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A few years ago, I had the chance to ask Alex Ward, the co-founder of Criterion Games, about the driving model for the Burnout series. I had heard from a friend that beneath the arcadey immediacy lay physics of rare nuance and beauty. I was reverent in my questioning, even if I was slightly clueless - is it a driving model or a handling model or a physics model? - and Ward, thankfully, was having none of it.
As I throw open the windows on my first day in Nivalis, breathing in the city's neon-streaked air and watching the smog roil across the blackened sky, my government-mandated AI automata informs me the district is in lockdown and a serial killer's on the loose.
TL;DR: Get a year of Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot and 1TB of cloud storage for $69.99 (reg. $99.99). Microsoft 365 is one of the best ways to get the core Microsoft productivity apps like Word and Excel, but the $99.99 yearly price tag is a hard lift. If you want a cheaper option, right now you can get a Microsoft 365 Personal 1-Year Subscription on sale for $69.99, and it even includes Copilot AI. Copilot is the newest addition to the Microsoft 365 suite.
TL;DR: Turn complex data into digestible visuals with this Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 lifetime license for Windows, on sale now for just $49.97 (MSRP $579.99) through tonight at 11:59 PM. When you have a project with a lot of moving parts, sometimes the easiest way to tackle it is to get a good visual. Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 makes that possible, giving you the tools to turn complex data, processes, and workflows into clear, professional diagrams.
XPSemu, a native PlayStation 5 port of the open-source xemu emulator, has reached its first public Alpha 1 build, running Halo 2 at 36 to 50 fps in gameplay with a 60 fps patch on jailbroken consoles.
Archestra released OpenAPPA, an open-source security engine designed to stop data exfiltration caused by prompt injection or model hallucination. The team reports zero successful attacks when running security benchmarks Bench-Corp (20 multi-step enterprise workflows) and AgentThreatBench, versus 10% for Claude Code’s auto mode and 31% for Microsoft FIDES. By Bruno Couriol
Sony is reportedly in talks to acquire a big-screen adaptation of Electronic Arts' Battlefield, with Christopher McQuarrie attached to write, direct and produce, and Michael B. Jordan on board to produce.
Android Studio added Defender exclusions to my PC, and a game I uninstalled left another. None of them had a good reason to stay once I checked them. Continue reading at TweakTown
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi has responded to fans asking for a full disc version of the game, saying he "did [his] best" to push for physical media as the industry edges towards an all-digital future.
Archestra released OpenAPPA, an open-source security engine designed to stop data exfiltration caused by prompt injection or model hallucination. The team reports zero successful attacks when running security benchmarks Bench-Corp (20 multi-step enterprise workflows) and AgentThreatBench, versus 10% for Claude Code’s auto mode and 31% for Microsoft FIDES. By Bruno Couriol
XPSemu, a native PlayStation 5 port of the open-source xemu emulator, has reached its first public Alpha 1 build, running Halo 2 at 36 to 50 fps in gameplay with a 60 fps patch on jailbroken consoles.
TL;DR: Get a year of Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot and 1TB of cloud storage for $69.99 (reg. $99.99). Microsoft 365 is one of the best ways to get the core Microsoft productivity apps like Word and Excel, but the $99.99 yearly price tag is a hard lift. If you want a cheaper option, right now you can get a Microsoft 365 Personal 1-Year Subscription on sale for $69.99, and it even includes Copilot AI. Copilot is the newest addition to the Microsoft 365 suite.
TL;DR: Turn complex data into digestible visuals with this Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 lifetime license for Windows, on sale now for just $49.97 (MSRP $579.99) through tonight at 11:59 PM. When you have a project with a lot of moving parts, sometimes the easiest way to tackle it is to get a good visual. Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 makes that possible, giving you the tools to turn complex data, processes, and workflows into clear, professional diagrams.
As I throw open the windows on my first day in Nivalis, breathing in the city's neon-streaked air and watching the smog roil across the blackened sky, my government-mandated AI automata informs me the district is in lockdown and a serial killer's on the loose.
