A hot potato: A new survey has illustrated Europe's growing reluctance to rely on US technology. It found that 45% of the 3,000 people surveyed in the UK, France, and Germany would actively avoid companies that store their data with US-based firms.

Proton's survey discovered that four out of five European consumers now consider the use of European technology a factor when deciding whether

Fake BS: Prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi have exploded in popularity, even as both platforms contend with regulatory pressure and fraud allegations. While Kalshi means to dodge comparisons to illegal sports betting, Polymarket now faces accusations that it paid a network of social media creators to stage fake winning bets on camera.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Polymarket paid at least 10 influencers over the past several months to post videos in

Looking ahead: Valve has confirmed that its Steam Machine will support AMD's FSR 4 upscaling technology. In an interview with Digital Foundry, SteamOS developer Pierre-Loup Griffais said there is no official release timeline yet, but hinted that it could roll out "on the same schedule (as the Windows release)."

Screenshots posted on X by YouTuber and XR analyst Brad Lynch appear to show that Valve is already testing

Deep Cuts: Stéphane D'Astous founded Eidos-Montréal in 2007 as part of the Eidos Interactive brand. The studio went on to work on several blockbuster franchises, including Deus Ex and Tomb Raider, before becoming part of Embracer Group in 2022. Now, D'Astous believes the video game industry has lost much of its creative spark, as financial considerations and profit

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Highly anticipated: After months of delays and growing anxiety about memory prices, Valve has officially confirmed pricing, configurations, and a June 30 launch date for its Steam Machine. The living-room gaming box starts at $1,049 for a 512GB model and climbs to $1,349 for the 2TB version – a significant premium over the sub

Why it matters: Ten days ago, Anthropic was happy to announce its most advanced AI model was going public. Today, almost nobody can use it. On June 12, the Trump administration directed the company to restrict Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to US citizens only – unable to verify nationality at scale, Anthropic's only option was a full global shutdown, cutting off allies, researchers, and its own foreign

Goated: Large language models and chatbots can understand natural language and generate human-like responses, but there is no actual humanity behind them. According to a Microsoft researcher working on AI, the idea that LLMs possess human-like attributes is fundamentally flawed. And he has goats to prove his point.

Adrian de Wynter is an AI scientist at Microsoft and a researcher at the University of York. In addition to studying the

Oops: Twenty-eight years ago, Pixar nearly lost 90% of Toy Story 2's digital files – not because a system crashed, but because someone ran a routine Unix command that engineers had been using for years without a second thought. The command /bin/rm -r -f instructs the system to recursively delete everything under a directory without asking for confirmation. At Pixar in 1998