As one of many updates to Steam store tags, Valve has added “Bullet Heaven,” which it defines as: “The opposite of Bullet Hell; Focus on upgrades while automatically attacking hordes of enemies”.
I’m fine with it, but Aftermath has a great argument about why it doesn’t work. What do you think?
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AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:
Update: Added NYT article about NextEra’s proposed deal to acquire Dominion Energy.
Starting in June, your progress in ebooks and audiobooks will automatically sync to your StoryGraph account, including updating reading streaks, challenges, and book clubs. Kobo is also highlighting StoryGraph’s stat-tracking and recommendation algorithm, saying:
Kobo users can leverage StoryGraph’s sophisticated analytics to understand their reading habits better. From personalized recommendations based on your unique tastes to detailed charts about your reading moods and pace.
Fellowship Entertainment has rights for brands like The Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider, and Embracer believes the spun-out company will “thrive the most by becoming its own standalone business.” It’s Embracer’s latest big shift, of which it has had a few in recent years.
It’s been a long time since Far Cry 6 released in 2021, but Ubisoft says it expects new releases in the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon franchises in its 2027-2028 and 2028-2029 fiscal years. Still, that could mean a new Far Cry game is still a ways out —the company only just started its 2026-2027 fiscal year in April.
Joe Rogan accidentally asked a hard question! He noted that Andreessen has said that the people who are running AI haven’t done a good job explaining AI’s benefits. He asks Andreessen to do it. Andreessen’s pitch appears to be “thinking is too hard.” Well, increasingly, I do believe thinking is too hard… for Andreessen. The rest of us — you know, normal people — are thinking just fine.
It’s rolling out now in partnership with Instacart to more than 25 US cities, with car rentals joining private car hires later this summer:
Have groceries waiting at your Airbnb when you arrive, or order them any time during your trip. In select cities, hosts can even receive the order and pre-stock your home before you check in. Airbnb guests get $0 delivery and $10 off an order of $50 or more.
A security bulletin from Nvidia breaks down new vulnerabilities found in some of its GPU drivers for Windows and Linux and vGPU software. As Digital Foundry and Club386 point out, they affect drivers prior to 596.36 on the current branch, so if you’re running the most recently released update (596.49, which was released on May 12th), you don’t have anything to do.
The company traced the incident to a “poisoned” VS Code extension on an employee’s device. While the hacking group TeamPCP has claimed responsibility for the breach, GitHub says it has since removed the malicious extension and that the exfiltration was limited to internal data, as reported by Bleeping Computer.
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