It’s been a painful few decades for consumers having the teeth of unregulated tech titans sunk into them.

That’s a lot of new Linux computers.

Mafia: cops are ruining our extortion business!

Poor mafia.

A lot of people in this thread have a lot of really strong opinions without actually reading the article. The model was cool with it, but she herself also thinks it’s time to retire the photo from how it’s being used in image processing, where it likely isn’t even necessary in the first place. Respect her on that. I seriously doubt she cares if it remains accessible on the web for the pervs worrying about censorship. It’ll still be there if you desperately don’t want to lose your opportunity to take a gander.

Out of the 25 English language reviews of Dragon’s Dogma 2‘s PC version on Metacritic, only two mention the microtransactions.

What the fuck.

…they just couldn’t figure out how to hamper the watch in just the right way to convince users that Android OS was the problem, so they gave up.

Yeah, but Google, Facebook, and other megacorps profit from doing the same kind of thing and that seems to be fine.

Easy. Game preservation.

It’s a good thing they got that scoundrel off the streets before anyone got hurt… /s

Websites and articles that have nothing to do with search or Google have to be designed specifically for Google’s search algorithm. I think that’s pretty crazy.

Can they teach the adults as well?

I love this mentality. This idea that forcing someone who hates ads to watch a bunch of ads somehow magically makes more wealth happen. The whole thing is a bubble desperately trying not to burst by basically forcing more ads in more places where it actually makes very little difference.

I wonder if creators are actually going to get paid any better if YouTube forces more people to watch ads on their channels. My bet is not.

I keep saying it. Privacy invasive, targeted advertising has got to be barely worth the cost of maintaining it. Why else is Google trying to put more ads in places, kill ad blockers on chrome, force expats out of subscriptions, and experiment with unskippable ads if not to try and invent some kind of additional value to advertisers out of nothing.

Your boomer parents as well, most likely. It is getting back into election season again.

Sony really wanting become a player on PC and realizing they’re a console company.

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Why are so many old people addicted to propaganda?

1. Take a learners dictionary and pair it with an advanced one.
2. Pic some controversial words.
3. Compare verbs against nouns, nouns against adjectives so the definitions aren’t actually the same but look like they should be.
4. Completely make up the last “simple” definition so it seems like you are making some profound point that’s actually just a dumb comment.
5. Call the side with the stupid comment you made up “pop psychology” so people can see in plain sight what gaslighting actually looks like.

The safeguards, for anyone like me who didn’t know about them until now.

Basically, the guidelines include:

1. Ensuring AI systems are safe before public release.
2. Building AI systems to address issues like bias and discrimination.
3. Using AI to enhance security and protect privacy.
4. Sharing best practices across the industry.
5. Increasing transparency and providing clarity about AI's capabilities and limitations.
6. Reporting on the risks and impacts of AI.

Spencer went on to say that while he personally didn’t like making the decision to close Tango, his job was ultimately to keep Xbox profitable.

Fuck off, Spencer. I can imagine there are other reasons why Xbox is struggling with profitability. Keeping games pass afloat by pushing day-1 releases for one, then spending obscene globs of money to buy exclusivity from massive, globally recognized franchises instead of investing in innovative new studios to foster a stable of great, fresh exclusives in the future.

Just curious, does anyone know which studios bought-out by Microsoft got better after being purchased?