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Thursday 2023-03-23 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Thursday 2023-03-23

17-Mar-2023 – Study Shows Millennials Are Bigger Gamers Than Gen Z

Brief Summary: “It’d be easy for the layman to assume that Gen Z is more addicted to gaming than Millennials, but it seems the opposite is the case.”

23-Mar-2023 – After 20 years, Final Fantasy 11 is heading into maintenance mode

Brief Summary: ”
Long before Final Fantasy 14 swept over the MMO landscape, there was 2002’s Final Fantasy 11 Online. I wasn’t really away that Final Fantasy 11 was s”

23-Mar-2023 – CD Projekt made Keanu Reeves a “real asshole” in Cyberpunk 2077 because his “star power” made players side with him

Brief Summary: ”
Keanu Reeves’ “star power” gave him such a draw that CD Projekt Red had to make his Cyberpunk 2077 character, Johnny Silverhand, especially “horrible”

23-Mar-2023 – The Lord of the Rings: Gollum out in May

Brief Summary: ”
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum will finally be released on 25th May.

That’s across PC, PlayStation and Xbox consoles. A Nintendo Switch version will “

23-Mar-2023 – Are Unreal Engine’s procedural generation and Ubisoft’s Ghostwriter the future of game development?

Brief Summary: ”
This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the bleeding-edge technologies on show this week at GDC 2023 – from Epic Games’ eye-popping Unreal En”

23-Mar-2023 – GTA producer’s not-crypto project Everywhere is part episodic blockbuster, part Roblox rival

Brief Summary: ”
In a former casino on the outskirts of Edinburgh, ex-Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies is readying his next big gamble: a creation-fuelled gam”

23-Mar-2023 – [Prime Gaming] Peaky Blinders: Mastermind, Book of Demons, Total War: Warhammer II – Catchweb Spidershrine DLC (Included With Prime)

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23-Mar-2023 – FTC introduces proposal to make US subscriptions easier to cancel

Brief Summary: “Regulators plan to put an end to businesses ‘tricking’ customers into paying for services they no longer wantIt is one of the ires of the digital age:”

23-Mar-2023 – Robot lips invented for long-distance kissing – video

Brief Summary: “A Chinese startup has invented a long-distance kissing machine that transmits users’ kiss data collected through motion sensors hidden in silicon lips”

23-Mar-2023 – China Reminds US That It Can and Will Kill a Forced TikTok Sale

Brief Summary: “China pushed back against the U.S. government’s proposal to force a sale of TikTok on Thursday, rejecting the possible solution to ongoing national se”

23-Mar-2023 – Voltron

Brief Summary: ”
Toy Name (Short)

  Voltron

Toy Number

Toy Review Summary

  5PRO Studio

Original Price

  699."</p>23-Mar-2023 - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/isa-over-tpm-to-your-pc/">ISA over TPM to Your PC</a>

Brief Summary: “Sometimes you really want to use your legacy SoundBlaster instead of emulating it for classic games. While modern PCs don’t have ISA slots, [TheRaster”

22-Mar-2023 – Teaching News Apps with Codespaces

Brief Summary: “Teaching News Apps with Codespaces
Derek Willis used GitHub Codespaces for the latest data journalism class he taught, and it eliminated the painful p”

23-Mar-2023 – ‘Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’ Revisits Pixel Art Glory With Fanmade Creation

Brief Summary: ”
Remember when we used to imagine what a 3D version of Pokémon would look like while we were enjoying these games before 2013? Fast forward to today a”

23-Mar-2023 – Creating a Game Boy ROM From Pictures

Brief Summary: “There are very few legal ways of obtaining ROM files for video games, and Nintendo’s lawyers are extremely keen on at least reminding you of the fact “

23-Mar-2023 – Commodore 64 Reports the News

Brief Summary: “In the late 80s and into the 90s, [Cameron Kaiser] aka [ClassicHasClass] was an aspiring journalist, first becoming interested in the career in elemen”

23-Mar-2023 – A look at RightWingGPT, an experimental AI model fine-tuned to manifest conservative viewpoints, made by a researcher who claims ChatGPT has a left-leaning bias (New York Times)

Brief Summary: ”
New York Times:A look at RightWingGPT, an experimental AI model fine-tuned to manifest conservative viewpoints, made by a researcher who claims Chat”

Wednesday 2023-03-22 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2023-03-22

22-Mar-2023 – It’s Morphin Time with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always 30th anniversary special trailer

Brief Summary: “Netflix has released a trailer for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always – the upcoming feature length special which commemorates the 30th anniv”

22-Mar-2023 – Free RPG Day reschedules 2023 celebration to escape shadow of MTG’s Lord of the Rings set

Brief Summary: ”
This year’s Free RPG Day will happen a week later than originally planned in order to avoid coinciding with what’s expected to be a massive Magic: Th”

21-Mar-2023 – OpenAI to discontinue support for the Codex API

Brief Summary: “OpenAI to discontinue support for the Codex API
OpenAI shutting off access to their Codex model – a GPT3 variant fine-tuned for code related tasks, bu”

21-Mar-2023 – How To Review A Game You Haven’t Played

Brief Summary: “Tobold has a post up today about a topic that always interests me: Artificial Intelligence. In it, he suggests “ChatGPT could easily reply to a reques”

21-Mar-2023 – Roblox Launches Its First Generative AI Game Creation Tools

Brief Summary: “Roblox is launching its first set of generative AI game creation tools: Code Assist and Material Generator. Engadget reports: Although neither tool is”

21-Mar-2023 – Bill Gates Chimes in on AI

Brief Summary: “Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says that AI is one of only two revolutionary technologies that he’s witnessed in his lifetime. The other one? The GUI”

21-Mar-2023 – Microsoft Starts Rolling Out Bing Image Creator in its Bing Chatbot and Edge

Brief Summary: “Microsoft has started rolling out a new Bing Image Creator feature in its new Bing chatbot as well as its Edge browser. The feature leverages OpenAI’s”

21-Mar-2023 – Lollapalooza 2023 confirm The 1975, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Lana Del Rey and more

Brief Summary: “Lollapalooza 2023 have announced their line up for 2023.

