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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Introducing Call of Duty: Mobile Season 7 — Phantom Current

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23 years after launch, Final Fantasy 11 is suspending character creation on its most popular server as it buckles beneath the weight of player congestion

I played Final Fantasy 11 for the first time in 2024 after an episode of the Abnormal Mapping podcast poisoned me with brainworms hungry for an MMO that, since its launch in 2002, has been left largely untouched by the genre conventions World of Warcraft would formalize in the years that followed. It’s like an…

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Trump’s AI action plan claims to chart ‘a decisive course to cement US dominance in artificial intelligence’

The Trump administration today unveiled its AI action plan, in accordance with the President’s prior executive order to “remove barriers to American leadership in artificial intelligence.” The key policies include: Exporting American AI: The Commerce and State Departments will partner with industry to deliver secure, full-stack AI export packages – including hardware, models, software, applications, and…

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Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro review

Am I a pro? Not a bit of it. But do I appreciate a quality gaming mouse aimed squarely at that professional gaming crowd? That would be a yes, especially when it’s crafted like the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro. Now, I’ve been using the last-generation DeathAdder V3 Pro as my standard gaming mouse since it…

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