The world, in perspective.

Dozens of data centres are proposed for residential areas. A group of twenty-somethings are harnessing social media in an attempt to get them scrapped.

Brisbane City Council said the illustration was temporary after criticism emerged, but the local representative cast doubt on that claim.

Executive coach Melody Wilding shares four ways to address the extra work landing on your plate without the conversation becoming confrontational.

"It means that our kind of genre that we play in is popular."

"Houd je hond altijd aan de leiband tijdens wandelingen in de natuur, ook als je hond goed opgevoed is." Dat is de oproep die het opvangcentrum Wilde Dieren in Nood Brasschaat/Kapellen verspreidt, nadat een jonge reebok is doodgebeten door een loslopende hond. "Voor ons als opvangcentrum is dit bijzonder pijnlijk", klinkt het.

<p>Fast-food outlets at two prestigious Dolomites resorts are Italy’s first, with legal action threatened</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/nov/09/polands-krakow-attack-ukraine-russia-france-germany-europe-latest-news">Europe live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Skiers on the slopes of two of Italy’s most prestigious res

Selbst Skeptiker sähen inzwischen, dass KI die Softwareentwicklung beschleunigt, sagt GitHubs Martin Woodward im Interview. Das hat unerwartete Folgen.

<p>Sverigedemokraterna kan spela åt två håll, tror Carl Eos, konservativa tankesmedjan Oikos.</p>

Artists say brands are embracing traditional art forms and making a point to show off the human labor behind their campaigns.

The new stage will use LED assets picked up from former Pixomondo stages in Vancouver and the Sony VFX firm's LED stage Dark Slope acquired from Pinewood Studios Toronto.

As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the field’s biggest libraries.

Valve currently has a review backlog on Steam, as the mandatory QA check every game must pass before launch on the platform has reportedly seen wait times balloon from a few days to over two weeks. The problem appears to be a massive number of builds, thought to be AI slop, that fail basic technical checks and are sent back for re-reviews, gumming up the wor

Matt Nelson built an internet empire based on jokes he wrote at 18. Now he is trying to stem the tide of fake dogs taking over dog lovers’ feeds.

Die Indie-Plattform itch.io hat mehrere Terabyte an KI-generierten Inhalten gelöscht. KI-Projekte lassen sich jetzt auch in der Suche ausfiltern.

Itch.io has also expanded its AI filters, enabling users to exclude games made with different types of generative AI.

Tuesday's midterm elections follow record spending on AI-generated political ads.

Indie game storefront Itch.io has announced it removed "a couple terabytes of AI slop" and has begun taking steps to combat the deluge of AI-created games appearing on the platform. "Just because you can upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized AI-generated models doesn't mean you should upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized AI-generated models," Itch wrote

"The number of downloads and purchases has *not* doubled."

<p>Chair of National Gallery’s First Nations advisory group says the technology is undermining artists’ agency and the authenticity of their work</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/aust

Anthropic updates Claude to 'steer it away' from letting users clone other games.

Protestos do movimento No Kings pedem que eleitores votem em antecipado nas eleições de meio de mandato nos EUA Jose Luis Magana/AP Com a aproximação das eleições de meio de mandato nos Estados Unidos, marcadas para 3 de novembro, a inteligência artificial ganha cada vez mais espaço na propaganda eleitoral. Ao mesmo tempo, aumenta a preocupação com o uso da

The slides were triggered by heavy rain on Tuesday, with debris spilling into a field on the family’s property.

UMG CEO Lucian Grainge discussed the proliferation of AI music during the company's earnings call, calling for DSPs to pay out less for AI slop tracks than to genuine artists.

Steam Next Fest is being flooded with thousands of low-effort games, while developers are becoming reluctant to share their work for fear of seeing it quickly cloned.