Headliners include Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Tomorrow x Together and T”

21-Mar-2023 – Amazon shuts down DPReview

Brief Summary: ”
After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future. This difficult decision is part of the annual operating plan review “

21-Mar-2023 – The Sims creator’s new game Life by You gets September early access launch

Brief Summary: “Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Paradox Tectonic have fully revealed Life by You, their new life simulation game. The new life sim game by”

Tuesday 2023-03-21 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Tuesday 2023-03-21

20-Mar-2023 – Pizza Hut adds a “too much coriander” pizza to its lineup in Japan

Brief Summary: ”
New limited-time offering said to shock Generation Z. 

Whether you call it coriander or cilantro, “pakuchi”, as it’s known in Japan, is a divisive h”

20-Mar-2023 – Daisy Edgar-Jones to chase storms in Twister follow-up Twisters

Brief Summary: “Normal People and Where the Crawdads Sing actress Daisy Edgar-Jones has become the first addition to the cast of Twisters, the upcoming follow-up to t”

Sunday 2023-03-19 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Sunday 2023-03-19

19-Mar-2023 – Officially Licensed G1 Transformers Face Masks In Taiwan

Brief Summary: ”
Via Taiwanese online shop Momoshop we have images of new officially licensed G1 Transformers face masks. Made by medical disposables manufacturer Mot”

19-Mar-2023 – Jaxxon is thrust into an Ewok Civil War in Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories Annual 2023

Brief Summary: “When the galaxy needs a hero… Dark Horse Comics will deliver with the upcoming release of the one-shot comic Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories Annual  -Ja”

19-Mar-2023 – ‘I learned to love the bot’: meet the chatbots that want to be your best friend

Brief Summary: “Thousands of people enjoy relationships of all kinds – from companionship to romance and mental health support – with chatbot apps. Are they helpful,”

18-Mar-2023 – It’s a 486 Computer, On a Breadboard

Brief Summary: “Ever since the 1970s, a frequent project has been to take a microprocessor and construct a computer system on a breadboard or stripboard. Usually thes”

Saturday 2023-03-18 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Saturday 2023-03-18

18-Mar-2023 – Trump says he expects to be arrested on Tuesday

Brief Summary: “Prosecutors in New York are considering charges over alleged hush money payments to an ex-porn star.”

18-Mar-2023 – DOOM Ported to a Single LEGO Brick

Brief Summary: “By now you’ve all seen the tiny LEGO brick with a working screen in it. The work of one [James “Ancient” Brown], it was truly a masterpiece of miniatu”

17-Mar-2023 – Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser?

Brief Summary: “I think it’s now possible to train a large language model with similar functionality to GPT-3 for $85,000. And I think we might soon be able to run th”

17-Mar-2023 – A simple Python implementation of the ReAct pattern for LLMs

Brief Summary: “A popular nightmare scenario for AI is giving it access to tools, so it can make API calls and execute its own code and generally break free of the co”

17-Mar-2023 – FCC now requires cell carriers to block scam texts from sketchy numbers

Brief Summary: “The FCC is cracking down on the relentless deluge of spammy, automated text messages. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeRegulators in the U”

17-Mar-2023 – Thwarted hacker asks security firm to reimburse gas fees

Brief Summary: “File this one under “the audacity”.On March 17, blockchain security company BlockSec observed an attacker trying to exploit a vulnerability in the NFT”

17-Mar-2023 – Persona 5 is getting a promising-looking mobile spinoff

Brief Summary: “Mobile spinoffs based on beloved console games can sometimes be hit-or-miss. But based on an initial pair of trailers, I’m cautiously optimistic about”

17-Mar-2023 – Microsoft Is Testing a Built-In Cryptocurrency Wallet For the Edge Browser

Brief Summary: “Microsoft appears to be testing a built-in cryptocurrency wallet for Edge, according to screenshots pulled from a beta build of the browser. Ars Techn”

17-Mar-2023 – Godot Arrives In the Epic Games Store

Brief Summary: “The open-source, cross-platform Godot Engine has arrived in the Epic Games store. “Starting today, you can choose to use EGS to download the engine an”

17-Mar-2023 – Space Station Science Highlights: Week of March 13, 2023

Brief Summary: “Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of March 13.”

17-Mar-2023 – SETI@home Is in Hibernation

Brief Summary: “Comments”

17-Mar-2023 – Windows Weekly 820: Mustard Can Solve Any Problem

Brief Summary: “Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Windows 11 version 22H2’s Moment 2 release, all the new AI things, Microsoft Word, developer news, Xbox, and much more.”

17-Mar-2023 – Venus’ Volcano

Brief Summary: “Maat Mons, a volcano on Venus that has shown signs of a recent eruption, is in the black square near the planet’s equator in this annotated, computer-“

17-Mar-2023 – Chibi Godzilla no Gyakushū Anime’s Trailer Streamed

Brief Summary: “Series of shorts premieres on April 1”