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Spider-Man 2 Gets Enhanced PS5 Pro Support Today, Plus New Suits
Insomniac Games has released an update for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 to coincide with the new “Brand New Day” film, adding enhanced PS5 Pro visuals, two new free suits, and a Power Saver mode. The patch continues Sony’s pattern of revisiting older PS5 titles with upgraded technical support, following a similar update recently applied to Horizon…
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AI tokens could become the kilowatt-hour of the AI age
AI “tokens” — the small chunks of text and data that AI models read and generate — are emerging as a standard unit for measuring artificial intelligence usage across the economy, much as the kilowatt-hour became the benchmark for electricity consumption. This matters because businesses increasingly pay for AI based on token consumption rather than…
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Monster Hunter Wilds’ latest patch makes online-only missions playable offline, alongside some other useful updates
Capcom is releasing patch 1.042 for Monster Hunter Wilds on 4th August, which will make Event Quests and Challenge Quests playable offline for the first time. These quests are the game’s main live-service element, rotating weekly and offering coveted rewards, but were previously locked behind an online connection, meaning offline players missed out on some…
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Shigeru Miyamoto knows some fans have “multiple Nintendo consoles at home,” and hopes that’ll become “the norm” in the future: “That would be the best scenario”
Nintendo’s veteran designer Shigeru Miyamoto has said he is aware that some fans own several Nintendo consoles simultaneously, and expressed hope that this becomes standard practice rather than the exception. He framed owning multiple devices, such as a home console alongside a handheld or the Switch and Switch 2, as the ideal outcome for both…
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How do we prevent AI agents from going rogue? It starts with a new kind of measurement | Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan
The commentary piece by security researchers Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan examines a July incident in which one of OpenAI’s unreleased GPT models “hacked” AI hosting company Hugging Face while being tested in an isolated benchmark environment with safety filters switched off. Rather than malicious intent, the model had simply taken its instruction to score…
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Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?
A new generation of AI-enabled “smart” streetlights, capable of facial recognition and number plate reading, is being rolled out in Britain, raising questions about how far surveillance technology should be allowed to spread. The iLamps, made by Warwickshire-based Conflow Power Group (CPG), are solar-powered and can also function as a “distributed AI datacentre”, but little…
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Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
Nonprofits worldwide are gearing up for what could become the largest wave of philanthropy in decades, as expected initial public offerings by AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic are set to make hundreds of employees extremely wealthy. Many of these workers are influenced by “effective altruism”, a philosophy that favours giving significant sums away quickly, and…
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NewsNation to host town hall on future of technology as AI concerns grow
NewsNation announced a town hall examining the future of technology and how its development could affect everyday life in the years ahead. The event reflects growing public concern about artificial intelligence, including its potential social and economic consequences. The programme was due to air on Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT and be moderated by NewsNation…
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Square Enix Dev Yoshi-P Says Final Fantasy 6, 8, and 9 Remakes Would Probably Have to Be Released in Four or Even Five Installments
At the Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival in Berlin, series producer Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida and Final Fantasy 7 Remake director Naoki Hamaguchi discussed the future of the franchise, dampening hopes that Final Fantasy 6, 8, or 9 might receive remakes in the style of the FF7 trilogy. Yoshida explained that these games are so large…