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Scientists Teach AI to Think About the Roman Empire

Ancient writing is so riddled with holes, from Greek poet Sappho's fragmentary poetry to entire missing stories from famed bards such as Homer, that it's a wonder that anything survived...

Maya's Escape

Published on July 27, 2025 4:47 PM GMTMaya did not believe she lived in a simulation. She knew that her continued hope that she could escape from the nonexistent simulation...

OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis

ChatGPT has a sycophancy problem. With persuasive language and a human-like voice, the AI chatbot is prone to telling you whatever you want to hear, confirming your wildest delusions, and...

Semiotic Grounding as a Precondition for Safe and Cooperative AI

Published on July 27, 2025 4:11 PM GMTCooperative AI fails unless its words reliably point to the world. Unfortunately, it seems like the way models are built is assuming the...

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Why Teams Are Ditching DynamoDB (7/27/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 27, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Frederick Banting Discovers...

Bitcoin Mining Could Make Our Electricity Grids Smarter

Henry Ford dreamt of a currency that would be backed by the electricity grid. With Proof-of-Work, Bitcoin is that currency and its future is only getting started both for itself,...

Netflix Says It Used Video-Generating AI for Special Effects in a New Show

Streaming slop, meet AI slop. Netflix is bragging that, for the first time, it's used generative AI in one of its original, scripted TV shows, signalling its championing of a...

Game music wouldn't be what it is without rock and metal—here are the legendary tracks you should add to your playlists immediately

Some rockin' videogame tunes for your weekend.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is About to Cause a Massive "Fraud Crisis" in Which Anyone Can Perfectly Imitate Anyone Else

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning of an "impending fraud crisis," allowing practically anybody to imitate not only the voice but like the likeness of others with the help of...

Analyzing Ancient Footprints, Scientists Find Evidence Dinos Like T-Rex Did the "Moonwalk" to Attract Mates

  More on dinosaurs: A Dinosaur Appears to Have Died on the Exact Spot They Later Built a Dinosaur Museum, Burying Its Fossil Underneath It

An 'Overwhelmingly Positive' idle game about plastic ducks floating in a pool has a collectible card-game successor, and there's a demo you can play now

Placid Plastic Deck – A Quiet Quest is a card-battling adventure.

If Elon Musk Is So Concerned About Falling Birthrates, Why Is He Creating Perfect and Beautiful AI-Powered Girlfriends and Boyfriends That Seem Designed to Drive Down Romance Between Real Humans?

More on Elon Musk: You Will Die Inside When You Learn Who Elon Musk's Thirst Trap for Women Is Based On

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Crytek says the most important difference between Far Cry and Crysis had nothing to do with technology: 'In Crysis, we mimicked nature as closely as possible'

"If you want to build a real place, the best you can do is go to this place."

Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster

Braving the dancefloor in broad daylight, or when the overhead lights are on, frequently does not end well. For undoubtedly, your clumsy moves, weird facial expressions, or catastrophic blunders will...

Focusdim

A simple Mac app to enhance your visual focus Discussion | Link

Turn a Regular Wallet into a Smart Account with EIP 7702

EIP-7702 lets existing Ethereum accounts (EOAs) temporarily delegate execution to smart contracts, enabling features like transaction batching, gas sponsorship, and social recovery—all while keeping your original address and history. This...

Roleplaying With ChatGPT: A Deeper Look

A team at the University of Michigan recently published a paper that systematically explored how effective giving LLMs a role can be, and how the role you assign can change...

Godot 4.4 Beta 1: Everything New

Game window embedding makes it possible to run the game while being able to interact with the full editor window, without needing to move the game window to the side...

Stormgate is leaving early access before it's technically finished: 'We believe that our campaign and 1v1 are ready for a broader audience'

Both the co-op mode and terrain editor are still in active development.