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Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: The biggest announcements and trailers

The Geoff Keighley-hosted Opening Night Live event at Gamescom just wrapped up. Arguably the biggest announcement was the closer: a remastered version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt from CD Projekt Red that’s launching in September. But the show also featured a bunch of trailers for others games, including Gears of War: E-Day, Capcom’s upcoming Mega Man sidescroller, and Final Fantasy VII Revelation. The event took place ahead of a potentially very big fall for the games industry. Grand Theft Auto

Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ trims your Reels clips for you

Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights. The feature, called First Draft, is rolling out to Instagram's iPhone app and provides a "starting point" that you can build upon with other edits, according to an announcement on Tuesday. An example shared by Instagram shows a user selecting multiple clips for a reel and then tapping the "First Draft" button. From there, Instagram analyzes the clips - each of which is more th

Nitter project received cease and desist

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Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

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Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize

Designing Rayfall: One Expression Language for a Columnar Database

Columnar engines naturally organize computation around vectors to make effective use of single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instructions. This makes vectors first-class citizens in such engines. The difficult design question appears when an engine's internal application programming interface (API) must be exposed to users: where should programming happen? A native C API is sufficient for embedding, and many engines stop there. Building a complete analytical database, however, requires a ful

Ensuring Safety in the Generative AI Ecosystem: Protecting Users from Non-Consensual Intimate Content

Posted by Ron Aquino, Senior Director, Trust & Safety, Chrome, Android, and Play At Google Play, user safety and developer success go hand in hand. We continue to see growth in apps with AI generated features, and indeed, adding generative AI into your apps is a great way to unlock incredible creative possibilities. However, AI features also bring new safety challenges - such as the rise of AI-facilitated generation of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII). Google Play’s policies prohibit the