Ben Affleck reveals seeing OpenAI made him call Matt Damon and warn “we’re finished,” before realizing its researchers knew little about how movies are made “And then there’s this company OpenAI, and they have this text-to-image thing. And as I was telling you before, I’ve learned to take advantage of the opportunities my life has afforded, which is essentially, probably inappropriately, I find often I’m able to just pick up the phone and say, ‘Hi, I’m Ben Affleck. Can I just come in and see what you’re doing?’" "People are like, ‘Sure.’ It still baffles me, but nonetheless, I went in and looked at what they were doing." "At first I kind of had a heart attack, I called Matt Damon. I was like, ‘Dude, we have to do as many movies in the next few years because we’re finished.’" "I went back, looked at it, and then started saying, ‘Well, hold on a second. Why isn’t this working in the way that I think it should work?’" "And it was a very strange thing to realize that I was dealing with researchers and scientists who were so incredibly smart in this one way and had so little information about video and how it’s created, or how it’s defined, and how it’s captioned, and how it needs to be organized." "And so, having learned the lessons of the previous failed entrepreneurship and having raised money for Artists Equity already, I gambled on this notion that in order to do this in an ethical way, and in a way that could take this technology and actually make it work hand in glove with artists in this community where there are very fixed, long-standing relationships around likeness and so forth, we had to create our own data set.”

Respawn and DICE are collaborating on a 'new project' at EA, which Bloomberg reports it will be a new Star Wars Battlefront title Source: @jasonschreier

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

‼️ PHP UPDATE: 4chan has gone read-only and Something Awful has shut its forums as American sites brace for the PHP patch. 4chan says it is "temporarily read-only while we await an urgent PHP security update." Something Awful says the flaw "allows for the kind of hacking you see in movies (but in real life)." Bookmarking service Pinboard, game publisher Choice of Games, history site Damn Interesting and the explain xkcd wiki are offline too, as is art site Fur Affinity. DeviantArt is also down "for maintenance" but has not said why. PHP's fix is due at 14:00 UTC, 10am in New York.

this exists it's called a train and it's a million times better and more efficient

Bro Said Real Devs Don’t Use PHP, Then Got Hit With a $90,000 Reality Check

Palworld Global Popularity Poll 2026 results are in! 🎉 Sekhmet takes 1st place out of over 280 Pals, and Zoe was the most popular character! Where did your favourite rank?! Also, Palworld's next update [Side by Side] is coming Winter 2026! Check out the full rankings▼

VRChat内でQuake III、DOOM、Minecraft、Red Alert、Command & Conquer、Micropolisなどを動かせるコンピューター。 RISC-Vベースの32ビットコンピューターが、256個の仮想コアを備え、VRChatのピクセルシェーダーを使ってあなたのGPU上で動作します！ ShaderEmu ⠀|⠀misha_m⠀|⠀337 МB vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_4… #VRChat #VRChat_world紹介 #VRChatワールド紹介

I haven't done a prompt for a while, but I might as well do one for #ThePodSpooktober Candles. (I know that it doesn't fit because it is Halloween but oh well)

🚨🇧🇷 $470,000 shipment of RTX 5090 graphics cards goes missing at Brazilian airport Brazilian technology distributor Oderço says two pallets of Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs disappeared after reportedly arriving at São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport. ⠀ The company valued the shipment at R$2.5 million, approximately $470,000, based on its acquisition cost. Oderço said it has sought information about the shipment but received no official explanation. The distributor described the incident as unprecedented in its 38-year history. ⠀ The number of missing graphics cards remains unknown. No arrival date, tracking information or other shipment records have been made public. Authorities have not confirmed that the shipment was stolen, and the circumstances of its disappearance remain unclear.