There are brief, simple pleasures in the inevitable new big screen take on the classic game but like the recent Mortal Kombat movies, it’s a largely incoherent mess We just had Resident Evil, Zach Cregger’s giddy, nasty, devilishly fun spin on Capcom’s popular zombie franchise. It gave us renewed hope ...
‘A powerful act of imagination and self-affirmation’: experts on how to start writing a book‘A powerful act of imagination and self-affirmation’: experts on how to start writing a book
Thinking about writing a book and doing it are two very different things – so how to get started and follow through? At some point in their lives, many people are confronted with a big question: what if I wrote a book? Writing a memoir, murder mystery or steamy romance ...
‘Don’t do this!’ Why Paul McCartney cares about looking shorter than John Lennon in Sam Mendes’ Beatles films‘Don’t do this!’ Why Paul McCartney cares about looking shorter than John Lennon in Sam Mendes’ Beatles films
You’re Paul McCartney. So how come you’re still getting het up at a fictional version of you being marginally smaller than a fictional version of John Lennon? There has been a lot of discourse and conjecture surrounding Sam Mendes’s forthcoming Beatles biopics. Some of this is logical (will people really ...
Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per MonthAccenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month
Consulting giant Accenture has told many employees that the company will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude. Employees subject to the cap, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, are scrambling to find ways to make sure they can keep spending as ...
Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too EasyVideo Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
A website that was dedicated to the human endeavor of reverse engineering, “decompiling,” and modifying video games is shutting down because people using AI to clone and decompile games have fully overrun the community and are far outpacing what human software engineers alone can do. The news comes as AI-coded ...
ChatGPT Ads Target Your Phone Number, EmailChatGPT Ads Target Your Phone Number, Email
There is a lot of stuff about how creepy ad targeting is in today’s newsletter. Our first story is one I did, about how advertisers — or really anyone with 5 minutes on their hands — can inject ads into your ChatGPT session based on your phone number or email ...
How ChatGPT Targets Ads To You Based On Your Prompts, Phone Number, and EmailHow ChatGPT Targets Ads To You Based On Your Prompts, Phone Number, and Email
OpenAI lets anyone inject ads into ChatGPT users’ sessions, targeting specific groups of people based on their email address, phone number, or a unique identifier on their phone, according to 404 Media’s own tests of ChatGPT’s advertising ecosystem. While the ad targeting available in ChatGPT is somewhat standard practice across ...
Data Centers Are War Targets NowData Centers Are War Targets Now
Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s largest data center on Wednesday. This was Ukraine’s fourth strike on Russian data centers in the past week and confirmation of a new reality of war: data centers are valuable enemy assets and they will be targeted. In 2006, British economist Clive Humby declared “data is ...
Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood attacker’s execution by firing squadTrump calls off livestream of Fort Hood attacker’s execution by firing squad
Trump said some would “rather not watch” the killing of Nidal Hasan, the first military execution in over 60 years. ...
Former DUP leader Donaldson sentenced to 15 years in prison for child sex abuseFormer DUP leader Donaldson sentenced to 15 years in prison for child sex abuse
Jeffrey Donaldson was convicted of 18 counts of sex abuse, including one of rape, which he committed against two women when they were children. ...