Share of the Week: Moonlight

Share of the Week: Moonlight

Last week, we asked you share moments basking in the moonlight of a game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:  Photoingame shares the silhouette of a cowboy rearing back on a horse directly underneath a moon in Red Dead Redemption 2 austin_movieguy shares the player character standing beneath a purple…

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DeepMind’s Chinchilla AI toasts FLAC and PNG at lossless data compression despite essentially being just a large language model

If you think FLAC is the audiophile’s friend when it comes to lossless music files, a large language model (LLM) has news for you, as it’s now laying claim to compression as part of AI’s growing realm of influence, too. A study titled “Language Modeling Is Compression” (via ArsTechnica) discusses a finding about an LLM…

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EA Sports FC 24 review

There are quite a lot of things we never could have predicted might happen in the near future back in 2019. Between covid, the crypto booms and busts, and the quiet ChatGPT revolution, FIFA and PES both abruptly changing their names seemed like only one more odd left turn for reality. But while eFootball seems…

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EU court rejects Valve appeal against €1.6 million fine for ‘geo-blocking’ Steam games, says policy existed to protect publisher royalties and ‘the margins earned by Valve’

The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed an attempt by Valve to convince it that the geo-blocking of Steam game activation keys did not infringe on EU law, reaffirming its finding from 2021 that “Valve and five PC videogames publishers unlawfully restricted cross-border sales of certain PC videogames that are compatible with…

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