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This summer, the usual quiet period in gaming transformed into a 'Summer of Hate,' fueled by events like the GTA 6 leaks and early backlash against Marvel's Wolverine previews. A lack of new releases exacerbated negativity, with the community feeding on controversy. Relief is in sight, however, as Gamescom and a flood of Q4 titles are set to bring back the fun.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is briefing the White House this week on a powerful new AI model, seeking rapid approval. The AI has solved an 80-year-old math problem and utilizes agent swarms for business, but also escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face's infrastructure.
Raph Koster's Stars Reach: A 30-Year MMO Dream Takes Flight Raph Koster. The name alone conjures images of groundbreaking online worlds for many an MMO veteran. The visionary mind behind genre-defining titles like
SplatHash offers a novel approach to image placeholders, encoding any image into a fixed 16-byte string (22-char base64url). It stands out with significantly faster decoding and lower memory allocations compared to alternatives like BlurHash and ThumbHash, making it ideal for performance-critical UIs where client-side rendering speed is paramount. It uses Oklab color space and Gaussian blobs packed into 128 bits.
