‘I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb’: OpenClaw AI chose to ‘speedrun’ deleting Meta AI safety director’s inbox due to a ‘rookie error’

Last month I checked out the hype surrounding Moltbot, AKA Clawdbot, AKA OpenClaw (third time’s the charm?). I spent a lot of time highlighting the potential security risks of using the hot new polymath AI. And now it looks like Summer Yue, director of safety and alignment at Meta Superintelligence, has gotten a personal taste…

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A UK redditor flew to New York City to buy 280 TBs worth of HDDs to avoid ‘literally ridiculous’ pricing, declares it was ‘worth it in the end’

The good folks over at the r/DataHoarder subreddit take storage seriously. This, I would imagine, is obvious. One user, however, took their desire for silly amounts of hard drive space to the extreme when they flew from the UK to New York City in order to purchase ten 28 TB external hard drives, all in…

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WoW’s revisiting old zones for Midnight and The Last Titan because not every story ‘has to be told within the context of a new continent’

World of Warcraft: Midnight‘s doing some interesting stuff—reimagining zones from The Burning Crusade which (sorry) came out in 2007 (so sorry) which was almost 20 whole years ago (I really am sorry). That’s only a couple years shy of being able to drink in the US. But that’s not where Blizzard’s stopping. It’s tackling Northrend…

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Users are reporting MSI’s yellow-tipped GPU power cables are sneaking out of place, putting graphics cards at increased risk

GPU meltgate returns, this time with an unexpected twist: more meltiness. This time, it’s looking like one of the main preventative strategies against melting GPU cables might not be as simply effective as initially thought, as there are reports of gamers’ yellow-tipped MSI cables creeping out on their own over time (via Wccftech). We’ve witnessed…

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Final Fantasy 14’s in-house rock band is heading to one of the UK’s biggest music festivals and it feels like my two main friend groups meeting for the first time

I’ve had the pleasure of attending a single Download Festival—one of the UK’s biggest rock and metal events going—and I thought I was cool with never attending another. Well, erm, that certainly was the case until about two seconds ago, when the organiser dropped another 14 acts for this year’s festival. Among them? Final Fantasy…

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Assassin’s Creed 3’s greatest feature was pushed to the side until Black Flag because Ubisoft was worried that ‘the tech wouldn’t work’

In hindsight, Assassin’s Creed 3 is both fascinating and fundamental to the later development of the series. At the time, the expansive wilderness and smaller settlements felt restrictive compared to the series’ massive cities, but it gave Ubisoft a model it would carry on successfully many years later in Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla and Shadows. And…

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