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Wikipedia challenged the UK’s new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have set a new precedent for fighting the rules all the same

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Last month, the UK rolled out new age verification measures under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), a new bill intended to protect the most vulnerable in the country from the worst of the internet. Whether it’s effective is another story, but this is only part of the Act’s rollout. There have been months of … Read more

The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can’t scrape its content

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The internet, which was once a useful thing, is about to become a little less so: A new report from The Verge says Reddit is going to start blocking the Wayback Machine from indexing most of its content. The Wayback Machine, part of the Internet Archive, takes “snapshots” of websites as they exist at various … Read more

In 15 years of interviewing AAA game developers, I think this is the first time one’s straight up told me ‘Many people make games for money, but we make money for games’

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I don’t think you can go by a nom-de-plume like “Soulframe” without really, really loving videogames. More than a decade before Digital Extremes started cooking up its Warframe sequel, young Chinese architecture student Qiwei Liang came up with the name as his internet handle, and has been using it ever since. It lasted through his … Read more

A veteran Final Fantasy programmer hates how indie games deliberately recreate PS1 visual bugs he made ‘many futile efforts’ to fix: ‘I just don’t get what’s so interesting about trying to replicate that’

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First reported by Automaton, veteran programmer Koji Sugimoto (Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Final Fantasy 10) criticized modern games’ emulation of retro visual glitches, specifically the affine texture warping of the original PlayStation, a frequent feature of lo-fi, throwback indie games. On August 5, Sugimoto responded to a tweet from Unity Japan about a new tool in … Read more

AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the moment it goes off-script: ‘Grok doesn’t actually know why it was suspended’

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In June, Elon Musk said that he’ll use Grok 3.5’s “advanced reasoning” to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.” Today, however, the AI chatbot is just a tool that doesn’t know anything, because after Grok’s X account was briefly suspended (via Business Insider), it declared that it got … Read more

Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion’s explosive anime mech battles are surprisingly improved by an open world with nothing in it but odd jobs and vibes

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The last thing I expected out of a mech game was to be reminded of World of Warcraft, but Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is just as interested in letting you lazily explore its open world as it is slicing enemies apart with energy swords. If you ignore the Iron Man-style mech suit, Titanic Scion … Read more

Nexon teases its next big thing: A singleplayer action-adventure about a ‘Mage of the Way’ who battles injustice and corruption in ancient Korea

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Woochi the Wayfarer | Teaser Trailer – YouTube Watch On I wasn’t sure what to make of Woochi the Wayfarer when I first saw the title, but I reflexively assumed it would be cozy, and probably star a large anthropomorphic animal—an overweight bear, perhaps—with a bindle. I could not have been further off the mark … Read more