Scott Adams, the controversial cartoonist behind 'Dilbert,' dies at 68

Adams announced in May that he was dying of metastatic prostate cancer. Thousands of newspapers carried his strip satirizing ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions hid trojan in fake PNG file

A stealthy campaign with 19 extensions on the VSCode Marketplace has been active since February, targeting developers with malware hidden inside dependency folders. The malicious activity was ...
Eurogamer

After wrapping up Death Stranding 2, famed video game designer Hideo Kojima is voicing a cartoon mole

Hideo Kojima is certainly a busy guy. Death Stranding 2 might be out the way, but the famed game designer still has his plate full with Xbox horror OD, and beyond that, Metal Gear spiritual successor ...
Cartoon Brew

Computer Animation Before ‘Toy Story’: The Wild, Brilliant Experiments That Built CGI Animation

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...
Hackaday

Restoring The E&L MMD-1 Mini-Micro Designer Single-Board Computer From 1977

Over on YouTube [CuriousMarc] and [TubeTimeUS] team up for a multi-part series E&L MMD-1 Mini-Micro Designer Restoration. The E&L MMD-1 is a microcomputer trainer and breadboard for the Intel 8080. It ...
PC Gamer

Arc Raiders designer says Marathon's reception'was a great A/B test': 'They made decisions that we didn't, and vice versa … we could compare and contrast how some of those ...

FPS Painkiller's creator isn't a fan of its recent co-op reboot: 'I disagreed with every single thing they've done in it' Third Person Shooter Arc Raiders roadmap: All upcoming content and updates ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads To Update Child Sexual Abuse Imagery Policy

Google will be updating the Google Ads Child Sexual Abuse Imagery policy (CSAI) on October 22, 2025. The update will "improve clarity and transparency," according to Google. It seems some of these ...
Polygon

A review of Smurfs, aka ‘Randomized Free-Association of Stuff That Happens in Kids’ Animated Movies’

Here are some things that happen in Smurfs, the 2025 animated movie about those little blue guys called Smurfs. I could go on, but you get the idea. Smurfs is garbage. It’s a randomized assortment of ...
GeekWire

Coding is dead: UW computer science program rethinks curriculum for the AI era

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, which connects to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, on a sunny afternoon in June 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The ...
PC Gamer

'Players don't explore': former Grand Theft Auto 6 and Red Dead Online designer lays out the perils of 'open world fatigue'

"They're wondering, 'Okay, how far away is the next thing? I really gotta run all the way across the map?'" said Cameron Williams of Absurd Ventures. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
Reuters

Synopsys lays out strategy for AI 'agents' to design computer chips

SANTA CLARA, California, March 19 (Reuters) - Synopsys (SNPS.O), opens new tab, which makes software used to design semiconductors, on Wednesday introduced a technology it said will pave the way ...
Forbes

Efficient, Effective, Integrated: It’s Time for Generative AI’s CAD Revolution

Computer Aided Design (CAD), which since the late 1980s has been the bedrock of how manufacturers design, test, and make their products. GenAI’s ability to create CAD models from simple text marks a ...