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“NBC is eyeing a fresh spin on a literary classic, with a partially gender-swapped police procedural take on The Great Gatsby in development … It’s billed as a modern-day police procedural about Det. Jay Gatsby, a devilishly charming investigator with a con-man’s gift for reading human behavior, and decorated…

Oh shit, that's not too far away. Terrifyingly, that last sentence is now a thing I can accurately write about games coming out in January 2027. Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy has just been confirmed as…

It is said that King Canute once placed his throne on the shore and commanded the sea not to get his feet wet, thus proving to his flattering courtiers that only God Almighty holds sway…

Sega have revealed that over two million email addresses have leaked due to a cyberattack on Japanese email delivery provider Arara, whom the Like A Dragon and Sonic publishers use to distribute newsletters. Sega and…

The subhed on that Politico story above gets the election right in crediting “safety hawks, populists, and child-safety advocates” who united to oppose AI companies and their data centers in the midterms. But Politico got…

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A group of "concerned Microsoft workers" have published an open letter criticising their employer's "speed-at-all-costs" approach to generative AI, which they argue is "harming our customers, colleagues, shareholders, vendors, and the planet". They accuse Microsoft…

More good news on the Emacs front. Sean Whitton writes to say that the Emacs 31.1.90 pretest is available. The Emacs point releases are generally to fix bugs and maybe refine an existing functionality but you shouldn’t expect any major new features. That will have to wait for Emacs…