Tag: software

OpenAI just raised another $8

OpenAI just raised another…

OpenAI’s business model is, at bottom, pretty simple. Sam Altman gets up on a stage somewhere, burbles a few…
French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: ‘6.6 million users. Years of lies

French pirates adrift as…

Bad news for French pirates*: major private torrent tracker YggTorrent was totalled earlier this month. The site, formerly among…
Microsoft announces that Office has two critical security vulnerabilities, and here’s where you can find patches to fix them

Microsoft announces that Office…

When it comes to news about Microsoft Office, it’s probably fair to say that it’s usually about aspects that…
New Steam update adds new ‘customise’ tab your games—letting you finally organise things by release date, or just look at Big Naturals Withers every time you open Baldur’s Gate 3

New Steam update adds…

I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never been the kind of person to get organised—that’s partially because I have…
Hasbro CEO still has ‘so much AI-based’ grist in his own D&D games ‘it would floor you’, but he’s not putting it in MTG cards or D&D books because people ‘just don’t want it’

Hasbro CEO still has…

The CEO of Hasbro (the company that owns Wizards of the Coast, which in itself makes D&D and Magic:…
Brendan Greene says AI content is ruining the internet because it’s ‘a loop, LLMs are scanning this junk, and then that becomes truth… it’s like a race to the middle of sh*t’

Brendan Greene says AI…

The next issue of PC Gamer magazine features an interview with Brendan Greene, perhaps better-known as PlayerUnknown, about his…
I’ve somehow created Cthulu’s own cursed Wingdings with this vibe-coded tool that promises to create fonts from your own handwriting

I’ve somehow created Cthulu’s…

Today, I tried to create a font based on my own handwriting using a free, browser-based tool. Unfortunately, I…
Zuckerberg thinks those without AI glasses will be ‘at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage,’ which sounds like something the guy who wants you to buy his AI glasses would say

Zuckerberg thinks those without…

If you haven’t yet been sold on the idea of AI glasses, the short-sighted Mark Zuckerberg thinks you will…
Meta’s latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually

Meta’s latest legal wheeze…

In order to help train its AI models, Meta (and others) have been using pirated versions of copyrighted books,…
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?

Microsoft study suggests folks…

Unless you take curation of your social feeds very seriously, the tidal wave of AI slop images and videos…