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The latest things I have written
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Everybody gets an autonomous hacking AI! The trillion-dollar PR arms race
Everybody gets an autonomous hacking AI as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta turn cyber incidents, bad containment and model hype into another PR arms race.
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Gothic 1 Remake: Eurojank is not a feature
A promising remake full of strong ideas, broken quests, endless backtracking and combat apparently designed around parrying a fucking troll.
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Another decade, another Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo Studios’ £50 Combat Evolved remake launches to Mixed Steam reviews, weak player numbers, bugs, missing multiplayer and yet another reset.
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Sacred 2 Remaster: Nostalgic without the nostalgia
Sacred 2 Remaster is clumsy, bloated and badly modernised, yet its strange late-2000s offline-MMO charm somehow still survives beneath the jank.
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Tripwire monetised itself into a dead end
Tripwire built Killing Floor 3 around season passes, abandoned KF2, and trapped itself supporting a live-service sequel almost nobody plays.
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Masayoshi Son is the premium GenAI clown
Masayoshi Son, GenAI’s premium clown, missed Amazon, sold Nvidia, tried to sell Arm and now bets $64.6bn on OpenAI while calling bubble fears blasphemy.
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The public benefit corporation that did ‘nothing wrong’ is paying $1.5 billion for ‘nothing wrong’
Anthropic has finally been ordered to fund its full $1.5 billion copyright settlement. The self-appointed responsible adult of AI still admits no wrongdoing, despite knowingly downloading millions of pirated books and keeping them anyway.
