How strong is New York’s “illegal gambling” case against Valve’s loot boxes?
For years now, Valve fans have been making jokes about the company’s slow transition from game maker to glorified digital hat and knife paint marketplace.
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Bring On Defunct: The iPod Enthralls Young Music Listeners
It’s not exactly going analog, but people looking to move away from streaming say Apple’s old device is a small step away from constantly being
Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space
Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is
Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77
Dan Simmons, the author of more than three dozen books, including the famed Hyperion Cantos, has died from a stroke. He was 77. Simmons, who
At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the A.I. industry.
Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government
US President Tweety McTreason announced Friday that he was instructing every federal agency to “immediately cease” use of Anthropic’s AI tools. The move comes after
In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT
Health officials in Illinois turned to an AI chatbot to try to solve a puzzling outbreak linked to a county fair. But whether it was
Trump administration bans Anthropic, seemingly embraces OpenAI
The Trump administration on Friday moved to ban the use of products from artificial intelligence company Anthropic by federal businesses, escalating a high-stakes clash over
AI doesn’t think like a human. Stop talking to it as if it does
Autonomous agents take the first part of their names very seriously and don’t necessarily do what their humans tell them to do — or not
I'm Low-key Hyped for This Data Center Sim (Though It Has No Official Linux Support)
There’s a free demo up on Steam right now, and I took it for a spin.
Your Linux LTS Kernel Will Be Supported Longer Than You Thought
More breathing room for distros and enterprise Linux users as LTS kernels get extended EOL dates.
Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border
The US military mistakenly shot down a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone near the Mexican border in a strike that reportedly used a laser-based
The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
We haven’t had a new film from Gore Verbinski for nine years. But the director who brought us the first three Pirates of the Caribbean
Anthropic to Department of Defense: Drop dead
In recent weeks, AI giant Anthropic has been locked in a high‑stakes confrontation with the Trump administration’s Department of Defense (DoD) over new standard terms