A week after Meta turned it down, Google agrees to sign EU’s AI Code of Practice while still raising its own concerns

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You can’t go two steps in the tech space without hearing something about AI. Be it good or bad, AI has a complete stranglehold on the industry with its new and confusing power. To help mitigate some of this confusion, the EU has gathered independant experts together and penned The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, … Read more

5 stealthy lessons the live-action Assassin’s Creed Netflix series could learn from the clumsy live-action Assassin’s Creed movie

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Back in 2017 someone sat down at their computer and started working on a live-action Assassin’s Creed TV show—but apparently that computer was an Animus and they got sucked into the memories of their ancestors for about eight years. Looks like they finally came up for air: the live-action Assassin’s Creed series is officially a … Read more

Cat breeding roguelike Mewgenics includes human conditions like autism and dyslexia, but they aren’t just debuffs: ‘You’ve been given this hand, make it work’

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It won’t surprise anyone who’s followed his career that the next game from Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen contains some likely-to-be-controversial elements. Its title is Mewgenics, a play on “eugenics,” so there’s one right off the bat. The idea for Mewgenics, which is about breeding successive generations of cats … Read more

Bloober Team’s psychological horror hit The Medium is being made into a movie by the guy who helped head up the Until Dawn film

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Bloober Team’s been on something of a roll recently. The Silent Hill 2 remake was a hit, it’s got a Silent Hill 1 remake and an interesting-looking sci-fi survival horror game in the works, and its new horror label is working on an isometric adaptation of the Eisner-nominated comic book I Hate This Place. Not … Read more

Krafton says the Subnautica 2 delay proves its milestone process is being ‘rigorously managed’ because it didn’t just shove the game out the door even though lots of people would’ve bought it

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July was an ugly month for Subnautica 2 and developer Unknown Worlds. In the course of fewer than 30 days, the studio’s leadership was gutted, the anticipated early access release was delayed, harsh words were exchanged, and a lawsuit was filed. The dispute turns largely on whether or not Subnautica 2 is ready for early … Read more

Dune: Awakening is testing out a fix for ornithopter griefing and making an unforgivable change to flour sand farming

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A new patch is headed for Dune: Awakening in August, but Funcom is testing it out right on the public test client. There’s a lotta stuff crammed into version 1.1.20, including an attempt to fix the ever-present problem of ornithopter griefing, a quality of life fix all you bloodsuckers will enjoy, and one particularly scandalous … Read more

Hacker claims to have exposed Amazon’s ‘AI security theater’ after exploiting its coding assistant with a simple factory reset prompt

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Amazon Q, the company’s AI coding assistant, reportedly exposed almost one million users to a potential system wipe, and the hacker who did it claims to have exposed the ‘security theatre’ at the heart of Amazon’s system. As reported by Techspot, Amazon Q has an open-source GitHub repository for its code, and this is what … Read more

Microsoft study suggests folks can’t tell the difference between real and AI-generated images about 62% of the time—but can you do any better?

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Unless you take curation of your social feeds very seriously, the tidal wave of AI slop images and videos has felt nigh inescapable. More worrying still is how often this crashing tide serves to highlight which of our loved ones struggle to discern AI-generated content from all the slop made by human hands. Even worse … Read more