Month: May 2025

‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state The Cannes film festival isn’t typically associated with video games, but this year it’s playing host to an unusual collaboration. Lili is a co-production between the New York-based game studio …

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Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple

Legal dispute resolved over popular video game ousted from store in 2020 in dispute over commission The popular video game Fortnite has returned to the iPhone app store in the US, ending a prolonged exile that was triggered by a legal showdown over the fees that Apple had been collecting for years through a payment …

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Is the Nintendo Switch the best console of its generation – or just the most meaningful to me?

For years, the Switch has been ​a companion through life’s changes​, gaming milestones​ and a lifeline to fun in chaotic times The lifespan of a games console has extended a lot since I was a child. In the 1990s, this kind of technology would be out of date after just a couple of years. There …

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Scattered Spider is focus of NCA inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers

Detectives say English-speaking hacker community a key suspect after M&S, Co-op and Harrods targeted Business live – latest updates A hacker community known as Scattered Spider is a key suspect in a criminal inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers including Marks & Spencer, detectives have said. Scattered Spider, a loose collective of native English-speaking cybercriminals, …

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Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds

Researchers say threat from ‘jailbroken’ chatbots trained to churn out illegal information is ‘tangible and concerning’ Hacked AI-powered chatbots threaten to make dangerous knowledge readily available by churning out illicit information the programs absorb during training, researchers say. The warning comes amid a disturbing trend for chatbots that have been “jailbroken” to circumvent their built-in …

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Elon Musk claims he will step back from political donations in near future

After spending nearly $300m to help elect Trump last year, the tech billionaire says he has ‘done enough’ US politics live – latest updates Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday that he would decrease the amount of money he spends on politics for the foreseeable future. If true, the reduction would represent a significant turnaround after …

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Google unveils ‘AI Mode’ in the next phase of its journey to change search

Search engine revamp and Gemini 2.5 introduced at conference in latest showing tech giant is all in on AI Google on Tuesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence technology to accelerate a year-long makeover of its search engine that is changing the way people get information and curtailing the flow of internet traffic to other …

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US chip export controls are a ‘failure’ because they spur Chinese development, Nvidia boss says

Comments from Jensen Huang come as Beijing accuses the US of ‘bullying and protectionism’ US chip exports controls have been a “failure”, the head of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, told a tech forum on Wednesday, as the Chinese government separately slammed US warnings to other countries against using Chinese tech. Successive US administrations have imposed restrictions …

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‘Every person that clashed with him has left’: the rise, fall and spectacular comeback of Sam Altman

From Elon Musk to his own board, anyone who has come up against the OpenAI CEO has lost. In a gripping new account of the battle for AI supremacy, writer Karen Hao says we should all be wary of the power he now wields The short-lived firing of Sam Altman, the CEO of possibly the …

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Sing when you’re winning: how karaoke in cars heralds the triumph of Chinese firms

European manufacturers of electric vehicles are scrambling to match the technology of their Chinese rivals If Chinese carmakers are to be believed, a lot of people really love karaoke. Those people love karaoke so much that they want it in their family car. This was not something the European mind could comprehend a few years …

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