Steam Next Fest has come and gone, and one of the big criticisms of the semi-regular showcase for game demos--aside from there being several thousand of them --was that there was simply too much AI slop floating to the top. Valve has responded to the feedback, and for now, its solution to avoiding hastily vibe-coded game demos is to simply be patient and wai

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The October Edition of Steam Next Fest was, unsurprisingly, a complete mess . What was once a fun week-long festival of early game demos has become a dumping ground for vibe-coded AI slop, making it increasingly hard to find and wishlist good games. And if you weren't bothered by playing a game demo that was hastily cobbled together, the sheer volume--around

CCTV footage shows the calf tumbling down the slope as its mother and other members of the herd trumpet loudly and desperately trying to rescue it

Ten years ago, this list would have shocked most PC gamers.

The tech titan's anti-woke Grok-fueled take on 'The Odyssey' gets called "zombie-like."

"Indie studios produced 20 of the 21 extra breakout launches in the 2026 cohort," reads one industry analysis.

<p>MUZAFFARABAD: Seven people, including a father and his two sons, were killed when a passenger jeep plunged down a mountain slope on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad on Sunday, officials said.</p> <p>The jeep had set off from Nakka Shakkar Pattiyan village for Seri Darra village towards the northeast of Muzaffarabad and had travelled barely three kilometres w

<p>MUZAFFARABAD: Seven people, including a father and his two sons, were killed when a passenger jeep plunged down a mountain slope on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad on Sunday, officials said.</p> <p>The jeep had set off from Nakka Shakkar Pattiyan village for Seri Darra village towards the northeast of Muzaffarabad and had travelled barely three kilometres w

In Zoetermeer heeft een grote brand gewoed in een autosloperij. Omwonenden hebben via een NL Alert het advies gekregen om ramen en deuren dicht te houden. Er komt veel rook vrij en doordat de wind is gedraaid, hangt de rook nu over een groter gebied. Vier mensen zijn naar het ziekenhuis gebracht omdat ze rook hebben ingeademd, zegt de brandweer. Voor de bran

De grote brand in een autosloperij in Zoetermeer is onder controle. Het vuur is nog niet uit, maar breidt zich ook niet verder uit. Er werd een NL-Alert verstuurd vanwege de hoeveelheid rook, maar die is inmiddels afgenomen.

De grote brand in een autosloperij aan de Bleiswijkseweg in Zoetermeer is onder controle. Het vuur is nog niet uit, maar breidt zich ook niet verder uit. Er werd een NL-Alert verstuurd vanwege de hoeveelheid rook, maar die is inmiddels afgenomen.

Friendslop is everywhere these days. Take one glance at the most recent Steam Next Fest and you’ll be inundated with not only mountains of obnoxious AI slop , but countless games where you and a group of friends can get up to wacky hijinks with cartoonish avatars, over the top physics, and hilarious use of proximity chat. If you’re a developer and your take

Etsy announced new restrictions on AI-generated content on its platform, saying it threatens the integrity of sellers’ work and leaves buyers exposed to fraud.

Etsy is announcing stricter rules about how AI can be used in listings to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform. In a post, the company says that "many active buyers say they can't tell which items involve AI-generated content" and that sellers are "concerned about your work appearing alongside items that use […]

EXCLUSIVE: Script platform Stage 32 has launched an official marketplace to partly help combat an influx of AI-written projects. The Stage 32 Marketplace, which launched yesterday, allows executives to discover film and TV projects that have been fully vetted via an “evaluation process” conducted by humans. Only scripts submitted across Stage 32’s 15-year ex

Steam Next Fest is upon us, and fans agree it's the AI-sloppiest one yet.&nbsp; Next Fest, Steam's occasional multi-day promotion in which developers release demos of their games so players can get a preview of what's to come, has increasingly become unwieldy due to the sheer number of demos to play, but the advent of AI models and vibe-coding has exacerbate

Or maybe not.

England begin their wandering winter with a sloppy loss to Pakistan in the one-day tri-series in Rawalpindi.

Before you come at me, let me just say I love every game on this list and "friendslop" here is no insult. Instead, I'm using it affectionately. It's an increasingly useful tongue-in-cheek term to describe a particular genreless genre: games you can pick up on the cheap, jump into without much preamble or complex tutorials, and really get bang for your buck w