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Star Wars has a lot of characters, and fans love to point like Leo whenever their Glup Shitto shows up. Andor has had a few randomly familiar faces pop in here and there, and since this season is going right into Rogue One, we’ll be seeing more of ’em—just don’t go expecting everyone to be played by their original actor. In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Tony Gilroy discussed how the real world and some “budgetary issues” required some adjusting to the show’s season
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ASCII lookup utility in Ada When working with old digital synthesizers from the 1980s and 1990s (and some newer ones too) I often have the need to quickly look up the identity of a byte that seems like an ASCII character code. For example, in MIDI System Exclusive format files there are often names of sound patches or "voices". When writing programs to process these formats it is handy to do a quick check, because even (or especially?) after nearly 40 years at this thing I still haven't memoriz
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Last night, The Last of Us returned and viewers finally got to meet Abby, a crucial character in The Last of Us Part II video game who’s poised to be just as important in the HBO series. She’s played in the show by Kaitlyn Dever (No One Will Save You, Booksmart, Dopesick), who despite being just 28 has over a decade of credits to her name—but she’s never played a character as notorious as Abby, something she was well aware of when she took the role. No spoilers as to why Abby’s spoken of in suc
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After weeks of speculation, Warner Bros. Discovery has officially announced the first cast members who will appear in its upcoming Harry Potter TV adaptation. The casting confirmations, focused around some of the most notably adult characters from the Harry Potter novels, are one of the most reassuring signs of life for the wizarding world series since it was first announced two years ago. Hogwarts’ headmaster Albus Dumbledore will be portrayed by six-time Emmy award winner John Lithgow (The Cr
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In The Last of Us Part II, it takes a long time before players understand just who Abby is. A new character introduced as both an antagonist and protagonist, Abby is locked in a violent game of revenge with Ellie, but her reasoning and history don’t become clear until around midway through the game, when players actually take control of her as a character. When the team behind the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us started thinking about introducing her for the show’s second season, they realized
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Note: This post is a companion piece to my article The origins of DEL (0x7F) and its Legacy in Amiga ASCII art. That article is all about the character DEL, what it is, how it was used, and why it even has a visual representation, but with a focus on Commodore's Amiga computers. Whereas AmigaOS's Topaz font renders DEL with diagonal lines, IBM's PC renders it... as a house. This bonus article is about that. This article wouldn't have happened without the great help and insights of Michael Walden
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Note: This post is a companion piece to my article The origins of DEL (0x7F) and its Legacy in Amiga ASCII art. That article is all about the character DEL, what it is, how it was used, and why it even has a visual representation, but with a focus on Commodore's Amiga computers. Whereas AmigaOS's Topaz font renders DEL with diagonal lines, IBM's PC renders it... as a house. This bonus article is about that. This article wouldn't have happened without the great help and insights of Michael Walden
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What happens when AI doesn’t just generate content, but embodies it? AI has already mastered the ability to produce realistic photos, videos, and voices, passing the visual and auditory Turing Test. The next big leap is in AI avatars: combining a face with a voice to create a talking character. Can’t you just generate an image of a face, animate it, and add a voiceover? Not quite. The challenge isn’t just nailing the lip sync — it’s making facial expressions and body language move in tandem. It
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If The Fantastic Four: First Steps were the first Fantastic Four movie, it might look a lot different. As it stands, though, it’s actually the fourth movie based on Marvel’s first family, and according to its filmmakers, that made a big impact. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in a very extensive piece, the film’s director Matt Shakman spoke about how the decision to make the main villain Galactus (played by Ralph Ineson in a suit) was, in part, a result of the previous films not doing that. “D
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Following an announcement last week that Sphere Entertainment was creating an immersive version of The Wizard of Oz for its unique Las Vegas venue, we now have more details on how companies like Google and Magnopus are using AI to enhance the 86-year-old film to fill the Sphere’s massive 160,000-square-foot semi-spherical screen. But a collabora
