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Rockstar workers push to unionize ahead of GTA VI’s launch

Workers at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar Games have submitted a request for their union, the IWGB Game Workers Union, to be voluntarily recognized, according to a press release. The request follows Rockstar firing more than 30 staffers last year in a move accused of being "union busting." According to the release, IWGB members have been "actively" organizing since 2019 and "claim they now represent a significant proportion of the workforce across each of the studio's sites in Edinburgh

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Google’s killing off Tenor GIF searches in other apps

The GIF-picking interfaces in some of your favorite online platforms might look different going forward, as Google prepares to shut down the Tenor API today. While the Tenor website, along with its searchable GIF library, will remain live, platforms like X, Discord, Bluesky, and WhatsApp that previously integrated the API are now having to migrate to alternative GIF picker services. Google acquired the Tenor GIF platform in 2018. Both its website and API allow users to search for GIFs using keyw

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DZone

Fine-Tuning LLMs at Scale With Databricks MLflow and Spark

Why Fine-Tune on Databricks? General-purpose LLMs like Llama 3, Mistral, or Falcon are impressive out of the box — but they underperform on domain-specific tasks: medical coding, legal clause extraction, internal support ticket classification, and financial report summarization. Fine-tuning adapts a pre-trained model's weights to your domain using your proprietary labeled data. Doing this at scale introduces real engineering challenges:

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.NET Blog

MCP Beyond the Chat Window: Build Diagnostics in CI

A practical tour of the Model Context Protocol tools for .NET build diagnostics - the full Binlog MCP toolset, how those tools run inside a GitHub Actions workflow, and what the evaluation data says about the efficiency gains. The post MCP Beyond the Chat Window: Build Diagnostics in CI appeared first on .NET Blog.

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