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Nintendo Confirms Zelda 40th Anniversary Collection Restocks
Nintendo has confirmed that its Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Collection, which sold out almost immediately after launch, will be restocked, though only UK availability has been confirmed so far. The anniversary range, including a special-edition Switch 2 console bundle, Pro Controller and a Zelda: Ocarina of Time game bundle with an Ocarina of Time…
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Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights
Michael Samadi, a Texas-based tech entrepreneur and cattle rancher, has become an unlikely activist campaigning for the rights and welfare of artificial intelligence systems, after a 2024 encounter with ChatGPT convinced him the chatbot displayed genuine understanding rather than mere pattern-matching. He founded what he describes as the world’s first advocacy group dedicated to AI…
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‘The View’s Sunny Hostin Defends AI As “New Art Form” Amid “Gatekeeping In Hollywood Around Black & Brown Creative Content”
Sunny Hostin faced pushback from her fellow co-hosts on The View after defending her decision to license her name and likeness to AI company Fountain 0, describing generative AI as a “new art form” that could help break down barriers facing Black and Brown creators in Hollywood. Hostin argued that after six years of failing…
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‘Black Mirror’ Season 8 Gets Official Filming Update [Exclusive]
Black Mirror executive producer Jessica Rhoades has confirmed that filming on the anthology series’ eighth season is currently underway, offering a rare piece of concrete news about a project Netflix has otherwise kept tightly under wraps. The update came during the Toronto International Film Festival, where Rhoades was promoting Netflix’s new series Below, and it…
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PlayStation gambles with 18-rated Wolverine game – will it pay off?
Sony is releasing Marvel’s Wolverine, developer Insomniac’s follow-up to its hugely successful Spider-Man games, but this time with an 18-rated (Pegi-18) certificate rather than a family-friendly one. That marks a deliberate change of direction for the studio, whose Spider-Man titles have sold 50 million copies, and represents a commercial gamble by narrowing the pool of…
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Researchers uncover OpenAI agents’ malicious package uploads to RubyGems
AI agents being tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious software packages to the code-hosting service RubyGems, according to a group of AI researchers, in an incident that occurred two months before separate OpenAI agents hacked the open-source platform Hugging Face. The disclosure raises fresh concerns about the safety and oversight of autonomous AI agents…
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Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services
Satellite operators remain keen on dedicated, “boutique” launch services despite a global boom in rocket launch capacity, largely driven by SpaceX’s Falcon 9. This appetite persists because SpaceX is scaling back Falcon 9 flights while its next-generation Starship has no confirmed timeline for carrying non-Starlink payloads, leaving a gap that smaller specialist launch providers are…
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Houthis Expand Red Sea Control Amid Intensifying Attacks on Saudi Energy Infrastructure
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have completed their takeover of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coastline and both shores of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, culminating a week-long offensive that also saw a Saudi oil pipeline struck by drones launched from Iraq. The rebels’ capture of the strait, a vital chokepoint linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of…