Rogue chatbots resorting to blackmail and pondering consciousness? It has to be clickbait, right? Actually, no. One of the leading organisations in LLMs or large language models, Anthropic, has published a safety report covering its latest model, Claude Opus 4, and one of the more eye-popping subsections is titled, "Opportunistic blackmail" and explains how the model performs blackmail in "84% of rollouts." Yikes.Before we unplug and run for the hills...
Image 1 of 2(Image credit: Future)Image 2 of 2(Image credit: Future)Noctua's iconic chocolate and vanilla swirl colourway is about as notable as its fans. If you want a high-performing fan in your PC case, there's a good chance Noctua is the one providing it. Now, you can get even more Noctua as a case has just been announced. It's a collaboration with Antec on its gorgeous Flux Pro case, but...
Marvel Studios has chosen to delay its next two high-stakes Avengers movies by seven months apiece. Avengers: Doomsday moves from May 1 to December 18, 2026, while Avengers: Secret Wars shifts from May 27, 2027 to December 17 of that year. Insiders told Deadline that the delay is just to accommodate the “gargantuan vision” of two films that will be “among the biggest ever made.” (Or maybe Marvel is scared...
With the release of Elden Ring spinoff Nightreign imminent and the announcement of an official film adaptation from Alex Garland (Civil War) and A24, it’s time to return to the Lands Between. But if you’ve bashed your head against some of the new areas’ hardest bosses too many times to count and need a bit of a break, why not check out a movie with similar vibes to the game?...
It may seem strange for a developer that created a galaxy filled with trillions of planets to follow it up with a game where there's only one. But No Man's Sky developer Hello Games is doing just that: Light No Fire, its next open world survival adventure, will be contained to a single planet. Thing is, that planet is big. Real big.No Man's Sky was huge in a lot of...
Solve your daily Wordle game in a flash with today's answer, all typed up and ready to help you win. Or you could take it nice and slow if that all sounds like a bit much, keeping our May 23 (1434) hint to one side, ready the instant you need a push. Either way, you've got Friday's game sorted.Wow, that was fast. Weirdly fast. My first row wasn't anything outstanding...
When Games Workshop first released sci-fi miniatures for Warhammer 40,000 in the 1980s the line included space dwarfs, also called squats, with a hairy biker aesthetic—like if the forgemasters of trad fantasy evolved into greasy spaceship mechanics. Never as popular as space elves or space orks, by the second edition of Warhammer 40,000 they were written out of the setting as a casualty of the tyranid invasion, and Warhammer players...
Marvel Studios took a breather in 2024, releasing only one major film (Deadpool & Wolverine) and a couple of live-action TV series (Agatha All Along, Echo). But the Marvel Cinematic Universe is set to make a thunderous return in 2025. A whopping nine MCU feature films and TV series are slated to arrive in movie theaters and on Disney Plus this year. Believe it or not, that’s the calm before...
The long-awaited, long-teased live-action movie adaptation of Elden Ring is coming, and it’s got a big name attached to it: Alex Garland, the writer-director behind Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Civil War will helm the film. Garland is teaming up with production company A24, which is also backing the Death Stranding movie, for Elden Ring. Publisher Bandai Namco and A24 confirmed their Elden Ring movie is in the works on Thursday....
The rumors about an Elden Ring movie seemed too specific not to be true, and sure enough, Bandai Namco confirmed today that it's working with A24 on a live-action Elden Ring movie.The film will be written and directed by Alex Garland, best known for Civil War, Annihilation, and Ex Machina. He also wrote the screenplays for 28 Days Later and Dredd.George RR Martin, who had a hand in Elden Ring's...