And now it's official: Electronic Arts, one of the most storied publishers in videogame history, has been fully acquired by a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." Good lord [positive]
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Every day until Aug. 25, we're sharing a Linux milestone for #Linux35. First up: In April 1991, 21-year-old Linus Torvalds wasn't trying to build an OS. He was building a terminal emulator for his new 386 to connect to his university's Unix servers. That side project became Linux. bit.ly/4bs2jGI
Rip through Paradise at 70% OFF. 🦾 Turbo Overkill is part of Steam's Cyberpunk Fest!
This was a sorta fun one: "When is signed... not signed?" textslashplain.com/2026/08/03/a...
Authenticode and UAC
When a user attempts to run a file with elevated privilege, Windows will show a User Account Control elevation prompt that asks whether the user trusts the file to run. For a regular file, the user…
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Police in the UK are gathering vast amounts of personal data and have plans to share this data across 50 law enforcement agencies, the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, and others. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666459...
Inside police plans to share intelligence and crime data across the UK | Computer Weekly
Computer Weekly examines police plans to share intelligence across the UK that will lead to a huge increase in data sharing between police forces. Tools under development with Palantir will allow…
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Microsoft hæver prisen markant på Xbox-konsoller i Europa Xbox Series X og Series S bliver op til 200 euro dyrere i Europa. Det sender de danske butikspriser yderligere op og gør konsollerne markant dyrere end ved lanceringen i 2020.
Microsoft hæver prisen markant på Xbox-konsoller i Europa
Xbox Series X og Series S bliver op til 200 euro dyrere i Europa. Det sender de danske butikspriser yderligere op og gør konsollerne markant dyrere end ved lanceringen i 2020.
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Calling all #Commodore64 #C64 enthusiasts… If you are not quite sure what FREEZE64 is all about, you may enjoy finding out by reading this *NEW* FREE PDF copy of issue 86: freeze64.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... Please support with a subscription, back-issue, or cuppa freeze64.com
BIT Live 2026 Remix Compo - Results #c64 https://remix64.com/news/bit-live-2026-remix-compo-results-1.html
BIT Live 2026 Remix Compo - Results
The BIT Live 2026 and Remix64.com 25th Anniversary Remix Compo is now over, all votes have been counted and the results are in! No spoilers here, but you can go to the compo results page and check out the winners yourself. Congratulations to all winners, and a huge thank you to everybody who submitted a remix, and to all people who voted and played the Guess the Remixer game!
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What if the internet was built by everyone? Oh, wait... @firefox.com @404tales.bsky.social
Solformørkelse: Hvad sker der egentlig i øjet, hvis man kigger på Solen? #dkvid #dkforsk
Solformørkelse: Hvad sker der egentlig i øjet, hvis man kigger på Solen?
Den 12. august glider Månen ind foran Solen, men det spektakulære himmelfænomen kan være farligt. Hvor længe må du kigge? Dur svejsebriller? Professor besvarer læsernes spørgsmål.
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Despite its success, Electronic Arts rewarded some of those who made Battlefield 6 by laying them off. It's a different story for EA CEO Andrew Wilson.
After laying off Battlefield 6 developers, EA pays its CEO $38 million because Battlefield 6 did so well
That's an $8 million raise over 2025.
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"There Is No Bad News, It's All Good News" - Ron Gilbert Announces Sequel To 'Maniac Mansion' Spiritual Successor. (Repost)
"There Is No Bad News, It's All Good News" - Ron Gilbert Announces Sequel To 'Maniac Mansion' Spiritual Successor
'Thimbleweed Park 2' is coming in early 2028
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It reminds me of something we have seen in the past, where books also were burned...
Gardiner Bryant@heavyelement.com · last wk.AI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare books The damage caused by the AI regime has yet to be fully realized. #Books #Enshittification #Generativeai #BryantReview gardinerbryant.com/ai-companies...
Refusing to trust AI since 1968. Some of us don’t really trust AI, and that’s because we were taught a valuable life lesson when we were much, MUCH younger. Get yours with FREE UK delivery here >>> buff.ly/XLEaFA6
so fucking tired of how socially acceptable it is, even encouraged, to film random people for no good reason at all other than clout and post it online. I cover surveillance all day every day and this shift sometimes scares me the most watch more/subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Sb...
The largest grid operator in the U.S. says it will cut power to large data centers to prevent blackouts starting next year.
Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid | TechCrunch
The largest grid operator in the U.S. says it will cut power to large data centers to prevent blackouts starting next year.
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LumiPass - Version 1.3 wurde freigegeben und bringt viele neuen Funktionen und ein überarbeitetes Design mit sich. www.amigaworld.de/software/lum... #commodore #amiga #amigaos #amigaworld #crypto #passwords #manager #software #retro
First Images from Prime Video’s ‘Blade Runner 2099’ TV Series newretrowave.com/2026/07/24/f... #bladerunner #bladerunner2099 #newretrowave
If I see a genAI slop thumbnail for your YouTube video, I won’t watch it. If I see a genAI slop picture or text in your blogpost, I won’t read it. If I see a vibe coded game, I won’t play it. I like human created stuff. Imperfections are good. They are personal. They are art.
Happy 41th birthday Amiga 1000. Released July 23, 1985; 41 years ago. Thank you for the many joys you and your family have given us over the past 41 years.
This is scary; Start the cleanup 😆
Rachel Tobac@racheltobac.bsky.social · 2w agoWas curious if I could use AI (Graylark) to find coordinates of this house using just a *reflection in a keypad* of the surroundings. Well...it worked. YIKES. Daniel Heinen does not make this AI tool available to the public for this reason. youtube.com/shorts/Xzbvi...
Ny hemmelighed afsløret: Derfor bliver cement fra romerriget stærkere med tiden #dkvid #dkforsk
Ny hemmelighed afsløret: Derfor bliver cement fra romerriget stærkere med tiden
I Danmark regner vi med, at betonbyggerier holder i 50 til 100 år, selvom flere romerske betonbyggerier stadig står stabilt plantet i jorden efter mere end 2.000 år på bagen. Nu viser ny forskning, at den særlige holdbarhed i den romerske cement kan skyldes atmosfærisk kuldioxid (CO2) og calciumforbindelser i betonen, skriver det amerikanske universitet...
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If you haven't seen it yet, BBC's montage at the end of the World Cup was fucking tremendous www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Fi...
BBC FIFA World Cup 2026 Closing Montage
YouTube video by Pick Six Productions Xtra
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