We missed the weekend and thought very seriously about making a weekend breakdown (we actually did compile a list for a weekend roundup), but at the end of the day, we realized that the news cycle continues, and various different outlets will parrot their competitors. Chances are if you've missed a story the first time around, you'll find someone who posts or writes about it the next day.

Here are the headlines from today that we found most entertaining.

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Our Thoughts

Valve

For whatever reason, this article is now a 404, but the Internet Archive managed to snag a copy. This is really nothing new... Programs like that do require kernel-level access. As long as you know what that piece of software if doing, then there is no issue. We have a feeling that the article may have been taken down because of the sheer paranoia it portrays. Most likely this utility from Valve has a transparent enough codebase that aspiring sleuths could probably determine whether or not the software is acting like malware.

Pikachu

Personally, we thought this was absolutely hilarious. Don't get us wrong, we do eat McDonald's on occasion, but it usually ends with a trip to the bathroom within 30-45 minutes of consuming their food. So the entire nation of Japan collectively making the statement that Pikachu trading cards are more valuable than McDonald's food was entertaining to us.

UK's OSA

This saga will most likely continue for the foreseeable future. Larger companies will continue to test the restrictions of this new law... While we're not a fan of it because we feel like politicians are poor technologists, this law definitely has the stink of Silicon Valley elite tied to it. Cisco sold networking and surveillance equipment to China long before facial recognition was integrated into our passports and Real IDs. It's unfortunate that the UK gets to be a guinea pig for tech that clearly has not matured to the point of sensible legislation.

New Game: Thousand Hells

This looks interesting to me. We've been following interactive fiction for a while, and there simply just isn't much like this that combines a nice UI with more traditional text adventure element. We're looking forward to this game as a nice anti-AAA/mainstream title.

Battlefield 6

Obviously we shared news about the new Battlefield last week, but it's still worth talking about. Personally, we are excited to check out the game after reviews hit. Never buy day one, it just encourages the executives to be underhanded and sneaky.

A Dragon Age Remaster Trilogy

Former BioWare employee and Dragon Age series producer, Mike Darrah, did an interview with MrMattyPlays on Youtube, and there have been a plethora of different articles all reporting on various things that he said. One of the most repeated facts was with regard to BioWare pitching a DA Trilogy Remaster in the same vein as the Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Unfortunately EA passed on the projected, and we all know that it would practically print money, especially if there were a way the import your character that didn't involve using the website to make story selections after you've already made them in-game.

Marvel Rivals

This article gets a spot on the list simply for use of the term “gooner games” 🤣. As a news article, using that term is next level shit. In all honesty though, we've started playing Rivals again, and this is only one of the articles that has come out of Guangyun Chen's interview with the Rivals Assembled Youtube channel.

Reddit Woes

The title for this article is pure sensationalism. Reddit is by far one of the largest sources of information for AI training, but only because it was previously all out in the open to be scraped. It's a public forum after all. Despite cries that Reddit are somehow being unfavorable to the Internet Archive, I think these steps are probably necessary to protect their users, even if anonymity exists. With a large enough dataset, anonymity is impossible.

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