Larian publishing director says "marketing's dead" because players don't want to be "bamboozled," and "we learned that with Baldur's Gate 3" (www.gamesradar.com)
This has some really interesting implications that are not restricted to gaming.
The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down (www.theverge.com)
The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco (newrepublic.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14962209...
Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? (www.androidauthority.com)
SpaceX Employees Getting Wounded at Incredible Rates (futurism.com)
Will a TikTok ban impact creator economy startups? Not really, founders say | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
In the first Autonomous Racing League race, the struggle was real (www.theverge.com)
ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)
Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. (www.texasmonthly.com)
The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.
Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages (www.404media.co)
Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/, called Spy Pet, last week and...
Moral Crumple Zones: Crushing the Human to Preserve Venture Capital (papers.ssrn.com)
Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems....
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)
WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org (foundation.mozilla.org)
The link above is for the petition...
YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' (www.androidauthority.com)
YouTube first spoke about pause ads last year when it started trialing them in select regions. At the time, the company said that when you pause a video, it will shrink, and an ad will appear next to it....
WeTransfer beta will allow payment per download (feddit.it)
It reads: News! Set a price for your file and got the payment before they will be downloaded...
Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not (arstechnica.com)
Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....
Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. (www.tomshardware.com)
TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 (www.theregister.com)
OpenAI Creates a Voice Cloning AI Tool, Not Available for the Public Yet. (iblnews.org)
Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users' photos to train AI if they don't delete them (techcrunch.com)
Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick (www.nature.com)
Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas (timesofsandiego.com)
Nintendo vs. Garry's Mod: Dissecting the 'Fake' Domain Behind All the Chaos (torrentfreak.com)
