After years of constant update failures, Microslop is now trying to be slightly less annoying:

- You can now pause updates even in "Out of the box experience" (setting up Windows 11 but only the recent versions without local accounts)

- The pause will be set for up to one month but can be further extended as many times as you need

- The computer even with the update downloaded and ready to be installed can now be rebooted without the installation

(Windows Blog)

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Perfectly balanced 😁

Our bot defence was heavily adjusted and a few more people were released from their bans. But the majority of bans are absolutely fair and so we have reached the point of equilibrium. From now on the number of banned bots will surpass the number of followers.

Kind reminder that the slogan of PlayStation a few years ago was PLAY HAS NO LIMITS (and it kinda is still present in their branding)

Now it apparently has limits...

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GoogleyGareth (Googleygareth):
They added dev commentary to Half Life 2, which includes the creation of the missing material.

Via Juliano

They may evolve into humans eventually

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Sandbox (stylized as S&box), a UGC platform from the creators of Garry's Mode, has mixed reviews on Steam:

The pioneers aren't happy that a lot of stuff in Sandbox is made with AI. But the content is user generated, so it's hard to treat it as the failure of the platform itself. But the poor optimization is indeed a valid concern.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/590830/sbox/
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By chris_santosa_art

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Holy crap, I missed this drama completely and apparently all the software to control fan speeds is using a system hack that (if active) sets your whole PC at risk...

WinRing0 is a driver that all monitoring apps and fan tuning apps were using to get deep access to sensors.

The problem? You definitely need this driver to run such apps for handhelds and laptops. On some models without this access the fans will spin at 100% all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_O5JtBqODA
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Sadly, Blender just signed up with Anthropic (claude). The sponsorship got such a bad feedback that Blender updated the article with special "listening to your feedback" statement.

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In addition, Claude team just announced Blender integration for vibe-modelling...

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Nacon publishing house was unable to find anyone who can quickly acquire studio Spiders. It was placed on sale a month ago.

Now the company behind Technomancer, Greedfall, Bound by Flame, Of Orcs and Men, and Steelrising, is going to be fully closed. The DLCs are now going to be completed and released by Nacon themselves (no, apparently, they will not due to lack of funding).

Spiders existed for over 18 years and was making soulful AA RPGs. If you missed their games completely, they were similar to Piranha Bytes but from France.

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