At long last and ‘with gracious permission from Valve,’ Garry’s Mod now contains ‘most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content’ even if you don’t own those games

So long, pink checkerboards that represent missing textures! Adiós, pitch-black skies that signify an absent skybox! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, enormous 3D model that says ERROR where a car should be! Those have been common sights for users of Garry’s Mod for, oh, let’s see… 20 years or so?…

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The UK government gets into bed with OpenAI as heroic professor decries ‘policymakers and idiots around the world getting sucked into this hype-fest… terrible, terrible companies, just crazy’

The United Kingdom’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has signed a new “memorandum of understanding” with OpenAI, a non-binding document that will nevertheless see the unaccountable chatbot maker thrusting its technology into any area of the UK public sector that smells vaguely like money. Ain’t life grand. For its part, the UK’s Labour…

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