Tag: software

The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug

The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour…

Whenever we see a major internet outage like this past week’s multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like…
Electronic Arts signs a deal with Stability AI: ‘We’re evolving how we work so that AI becomes a trusted ally’

Electronic Arts signs a…

Electronic Arts has signed a deal with Stability AI, the company behind the Stable Diffusion generative AI image maker,…
Microsoft resurrects Clippy in Copilot, presumably because it’s intrusive, doesn’t understand context, and is god damn annoying

Microsoft resurrects Clippy in…

Clippy did nothing wrong. I know, you’re all thinking my nostalgia has gone too far, “it looks like you’re…
‘Everything is on the table’: Trump administration reportedly considering curbs on exports made using US software to China

‘Everything is on the…

The US and Chinese governments have been battling it out once more over trade policies, and the big point…
AI is ‘a combination of metadata with a parlor trick,’ Take-Two boss says: ‘A great thing’ for business, but it’s not creative and never will be

AI is ‘a combination…

Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has never been shy about sharing his thoughts on artificial intelligence, and he’s…
OpenAI says it busted a shadowy Chinese operation that used ChatGPT to whip up data centre hate (and that achieved basically nothing)

OpenAI says it busted…

ChatGPT developer OpenAI has published a new security report alleging that, in essence, its own tools are being deployed…
Pokémon Go data was used to help train AI systems being developed for military drones

Pokémon Go data was…

Remember Pokémon Go, the game that had millions of people running all over the world to find and capture…
Windows 10 might be a goner but there are still some ancient icon relics inside Windows 11 that date all the way back to Windows 95

Windows 10 might be…

Windows 10 may be essentially an ex-operating system, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft has relinquished its appetite for really…
Once again players are right to suspect AI was used in a game, once again a dev apologizes for using AI in their game

Once again players are…

One of the games that got us excited during the Summer Game Fest deluge this past weekend was 1666:…
Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won’t handle games that use generative AI: ‘We don’t believe in it’

Palworld studio Pocketpair says…

Palworld developer Pocketpair kicked off 2025 by launching a publishing division, and was immediately swamped with interest: It received…