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The Verge Tech

The Witcher 4 developers target a 2028 release

CD Projekt Red is aiming to launch The Witcher 4 sometime in 2028, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says in a new video. CD Projekt Red has been working on its next mainline Witcher title for years and has shown videos of it, but now the studio is providing a target release window for when the game might actually come out. There's more new Witcher to come before The Witcher 4, though. At this week's Gamescom event, CD Projekt Red will be showing off its upcoming Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past

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Mozilla Hacks

Intent to Ship: JPEG XL

It isn’t often that new image formats land in browsers. In the early 2000s we had JPEG, GIF, and PNG. The 2010s gave us WebP, which was a modest step up from JPEG. But the 2020s have given us two new image formats that are a big step up from previous formats: AVIF and JPEG […] The post Intent to Ship: JPEG XL appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

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Martin Fowler

Fragments: August 24

I was listening to Ezra Klein’s interview with Helen Toner about the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face and the subsequent discovery that there were swarms of agents inside OpenAI doing unsanctioned activities. One of the points Klein made was that at no point did any of these (thousands of?) agents ever try to check in with a human [Klein:] So these message boards — you have however many A.I. agents posting hundreds of thousands of messages. At no point do they say: Hey, researchers, programmer

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AWS Architecture Blog

How a global payment processor preserved AWS RAM shares and Lake Formation permissions during an AWS Organizations migration

When AWS accounts move between organizations, organization-bound AWS RAM resource shares break and control-plane access is lost. Learn how a global payment processor used temporary bridge shares to preserve AWS Lake Formation permissions across a 382-account AWS Organizations migration, then restored the original shares as the durable source of truth.

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