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• ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'

  Cross-geposted von: feddit.org/post/31996415 In a remarkably strange statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921, California’s Stop Killing Games-endorsed bill to compel publishers to provide ways to keep playing discontinued games), a representative of the Entertainment Software Association declared private servers for the likes of Minecraft and Call of Duty “illegal,” adding that, so far as the ESA is concerned, “we consider it piracy.”...

• If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’

  Let me tell you about a Microsoft AI researcher […] who recently spent quite a lot of time considering whether the legendary Microsoft real time strategy game Age of Empires II is conscious, and built a basic neural network within the video game using digital goats to prove his point. […] De Wynter built an LLM within AoEII using goats. “The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily, and that sometimes the claims we make with regards to LLM capabilities are t...

• The European Commission's answer to StopKillingGames: "[A]t this stage [the Commission] cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially."

  Cross posted from feddit.org/post/31333476 Existing EU consumer law already provides for important safeguards protecting the economic interests of consumers. Video game providers must inform consumers about the duration and the conditions for terminating the contract before the consumers signs up for the video game. […] However, to address players’ concerns, the Commission has committed to taking several steps. First, it will initiate an exchange with the video game industry and consumer...

• Arch Linux AUR Malware Campaign Hits Multiple User-Contributed Packages

  Arch Linux’s AUR is experiencing a malware incident involving user-contributed packages with malicious commits that attempt to download npm-based payloads during installation. (…) Arch users should not update AUR packages without review. Examine PKGBUILD diffs, check any new .install files, and be cautious if updates introduce npm commands or dependencies unrelated to the software. Users who recently updated affected AUR packages should review package history, examine executed suspicious ins...

• Adam Conover: Here's Proof EVERYONE hates A.I. (Video)

• Flathub adopts new AI policy, banning vibe-coded apps

  Existing apps are grandfathered in and there are other exceptions, but in general LLM generated code is not permitted on the Linux app store anymore.

• Hammers Without Handles

  I wanted to take a moment and talk about Linux UX because, let’s face it… it sucks. Actually, it’s worse than that. Much of Linux’s UX is technically correct and that makes it objectively wrong. No. I don’t want Linux to be more Windows-like. But I do want the most common Linux desktops to behave in a way that PC-literate folks can wrap their mind around — and do so from minute zero.

• Chat Control 1.0: Civil Society Mobilizes Against Extending Mass Surveillance – EU Parliament Decision Imminent

• It's Time to Take Down your Smart Cameras 😬