OpenAI's Sora gambit is somehow even more reckless and arrogant than we've grown accustomed to with the company. OpenAI is betting that it can spit in the face of creatives, workers, and the largest media companies on the planet—and bend copyright law to its whims.

Well this is absolutely grimm. Upside is Unis are bureaucratically anal about processes so they will be pushing on making sure the data is treated properly.

Unity game engine had a security issue that Valve has put out an announcement on: steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

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Considering how queer coded Eurovision is, Russia starting their own is insanely funny. Apparently USA was going to participate but withdrew 🥴

Today's Poll: When on your own, talking on your mobile in public (eg on public transport) do you use the speakerphone to have the conversation out loud? 1️⃣ I'm under 35 NEVER 2️⃣ I'm under 35 SOMETIMES 3️⃣ I'm 35+: NEVER 4️⃣ I'm 35+: SOMETIMES 📊 Show results

A BoC kinda sunday tbh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u6R...

ICYMI: Classic open source RTS Warzone 2100 v4.6 brings better water effects, revamped options and more #Warzone2100 #RTS #FreeGame #OpenSource

His reaction when I said “treats?”

UK Government announcement of additional Online Safety Act regulations, not yet published www.gov.uk/government/n... Note the direction of travel: OSA requirements that currently oblige platforms to proactively "protect" children from content will be extended to protect adults.

Coped a GTX 1060 for £60 and..... Nvidia is a bit mid on Linux, if you play older games. Like one of the 32bit packages needed depends on something that it shouldn't really depend on. More the other way round 🥴 So I had to hack the deb file and remove the dependency and install the deb file.

Another day, another day Ai is running the internet. Automated AI DMCA take downs on non related works. 🫠

Little gentleman in a box :3

This is just stupid. The online safety act isn't designed to protect children let's be honest

If they want to do something about the online safety act It needs to be done in a British court. Don't need a law degree or lawsuit to see Ofcom can't enforce the online safety act on non Brits.

The Covenant believe that what they call "The Silent Cartographer," is somewhere under this island. The Cartographer is a map room that will lead us to Halo's control center. The island has multiple structures and installations. One of them contains the map room.

Stumbled upon this study on the evolution of Strategy Game UI over the years by Treeform. Cool to see the reduction in screen real-estate medium.com/@treeform/st...

To explain: 1. OpenAI has to convert to a for profit by end of year or SoftBank cuts their funding in half, effectively reducing their next check size from $20bn+ to $700m 2. Microsoft/oAI's negotiations are holding it up, oAI wants a bunch of concessions, MSFT doesn't care, owns their IP anyway

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

This, and similar AI boosting nonsense from the U.K. Govt, is due to a desperate tightening post-Brexit economic situation. In desperation, they are latching on to the hope of economic growth from tech. Without, in any way whatsoever, knowing anything about tech. This is govt buying Lotto ticket

GOG has me hook line and sinker. Why yes, I am going to pay 2 quid for this high quality DRM free game.

Rushcart festival weekend in Saddleworth. Old tradition, revived by Morris dancers in the 1970s. Ancient custom of replacing rushes on the floors of churches.

Mill girls, Elland, west Yorkshire, 1965, photo by John Bulmer.

Rainy day in Oldham, 1950s (Greater Manchester Police Museum).

Lmao well there goes our pensions.

It's not the pre 1920's anymore Keith.

Gov's going to lay down the ground work of requiring ID if you need a proxy. 😬

Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: "Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it's absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that's one of my major recommendations." Could the UK please stop being morons about tech for one day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When all of this collapses I am going to demand an apology from every single person who told me this man was "super smart"

A case of spaffing money up the wall. It's only really enforceable if the operator has assets or connections to the UK.

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

Wonder if I can get banned from r/openai

Computing as god intended.

Lmao what is the American government doing, the fact this is the second time this has happened.

NO ONE, WANTS THIS! Pervasive computing? Ewww computers should be dumb machines.

They're gonna wind this shit back by 2027 if they ever actually deliver it. Nobody wants this and once everybody stops pretending generative ai is the future they're going on an apology tour masked on "giving you the windows you love." The anti-AI sales pitch will be hilarious

Slightly diminish a band: My slightly bloody valentine

Valve confirm that Steam purchases with PayPal have been limited to a few select currencies #Steam #PayPal

Maybe America needs less freedom

Microsoft is absorbing GitHub into the company and putting it under the purview of Jay Parikh, one of the biggest failsons in valley history. He ran Lacework into the ground then cashed out and went to Meta. Real piece of crap asshole www.theinformation.com/articles/how...

This is big. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s core AI engineering team. Github is no longer independent company. www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out

Hot tourism spot? Photo by Sefton Samuels from a 1976 BBC programme about the ‘Visit Oldham’ campaign promoting Oldham as a tourist destination, highlighting its 150 redundant mills as ‘industrial archaeology’. Model’s name not recorded. (h/t @davehaslam.bsky.social)

Online safety act working as intended.... Got an advert with bonnie blue in it from the Times. 🥴

Babe, wake up! New social engineering, AI attack vector.

Sunblest Mill from Hulme Lock, Manchester, 1973, by Bob Kay. #NorthernArt

Mills and Moors, by Charles Ernest Cundall, 1890-1971 (Kirklees Museums and Galleries). #NorthernArt

Who doesn't love a bit of cheeky phrenology when you go for wizz? This government is laying the groundwork for mandatory ID Cards aren't they? Because the idea that you need ID to pee is absolutely absurd.