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The second season of The Last of Us is going to make people mad, sad, and uncomfortable. It’s exciting, bold, tense, and in some moments, damn near transcendent. It’s not scared to take big swings and somehow remains hugely entertaining while doing so. Based on the hit PlayStation game by Naughty Dog, The Last of Us returns April 13 with the first entry in the seven-episode second season. We’ve seen all seven already, and while this review will not spoil anything, we will say this: get ready. S
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Two senators have sent a letter to multiple AI companion companies requesting information about their safety practices, including details about internal safety assessments and timelines of the implementation of guardrails, as CNN reported yesterday. The action follows the filing of two high-profile child welfare lawsuits against the Google-tied chatbot startup Character.AI, which has been accused in court filings by three families of facilitating the sexual and emotional abuse of minor users, a
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Fans of the long-running Predator series were delighted by the news that Dan Trachtenberg—who made 2022’s Prey, which brought a fresh jolt of energy to the franchise—would be continuing to steer the ship with not one, but two new movies. One is live-action adventure thriller Predator: Badlands, and the other is an until-now mysterious animated feature. Today at CinemaCon’s Disney presentation unfortunately didn’t reveal anything about the animated film, but we’ve now got more to go on with Pred
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1. At the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Didion and her daughter, Quintana, were looking at a painting by Georgia O’Keeffe. The work, Sky Above Clouds IV, hung across a landing, so they had a gulf of air between themselves and the flat white shapes that span a long wall at the museum. It is a giant painting, practically a mural, as wide as the abstract Barnett Newman canvases that you can walk along and let fill the whole of your vision. But this work floats at a distance, celestially, and you
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Appear as any character in your next video call With a single reference photo, you can become your favorite anime character, meme, celebrity, or even your own unique creation. Runs locally on your device for complete privacy. Works on Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, Twitch, Discord, and other video apps.
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Character.AI, the controversial chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits concerning the welfare of minor users, just rolled out a new "Parental Insights" feature that the company claims will give parents a deeper glimpse into how their kids are using the chatbot platform. In a blog post on Tuesday, the youth-beloved Character.AI characterized the feature as an "initial step" towards developing robust safety and parental control tools. Let's hope so: this tool appears to be absurdly ea
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Watching the new movie Screamboat, I expected to see Steamboat Willie kill a bunch of people. I didn’t expect those people to be dressed like Disney characters, drop Disney park references, and say movie lines like “Be our guest,” “Let it go,” or “Dead men tell no tales.” But at its heart, the upcoming public domain horror film is both a dumb, funny, gory, horror film as well as a love letter to all things Disney, filled with references big and small, from the first frame to the last. This week
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It’s a good time to be a fan of the Avatar franchise, between Nickelodeon’s all-new upcoming animated series Avatar: Seven Havens and Netflix’s (unrelated but adjacent) live-action series returning for a second and third season. The third part of the current Avatar media triangle is Nick’s upcoming trilogy of animated feature films, with the exciting news today that Steven Yeun (Invincible, Mickey 17) is joining its voice cast. Before you connect too many dots—because as fans well know, Yeun pr
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Kevin Bacon’s The Bondsman hits Prime Video next week. While we wait to watch our favorite dancing rebel play a bondsman brought back from the dead to chase escaped demons into hell—that premise is killer, and the trailer is very promising—we’re looking back at our favorite degrees of Bacon in horror, sci-fi, and fantasy movies across his long career to date. Friday the 13th (1980) A lot of actors get their start in slasher movies, but only a select few can say they got gruesome on-screen deat
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George Romero's first horror film is an easy recommendation. A group of survivors take refuge in a house while members of the undead swarm outside. The influential flick is often regarded as the first modern zombie movie, and while it may not offer Freddy Krueger-level frights, you'll be drawn in by the characters at the center of its story. You're going to want to leave the door open for this one (but in the case of an actual apocalypse, keep it very, very shut).
