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Tech
A mixed bag this issue covering everything from the slow death of Russia’s tech scene, a visual history of Android, GPT-4 in role-play games in role-play games in classified comment leaks. Erm, yes, you read that right.
How Russia killed its tech industry →
Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family’s belongings, canceled the lease on his apartment in Moscow, withdrew his kids from kindergarten, and started a new life outside of Russia.
My kids and I just played D&D with ChatGPT4 as the DM →
My two oldest kids Taylor Anne and Liam, are 26 and 23 (respectively). My youngest son Tenzin is 15 years old. All of us are together at my house in Mexico City this week, and the discussion topic generating the most heat is OpenAI and GPT4.
Leaked Classified Documents Also Include Roleplaying Game Character Stats →
Over the past month, classified Pentagon documents have circulated on 4chan, Telegram, and various Discord servers. The documents contain daily intelligence briefings, sensitive information about Ukrainian military positions, and a handwritten character sheet for a table-top roleplaying game.
Android versions: A living history from 1.0 to 12 →
What a long, strange trip it's been. From its inaugural release to today, Android has transformed visually, conceptually and functionally — time and time again. Google's mobile operating system may have started out scrappy, but holy moly, has it ever evolved.
And finally…
The Most Spoken Languages In The World, Ranked →
There are over 7,000 languages in use across the globe, but for various reasons (like, for example, colonialism), some are spoken a lot more around the world than others.
Silicon Valley Tank(s)
We'll fight them on the breaches
Developer experience with Jetpack and Mac for Linux and Windows
Babylon.js, artificial everything, and customer care?
Artificial terrestrial
Open games, open AI, and the state of open con with Amanda Brock
What happens when the living and the previously dead fall in love?
Welcome to twenty twenty wee hee
AI AI
Raytracing Llamas in the Metaverse - Interviews from Build Stuff
Kin Lane of Postman, announcearama, and tech loses its shine
IT Arena 2022 - Ukrainian tech braves the war
A legendary merge
Dotan Horovits of Logz.io, watch your heroes and the life of Clippy
Tiny CSS and Moore's magic Mac
Matt Butcher of Fermyon, GTA, Tauri, and is Veganism really that popular?
Apache Pulsar with Patrick McFadin
All-in-one friendly observability with groundcover
SBOMs and software security with Scribe
Live play - Battle of the Bards by Dustin Winter
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