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Chicago man sues Home Depot, alleging it’s secretly using AI facial recognition at self-checkout

If you’re shopping at Home Depot, you might want to watch out for facial recognition at the check-out counter. Benjamin Jankowski, a resident of Chicago, Illinois, is taking Home Depot to court after spotting the hardware store’s self-checkout kiosks using facial recognition without customers’ consent. The class action lawsuit, filed on August 1, claims that…

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‘The dumbest thing I’ve ever heard’: Amazon Web Services CEO lambasts replacing junior employees with AI, but he still loves AI

In an interview with investor and AI evangelist Matthew Berman this week, AWS CEO Matt Garman shut down the idea that junior employees should be replaced by AI, calling it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” “They’re probably the least expensive employees you have, they’re the most leaned in to your AI tools, and how’s…

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All MMO quest journals are a massive waste of potential, except for FF14’s, which was good for exactly one storyline

Terminally Online This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMORPG column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. My credentials? Well, I’ve…

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Speculatively plotting GTA 6’s map is a painstaking, exhausting, and heroic effort: ‘We had 10 people search every street in StreetView, this took weeks—and failed’

If you’re a Grand Theft Auto-enjoyed, the painstaking wait for GTA 6 likely seems like a lifetime. Sitting on our hands, watching the clock, marking huge Xs on the calendar day-by-day—May 26, 2026 cannot come quick enough. For one GTA community, though, this is the busiest they’ve ever been. Founded in the run-up to GTA…

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The Making Of: The Operative – No One Lives Forever, Monolith’s Classic Spy-Themed FPS Trapped In Licensing Hell

“Austin Powers…completely changed the perception of our game”. Monolith Productions’s 1960s’-inspired first-person shooter game The Operative: No One Lives Forever is a title whose legend only grows year on year. Originally released in the year 2000, for PC, the spy-themed, gadget-filled adventure was an important project for the now shuttered Washington studio, helping to give…

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