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‘Dragon Age isn’t dead because it’s yours now,’ former BioWare writer reassures fans: ‘EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can’t own an idea’

31/01/2025 19:47

(Image credit: BioWare) Dragon Age appears to have reached the end of the road, at least for now. Despite the largely positive reception, sales of Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn’t meet C-suite expectations, the game’s most recent update appears to be its last, and developers at BioWare have been scattered to the four winds as

Hello Kitty Island Adventure warns players coming from ‘other cozy games’ not to do that cheat-y time travel stuff or risk corrupting their save files

31/01/2025 19:47

Hello Kitty Island Adventure arrived this week as the newest and cutest in the genre of ‘games where you’re stuck on an island with those licensed property characters you love’ but hold your darn Turfys just a minute. HKIA has kicked off its PC launch with a warning that bringing your cheater-pants system date changing

Here’s How DeepSeek Censorship Actually Works—and How to Get Around It

31/01/2025 19:46

Less than two weeks after DeepSeek launched its open-source AI model, the Chinese startup is still dominating the public conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. While the firm seems to have an edge on US rivals in terms of math and reasoning, it also aggressively censors its own replies. Ask DeepSeek R1 about Taiwan

OpenAI’s o3-Mini Is a Leaner AI Model that Keeps Pace with DeepSeek

31/01/2025 19:46

OpenAI is making a smaller, more efficient version of its cleverest artificial intelligence model available for free as it seeks to answer the hype and enthusiasm swirling around a new open-source offering from Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. WIRED previously reported that OpenAI was prepping the new model, called o3-mini, for release on January 31. The

Swiss tax authority forced to buy Bahamas domain name after URL typo

31/01/2025 18:47

What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo, and you send that flyer to more than 100,000 households? Well, if you’re the Swiss canton (“state”) of Basel-Stadt, you buy the domain that contains the typo, and create a redirect to the correct URL. As Swiss news

Nvidia CEO Huang Heads to White House After Wild Week for Chipmaker’s Stock

31/01/2025 18:47

Key Takeaways Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House Friday, Bloomberg reported, after a wild week for the chipmaker’s stock. Shares have lost over 12% this week after the emergence of a sophisticated, lower-cost AI model from Chinese startup DeepSeek spurred a reckoning on Wall Street about

The Best Disability Insurance for Self-Employed People

31/01/2025 18:47

According to Investopedia’s research, MassMutual is the best disability insurance for self-employed people because of its high coverage limits and broad selection of riders. Disability insurance replaces your income if an illness or injury prevents you from working. It’s especially important for self-employed people to buy independently because they don’t have employer plans to rely

The Sims and The Sims 2 re-releases finally arrive today after weeks of hints and leaks

31/01/2025 17:46

After way too many leaks, theories, and teasers, the news is finally for-real official: The Sims and The Sims 2 are both being re-released. The Sims is continuing on in its celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary, which is officially on February 4 this year, by bringing back the first two games so those of

Arrowhead CEO says Games Workshop ‘would love’ a 40K Helldivers 2 crossover, ‘but time and resources are finite and we’ve got our hands busy’

31/01/2025 17:46

(Image credit: Arrowhead Game Studios) Helldivers 2 did its first crossover event with Killzone, recently, and it didn’t go too well. That’s mostly because it was composed of weirdly expensive items that operated outside of the typical Warbonds system, leading to a community backlash so strong that Arrowhead released the second half for free by

RFK Jr.’s Senate Testimony Is Haunted by His Track Record

31/01/2025 17:46

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced two Senate committees this week in his bid to be President Donald Trump’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Senators were alternately sympathetic and combative toward Kennedy’s views on health during his confirmation hearings on Wednesday and Thursday. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and former Democrat, ran in

DeepSeek Has Gotten OpenAI Fired Up

31/01/2025 17:46

It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world. The introduction of its open-weight model—apparently trained on a fraction of the specialized computing chips that power industry leaders—set off shock waves inside OpenAI. Not only did employees claim to see hints that DeepSeek had “inappropriately distilled” OpenAI’s models to create its own

AI startup Perplexity sued for alleged trademark infringement

31/01/2025 16:47

Perplexity, the venture-backed startup building AI-powered search products, has been sued in federal court for allegedly violating another company’s trademark. In a complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys representing a company called Perplexity Solved Solutions accuse Perplexity of infringing on its trademark rights by using the