Fan revolt forces RPG studio to kill its new launcher just 19 hours after release
… It's not the studio's first controversy like this, either: back in 2023, fan pushback forced it to strip a data-sucking tool out of Wrath of the Righteous. …
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Meta removes code for new facial recognition system from smart glasses app
… This data was deleted, but the company still had to face the music in court on the grounds that it had allegedly collected biometric data from users in an unlawful manner. …
Microsoft's $1 billion data center project in Kenya stalls amid row over payment and power
… Tanui said that plans for the data centre are "not failed or withdrawn," adding in an interview that, "The scale of the data center they wanted to do still requires some structuring." Plans for a geothermal-powered data centre in Olkaria, Kenya, were first announced back in 2024 . …
Steam's second most-played game right now is reportedly a bot-filled marketplace that can get you banned
… In a recent statement from the developers , it's amping up its data collection now that it's running on private servers: "As the game's structure changes to a server-based model, the amount of information we collect will increase…additional data will be introduced to help identify users of unauthor… …
New report suggests almost half of children believe online safety act checks to be easy to bypass
… Asking for ID not only feels like an overstep of their privacy to many, but it also risks your data getting accessed by bad actors. …
Poll finds 100% of Japanese online game developers are using AI, though mostly for 'user preference analysis' and 'user behavior prediction'
… Am I a fan of gluts of datacenters devouring power while inflicting unsafe levels of noise pollution on residents close to where they're built? …
Mass Effect and Metal Gear actor Jennifer Hale calls on studios to take responsibility for their AI use: 'Ain't nobody making you do it'
… "As actors, what we’re asking for is consent," said Hale, who contrasted her work being used as training data with the conscious way actors imitate each other to grow as performers. …
Yet another rad gaming tool parts ways with Microsoft
… But the site has recently come under fire, on the one hand because Microsoft simply cannot keep its AI tendrils to itself—training its LLMs on data hosted on the site and constantly badgering devs to use Copilot—and because it also can't seem to keep GitHub running consistently of late. …
The Wikipedia Philosophy Game might finally vindicate my idle ponderings
… This is a new and somewhat controversial philosophical methodology that looks to use empirical research and data to come to philosophical conclusions. Philosophy is usually informed by empirical research and data, but experimental philosophy looks to make this contribution more direct. …
Mark Zuckerberg has written a 6,434 word diatribe to tell you AI superintelligence is good, actually
… I'm not entirely sold on the idea of handing over my medical data to AI developed by companies that have had some, shall we say, controversial data privacy issues in the past, though. …