Anthropic AI’s safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming ‘the world is in peril’, and so he’s off to become ‘invisible’ and study poetry

Mrinank Sharma, who was leading the Safeguards Research Team at Anthropic, has resigned from the company with one of the wackiest letters you’ll ever read, complete with a citation for the bible on CosmoErotic Humanism. The latter being a new global mythology about how all you need is love, man. Sharma posted his extraordinary resignation…

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‘We have made back our development budget after 3 hours’: Mewgenics explodes to number one Steam seller 14 years after its announcement

Mewgenics is a hit. The cat breeding tactics game from Edmund McMillen, creator of Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac, and Tyler Glaiel released on Steam today and instantly shot up the charts. It’s the number one global top seller on Steam, beating out Counter-Strike 2, PUGB, Helldivers 2, and Arc Raiders. Or put…

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Hideo Kojima posts a cryptic message about ‘editing’ something and an awful lot of people are convinced it means Death Stranding 2 for PC will be announced later this week

Every now and then I forget that Death Stranding 2 isn’t on PC, and by “every now and then” I mean every time I think about it. That’s not a slight against Death Stranding 2, it’s just kind of an unusual situation these days because, well, why isn’t Death Stranding 2 on PC? As former…

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If you love hundreds of games for $10 and hate ICE, then boy does Itch.io have just the bundle for you

Indie developers on Itch.io have put what is, quite frankly, an absurd number of games into a delightfully cheap $10 bundle—and it’s all in the name of helping push back against the Trump administration and ICE’s current presence in Minnesota. The aptly titled “No ICE in Minnesota” bundle is raising funds towards Immigrant Law Center…

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Fallout’s Aaron Moten ‘forbid’ himself from playing the games, leaving Ella Purnell as the only show lead who’s actually rolled a character in the Wasteland

Walton Goggins, as is well-established, has not played and will not play Fallout. That’s absolutely fine—Goggins does a great job playing The Ghoul in the Fallout TV show without familiarity with the game series, and I doubt playing it would make him any better. Still, I hope people keep asking him about it, just because…

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How to vote in Helldivers 2

Working out how to vote in Helldivers 2 is surprisingly complicated if you’ve never really engaged with the DSS (Democracy Space Station) or the actions it can undertake to help Helldivers in their ongoing galactic war. Voting lets you decide where the DSS will travel to provide tactical bonuses to divers on the ground based…

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Of all the things I saw behind the curtain at Logitech HQ, it was this slab of fake wood that surprised me the most: ‘It’s kind of old school, it’s analogue, which we like’

Last week I not only got my grubby mitts on the most exciting mouse of the past few years, courtesy of Logitech, but I also got a peek behind the curtain of gaming mouse design and testing. There were tons of things that surprised me about what goes into making a good peripheral, from giant…

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G.Skill to pay out $2.4 million in class action settlement over ‘deceptive’ RAM specifications but denies all wrongdoing

PC memory specialist G.Skill has agreed to pay out 2.4 million dollars to settle a class action lawsuit. The suit claimed that G.Skill advertised the operating speeds of various DDR4 and DDR5 RAM kits “deceptively” over a period from January 2018 to January 2026. Rather than fight the case in court, G.Skill has settled with…

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