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Jay Peters

Jay Peters

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    Real Silksong news is imminent.

    Get your celebratory clown makeup on for Gamescom’s Opening Night Live show at 2PM ET on Tuesday. While you wait, I invite you to read the chaos that is the Silksong subreddit.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    The NYT’s newest game is all about dominoes.

    Pips is the “first original logic puzzle” from The New York Times, and you can play it right now. Took me one minute and 28 seconds to complete today’s medium difficulty puzzle.

    Teenage Engineering did it again

    Plus, in this week’s Installer: some durable cables, a great new Alien show, a strange RPG, and more.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    GPT-5 is getting “warmer and friendlier.”

    OpenAI says it received feedback that GPT-5 “felt too formal before” and that internal tests of the new changes show “no rise in sycophancy compared to the previous GPT-5 personality.”

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    Jay Peters
    SpaceX, a major federal contractor, “has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002.”