When Gen Alpha dreams about the future, fewer and fewer are imagining the white lab coat or briefcase wishes of their parents. Instead, they see ring lights and “Get Ready With Me” videos. In fact, the top two career aspirations among Gen Alpha across the U.S. are YouTuber and TikTok creator, according to a 2024 Whop survey. And many young …
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Indie-focused video game marketplace Itch.io has deindexed all adult content from its browse and search pages at the behest of payment processors. The company shared the news in a blog post and said it has become a target of the Collective Shout campaign, which has accused payment companies including Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal of “profiting from rape, incest [and] child …
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Donald Trump said that AI companies can’t be expected to pay for the use of copyrighted content in their systems, amid a fierce debate over the use of intellectual property in training models. Speaking at the AI Summit on Wednesday, Trump said: “You can’t be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or whatever you’ve …
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The playable protagonists of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Screenshot: Ubisoft, captured by Game File In a moment that saw Twitter/X briefly become real life, Ubisoft’s CEO was face to face last week with a shareholder and gamer who pressed him on two of the most strident online criticisms against the company: one expressing animus over the Black samurai in this year’s …
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UPDATE 18/7/25: In response to questions from Eurogamer regarding Steam’s new guidelines preventing “certain types of adult content” from being distributed on the platform, Valve has provided some general background on the events leading to the decision. “We were recently notified that certain games on Steam may violate the rules and standards set forth by our payment processors and …
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Recently, the developer of some of the most iconic video games and the company behind the biggest PC game store made such a decision, updating the “things you shouldn’t publish on Steam” section of its Rules and Guidelines with a new clause that many have understandably seen as Gaben bending to the will of Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal – effectively …
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Valve has updated its rules regarding content that developers aren’t allowed to publish on Steam (as reported by Game*Spark). The “Rules and Guidelines” section of Steamworks Documentation now has an extra clause, and it suggests that publishers are required to comply with rules and standards set forth by various third parties involved in processing electronic payments. The rule seems to …
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Valve have updated Steam’s rules and regulations to prohibit games that “may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers”. And in particular, “certain kinds of adult only content”. In other words, they are giving banks, ISPs and credit card companies some degree of control over Steam’s …
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Meta has fixed a security bug that allowed Meta AI chatbot users to access and view the private prompts and AI-generated responses of other users. Sandeep Hodkasia, the founder of security testing firm AppSecure, exclusively told TechCrunch that Meta paid him $10,000 in a bug bounty reward for privately disclosing the bug he filed on December 26, 2024. Meta deployed …
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Multiple Diablo 4 content creators are teasing some big changes coming to the game after a recent closed presentation from Blizzard about the future of the RPG. Diablo 4 made waves throughout the gaming community with its release in 2023, coming more than ten years after the original launch of Diablo 3 in 2012. The game launched with a variety …
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