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Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
The Wall Street Journal reports that Polymarket paid at least 10 influencers over the past several months to post videos in which they pretended to win hundreds of thousands on fake wagers. The Dow Jones, which publishes the Journal, currently has a data partnership with Polymarket.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Valve confirms FSR 4 for Steam Machine, AMD releases FSR 4.1 for RDNA 3 GPUs
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
Screenshots posted on X by YouTuber and XR analyst Brad Lynch appear to show that Valve is already testing support for FSR 4.1 upscaling in the Proton Experimental build for SteamOS. According to a SteamDB entry dated June 22, AMD has added FSR 4.1.1 INT8 DLL files to Steam, suggesting...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The founder of Eidos-Montréal says the game industry has been taken over by spreadsheets and lost its soul
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
D'Astous in a recent interview said that game development has changed significantly. The modern gaming business somewhat resembles the cyberpunk setting depicted in the Deus Ex series, with a handful of mega-corporations pulling the strings and controlling most of the industry's money. Unfortunately, C-suites are no longer interested in creativity.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Valve's Steam Machine is here: starts at $1,049 for 512GB or $1,349 for the 2TB version
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
Under the hood, the Steam Machine packs a semi-custom AMD platform: a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 4 CPU clocked up to 4.86GHz, an RDNA 3 GPU with 28 compute units and 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM running at up to 2.45GHz within a 110W envelope, 16GB of DDR5 system RAM, and either...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Anthropic's Mythos AI reportedly cracked NSA classified systems in hours, that would explain the ban
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
"Not in weeks, but in hours"Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network in Age of Empires II using goats
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
Adrian de Wynter is an AI scientist at Microsoft and a researcher at the University of York. In addition to studying the fundamental challenges of AI and related technologies, he is also a longtime gamer who has been playing Age of Empires II since 1999. In a recent study, de...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
How Pixar recovered Toy Story 2 after a Unix command deleted nearly the entire film in 1998
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
The studio's animation pipeline at the time ran across a network of Unix and Linux machines holding hundreds of thousands of production files. Artists and technical staff had broad access to both personal workspaces and shared production directories. The setup made collaboration easier, but meant a routine cleanup command could...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The FDA just cleared a maggot-based wound treatment from a Singapore startup
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared Medifly Maggots, a prescription wound-care product from Singapore-based Cuprina, for use in maggot debridement therapy.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
AMD resolves HandBrake scaling issues on Threadripper, gains reach 215%
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
AMD has identified and fixed two scaling bottlenecks in HandBrake that were limiting performance on high-core-count CPUs. Starting with version 1.11, these improvements significantly boost transcoding speeds on Ryzen Threadripper and Threadripper Pro processors, with gains of up to 215% reported in some workloads.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Before it was known as Adobe Photoshop, what was the original name of the software in 1987?
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
Photoshop started as a student's side project.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »