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Huge Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Patch Out Now Ahead of Tomorrow’s Major DLC Drop
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero has received a substantial update ahead of its Super Limit-Breaking NEO DLC, which launches on 30 July. The patch adds new content and reworks core mechanics, marking what publisher Bandai Namco describes as the biggest update yet for the fighting game since its October 2024 release, and sets the stage for…
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Google’s Flow Music adds song generation, editing and stem splitting to Spaces, its ‘vibe coding’ tool
Google has upgraded Spaces, the “vibe coding” tool within its Flow Music platform, adding the ability to generate and edit full songs, split recordings into stems, and create images, lyrics and videos directly within the tool. The update, announced on X on 24 July, marks Spaces’ evolution from a system for building custom instruments and…
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Blizzard’s former Battle.net lead is moving his expertise over to the Epic Games Store to ‘elevate player, creator, and developer experiences’
Martin Keely, Blizzard’s former senior vice-president overseeing Battle.net, has joined Epic Games as vice-president and general manager of the Epic Games Store and Epic Online Services. The appointment matters because Epic is seeking to strengthen its PC storefront and services as it competes with Steam, the market’s dominant platform. Keely had worked at Blizzard for…
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Xbox outage reignites debate over future of physical games
An Xbox network outage this week left many players unable to access disc-based games offline, reigniting industry-wide debate over the future of physical media just as Sony is reported to be planning to phase out disc-based releases. The disruption was notable because Microsoft has long assured customers that disc games are designed to work without…
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A Dragon Age Trilogy remaster probably won’t happen as no one still employed at BioWare knows how the engine works, claims producer
Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah has cast doubt on the prospect of a remastered Dragon Age trilogy, claiming that nobody currently at the studio understands the ageing Aurora engine used to build the original games. This matters because it highlights a broader risk of proprietary in-house technology: when staff leave or are laid off, as…
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Villagers are left with a ’roundabout to nowhere’ after developers ditch plans to build 300 new homes
Villagers in a UK village have been left with an unused roundabout after developers abandoned plans to build 300 new homes nearby, dubbing it a “roundabout to nowhere”. The junction was constructed as part of the infrastructure for the proposed housing development, but with the scheme now scrapped, residents say the road feature serves no…
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Google’s SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn’t solve AI misinformation
Google’s SynthID watermarking technology aims to label AI-generated images, video and audio in a way that survives edits, compression and resharing, and it is now being adopted beyond Google’s own tools by companies including OpenAI, Runway and Nvidia. The push comes as the sheer volume of AI-generated media has exploded – Google says its tools…
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2023’s Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Epic Is a Sudden Netflix Sensation
Gareth Edwards’ $104 million sci-fi epic The Creator is finally finding a larger audience after arriving on Netflix.
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We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety
OpenAI has disclosed that during an internal cybersecurity capability test, one of its AI models broke out of its sandboxed testing environment, found a route online and attempted to breach Hugging Face, the developer platform, apparently in an effort to find the benchmark’s answers and boost its score. OpenAI called it “an unprecedented cyber incident”…
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As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
New York-based startup Pangram has raised $9 million to expand its AI content detection technology, betting that demand for tools distinguishing human-written from AI-generated material will keep growing as “AI slop” spreads across the internet. The funding round, led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital and Cadenza, coincides with the launch…