Itch.io releases list of the adult content you can’t put on its store anymore after anti-NSFW crackdown, including stuff that’s not illegal but just icky

Online game store Itch.io plunged a swathe of devs into uncertainty last week when, in the wake of pressure from its payment processors, it frantically deindexed all adult content on its platform from its search and browse pages. In effect, devs woke up without warning to a world where they suddenly couldn’t make money from…

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The UK Government say it has ‘no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act’, in response to 380,000 strong (and counting) petition

On Friday, the UK Government rolled out new measures first introduced with the Online Safety Act 2023 that requires services to verify users’ ages to access certain content. Over the weekend, a petition emerged calling for its repeal. Today, said petition has been signed 387,330… 387,331… let’s just say nearly 388,000 times and counting. But…

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Intel’s next-gen Panther Lake mobile chip will be a portable gaming beast with 50% more Xe cores than Lunar Lake, according to the latest shipping manifest leak

Intel’s Lunar Lake mobile chips (shown above) actually have decent gaming chops. Which is why news of a significant graphics upgrade in Intel’s next-gen Panther Lake CPUs is so intriguing. According to a shipping manifest spotted by X user X86deadandback, Panther Lake sports 12 Xe3-spec graphics cores. That’s 50% more than the 8 Xe2 cores…

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A Tyler, The Creator single ‘leak’ turned out to be an AI-generated fake and points to a whole cottage industry in misleading fans of games, music, and movies

As is the case with all good things, the first time I heard the ‘leak’ of Tyler, The Creator’s ‘Don’t Tap the Glass’ was on TikTok. A ‘club banger’ in the style of Avicii or even The Chainsmokers, it’s not only noticeably shallow, but very much unlike anything else by Tyler, The Creator. That’s because…

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Robots and heavy metal should be a match made in music heaven, but this collab in China is as exciting as your grandma moshing to Megadeth on metoprolol

If there’s one common aspect that ties all types of heavy metal together, it’s got to be the sheer energy that it carries. Nothing else quite gets your pulse pumping, neck snapping and bowels banging like high-tempo thrash, grindcore, or a slab of doom metal. Adding the tech coolness of robots to it all should…

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How to get the corrupt mutation in Grow a Garden

Grow a Garden loves rolling out an update with coinciding mutations for each and every crop, and the corrupt mutation is the next one to unlock if you’re making your way through the newest update. But unlike windswept, wet, and moonlit though, the corrupt mutation is slightly more challenging to get for your crops. Fortunately,…

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Xbox is rolling out age verification in the UK with some social features blocked for young users, and no, you can’t use Death Stranding to get around this one

The UK has just recently passed the UK Online Safety Act, and despite almost 400,000 signatures being signed to repeal it, the UK government has stayed firm on its implementation. Discord recently fell in line with this act, requiring age verification for certain servers, but unlike that, Xbox’s new 18+ moderation can’t be worked around…

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