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Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s Great Plateau reinvented the series
The opening to the most consequential and successful Legend of Zelda game shows Nintendo at its peak
Grok’s nonconsensual porn problem is part of a long, gross legacy
For the past few weeks, Elon Musk’s Grok AI bot has been generating pornographic images of women and underage girls, without their consent, at an astounding rate. A recent Bloomberg analysis found that Grok creates 6,700 such images per hour, or more than one per minute. On Friday, X at last put some minor guardrails […]
Stack Overflow's monthly question volume in Dec. 2025 sank to 2008 levels; revenue has doubled since ChatGPT's debut driven by enterprise tools and AI licensing (Claire Yubin Oh/Sherwood News)
Claire Yubin Oh / Sherwood News:
Stack Overflow's monthly question volume in Dec. 2025 sank to 2008 levels; revenue has doubled since ChatGPT's debut driven by enterprise tools and AI licensing — The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue.
How the US shut the door on asylum-seekers
When he first emerged on the political stage more than a decade ago, Donald Trump made closing America’s borders and remaking our immigration system a central plank of his agenda. A year into his second administration — and as this week’s events in Minneapolis underscore — the issue has defined his presidency and changed America’s […]
AI is old news. Generative AI is the future.

The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is well known, often evoking futuristic movies like Robocop, Terminator and The Matrix. Yet what many don’t realize is that AI has been part of our lives for decades. When you finish watching a movie on a streaming platform and instantly see recommendations for similar content, that’s AI. When you’re shopping online and an entire page of suggested products appears, that’s AI. Even the digital ads you see are powered by machine-learning algorithms designed to optimize engagement, clicks, and conversions. Companies have relied on AI rule-based automation, routines, and machine-learning algorithms for years to power their systems and business processes. So when…
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