The band’s latest album, Marrow Deep, is getting a limited-edition vinyl pressing that has actual ground-up mastodon teeth in it. The band was given a bag of the fossils 20 years ago. They weren’t display quality, so they decided to do something special with them. Only 170 are available, and they’re being sold via raffle.
No notes for this hilarious “Triple-A” interpretation of Minesweeper. The logos at the beginning, the golden diamond telling you exactly where to click, the constant dialogue — it’s excellent.
The cuts would affect 5 percent of the company, or roughly 850 jobs, and may be announced “as early as next week,” Puck reports.
Kotaku’s report is a nuanced portrait of a difficult subject to report on. Staffers filed a petition to unionize in early May, but withdrew it on May 20th.
As part of its reporting, Kotaku interviewed Double Fine CEO Tim Schafer, and it published a transcript of that conversation.
The Altruists focuses on the relationship between former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Anthony Boyle) and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison (Julia Garner). It debuts on November 19th.
Dutch police also arrested another suspected ShinyHunters hacker following last month’s FBI breach.
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Gems will appear on posts and replies “based on the conversation” they create, rather than on views or how many followers someone has, according to a support page.
The layoffs will impact around 270 employees and come as more states and local communities ban Flock’s automated license plate readers, according to a report from Reuters. Last month, Wired reported that Flock began offering employees voluntary buyouts as well.
VW’s successor to the ID.4 has a “completely redesigned exterior,” a range of up to 600 km (372 miles), and either a 58 or 77 kWh battery. The ID.Tiguan will start at €42,695 and could launch as soon as early 2027.
One ChatGPT-written article landed in a local Florida newspaper under a fake “Ervin Hoskins” byline, as reported by The Washington Post:
OpenAI said that Hoskins was among seven bylines that appeared on the series of AI-generated articles, made by users who sent instructions to the chatbot in Persian. The operations appeared to be run by a commercial outfit as a “for-hire influence campaign,” the company said.
OpenAI says it also banned Russian accounts linked to a fake “think tank” in Latin America.
