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Valve's compatibility layer through which Windows games, including Epic Store titles, run on Linux.
Settlement talks between Apple and the DOJ reportedly center on iPhone interoperability, according to The Information. PayPal and Epic Games are among developers worried the terms will be too light, and no deal exists yet.
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Reviewers who lived with Valve's headset for a week or three praise the 440-gram fit and log crashes, power loss and a mostly unrated game library. The price assumes you already bought the PC.
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Valve's Timur Kristóf moved AMD's GCN 1.0/1.1 Radeons onto the AMDGPU kernel driver, opening RADV Vulkan and a roughly 30% speedup on decade-old cards. AMD has invested little in these cards for years, so their kernel upkeep now depends almost entirely on one engineer on Valve's payroll.
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Dartmouth and Lancaster researchers tie 88 non-consensual deepfake sites to five mainstream web providers led by Cloudflare, Google and Namecheap. The sites surfaced in keyword searches and every provider already bans illegal use, so the gap the study points to is enforcement.
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Valve opened Steam Frame reservations at $1,059, and its engineers say standalone play runs the same SteamOS as the Deck on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, with Proton and PC streaming absorbing the compatibility work.
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Valve's new headset starts at $1,059 for 256GB and ships without a charger. The first batch is rationed by a randomised draw that only Steam accounts with a previous purchase can enter.
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WIRED's guide to private AI use reports that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google sell no-retention terms only to paid enterprise and developer accounts, and that Anthropic's Mythos-class models are excluded from them.
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Dario Amodei's essay asks frontier labs to pace capability gains and asks for antitrust room to coordinate on safety. Europe's challengers, holding 11% of global AI venture funding, say the leaders wrote it for themselves.
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The tool is free and needs no log-in, which makes a pre-prompt scrub adoptable in seconds and impossible to evidence, so the real decision is where the step sits in the workflow rather than whether you announce it.
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OpenAI's assurances about local processing describe what the vendor does with your texts. They say nothing about who agreed to supply them.
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The fake Zoom call had mismatched lips and audio that did not line up. It did not matter: the victim had already signed a confidentiality agreement that ruled out asking anyone.
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The encrypted-email company released the latest version of its chatbot Lumo in late June. Its CEO says he is no more anti-AI than anti-internet, and the interview does not say where inference runs.
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An Epic developer told a Discord AMA the native Linux launcher lands after the store overhaul preview. A separate security engineering role aimed at Linux anti-cheat is the harder signal.
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