Daily Tech News 27 May 2025

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang blasted US limits on the export of advanced AI chips to China, complaining that the rules are bad because they work. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Unlike Nvidia's consumer graphics cards.

• Minecraft in CSS. (Benjamin Aster)
  
  Well, 0.001% of Minecraft. But it works without any JavaScript.
  
  
  
• Copilot isn't always bad. It's only almost always bad. (Deplet.ing)
  
  Not specific to the Microsoft product, but equally applicable to any organisation that tries to "help" an expert by assigning them a companion idiot.
  
  
  
• GitLab had a bug that let you bypass security with a hidden comment. (Legit Security)
  
  Oh. Oops.
  
  
  
• Vibe coding company Lovable says that Anthropic's Claude 4 - yes, the same one that calls your mother if you say something rude - reduces its rate of syntax errors by 25%. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If your code generation tool is generating a non-zero number of syntax errors you need to go straight into the volcano.
  
  
  
• Google claims that users find ads in AI search results helpful. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  What?
  
  
  
• OpenAI plans to produce an interesting ChatGPT product by 2026. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Well, that will be a change.
  
  
  
• The CIA secretly ran a Star Wars fan site. (404 Media) (archive site)
  
  Okay.
  
  
  
• The "deprofessionalization of video games" was on full display at PAX East, or, what anyone thing of the Political Officers? (Game Developer)
  
  Recent high-budget computer games - so-called AAA titles - have pretty uniformly crashed and burned. Concord cost Sony $400 million to develop, and the company gave it a mercy killing less than two weeks after it was released.
  
  Meanwhile games from small studios like Palworld and Expedition 33 are making money hand-over-fist.
  
  This article discusses where things might go if small, competent, tightly-focused teams can deliver amazing products while big, bloated, incredibly inefficient corporations fail every time, and asks the question: What about the useless morons?

  I want to be clear here - no one I spoke with at PAX East should feel "obligated" to give anyone a job. They're small teams making the most of limited resources, and it's the acceleration in game development technology that's made it possible. What feels wrong is how few people seem to benefit from this status quo.

  Get good.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:35 AM

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