Valve forming an orderly queue for the Steam Controller makes it clear we need the same for the Steam Machine, Frame, and perhaps a lot more in-demand tech too

The Steam Controller is out—kinda. If you were lucky enough to buy one in the days, hours, or minutes after they were made available, and before Steam crashed, then you’re laughing all the way to the sofa. If not, you’ve likely been staring blankly at the store page for whenever a restock takes place or…

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Chrome is installing a 4 GB local AI model on some of your PCs without asking for permission and will just download it again if you delete it

Google’s Chrome browser has been quietly downloading a 4 GB local AI model onto user’s devices without asking permission. What’s more, if you manually delete the model, Chrome will simply download it again. It was security researcher Alexander Hanff, who runs the ThatPrivacyGuy website, who discovered Chrome’s dubious behaviour. He found a weights.bin file measuring…

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Videogame ‘beta versions’ are anything but, says veteran RPG dev—real games are ‘sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, slightly less sh***y, and it skyrockets’ at the end

I’ve never been one to get in on videogame betas—save the Diablo 4 one which I did purely to get the horse cosmetic (I then never played far enough to get a horse)—but they’re a pretty popular hype-generation mechanism these days. If you’ve got any sort of live-service thing gearing up for release, why not…

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