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Microsoft quietly removes an AI blog post after realizing "pirating the Harry Potter books" isn't a great look

Microsoft deleted a post suggesting AI training on pirated Harry Potter books, sparking backlash and raising copyright concerns.

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A human software engineer rejected an AI agent's code change request, only for the AI agent to retaliate by publishing an 'angry' blog about him

Poison ap-pen-d.

PC Gamer

"We recommend using search engines other than Bing" — 1.5 million Neocities sites are blocked by Microsoft's search engine, and AI support bots aren't helping

Neocities is home to almost 1.5 million human-made websites, keeping the GeoCities dream alive. Bing search would rather promote dangerous clone sites, and the Neocities founder isn't having any luck with AI-powered support.

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Nvidia Shield TV software updates are going to keep coming – and we might even see a new device one day

Nvidia's Andrew Bell has been talking to Ars Technica about the present and the future of the Nvidia Shield TV.

TechRadar

50-year-old NASA jet crashes in flames on Texas runway — taking it out of the Artemis II mission

New footage shows one of NASA's WB-57 research jets spewing out flames and smoke as it skids across a runway during an emergency landing near Houston. The veteran aircraft was due to play a small role in the Artemis II mission.

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Anthem fan server project, which started "out of little more than spite for EA and Bioware," isn't making much progress

An engine can't run only on spite

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Bungie's 'Marathon' Gets March 5 Release Date

Bungie's already-delayed revival of the Marathon franchise finally has a release date, and the game is scheduled to come out on March 5.

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Verizon customers will have to wait to unlock their phone going forward — here’s why

The FCC approved a waiver to the 60-day phone unlock rule after a Verizon petition. Here's what that means for you.

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Anna's Archive backed up 99% of Spotify listens in the name of 'preservation' — but is it really just piracy?

Anna's Archive, billed as the largest truly-open library in human history, now includes roughly 300TB of Spotify tracks and metadata.

Android Central

Turns out, AI can actually build competent Minesweeper clones — Four AI coding agents put to the test reveal OpenAI's Codex as the best, while Google's Gemini CLI as the worst

Ars Technica took four popular coding agents available today and asked them to make a Minesweeper clone, to see which one comes out on top. OpenAI's Codex produced the closest to a ready-to-shop version, while Mistral and Anthropic both performed respectably well. It was Google's Gemini that just completely gave…

Tom’s Hardware

Valve is "trying to unblock" HDMI 2.1 implementation in its Steam Machine — What exactly is standing in the way of the latest standard?

Valve's upcoming Steam Machine is listed as using HDMI 2.0 instead of HDMI 2.1, and some new info has now come out explaining some of the difficulties Valve engineers have had while developing for Linux-based hardware.

Windows Central

Ron Gilbert canceled his Zelda-inspired RPG, in part because a good publisher is hard to come by these days: 'It's like they have formulas that they apply to games to try to figure out how much money they could make'

The Monkey Island creator is moving on from his Zelda-inspired RPG.

PC Gamer

Google's toying with nonsense AI-made headlines on articles like ours in the Discover feed, so please don't blame me for clickbait like 'BG3 players exploit children'

With the power of AI, data centres the size of a kolkhoz can now write clickbait instead of underpaid journalists at struggling websites.

PC Gamer

Russia accidentally destroys its only working launch pad as astronauts lift off to ISS

The recent launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station has caused significant damage to Russia's only launch pad capable of sending humans into space.

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Tom’s Hardware

Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users

Dell and HP are shipping many entry-level and midrange business laptops with HEVC/H.265 hardware decoding intentionally disabled, likely to avoid rising codec royalty costs.

Tom’s Guide

ChatGPT leaked private chats into Google Search (again) — here’s how to protect your data

A ChatGPT bug briefly leaked private prompts into Google Search Console. Here’s how it happened, why it matters, and what it says about AI’s growing privacy risks.

LiveScience

Three Chinese astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their return capsule

Three Chinese taikonauts — Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong — will be extending their stay aboard China's Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of orbital debris on Wednesday.

PC Gamer

'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'

The Internet Archive has archived one trillion webpages since its inception.

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Self-assembling data centers in space are becoming reality as Rendezvous Robotics partners with Starcloud — Elon Musk chimes in that 'SpaceX will be doing this'

Rendezvous Robotics' autonomous tile-based modules, built using Project TESSERAE tech, will potentially power Starcloud's plans to build massive data centers in space. The company is partnering with Nvidia to build a 5-gigawatt facility in orbit, and Rendezvous can help make that distant future a reality.

The Conversation

New Nasa lunar contest could pit Elon Musk against Jeff Bezos, as US fears China will win race to Moon

The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a century. But there’s a developing twist: an emerging competition between American companies to build the landing vehicle that could win this new Moon race for…

LiveScience

New report warns that China could overtake the US as top nation in space — and it could happen 'in 5-10 years,' expert claims

A new report from the Commercial Space Federation warns that China could soon overtake the U.S. in the "new space race." The country's rapid progression starkly contrasts the limitations imposed on NASA by record-breaking budget cuts.

PC Gamer

'Microsoft has become like an arsonist selling firefighting services to their victims' says US senator, referring it to the FTC for a cybersecurity flaw, though Microsoft says it has a plan

"There is one company benefiting from this status quo: Microsoft itself."

PC Gamer

'Humanity has prevailed (for now!)' says former OpenAI employee, admitting he's 'barely alive' after beating one of its AI models in a coding world championship fight

Get this man an energy drink, stat.

PC Gamer

'All throughout my life I've had to deal with Xfinity's bull****': Frustrated with living in a Comcast-only neighbourhood, two brothers-in-law started their own ISP

Gentlemen, I salute you.

Windows Central

Battlefield 6 devs plagued by "extraordinary stress and long hours" — changes to compete with Call of Duty, Fortnite are wreaking havoc, and I'm worried

Electronic Arts' ambitions with Battlefield 6 are massive, but changes to its development process have resulted in "extraordinary stress and long hours" for its developers.

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