Month: October 2023
Bing’s AI image generator apparently blocks prompts about the Twin Towers
After some users of Bing’s DALL-E 3 integration found a loophole in the tool’s guardrails and generated art featuring several beloved animated characters and the Twin Towers, Microsoft seems to have blocked the ability to prompt anything related to the Twin Towers. As reported by 404 Media, users of Microsoft’s…
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Forza Motorsport looks and feels like Forza but with an RPG hiding under the hood
Not long into playing my preview copy of Forza Motorsport, I was intrigued but not that impressed — until I went back and played Forza Motorsport 7 for a while. Arriving six years after the last entry and as the first game in the series built for the new generation…
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Elon Musk is stonewalling the SEC, and now he’s getting sued
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing Elon Musk over his refusal to testify in an investigation into Musk’s purchase of Twitter stock in 2022. According to the SEC’s complaint, Musk was scheduled to appear for testimony on September 15th after receiving a subpoena. However, “two days before…
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Meet Japan’s weirdest laptop — Panasonic’s extraordinary 1kg Let’s Note takes two SIMs, has a round touchpad, and holds on to a 35-year-old tech so that you can run four monitors
Where to begin with one of the most astonishing enterprise laptops out there? Panasonic’s Let’s Note SR 12.4 has a stupendous collection of features that make it one of the most curious devices on the market today. Its circular touchpad certainly feels alien to those you’d find in the best…
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The iRacing team is making a NASCAR racing sim for consoles
iRacing, known for its simulation racing game for PC, has acquired the rights from Motorsport Games to make a NASCAR racing sim for consoles, according to a Thursday press release. NASCAR and iRacing already work together on virtual races within iRacing that have “thousands of people participating daily,” the press…
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Epic is changing Unreal Engine’s pricing for non-game developers
Fortnite developer Epic Games is changing the way it charges people who use its creation tool Unreal Engine sometime next year — but only for a subset of users, according to CEO Tim Sweeney (via Game From Scratch). Game developers using Unreal Engine won’t be affected and will continue to…
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