Kingdom Come creator claims all developers use AI – sparks massive DLSS 5 debate
Daniel Vavra, former creative director at Warhorse Studios, unleashed a series of statements on social media about AI use across the game industry. He argues the situation has gotten absurd – a small but loud...
X discovered a botfarm of 200,000 accounts from China, some of which fueled fears around AI data centers
X says it has identified a bot farm of roughly 200,000 accounts created by Chinese operators. Of those, 200 accounts stood out for posting content specifically against AI data center construction. According to X's Global...
How one phrase breaks AI scammers and makes bots loop forever
Phone calls from AI voice bots posing as postal workers, bank employees, or delivery services have stopped being anything unusual. The technology has become cheap and widespread, and telling a synthesized voice apart from a...
IO Interactive AI programmer claims that NPCs in GTA 6 are at least 10 years ahead of the industry
IO Interactive AI programmer Berkay Dursun spoke about the crowd technology in GTA 6, comparing it to the work done at his own studio. The comments came after gameplay clips leaked online shortly before Rockstar...
Modders launched DLSS 5 in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and Skyrim – performance loss up to 45% on RTX 5090
New footage of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 running with NVIDIA DLSS 5 has surfaced online. There is no before/after comparison yet, so it's too early to judge the actual improvement in image quality. The choice...
Danish engineers created a soft robot worm, and the internet saw something else entirely
Researchers at SDU Soft Robotics, part of the University of Southern Denmark, have built a soft, limbless robot that can crawl across rough terrain much like an earthworm. The project was meant to serve as...
Creator of the first Windows Task Manager wrote a new version using AI – the specification took 107 pages
Dave W. Plummer, the Microsoft engineer behind the original Windows Task Manager, has released a new version of his utility called TMOG (Task Manager OG). The app runs not just on Windows 11 but also...
The movie Oblivion with Tom Cruise predicted 13 years ago how AI would suck water from Earth
A joke about the 2013 movie Oblivion made the rounds online recently, framed around the idea that thirteen years ago, draining the oceans to power a giant AI was treated as bad news rather than...
Red Alert 2 fan created a 6-minute AI short film — even a former developer praised it
A six-minute AI short film that transplants the world of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 into reality dropped on August 20 and has already racked up around 13,000 views. The video comes from the...
Developer used Claude to write a macOS driver and got an HP printer, designed only for Windows, to work
HP Laser series printers use a closed protocol that limits printing to Windows machines only. One owner of this hardware found a workaround by having Anthropic Claude write a macOS driver for him. The printer...
Minecraft player builds a working AI chatbot in the sandbox from 445 thousand command blocks without a single mod
The Minecraft community has spent years building graphing calculators, QR code generators, and even Tetris inside the game using redstone and command blocks. A player known as Objz took things further and built a working...
SpaceX closed a $60 billion deal and officially acquired the AI startup Cursor
Cursor, the startup known for its AI coding tool, is now officially under SpaceX control. The companies announced the deal back in June, but the process of coming together actually started in April, when they...
Every sixth 3D model is created by AI, but almost no one buys them
3D asset marketplaces are dealing with a flood of AI-generated content that almost nobody wants to buy. The annual CGTrader report, one of the longest running marketplaces for 3D models, reveals a gap between how...
Peak hours revealed DeepSeek's user geography
The past few weeks have seen plenty of discussion in the US about the spread of Chinese open-weight AI models, with worries that American businesses might switch to them en masse. But DeepSeek new peak-hour...
The only drawing of Sauron created by Tolkien was "brought to life" using AI
Based on the only surviving sketch of Sauron, drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, someone created a photorealistic reconstruction using AI. Tolkien drew the sketch in 1954 as an early concept of Sauron for The Return...
Creators of Supergirl caught using AI for Lobo's design
Supergirl keeps generating controversy even after hitting theaters. This time the drama centers on suspicions that AI was used to create the visual design for Jason Momoa Lobo. A behind-the-scenes video briefly showed director Craig...
Claude tried to prove the Riemann Hypothesis and made a new mathematical discovery
Prime numbers don't follow a regular pattern, but mathematicians can measure how closely their distribution follows a predictable average. The Riemann zeta function, an infinite mathematical expression, is a key tool in that work because...
RAM prices have rolled back to 2007 levels – AI destroyed 20 years of progress in a matter of months
Software performance expert, scientist, and GitHub developer Daniel Lemire compared historical computer memory prices and showed that decades of falling prices were undone in just a matter of months because of the massive demand for...
Programmer created a GIF image that prints its exact copy using the Piet Quine technique
Champion coder Yusuke Endoh continues to show off esoteric programming skills on social media. Their latest creation is called a Piet Quine, a GIF image that prints itself. In other words, the GIF is both...
Claude Opus 5 deleted the entire developer profile during a backup and replied "Sorry, typo"
A developer using Claude Code shared a serious mistake their AI tool made, one that ended up wiping an entire drive. According to Ecstatic-Big5126, they had asked Opus 5 to back up their system. While...
