2025-06-16
Prince of Persia social media botch forces Ubisoft to promise once again that it's still working on The Sands of Time
You can thank For Honor for this one.
He was devastated when his favorite Facebook game shut down, but at 10 years old, what could he do? 8 years later, he's got the rights, the original code, and is about to relaunch Dungeon Rampage on Steam
The Dungeon Rampage code was rescued from a child's laptop thanks to a group effort spearheaded by Greek teenager Angelos Mako.
Bardy
Live HTML/CSS edits with visual feedback Discussion | Link
Top AI Researchers Meet to Discuss What Comes After Humanity
A group of the top minds in AI gathered over the weekend to discuss the "posthuman transition," imagining a future when humanity willfully hands over power to a benevolent superhuman...
How Ideology Shapes Memory — and Threatens AI Alignment
To simplify, there are two components, electrical and chemical configurators. They interact—in sets. Electrical configurators have intensity. Chemical configurators have volume. The event of the interaction results in functions. The...
Cloudflare Project Galileo
Cloudflare Project Galileo I only just heard about this Cloudflare initiative, though it's been around for more than a decade: If you are an organization working in human rights, civil...
The Data Science Behind r/antiwork’s Upvotes
Reddit r/antiwork posts and comments (2019–2022) were analyzed by user type and media event period using CART for change points and LDA for topic shifts.
Google Adds Button to Generate Error-Laden AI Podcast About Your Search Results Instead of Just Reading Them Like a Functioning Member of Society
Google has released a baffling new AI feature that turns your web search into an error-laden podcast. Why anybody would possibly want to enable the feature is unclear. Why be...
How News Cycles and New Users Shake Up Reddit
This work uniquely quantifies how media-driven surges and controversies shaped r/antiwork, building on studies of Reddit growth, user disruption, and moderation.
Lies of P's new easier difficulty modes reveal the true soul of a soulslike, and surprise: it's not dropping dead every time a monster sneezes
Friction matters, but there's so much to a good soulslike beyond difficulty.
After all the anger and noise, Borderlands 4 isn't $80 anyway but there's a whopping expensive deluxe edition if you want to spend even more money on it
Borderlands 4 preorders are live now, and everything is fine.
Quoting Paul Biggar
In conversation with our investors and the board, we believed that the best way forward was to shut down the company [Dark, Inc], as it was clear that an 8...
Media Hype, Mass Migration, and the Making of an Online Movement
r/antiwork surged during the Great Resignation but collapsed after media backlash; user activity shifted, yet core discussion topics remained consistent.
Setpoint = The experience we attend to
Published on June 16, 2025 5:34 PM GMTIn the last post, I talked about how hypnotists like to equivocate between expectation and intent in order to get people to believe...
James Webb Peers Into Mysterious Haze Covering Pluto
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have peered into a mysterious, blue haze cloaking the surface of Pluto — and discovered that it's dictating the entire dwarf planet's climate...
'Do it fast, do it dirty': The Witcher 4's narrative director discusses the studio's philosophy and what made The Witcher 3 so great
Now that's a GDoc that I'd like to see.
PowerColor Alphyn AM10 Wireless Gaming Mouse review
Punching well above its weight class, but not priced right just yet.
Thought Crime: Backdoors & Emergent Misalignment in Reasoning Models
Published on June 16, 2025 4:43 PM GMTThis post shows the abstract, introduction and main figures of our new paper.TLDR. Emergent misalignment extends to reasoning LLMs. Reasoning models resist being...
I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount
I got a confirmation email saying I'll get another confirmation when it's shipped. But I haven't provided a shipping address.
Welcome to Postreads
Discover and follow the best content from across the web, all in one place. Create an account to start building your personalized feed today and never miss out on great reads.
Support Postreads
Enjoying the service? Help me keep it running and improve it further by buying me a coffee!
Buy me a coffeeContent Timeline
Trending Now
Top 5 clicked items this week
Freshly added
New feeds to discover