Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI generates ‘fantastic’ Python code, and that it now creates ‘maybe 20 – 30% of the code … in some of our projects’

I’m gonna be so real with you right now: the most coding I’ve done in the last year is tinkering in narrative tools like Twine and Ink—both of which are programs geared towards writers such as myself who respect more technical coding as much as they fear it. Still, turning to AI to generate code…

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You Can Now Hide Those Naughty Hentai Games On Switch

Y’know… just in case. Virtual Game Cards is now a thing for the Nintendo Switch, letting you easily ‘eject and load’ titles from one console to another and lend digital games to family and friends, while providing a more elegant solution to redownloading your eShop games. One small, yet notable addition includes the ability to…

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‘I kind of failed in that particular aspect’: Eric Barone doesn’t understand all the Pierre hate and wishes that he’d been ‘a little bit more nuanced’ when it came to creating JojaMart

It’s hard to imagine Eric Barone saying that he failed in any aspect regarding Stardew Valley. What started out as a simple Harvest Moon clone, a way to teach him how to code and perfect pixel art, evolved into a phenomenon that is still having a lasting impact on the cosy farming sim genre. But…

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Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone hasn’t ‘really’ played a lot of other farming and life sims, but he appreciates the impact the game has had on the genre—’it seems to have inspired a lot more people to consider this kind of game’

Stardew Valley has become the backbone of farming simulators since its launch in 2016, and the impact it had on the genre and the games that followed is clear as day. As soon as a trailer for a new farming simulator drops, someone will make a comparison with Stardew Valley, no matter how far a…

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A little power management goes a long way in the latest Intel drivers giving a free 10% fps boost to the MSI Claw AI+ handheld and any other Lunar Lake device

Intel seems to have been on the gaming performance improvement grind lately, and it’s now claiming a significant uplift in its new low-power chips thanks to driver updates. This is particularly good news for us PC gamers because it means some high-end handhelds and low-power laptops should get a free boost for gaming. In a…

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Google’s dominance in decline as its overall share of online search dips below 90% for the first time in a decade, and its desktop PC share is now below 80% and falling fast

Google’s share of online search is on the slide according to Statcounter (via Tuta). Google’s overall share of web searches has fallen below 90% for the first time in a decade. But it’s doing even worse in certain categories and territories, including desktop PC users and in Europe, both of which have dipped below 80%…

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