June 5, 2025 Nevada gaming regulators have launched an investigation into possible Fontainebleau money laundering violations. The accusations come after an audit that raised red flags about the casino’s internal credit practices. The probe, which had not been previously disclosed, came to light Thursday during a routine licensing hearing before the...
The Honey, I Shrunk The Kids-style survival sim is getting what looks like a bigger, more polished sequel Grounded 2 is coming to Xbox and PC via Early Access on July 29 with new systems, bugs, and stories to tell. How is Obsidian releasing three games this year? Well for this one it’s getting help from Deus Ex maker Eidos-Montréal....
What do you do for gifts when the man in your life is hard to shop for? I’ve been trying to answer that question for years. It always seems tougher to find good gift ideas for men than it does for women. Men usually aren’t as happy with some herbal tea and a new skein of yarn for a knitting...
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A wealthy and brave shipowner, Laskarina "Bouboulina" Pinotsis (1771–1825) was a fleet commander who participated in the War of Greek Independence against the Ottoman Empire. Bouboulina (sometimes spelled Boubalina Lascarina) was the daughter of a Greek ship's captain, Stavrianos Pinotsis, from the island of Hydra, and his wife, Skevo. She was born in prison in...
Meta is discussing a multi-billion dollar investment in Scale AI, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the deal value could reportedly exceed $10 billion, making it the largest external AI investment by Facebook’s parent company and one of the largest funding events ever for a private company. Scale AI (whose CEO Alexandr Wang is pictured above) provides data labeling services to...
Small-cap stocks were supposed to benefit from deglobalization and other Trump policies. Source link...
Microsoft and ASUS have announced a new range of ROG Xbox Ally handhelds. This includes the new ROG Xbox Ally X and the ROG Xbox Ally. These devices combine ASUS's hardware with an updated Windows software experience for handhelds. Starting with the hardware part, the new ROG Xbox Ally X will run on the AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor while...
Someone has been reading a little too much Sally Rooney, and that someone is director/writer and star Aylin Tezel, whose ambitious debut feature, Falling Into Place, plays like a finely-honed piece of Rooney-core for the big screen. Not a criticism, per se, but definitely a signifier of the film’s strident views on love, happenstance, shame, trauma, romantic demons, family demons,...
With documentaries exploring very recent events, filmmakers can source all the relevant footage and interviews needed in a short period of time. But conventional wisdom suggests that the longer you spend grappling with your subject, the greater the delivery of your message. That said, the urgency of an ongoing issue can far outweigh the merits of sticking to standard journalistic...
The High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work. In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools like ChatGPT “are not capable of conducting reliable legal research.” “Such tools can produce apparently coherent and plausible responses to...
