Emily has been streaming every second of her life for three years and counting. Every birthday, holiday and sleepless night has been broadcast to the world via Twitch to thousands of subscribers. @Drew Harwell mastodon.social from [@WashPost]( ) asks her (during her livestream) what it's like to be a 24/7 streamer. https://flip.it/9B5A3O #Twitch #Streaming #Entertainment #Tech #Digital #SocialMedia
Hobby-hacking to find cheats for games and share them for a price is a lucrative business, offering players an unfair advantage. The director and head of anti-cheat at Riot Games talks to @TechCrunch about the key strategies the company employs to fight cheaters and cheat developers, from using Vanguard at the kernel level to infiltrating cheat communities. #Gaming #RiotGames #Vanguard #OnlineSecurity #OnlinePrivacy
A startup founder told a Palantir alumni Slack group that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government employees. Eight people reacted with clown face emojis, three reacted with a custom emoji of a man licking a boot. Those were some of the tamer responses. [@WIRED]( ) has more: #Tech #Politics #AI #DOGE
A security lapse at Raw, a dating app that asks users to upload a daily selfie, publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users. [@Techcrunch]( ) has more: #Tech #CyberSecurity #Apps #Technology
Reddy and Leeloo posing on #Caturday.
“GTA 5 came out 6 months after my son was born. He's now in high school.” How the internet is dealing with the GTA delay. Via [@Kotaku]( ) #GTAIV #Gaming #Ttech #Technology
Rockstar Games is delaying the release of Grand Theft Auto VI until May 2026, saying developers "need this extra time to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve." Via [@Engadget]( ). #RockstarGames #GTA #GTAVI #Tech #Technology #VideoGames
Vox Media has sold [@polygon]( ), its gaming and entertainment site, to Valnet, owner of ScreenRant, GameRant and Android Police, [@theverge]( ) reports. Some staffers will stay with the publication while others have been laid off. At the second link, find a story from [@TheWrap]( ) about Valnet's questionable treatment of writers. “Everyone is underpaid, overworked and really pretty — extremely — exploited,” a former Collider contributor said. #Media #MediaIndustry #Journalism #GamesJournalism #Tech #Technology #VoxMedia #Valnet
In its Delaware case related to its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft has dropped a law firm that settled with the Trump administration in favor of one that is fighting it. Via [@newyorktimes]( ) (subscription may be required). #Microsoft #Trump #Activision #SimpsonThacher #JennerandBlock #Tech #Technology
Apple has been ordered to pay more than $700 million to the Texas-based cellular technology company Optis in a landmark UK patent ruling. Read more at [@macrumors]( ). #Apple #Optis #IP #Tech #Technology #Patent