Hypebeast

'Fortnite' To Release AI-Powered NPCs

Fortnite is introducing new AI-powered NPCs capable of real-time, generative conversations Creators can customize these NPCs’ personalities and voices using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) In ...
Polygon

Where Winds Meet players are getting free loot by fooling AI NPCs

It's well known at this point that AI programs have a tendency to "glaze" users, agreeing with a user's perspective regardless of its legitimacy, a phenomenon that has been linked to the recent rise ...
PCGamesN

Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method'

Everstone Studio can create such an expansive world and give it away to players for free, look at where the money's coming from. The publishing power of NetEase is well-versed in live-service ...
Bleeping Computer

W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin vulnerable to PHP command injection

A critical flaw in the W3 Total Cache (W3TC) WordPress plugin can be exploited to run PHP commands on the server by posting a comment that contains a malicious payload. The vulnerability, tracked as ...
PC Gamer

Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet is full of AI chatbot NPCs, and people are doing all the standard obscene stuff to them: 'I made him think that my character was pregnant with his child'

Where Winds Meet, the wuxia-themed soulslite multiplayer ARPG, is more than a little popular with around 190,000 concurrent players on Steam as I write this. It's also got more than a little of ...
New York Post

Facebook makes major change to Like and Comment buttons

Facebook doesn’t like this feature anymore. Meta is doing away with two of Facebook’s external social plugins at the beginning of next year, By February 10, 2026, the social media platform will ...
TechRepublic

Meta to Retire Its Iconic ‘Like’ and ‘Comment’ Plugins from Websites by February 2026

Meta to Retire Its Iconic ‘Like’ and ‘Comment’ Plugins from Websites by February 2026 Your email has been sent The internet’s most recognizable thumbs-up is about to disappear from everywhere but ...
Mashable

RIP: external 'Like' buttons. Facebook sunsets a relic of the old internet.

Facebook is killing off two external social plugins, the FB Like button and the FB Comment button. Credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages It's the end of a major ...
Gameranx

Fortnite: All NPC Locations | Chapter 6 Season 4

Fortnite has moved on to the Shock ‘N Awesome season and the island is suffering a bug infestation. It’s all hands on deck, including that of the NPCs, and here are the locations of every member of ...
GamesRadar+

Skyrim NPCs are only as complex as they are thanks to a literal "napkin drawing" that Todd Howard doodled, reveals ex-Bethesda dev: "It's actually a napkin story"

The Elder Scrolls' Radiant AI technology evolved from a sketch When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Radiant AI, the Bethesda Game ...
Futurism

Elon Musk Gets Rattled by Hard Questions He Can’t Answer, Calls Interviewer an “NPC” While Giving One-Word NPC-Like Responses Himself

Billionaire Elon Musk made a bafflingly childish appearance this week at Bloomberg‘s Qatar Economic Forum. While being asked some hard — but entirely fair — questions by UK broadcaster Mishal Husain, ...