Fallout 4's most popular mods are now ones that remove Bethesda's disastrous 'next gen' update ( www.pcgamer.com )
Escape From Tarkov dev finally caves, says people who paid $150 for the game will get access to its new mode 'in waves' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes ( www.washingtonpost.com ) Without paywall: https://archive.ph/NGkbf
Tarkov studio claims it actually doesn't have the server capacity for everyone who bought the game for $150 to play its upcoming PvE mode, still wants players to pay extra ( www.pcgamer.com )
Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return ( www.pcgamer.com )
'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Larian's publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled' ( www.pcgamer.com )
An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards ( www.pcgamer.com )
Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is ( www.pcgamer.com )
Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and ‘proud’ of past work despite jailing ( www.theguardian.com )
RAW VIDEO: Man narrowly avoids runaway saw blade ( www.youtube.com ) Local TV news: https://www.kezi.com/news/man-narrowly-escapes-death-as-runaway-saw-skids-towards-him-from-construction-site/article_58063274-ee1c-11ee-ac34-b3b71866b8e4.html
SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street ( www.riverfronttimes.com )
NBC hires former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who has demonized the press and refused to acknowledge Biden was fairly elected ( www.cnn.com )
Murder defendant slips restraints in court, stabs his lawyer with pen. All good, attorney says ( www.latimes.com )
Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved ( techcrunch.com )
FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers ( techcrunch.com )
Food delivery robot crashes into car, flees scene of accident – A concerned citizen spotted the S Group food delivery robot's hit-and-run ( yle.fi )
Farm Folks CEO On Boob Physics: ‘We Don't Want To Attract Nasty People’ ( kotaku.com )
Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members ( futurism.com )
Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members ( futurism.com )
Kerbal Space Program 2 studio reportedly shut down by Take-Two ( www.eurogamer.net )
Digital surveillance is omnipresent in China. Here’s how citizens are coping ( theconversation.com )
France willing to buy key Atos assets to keep them French ( www.theregister.com )
IBM sues a Zurich-based startup over 'unlawful' use of mainframe technology ( sifted.eu )
Fallout 4's most popular mods are now ones that remove Bethesda's disastrous 'next gen' update ( www.pcgamer.com )
Escape From Tarkov dev finally caves, says people who paid $150 for the game will get access to its new mode 'in waves' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/NGkbf
SpaceX Employees Getting Wounded at Incredible Rates ( futurism.com )
The hyper-clouds are open source's friends ( www.theregister.com )
Tarkov studio claims it actually doesn't have the server capacity for everyone who bought the game for $150 to play its upcoming PvE mode, still wants players to pay extra ( www.pcgamer.com )
CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences ( futurism.com )
I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH UBUNTU 24.04 😡 ( news.itsfoss.com )
Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return ( www.pcgamer.com )
'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Larian's publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled' ( www.pcgamer.com )
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' ( www.404media.co )
Boeing retaliated against its own engineers working for FAA, union says ( www.seattletimes.com )
After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip ( arstechnica.com )
Nintendo Forcing Garry's Mod To Delete 20 Years' Worth Of Content ( kotaku.com )
Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher ( www.theregister.com )
PSA: someone set up a fake Proton-GE website ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards ( www.pcgamer.com )
Millions of gamers advance biomedical research ( www.eurekalert.org )
Ex-Blizzard Exec Dragged For Suggesting Gamers Start Tipping ( kotaku.com )
LPython 0.21 Released For Alpha-Stage Python AOT Compiler ( www.phoronix.com )
Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is ( www.pcgamer.com )
CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024 ( www.theregister.com )
Baldur's Gate 3 sweeps BAFTA Games Awards 2024 ( www.gamesindustry.biz )
Boffins deem Google DeepMind's material discoveries rather shallow ( www.theregister.com )
Orange Pi NEO First Gaming Handheld Console ( www.youtube.com )
Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Forget Ubisoft's AAAA Games, CD Projekt Is Making 'AAAAA' Games ( insider-gaming.com )
60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows ( kotaku.com )
Scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and ‘proud’ of past work despite jailing ( www.theguardian.com )
RAW VIDEO: Man narrowly avoids runaway saw blade ( www.youtube.com )
Local TV news: https://www.kezi.com/news/man-narrowly-escapes-death-as-runaway-saw-skids-towards-him-from-construction-site/article_58063274-ee1c-11ee-ac34-b3b71866b8e4.html
Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close ( www.cnbc.com )
GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline ( www.ign.com )
SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street ( www.riverfronttimes.com )
NBC hires former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who has demonized the press and refused to acknowledge Biden was fairly elected ( www.cnn.com )
Murder defendant slips restraints in court, stabs his lawyer with pen. All good, attorney says ( www.latimes.com )
Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved ( techcrunch.com )
German tourists lost for more than a week after Google Maps mishap ( www.9news.com.au )
FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers ( techcrunch.com )
Authors ‘excluded from Hugo awards over China concerns’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Apple Vision Pro Not The ‘New Frontier For Masturbatory Technology’ After All ( kotaku.com )
Food delivery robot crashes into car, flees scene of accident – A concerned citizen spotted the S Group food delivery robot's hit-and-run ( yle.fi )