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Wannabe supervillain pulls AI ‘heist’ to steal competitor traffic, but really just shows how unchecked AI is going to ruin the internet

There’s a certain kind of scam, old as time, that revolves around selling people something that tells them to sell the same thing. That’s not how it’s presented, of course. The pitch is that if only you knew X (my secret knowledge) you would easily have Y (money, young lovers, cars). Perhaps the most egregious…

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Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn’t even pay for the Game Awards slot that’s earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight

Remember when Apex Legends was shadow dropped? It’s a risky move for such a high-profile game to skip all the pre-release marketing hype entirely, but it paid off, and it’s clear why Respawn went that route—”photoreal PvP hero shooter” was an eyeroll-inducing prospect even back in 2019, so letting the game speak for itself short-circuited…

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Relief that the worst is over or just the calm before the hurricane continues? Some reports suggest that DRAM prices have plateaued or even fallen

Unless you’ve been living on Mars for the past year, it can’t have escaped your notice that memory sticks and SSDs are painfully expensive right now, having risen fourfold in price in less than six months. With the AI market showing no signs of slowing its rampant consumption of DRAM and storage, you’d expect things…

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Anthem players log in to say goodbye to the game they loved before it’s gone forever: ‘Strong alone, stronger together’

While Anthem wasn’t well-loved at launch, it wasn’t hated either. Steven Messner gave it a middling score of 55 in his review, which aligned with my own feeling of being a bit whelmed by a game with a clear identity crisis—a live service multiplayer game that wanted you and your friends to play strongholds together,…

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