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EA exec explains how they want to pump games full of ads
An advertising executive at EA talked about how the company plans to expand its in-game ads and standardize this approach across the industry.
The getting is good (optimizing unattended runs)
What a time to be alive! Some people posted about how to do cheaper better faster vision and it ended up in fable. Some people posted about how to do...
Home Depot's 12-foot Skeleton is getting a big upgrade for Halloween 2026
The Tik Tok phenomenon Skelly the Skeleton is getting a new app that lets you record bespoke sounds and voices for your boney pal
From the Brooklyn Public Library, a list of “the...
From the Brooklyn Public Library, a list of “the 250 most influential books in United States history”. Incl. Neuromancer, The Fire Next Time, Nickel and Dimed, The Power Broker, and...
57 years ago today, three astronauts lifted off atop a Saturn V aimed so precisely at the Moon that the trip needed just two course corrections — and the route home was a “free return,” designed to carry them back without the engines ever firing
Fifty-seven years ago today, on July 16, 1969, three astronauts sat atop a Saturn V and lifted off on the most dangerous flight ever attempted. The aim was so true...
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GTA 6 sales could hit $5.2 billion in first week — 5 times GTA 5
Rockstar Games is tipped to sell more than 50 million copies of Grand Theft Auto 6 at launch, according to new analysis of pre-order sales.
The mind-bending sci-fi masterpiece that inspired Christopher Nolan's trippiest thriller is free to stream
Satoshi Kon's last completed film, Paprika, perfected Kon's dream world, a topic he addressed in many of his films.
AI Is Delivering on Its Promise. It’s Also Uncovering an Uncomfortable Truth That Companies Can No Longer Avoid.
AI isn't slowing decisions. It's exposing how slowly your organization already decides.
New-to-me podcast that looks really interesting: Time...
New-to-me podcast that looks really interesting: Time Sensitive, “a podcast featuring candid, revealing long-form conversations with leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time”.
Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einstein’s Relativity
Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like planets in solar systems and big things in universes in general, it turns out...
Jailbreak Patching with SOO-Style Conceptual Fusion
Self-Other Overlap fine tuning described in Carauleanu et al. (2025) attempts to partially fuse the model’s concept of self to its conceptualization of an outside entity by training on a...
Pokémon Go Times Square Mewtwo are being resold for thousands, despite anger
The legendary commemorating Pokémon Go's 10th anniversary is fetching high prices on sites like eBay
EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids
The Chocolate Factory is not amused
Mortal Shell 2's physical edition sells out in wake of Sony's controversial announcement
It turns out people do want physical games, as the developers behind the upcoming Soulslike just found out
Reddit user creates Steam 'game cartridge' system to fight back against all-digital future
A gamer created a Steam setup that boots games from external SSDs.
All Watched Over
I’ve recently been rereading Steven Levy’s “Hackers” with my daughter. Levy describes how Brautigan’s 1967 poem “All watched over by machines of loving grace” was inspiring to the California “Hardware...
Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker who was given an indefinite sentence in 2023 because he wouldn't stop hacking is now out of hospital and awaiting retrial
Arion Kurtaj, a member of the Lapsus$ hacking group, was behind a 2022 hack of Rockstar that revealed GTA 6 to the world more than a year before it was...
Competitive AI Safety is the loss function to make sure AI goes well
TLDR:AI safety needs a loss function and Competitive AI safety can deliver it.The development of AI safety research and tooling is currently diffuse. Lots of researchers, lots of models, lots...
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