Valve won’t publish games that feature copyright-infringing AI assets
Earlier this week, reports began surfacing that Valve was refusing to publish games with AI-generated art and other content. Over the weekend, the company finally commented...
Gfycat is shutting down on September 1st
Gfycat is shutting down. In a notice spotted by Hacker News (via The Verge), Snap, Gyfcat’s parent company, said it plans to shut down the GIF...
Apple’s next AirPods Pro could feature a built-in temperature sensor
In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple is working on new health features for its line of audio products. The first of...
Hitting the Books: How SNAP’s digital services became an online quagmire
Nobody said dragging one of the largest government bureaucracies to ever exist into the digital era was going to be easy but the sheer scale and...
AMD’s $229 Ryzen 5 5600X3D is a Micro Center exclusive
In a surprising turn of events, AMD has announced a new processor for its aging AM4 platform. The Ryzen 5 5600X3D brings the company’s 3D V-Cache...
Twitter puts strict cap on how many tweets users can read each day
Twitter has begun aggressively limiting how many tweets users can view per day. On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk said the company would restrict unverified accounts to...
Europe’s Euclid space telescope launches to map the dark universe
On late Saturday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Space Agency’s Euclid spacecraft successfully lifted off Cape Canaveral, Florida. The near-infrared telescope, named...
Elon Musk claims Twitter’s new login requirement is a ‘temporary’ response to data scrapers
On early Friday afternoon, internet users began noticing that Twitter was no longer allowing people to view tweets if they weren’t signed into the service. At...
Apollo and other popular third-party Reddit apps have shut down
Several popular third-party Reddit apps are no longer operational, while a few have chosen to charge users for access, now that the website’s new API rules...
Spotify reportedly wants to add full-length music videos to its app
Spotify might soon let you watch music, not just listen to it. Bloomberg sources claim the streaming service is mulling the addition of full-length music videos...