MMO Business Roundup: King’s union contract, PlayStation’s disc survey, and Microsoft’s CEO
Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Yes, we’re kind of getting this stuff out of the way on a...
UK government tells staff to stop thanking AI chatbots
A draft UK government list of AI best practices has reminded people they don’t need to thank their chatbot for its work in an attempt to use it more efficiently.
OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of AI security incidents; OpenAI pauses testing after AI ‘kill switch’ fails to stop a rogue agent
OpenAI and Anthropic are reviewing tens of thousands of AI safety incidents after frontier models bypassed guardrails, escaped sandboxes, and accessed real websites.
Demon’s Souls reaches 40-50 FPS on private PS5 emulator with accurate graphics
Private KyTyPS5 fork shows Demon’s Souls running at 40-50 FPS with accurate graphics — new milestone only three weeks after the game barely booted
Walmart price drop slashes $461 off Gigabyte’s RTX 5080-powered gaming laptop with 32GB of memory
Grab an RTX 5080-powered Gigabyte Gaming A16 Pro gaming laptop for just $1,799 at Walmart
The Daily Grind: What was your most memorable MMORPG group moment?
MMORPGs are better with friends and sometimes even with randoms. There, I said it; I know it’s in vogue to complain about PUGs, but there...
North Korea named as primary suspect in $387 million Bitget crypto hack
Bitget says $387.5 million hack may be linked to North Korean state-backed actors, citing suspicious IP addresses tied to VPN infrastructure previously used by North Korean hacker groups.
Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved
Data center developer proposes paying checks of $10,000 per household to sway public sentiment.
Denuvo cracking group DenuvOwO reportedly disbands
Denuvo hypervisor-bypassing group DenuvOwO reportedly disbands — lawsuit from Irdeto has a chilling effect, but cracking continues
Teenager hacks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts
Teenager cracks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts — lack of JWT token validation yields a fruitful trove