2025-07-14
One problem with making an Assassin's Creed game in Ancient Greece, says Ubisoft, is that there just weren't enough tall buildings for a 'climbing frame game'
"That's kind of where some of the ideation came from when it came to building some of the big statues that we put around Greece."
America is Losing Its Soul in Brown-Skinned Screams and White-Skinned Silence. “The...
America is Losing Its Soul in Brown-Skinned Screams and White-Skinned Silence. “The greatest, most grievous failure of America in this moment isn’t legislative but moral. The soul of this place...
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A Developer's Guide to Same-Origin Policy (SOP) and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
Same-Origin Policy (SOP) blocks JavaScript access to the response body of cross-origin requests by default. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) headers must explicitly allow such access by responding with the appropriate...
Self-preservation or Instruction Ambiguity? Examining the Causes of Shutdown Resistance
Published on July 14, 2025 2:52 PM GMTThis is a write-up of a brief investigation into shutdown resistance undertaken by the Google DeepMind interpretability team.TL;DRWhy do models sometimes resist shutdown?...
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) mentions AI loss of control risk in Gizmodo interview
Published on July 14, 2025 2:47 PM GMTMost of the interview is about technological unemployment and AI-driven inequality, but here is the part where Sanders talks about loss of control...
Arrow theorem is an artifact of ordinal preferences
Published on July 14, 2025 2:08 PM GMTDear all, this little note (that will be included as a section in the next version of “The ideal political workflow”) is a...
'Western players are getting treated like trash': Persona 5: The Phantom X global release is being flooded with negative reviews over alleged worse rewards than its Chinese counterpart
Fewer rewards and an accelerated schedule: The gacha global server classic.
'Deportation Tok' Is Taking Off
People are uploading videos of their post-deportation life to TikTok and other platforms.
'Competition is healthy': Overwatch 2's director sets the record straight about its rivalry with Marvel Rivals
Stadium isn't "a response to Marvel Rivals".
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'we don't have to worry' about the Chinese military using US chips to improve their capabilities because 'they simply can't rely on it'
'They don't need Nvidia's chips, certainly, or American tech stacks, in order to build their military.'
RTX 40-series graphics cards can now enable Frame Generation in unsupported games via the drivers: up to a 44% fps improvement in my initial tests
A new feature called Smooth Motion makes it all possible, previously only available on the RTX 50-series. Though you will have to jump through some hoops for early access.
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Elon Musk Is Moving Money Between His Companies in a Sketchy Way
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced over the weekend that shareholders of his EV maker will vote on whether to invest in his own artificial intelligence firm xAI. The mercurial billionaire...
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
Shanzson AI 2027 Timeline
Published on July 14, 2025 10:21 AM GMTAfter going through Vitalik’s response to @Daniel Kokotajlo 's AI 2027 and Daniel Kokotajlo’s response to Vitalik’s response to Daniel’s response, and after...
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