Boldly Blogging | October 30, 2023

  Back with a two week recap after some much needed R&R. Happy Halloween!

 News 

• For whom the bell tolls:( Cryptic Studios and Zen Studios appear to be latest studios affected by Embracer Group’s restructuring | Game World Observer (Cryptic denying layoffs) (Right now over 1/6th of Cryptic Employees are "Open to offers" on LinkedIn, with many of them being senior team members from STO/NW.) (https://twitter.com/Tumerboy/status/1714371221717127454?t=WZv4Q657XlPA8gnVSil12Q&s=33)
• Another one of the greats has fallen: Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments announces layoffs 'following a period of disappointing financial performance'
• And that’s the game, GG Twitter: X is starting to charge new users $1 per year to send tweets
• PSA: it's time to update WinRAR due to a big security vulnerability - https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/18/23922075/winrar-security-vulnerability-exploit-patch-update
• IT’S BEEN 84 YEARS BUT WE SURVIVED DESANTIS KILLING THE ELDERLY FOR THIS: Tesla begins Cybertruck deliveries on November 30
• ChatGPT live web browsing exits beta, DALL-E 3 enters beta
• IRS will start piloting its free TurboTax alternative in 2024
• Just sell the unfinished PoS anyway: Cities: Skylines 2 Dev Admits Performance Issues, Will Launch the Game Anyway - IGN
• Study shows AI program could verify Wikipedia citations, improving reliability
• Meta Quest 3 appears to have ample supply.
• Amazon’s Fallout series finally has a release date
• THE AI GOT TOO SMART: California DMV suspends Cruise’s driverless permits
• And I thought Apple was bad with their part DRM: PS5 Slim's Optional Disc Drive Needs to Connect to the Internet to Pair It to a Console

Media

• The Analogue 3D is a Nintendo 64 for modern times
• Bring back my childhood, one nostalgia trap at a time: Disney is making a live-action Gargoyles show with James Wan
• HOME AUTOMATION will CONSUME your LIFE (in a good way)
• Asus breaks the overclocking world record with 9.044GHz Intel 14900KF CPU
• Before you judge me for drooling over these gorgeous 3D CT scans of USB cables I implore you to check them out yourself
• Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 is using AI art : r/gaming Planetside 3 confirmed! lol
• Game install sizes are getting out of hand
• Madness or genius? The Best Caramelized Onyo | Chef Jean-Pierre(Also, delightful boomer PBS throwback style chef) (I watched his newest video. He might very well be insane)
• Happy Day! DFHack puts search and filters across most Dwarf Fortress windows!
• The 2000’s called, they want their slap bracelet back: Motorola is back with another slap bracelet phone concept
• Telltale’s The Expanse: Good interactive movie; licenced music and voice actors; Good graphics and writing; Great performances; Short; Drummer’s prequel

Odds and Ends

• FFS. iCloud photos now downloading in .HEC format
• Egg Foo Young is one item, not two, Thanks Google Assistant…
• Guess who else Google is looking to replace with AI? YouTube creators!
• AI sigh of the week (Unedited. Literally sideXside on Bing):
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• 3 out of 3 AI chatbots answered this question wrong: How many times does the letter "e" appear in the spelling of California?
• Google is looking to use AI to rewrite your reviews.
• "From Now On... No One Dies." - Spider-CUBE (Review)
• With all the advancements in video games, why are working mirrors still so rare?

 

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Boldly Blogging | October 16, 2023

 

 News 

• Russia seeks to stop access to unfiltered information by attempting to ban VPNs
• HUH? iPhone’s introduction to USB-C is a kneecap at 2.0 Speeds of 480 Mbps??????
• Hehe he pissed off the nerds…Unity CEO John Riccitiello stepping down, effective immediately https://venturebeat.com/games/john-riccitiello-steps-down-as-ceo-of-unity-after-pricing-battle/
• Loki Season 2 Ends Marvel's Dry Spell On OTT; Garners 11 Million Views in 3 Days - Movie Talkies
• CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months | Eurogamer.net
• As I foretold on my 2023 Bingo Card: Sony's smaller PS5 with a detachable disc drive lands in November
• Shockingly, Netflix picked up Star Trek Prodigy https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/star-trek-prodigy-season-2-netflix-1235752032/
• California’s new law makes it easier for consumers to request the deletion of their data
• The “Death” of Physical Media was also on my 2023 Bingo Card, now we just need Betty White to come pick up Henry Kissinger to finish the square
• Oh right, not like the US Government gets hacked right? The EPA won't force water utilities to inspect their cyber defenses
• Oh and Microsoft won, Activision is theirs. We don’t need to say anything else

Media

• How hackers are using Bluetooth to track police activity
• For when you actually give a f–k https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6234016
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in China has quite an info page about American democracy: The State of Democracy in the United States
• Games Workshop is reprinting the original version of Warhammer 40,000
• Star Trek Resurgence ship available for free from STO (Just a Miranda skin) Claim the USS Resolute from Star Trek: Resurgence!
• Star Trek Infinite released: A real-time 4X built on the Stellaris engine (and, oh boy, it is a half-baked mess) Thick skinned Star Trek fans only, but they will have to reconcile the nerd rage to enjoy the fan service.