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Marvel just announced its first X-Men movie. Sort of. Along with the elaborate cast announcement for Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel revealed that several stars from the original Fox X-Men series are returning, presumably as their original characters. There’s Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Alan Cumming, and Kelsey Grammar, to start. The cast is still coming and we’ll add more names when they’re revealed. But we think it’s safe to assume they’re playing Professor X,
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is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Chatbot service Character.AI is adding a new ‘Parental Insights’ feature, which lets teens send a weekly report of their chatbot usage to a parents’ email address. As outlined in an announcement from the company, this report includes the daily average time spent across web and mobile, the characters that a user most frequently inter
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Following a string of lawsuits and criticism for allegedly failing to protect its underage users from harm, Character AI, the startup that lets users create different AI characters and talk to them over calls and texts, said on Tuesday that it is rolling out a new set of parental supervision tools to increase safety for its teenaged users. Character AI will now give guardians and parents a summary of their teens’ activity on the app via a weekly email. The email will supposedly show the average
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Saga Origins, the publishing arm of the Saga Protocol dedicated to empowering game-makers, debuted AI-powered gaming experiences as part of its Sidekick showcase at GDC 2025. Through newly-announced partnerships with Super Company, OV Entertainment, Didimo and Northern Lights Entertainment, Saga unveiled revolutionary AI-driven characters, dynamic storytelling and in-game economies that evolve based on the needs of players. “Super Company, OV Entertainment, Didimo and Northern Lights Entertain
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Message Thanks, Fiendish! To explain the source (http://www.gammon.com.au/GPascal/source/) a bit, a lot of work was put into fitting it into the available memory. One approach I used was to tokenise things like error messages. Message tokens This was done by putting bytes with the high-order bit set inside messages, and then expanding them out at display time. This is a table I extracted of the various tokens, in hex, (from PAS1.ASM lines 1754+): B0 = P-codes B1 = full B2 = Constant
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Content Warning: this story discusses sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and other disturbing topics. Partway through our conversation, Megan Garcia pauses to take a call. She exchanges a few words with the caller and hangs up. In a soft voice, she explains that the call was from school; it was about one of her two younger children, now both at the same K-12 academy that her firstborn, Sewell Setzer III, had attended since childhood. "Sewell's been going to that school since
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ZDNET Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol is a handy method for signing in to and controlling remote PCs and servers, especially for hybrid workers. But RDP is also an inviting target for cybercriminals looking to gain access to an organization's network and other critical resources. That's why using a strong and complex password for remote desktop accounts is vital. Unfortunately, this is an area where many people and companies fall short. Also: Hackers stole this engineer's 1Password databas
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During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Snow White star Rachel Zegler chatted about the upcoming live-action Disney Princess feature film. Zegler described how her scenes with the Seven Dwarfs were essentially shot three different times to get the layers needed to composite the scenes with her performance and, added later, the CG characterization of the Dwarfs. “You basically do three different versions of every scene,” she explained. “You do one with humans in the space so you’re havi
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Google is currently fighting two separate lawsuits that make ugly allegations about its AI efforts. Together, the suits allege that Google has provided immense support to a startup called Character.AI, which recklessly deployed chatbots that sexually and emotionally abused underage users, resulting in horrible outcomes ranging from self-harm to the suicide of a 14-year-old. They also argue that Google used Character.AI as an arms-length testing ground where it could quietly research the impact
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Before she started writing video games, Emma Kidwell loved Twilight fanfiction. Her “bad, self-insert” stories found a home on DeviantArt, an online community where people posted fan art, original work, and so much more. “The low barrier of entry made it very accessible,” Kidwell says. Her writing turned into role-playing in forums, and Twilight fandom gave way to a love of video games like Mass Effect. Today, Kidwell is a writer for Firaxis Games and a rising star in the world of game narrativ
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