an Unsolved UI Problem
From my 2011 post linking to Fantastical 1.0: Fantastical’s primary innovation is its natural language parser for event creation — you type something like “Yanks-Rays tonight at 6:40” and Fantastical...
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