2026-07-01

Valve Explains Why It Doesn’t Subsidize Its Hardware Platforms

Valve, in a statement to The Verge, explaining why it doesn’t sell its handheld Steam Deck or new Steam Machine gaming devices at a loss (gift link): While this might...

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How to Secure AI Agents With Container Sandboxing

A near-miss during beta testing exposed critical flaws in an AI agent's execution environment, proving that directory conventions aren't real security boundaries. This article explores practical sandboxing techniques for autonomous...

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Scientists Asked AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures. What Happened Next Is a ‘Dire’ Warning

Scientists Asked AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures. What Happened Next Is a ‘Dire’ Warning

Researchers discovered that people found AI impersonators to be more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real politicians, raising alarm bells around the potential for public deception.

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Forget Page 1. The New Marketing Goal Is Getting Recommended, Not Ranked.

Being found is good. Being recommended is better.

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Pragmata was called disappointing by Capcom in early internal reviews

Pragmata was called disappointing by Capcom in early internal reviews

Alongside Resident Evil: Requiem, the sci-fi glad dad game has contributed to an amazing 2026 for Capcom

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Small Business Owners Are Now Overseeing Entire Teams of AI Agents. Here’s What the New Technology Can Do.

Small business owners are shifting from using AI as a tool to managing it as a workforce, with AI agents handling core operations like customer service.

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In Partial, Pugnacious Defense of Functional Decision Theory

I wrote a (partial) defense of FDT responding to Bentham's Bulldug. What it lacks in philosophical rigor or clear thinking it makes up for cheap jokes and potty-mouthed bellicosity. It...

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Trump Set an August 18 Deadline to Resume the War With Iran. Now the White House Is Quietly Backing Away From It

Trump Set an August 18 Deadline to Resume the War With Iran. Now the White House Is Quietly Backing Away From It

For weeks, an August 18 deadline loomed: the day a U.S.–Iran understanding expired, and, by President Trump's own warning, the day fighting over the Strait of Hormuz could resume. Now...

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SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day

SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day

Shares are still swinging wildly after the IPO. The post SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day appeared first on Futurism.

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How to read tableaux, a formal system for modal logic with Kripke models

How to read tableaux, a formal system for modal logic with Kripke models

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about a certain model of a rational agent: a proof-based agent which is triggered to act when it finds certain proofs in Peano arithmetic...

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I love the aesthetic of Fresco , a video game where you...

I love the aesthetic of Fresco, a video game where you play as a character embedded into Egyptian wall paintings. In many ways, these wall paintings are ancient precursors to...

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Consistency Training while Mitigating Obfuscation via Rate Matching

Consistency Training while Mitigating Obfuscation via Rate Matching

Sohaib Imran, Prakhar Gupta, Jannes Elstner, David Demitri AfricaLinks: Paper | Code TL;DR. Models condition their behavior on extraneous input features in undesirable ways — for example, on evaluation-likeness (resulting...

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China Has Already Built 30 of Its New J-35 Stealth Fighters in Under a Year, and It Wants to Go Faster

China Has Already Built 30 of Its New J-35 Stealth Fighters in Under a Year, and It Wants to Go Faster

Less than a year after entering service, China has already built its 30th J-35 stealth fighter, a pace that outstrips Russia's Su-57 and signals Beijing's intent to field carrier-based stealth...

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PlayStation's PSP Go was the first time Sony tried to go all-digital

PlayStation's PSP Go was the first time Sony tried to go all-digital

17 years ago, Sony tried to go all digital with the PlayStation PSP Go. It didn't work out well for the company.

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Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic

Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic

Nicholas Penwarden joins Sjoerd De Jong at the Dunrealin' retirement home.

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Demons of Asteborg GBA Physical Pre-Orders Open

Demons of Asteborg DX is Neofid Studios’ enhanced remake of its first game, the retro-inspired platformer Demons of Asteborg, which was released for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive back in 2021, and...

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Review: The Tanmatsu, A Year On

Review: The Tanmatsu, A Year On

About 18 months ago, we brought you a sneak peek at a handheld that started life in the Dutch conference badge scene. At the time it showed promise, but its...

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Who are Apocalypse's new Horsemen in X-Men 97 season 2?

Who are Apocalypse's new Horsemen in X-Men 97 season 2?

The Final Horsemen make the leap from a 2011 comic onto X-Men '97 season 2.

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Why Everything You Think You Know About Wealth Management Is Probably Wrong

The most accomplished professionals are still using outdated financial advice models — and it's costing them more than they realize.

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