The mission has always been to democratize access to information & opportunity for developers everywhere.

But that's not the only way devs around the world are disadvantaged by where they live: access to early-stage project funding is another.

So today, we start fixing that.

Cheeky post RE:FORMAT industry breakfast scran! ✌🏼

Final, and awesome, speaker lineup revealed for Reboot Develop Blue 2024 boutique #gamedev #indiengamedev #gamesindustry conference starting next Monday in #Dubrovnik ! Last Minute All Access Passes are now available at rebootdevelopblue.com/2024

Compression Represents Intelligence Linearly

There is a belief that learning to compress well will lead to intelligence. Recently, language modeling has been shown to be equivalent to compression, which offers a compelling rationale for the success of large language models

UK video game and interactive entertainment sector valued at £7.82 billion in 2023

Console hardware and digital software sales propped up the latest valuation from UK trade body Ukie

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Founder and CEO of SpecialEffect Mick Donegan collects the BAFTA Special Award 👏

#BAFTAGamesAwards

Fascinating and useful games AI talk & panel at London Developer Conference featuring GR member Simon Barratt.

I'm out at London Developer Conference today. I'll be giving a talk in an hour, plus hosting a panel with CheeseTalk, Florence Smith Nicholls🔜A MAZE, Simon Barratt and Matthew Jack.

But in the meantime, just listening to George Osborn on this panel about UK politics and the games industry, and then lunch!

PowerWash Simulator maker FuturLab joins Miniclip Group

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💥 Please share! Those from low-income backgrounds can now apply for FREE tickets to London games event, WASD courtesy of Devolver Digital

📅 25th-27th April, Truman Brewery

Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/35pu32pv

BAFTA Games Limit Break Mentorship The Prince’s Trust Catch22

Eight games professionals to be featured in the 2024 Ensemble Exhibition have been unveiled by the organisers of London Games Festival

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Thank you to the wonderful ITV News Meridian for helping to highlight and celebrate our BAFTA Games award! 🧡💙

AKA how to lose some of your loyal customers who are constantly recommending you! 2% rather than ~10% credit with the only benefit being partial use of credit and instant earning? Hotels.com UK

I have talked to a lot of executives buying Microsoft Copilot for their firms. Not one seems to have considered what it means to suddenly automate the vast majority of management writing without training or reconsidering the meaning of the work.

From my book, Co-Intelligence:

The problem is that LAION should never have had a green tick here:
- They didn't remove the data completely, it's versioned.
- They only tried to remove on one platform, not on all partner sites.
- They didn't even process all their versions of the datasets.

Plus there's even

🎮 We are delighted to officially welcome Nick Poole as our new CEO.

With over two decades of experience in the cultural and creative sectors, Nick's expertise will be invaluable as we continue to champion the UK video game industry ▶️ ow.ly/Un1S50R6jUA

“Fragments of Self”

A still image rendered by a 4-kilobyte executable, released at Revision demoparty 2024.

Download:
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demozoo.org/graphics/34228…

*to the tune of We Didn't Start the Fire*

The xz backdoor is, well, setting a fire under the entire Linux ecosystem... but I'm also so impressed with how it was set up: 2-yr maintainership, oss-fuzz, etc.

...and who knows how long it would've stayed undetected if the injected sshd code ran faster (<600ms)

Highlights:

After years of recommending Wise I’ve hit an issue with using my card in the US and the support is useless.. chip seems to have failed for inserting card, contactless transactions on phone/watch being declined and the support advice is ‘use another card’.