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Junji Ito’s classic horror short In Old Records is now a vinyl-exclusive audio drama

Polygon - All
Audio performances by Shoko Nakagawa and Poppy bring this cautionary tale to life.

Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now

The Verge - All Posts
Anthropic's latest update to Claude will allow the AI chatbot to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations during your conversation. If Claude determines a visual is useful based on the context of your chat, it will insert the image in-line, rather than in its side panel. As an example, Anthropic says a conversation about […]

Psychology Behind the Internet’s Obsession With Punch, the Abandoned Monkey While Immigrant Kids Are Stripped From Their Parents

The Root

We explore the dark truth of why the internet rallies more around a zoo monkey than detained kids separated from their immigrant parents.

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Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only "Sassy" option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only “Sassy” option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content  —  Amazon's AI assistant Alexa+ is getting another new personality.  On Thursday, the company announced it's expanding …

European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)

Techmeme

Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net:
European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes  —  Loot boxes and in-game purchases targeted.  —  Follow EA Sports FC 27  —  Video game age-ratings are about to change in Europe.