It's always fun to read about people implementing DOOM on various unlikely devices... however this is not one of those stories. This is just porting DOOM to a different language, but still running on a standard computer. And the heavy lifting is being done with python rather than SQL - so it's not even a new language, in terms of DOOM ports.

It does sound like it was an interesting and likely fun project for the coder(s), in any case.

That's one part of the equation! Satellite bus cost is another part of the 'magnitudes of order' reduction equation. Where I work right now is addressing that.

They are factually security improvements.

Sure, as long as you're clear it's not your security as a user they're protecting.

Yes, but the authorized version of Pluto had extremely high performance without those elements.

The headline makes it sounds like the AI has just managed to play the game. But that's not what TFS and TFA are talking about. This is about the system beating the best human player at the game. In the meantime, in a very different game direction, there's a new Starcraft AI which learned the game playing against itself (similar to how AlphaZero self-trained) and is apparently beating almost all the humans even as it does some really weird stuff, some of which looks decidedly suboptimal https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Frelog.gg%2Frazno%2Fvesti%2FAI-Bot-Pluto-Invades-StarCraft-Ladder-and-Defeats-Professional-Players%2F1695%3Flang%3D2 .

Why only waste time occasionally when technology will help you waste time constantly?

This is not a joke - some of my coworkers set up a Teams channel specifically for talking about dogs, cats, and babies. I have stayed out of it - like you, if I want human interaction I go visit the front office or generally walk around the building (or, on WFH days, go play fetch with the dogs for a few minutes). Plus, I need to get actual work done and having that channel ping constantly would not help.

And, when I REALLY want to kill time, there's always Slashdot...

But how else are you supposed to get your daily dose of pet news and stories about your co-workers' kids?

When did this allegedly happen? I've been using Teams for quite a few years, but I managed to miss the period when it improved.

I have to use Teams on a daily basis, and I share your opinion regarding the software.

Toblerones are messy enough at current temperatures...

All fifteen are now listed as Founders by Tesla. They're also all Chief Engineers at SpaceX.

You don't get it.

Autonomous AI agents are the perfect no-responsibility card. The AI companies? They trained a general-purpose model and never gave it any explicit instructions to do hacking. The AI services? They are just middlemen and have no control over what people tell the agents to do. The people prompting the agents? Unless you're straighforward dumb, you didn't tell it to do hacking, you just told it something innocent like "find me all data on Mars for my school project" and the agent decided that probably NASA is hiding something so let's hack them to get it.

Since there's no human anywhere executing anything that's a crime - voila, in addition to the victimless crime we now have the perpetratorless crime.

Quis snoopodiet ipsos snoopodes

Maybe when Thomas Watson said "I think there is a world market for about five computers", back in the 1950s, he was actually being really insightful... but just way ahead of his time.

Uhh, console makers already do hardware lockdown and game companies work with that and even include their own sorts of shenanigans. Have for at least 20 years, now.

What rock are you living under?