 

Odds and Ends

• Spider-Man PS5 Setup / Showcase (THIS THING IS LIGHTER THAN A PS4) WHAT?! IT CAN READ PS4 DISKS????????
• Jeffree Star’s gender pronoun gave me a headache at work.
• Threaded view for Discord? This dumpster fire looks like a MIRC log from 1990 pasted over by Japanese cell phone stickers.
• Ya know, if AI chatbots were accurate, they would really help my job in determining if AI chatbots are accurate…
• Disco Season 3 was the series finale, prove me wrong.
• Assassin’s Creed Mirage Final Thoughts - “I don’t like sand, it’s too coarse” - Anakin Skywalker

 

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Boldly Blogging | October 9, 2023

 

 News 

• STO Gameprint service ending 10/31
• Windows 11's RGB control features are finally available to the public
• Oops, Microsoft's AI chatbot is offering up malvertisements in responses https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bing-chat-responses-infiltrated-by-ads-pushing-malware
• Google Assistant with Bard will use generative AI for personalized answers
• Everything Google announced at its Pixel event: Pixel 8, Pixel Watch, Android 14 - The AI Edition
• Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10
• There’s a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 show or movie on the way
• Unreal Engine will get more expensive, but not for game devs
• Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach
• ChatGPT was used to write Gollum game apology

Media

• Give your old PC the boot with Cooler Master's Sneaker X gaming PC
• Colin Furze launches tunnel digging pr0n channel: https://www.youtube.com/@2MuchColinFurze
• A pedestrian was pinned under a Cruise robotaxi after another car’s hit-and-run
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide class overhaul patch is live, and it sure seems like the massive update everyone was waiting for
• Chess grandmaster denies using anal beads to cheat against world champion: 'categorically no, of course not'
• 2023 will be remembered as a great year for game releases and a terrible year for game developers - Telltale Games layoffs
• This company will build you a 15-foot mech for a trifling $3 million https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkcyHUHfrLA
• Ghostwire: Tokyo is free for Amazon Prime subscribers
• STO Halloween event rewarding Crusher’s horny ghost summoning candle
• Man, they sure weren’t kidding about Cyberpunk 2077 getting a 2.0 overhaul
• Users create a radio network for Starfield http://www.starfieldradio.com/

Odds and Ends

• Fun with Frontier Part 6 - The Finale?
• Going from Verizon to Frontier was like going to sleep with a Toyota and waking up with a GM. It’s like, “Yeah, these are basically the same parts, but it was put together by idiots.”
• Time to return to roots: Assassin’s Creed Mirage Preview
• It took 2 chatbots and 4 emails to change my ChatGPT password

 

 

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Boldly Blogging | October 2, 2023

 

 News

• Guess I’m going back to iTunes. Google now shutting down Google Podcasts too: https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/236590252
• The FCC plans to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules
• Ransomware group claims to have hacked 'all of Sony systems,' Sony is investigating
• The WGA has kicked AI in the virtual balls and said “01000110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101111 01100110 01100110 00100000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110”
• ChatGPT can now browse the internet and is no longer limited to data before September 2021
• Meta Quest 3 hands-on: A proper successor to the most popular VR headset
• Introducing the new Silverblock-Pi: Welcome to Raspberry Pi 5
• Epic Games finally learned what money is: Epic Games Is Cutting About 16% of Staff - killed Fall Guys in the process
• Sony PlayStation boss Jim Ryan is retiring in March 2024

Media

• EVE Online director wants players to be able to download its grandest battles as replays and do post-match analysis like football
• Capcom stirs the pot, saying 'game prices are too low'
• Babylon 5: The Road Home - Wikipedia
• Some Starfield players are trying to solve a mysterious puzzle that might not actually be a mysterious puzzle
• Starfield DLSS3 mod creator threatens Patreon pirates with 'hidden mines' in monologue: 'They will never know if they have found all of them'
• Google will let publishers hide their content from its insatiable AI
• Restricted military info is being posted on the War Thunder forums so much these days, nobody really cares anymore (except War Thunder moderators)

Odds and Ends

•  Just a lot of video game talk (both products and business), but nothing that made it to the outline ahead of time.

 

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