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The Helldivers community is coping with a spotlight it doesn’t want

The Verge - All Posts

Star Wars Outlaws on Switch 2 shows Nintendo is in its port era now

Polygon - All

The 10 biggest problems with Wednesday season 2 part 2

Polygon - All

Scarlet turns Shakespeare into an animated fantasy epic

The Verge - All Posts

A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that some experts say will likely remain complementary to existing networks, focusing on rural coverage (Washington Post)

Techmeme

The Garfield Kart 2 review (Werner Herzog's version)

Polygon - All

Giants Players Horrified To Learn Uniforms Have Names On Back

The Onion

In Silksong, spite is my motivation to keep playing

The Verge - All Posts

i.AI, a UK government unit offering a median salary of £67K to develop tools to improve civil service efficiency, is struggling to attract top talent (Ramsay Hodgson/Financial Times)

Techmeme

The Fifth Element is quietly dominating the streaming charts on Tubi

Polygon - All

The iPhone to get this year

The Verge - All Posts

Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out

The Verge - All Posts

Obsessing about being a good person can backfire. There’s a better way.

Vox - All

Q&A with Bret Taylor on Sierra's AI customer support agents, AGI, Sam Altman's comments on the AI bubble, Mark Zuckerberg's superintelligence rebrand and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Techmeme

Are Zelda and Link Dating??

Polygon - All

Weapons, Honey Don't, and every new movie on streaming this week

Polygon - All

How thousands of small-scale farmers in Malawi are using a government-backed AI chatbot, designed by the nonprofit Opportunity International, for farming advice (Gregory Gondwe/Associated Press)

Techmeme

An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Techmeme

Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon Valley companies racing to develop AI, as the voices of AI "doomers" fade in prominence (Peter Guest/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle (Google Research)

Techmeme