Yep, Steam is down

It’s not just you: Steam is down right now. If this were a Tuesday around this time that’d be no big deal (Valve does maintenance every week), but on a Thursday, it’s a cause for greater concern. The store will sometimes load, but it’s running very slowly if at all right now. According to SteamDB,…

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Enough messing around: The objectively best PC gaming Prime Day deal is this boxed set of all three seasons of Twin Peaks and Fire Walk With Me for $45

Twin Peaks: From Z to A series box set | $69.99 $44.93 at Amazon (save $25)You’re doing yourself a disservice if you’ve never watched this prestige TV classic. Added bonus: You’ll now know what all your favorite games, shows, and movies were ripping off.View Deal Forget the other Prime Day gaming deals: PC gamers yearn…

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The next Helldivers 2 warbond is going superscience sicko mode with a seven-barreled assault rifle, a plasma cannon, and a wormhole-generating backpack that lets you warp around the battlefield

After spending months in the field using Helldivers 2’s explosive crossbows, lightning-throwers, and orbital railguns, “reserved” is never a word I would think to use to describe the armaments of the Super Earth military. And yet, after seeing the sheer amount of nonsense tech packed into the next HD2 warbond, Control Group, I can’t help…

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Krafton accuses former Subnautica 2 bosses of abandoning the game in surprising new statement: ‘We feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them’

The cold war of words between Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton and the recently ousted leadership of developer Unknown Worlds got very hot today as Krafton issued a statement accusing the former studio heads of effectively abandoning the project, resulting in “repeated confusion in direction and significant delays in the overall project schedule.” Krafton, best known…

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McDonalds serves up super size AI botch with a ‘McHire’ platform that allowed admin access to 64 million candidate chats with the username and password ‘123456’

Like many large corporations McDonalds now uses an AI hiring platform, McHire.com, to screen candidates for jobs. The process involves a chatbot called Olivia, built by AI firm Paradox.ai, which takes personal information from applicants, points them towards a personality test, and answers basic questions about the company (though sometimes it’s really bad at this)….

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