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Accounting for patches will also be interesting, especially for newer games that are still working their way towards a decent state.

He gave them 48 hours from March 21, then extended the deadline, then extended it again, and now that it's almost up, Iran is supposed to believe that he really means it this time?

There has been speculation that he's going to retire after the Supreme Court's current term so Trump can appoint a replacement before midterms. One supposed sign is that Alito has a memoire coming out just after the Court's next term begins, and the justices usually do their book releases between terms so they can promote them without court getting in the way.

The site's British, maybe this is the King's English?

Republicans might be vampires with how little reflection they've got.

In February 2024, Disney invested $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, as part of a multi-year project to build a new games and entertainment universe.

An outright acquisition of Epic would be a second attempt at the same ambition, only this time with a company Disney has already paid $1.5 billion to understand.

The article's headline is wrong or misleading. Disney isn't looking at buying Epic for $1.5b, that's what they've already invested in Epic. There is no mention of a proposed acquisition price in the article.

The term virtue signaling refers to an annoying moral peacocking that has less to do with politics than with self-gratification. It’s the dinner guest who feels compelled to comment on the climate impact of every course. It’s the guy who annoys his colleagues during meetings with constant bits of civic guidance.

But Donald Trump and his administration have embraced the Mirror Universe version of virtue signaling. They’ve pioneered the practice of “vice signaling,” or saying insulting or odious things both as attention-seeking behavior and as a way of showcasing their supposedly transgressive political views. They aim to demonstrate strength by being willing to appall other people, much as schoolyard bullies insult their classmates to gain the approval of other bullies. It’s the same peacocking, but with uglier feathers.

I did not expect Star Trek's Mirror Universe to come up in an Atlantic article about politics.

I think a better example of generative AI is Geordi trying to prompt the holodeck into making a new Sherlock Holmes story in "Elementary, Dear Data". And he powered up Moriarty by messing up a prompt.

Here's a CBC article with context

The premier made the comments a day after federal Defence Minister David McGuinty said Canada is considering sending vessels and cyber expertise to help secure the Strait of Hormuz if a ceasefire is reached.

Kinew said Canada has prided itself in promoting human rights across the world and that taking steps to end the war would be acting according to those values.

There's more than one oil price:

Oil prices also rose sharply, with U.S. crude topping $100 a barrel and global Brent crude at approximately $114 at around 4 p.m. ET.

Brent crude went above $100 early, but US crude just got there.

Whatever they may have gotten passed in the Senate, calling it a win before it's made it through the House is premature.

Apparently it was just Gmail:

Reuters was ​not able to ⁠independently authenticate the Patel emails, but the personal Gmail address that Handala claims to have broken into ​matches the address linked to Patel in previous ​data breaches ⁠preserved by the dark web intelligence firm District 4 Labs. Alphabet-owned Google, which runs Gmail, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.