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How I Use AI as a Professional Writer
In the interest of full disclosure and debate.
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Influencers and Resellers Are Turning Empty Boxes Into Big Cash
Empty product boxes and packaging are becoming a lucrative niche market on resale platforms such as eBay and Vinted, driven partly by collectors seeking to restore original packaging to boost resale value of luxury items, and partly by aspiring influencers buying branded boxes to stage aspirational photos and videos for social media. High-end examples include…
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“We’re going to take things slow”: South of Midnight devs now own the rights to all their games again, after quitting Xbox, and are working on a new game
Compulsion Games, the studio behind South of Midnight and We Happy Few, has completed a management buyout that fully separates it from Microsoft and Xbox, regaining ownership of all its original intellectual property. The move follows Microsoft’s July announcement of roughly 3,200 job cuts and the spinning off or sale of several studios, and marks…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day concept art sparks backlash for alleged use of generative AI
Concept art for Spider-Man: Brand New Day has prompted online backlash after viewers alleged that it may have been created using generative AI. The criticism reflects continuing concerns among fans and artists about AI’s possible use in major film marketing and development materials. The reaction appears to centre on visual details in the artwork that…
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Microsoft sounds alarm as perfect-10 Entra ID flaw comes under attack
Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed, but isn’t saying who exploited it or how widely
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ChatGPT on Mac can now read and respond to Apple iMessages
OpenAI has released a ChatGPT plugin that lets Mac users read and reply to Apple iMessages directly from the chatbot, a move that Bloomberg suggests could raise privacy and security concerns. The feature is currently limited to ChatGPT Work and Codex users, and lets the assistant search a person’s Messages history, then draft and send…
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I worked at OpenAI. Here’s how tech companies can prepare for a slowdown | Miles Brundage
A former OpenAI employee, Miles Brundage, argues that AI firms should voluntarily prepare for a possible slowdown in development, warning that competitive pressure is pushing companies to race ahead despite serious safety risks. The piece follows a letter signed by more than a thousand staff at frontier AI companies urging the US government to help…
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Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York
A proposed “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to roughly 27,000 flights from London to New York, according to planning documents. The East Havering Data Centre Campus, put forward by developer Digital Reef on 218 hectares of green belt in north Ockendon, would be…
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Marvel Tokon’s Latest PS5, PC Update Is Available Now, Here Are the Patch Notes
Developer Arc System Works has released a substantial new patch for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls on PS5 and PC, delivering wide-ranging fixes and improvements. PC players benefit from further performance optimisation, while both platforms receive numerous bug fixes intended to smooth out the overall experience, addressing issues such as settings resetting on restart and a…
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The Super El Niño Won’t Fix the West’s Water Crisis
The Colorado River, which supplies water to 40 million people across seven US states, is facing an escalating crisis as its two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have hit record-low levels. Hopes that this winter’s exceptionally strong El Niño weather pattern might bring relief through increased rain and snowfall are being tempered by…