Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures - Dexerto #copyrights

EU rejects Stop Killing Games’ key demand

In its official response on June 16, the Commission said it “cannot propose a legal obligation” requiring publishers to keep games playable after they stop being sold commercially.

Instead, the Commission said it will begin discussions by the end of 2026 with the video game industry and consumer representatives to draft an industry code of conduct for managing games at the end of their life cycle.

The Commission’s full communication said a legal obligation to keep games playable, as requested by the initiative, “would not be proportionate.” It cited concerns about intellectual property rights, confidential business information, publisher costs, and potential cybersecurity or safety risks once games are no longer supported.

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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news | ScienceDaily #psychology

Your brain was built to spot threats, not process the world’s bad news 24/7—and that may be why so many people are hitting their limit.

Not just books - how renting a sewing machine from the library can improve democracy #culture #society

Finland has more than 700 libraries for a population of 5.6 million, offering everything from podcast studios and 3D printing to tennis rackets and swimming pool passes.

According to Vänttinen, the most borrowed items after books in Helsinki libraries are spaces: rooms that can be pre-booked, free of charge, to meet, study, hold political discussions or make music. Among portable items, board games and console games top the list.

Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million - Startup Fortune #economy

Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, completing its full ownership of the robotics company. The deal closes as Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot enters commercial deployment and the broader humanoid race intensifies against Tesla Optimus and Figure AI. SoftBank exits to redeploy capital toward its $41 billion OpenAI bet and AI infrastructure.

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school | Reuters #education #technology

Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday.

Facing a broad decline in education test scores, the government in 2024 banned smartphones from schools and has ​given teachers back more powers to enforce discipline in the ​classroom. Using AI increases the risk that young children skip important ⁠steps in their education, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a press ​conference on Friday. "The most important thing in school is that our children ​learn to read, write and do mathematics," Stoere said, adding that the new standards will be imposed from the new school year beginning in late August.

Pupils from first ​through seventh grade, aged 6 to 13, should as a general ​rule not be using AI, while those in lower secondary school, aged 14 to ‌16, can ⁠cautiously adopt tools under teachers' supervision, the government said.

In upper secondary education, from ages 17 to 19, students should learn to use AI appropriately so that they are prepared for further education and work, it added.

Google Chrome update will fully close the door on ad blockers #internet #copyrights

The move to Manifest V3 has been in the works for years at this point, with one of the main points of criticism from users being that the change would break most ad blockers due to the new permissions structure and Google’s focus on privacy. The impacts of that were felt broadly in 2024 and, now, Google is closing the book on Manifest V2 and, in turn, popular ad blockers such as uBlock Origin.

10,000 repositories on GitHub distribute Trojan malware #software #security

10,000 repositories on GitHub distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern <...>

Loreline - Tools for writing interactive fiction, video game dialogues and branching narratives #software

Tools for writing interactive fiction, video game dialogues and branching narratives.

A Robot is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want it Running on Claude or Grok? — OpenRouter Blog #ai

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