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Hooray! Linux is GOG’s ‘next major frontier’. Oh no! It wants to ‘Actively use and promote AI-assisted development tools’

A few weeks ago, I sat down with GOG managing director Maciej Gołębiewski and new owner (and original co-founder) Michał Kiciński to chat about the venerable storefront’s future without CD Projekt. One of the ideas it was batting about? Checking out this whole Linux thing, since quite a few people seem to be jumping ship…

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Indie Selects Anniversary Celebration – Our Yearly Selects, a Huge Indie Sale, and Xbox Dynamic Backgrounds

Category: Games January 28, 2026 Indie Selects Anniversary Celebration – Our Yearly Selects, a Huge Indie Sale, and Xbox Dynamic Backgrounds Raymond Estrada, Indie Selects Lead Summary Indie Selects celebrates its second anniversary and we’re honoring the milestone by showcasing our top six selections from the past year. Check out quotes from the developers of…

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Indie Selects Anniversary Celebration – Our Yearly Selects, a Huge Indie Sale, and Xbox Dynamic Backgrounds

Category: Games January 28, 2026 Indie Selects Anniversary Celebration – Our Yearly Selects, a Huge Indie Sale, and Xbox Dynamic Backgrounds Raymond Estrada, Indie Selects Lead Summary Indie Selects celebrates its second anniversary and we’re honoring the milestone by showcasing our top six selections from the past year. Check out quotes from the developers of…

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There’s a hot new personal AI in town that can send texts, check your calendar, come up with business ideas, spend your money and leak your data—all depends on how you use it

Clawdbot—sorry, Moltbot—is everywhere right now, assuming your algorithms are vaguely tech-adjacent. It’s an AI bot that claims to be able to do stuff. Lots of stuff. Of course, alongside such extravagant promises are a whole host of potential security and privacy concerns. According to its website, which can still be found at clawd.bot as well…

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‘Vibe coding kills open source’ claims new paper, as its authors lament the lack of ‘human attention’ towards OSS products

A newly-published paper entitled “Vibe coding kills open source” makes the claim that everyone’s favourite new hobby—that is, using AI tools to code their own products—is actively damaging the developers of open source software. “Vibe coding raises productivity by lowering the cost of using and building on existing code, but it also weakens the user…

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Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it’s ‘Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts’

Pope Leo XIV—who’s become a remarkably familiar presence in the pages of PC Gamer of late—has once again taken to the pulpit to exhort us to be careful about this “AI” nonsense. In a message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications (which is actually on May 17), the Bishop of Rome implored humanity…

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