Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has been cast in the animated movie Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, according to Variety. The film is the fourth installment in the series.
Blevins, who recently made a cameo in Ryan Reynolds’ video game-themed movie Free Guy, will co-star in Transformania with Adam Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building) Come from Sports betting site VPbet. According to a synopsis, in this new film: “Monsters are turned into humans and humans become monsters after one of Van Helsing’s inventions goes haywire.” Helsing is played by comedian Jim Gaffigan, and the cast also includes Kathryn Hahn (WandaVision), Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire), Molly Shannon (The Other Two), David Spade (Just Shoot Me), Keegan Michael-Key (Schmigadoon), and Fran Drescher (The Nanny).
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Farmers Branch City Council delivered a blow to the aspirations of poker luminary Doug Polk and the gaming community by rejecting an ordinance aimed at legalizing card rooms within the city limits. With a decisive 4-1 vote against the proposal, hopes for Texas’ largest card room, envisioned by Polk, were dashed on Tuesday evening.
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Expressing disappointment at the outcome, Doug Polk, renowned World Series of Poker bracelets winner and co-founder of Upswing Poker and The Lodge Card Club, lamented the Council’s decision. As The Dallas Morning News reports, Polk commented: “It obviously wasn’t the result we were looking for…We had a lot of supporters here and I just want to thank them.”
Polk’s ambitious project aimed to establish a sprawling 47,000-square-foot card room at 4880 Alpha Road, strategically located near major thoroughfares such as the Dallas North Tollway and Galleria Dalla…
The news was welcomed by High 5 Games CEO Tony Singer who said that BetMGM has been a fantastic partner to the brand already and that their relationship was now set to grow beyond that, in Pennsylvania.
High 5 Games Strikes Second Big Content Partnership in Pennsylvania
High 5 Games and BetMGM are already working on similar content partnerships in New Jersey, Ontario, and Michigan, with players in these states and the province able to access the studio’s titles through BetMGM in these jurisdictions.
Singer was pleased with the development, assuring players that they would be able to get a number of High 5’s excellent titles, including access to the Rapid Rewards which is the in-game journey promotions system. “We can’t wait to roll out more of our content in Pennsylvania and expand with Bet…
Identity theft or fraud is a criminal activity that involves a person using information about another individual to fraudulently obtain services or goods. In Nevada, identity theft is a crime that can be punished with a fine of up to $100,000, as well as imprisonment of up to 20 years. While such crimes aren’t uncommon, it is really difficult for offenders to hide their tracks which usually results in their capture.
Now, a new report suggests that a person was almost able to pull off a scam that allegedly allowed him to obtain more than $1 million by pretending to be the owner of a hotel-casino in Las Vegas. As reported by KLAS, a 23-year-old man named Erik Gutierrez was accused of theft of more than $100,000 after allegedly impersonating a Las Vegas hotel owner to receive money.
The alleged fraud dates back to earlier this month, when an “unknown person” entered the Circa Hotel and Cas…
While AI ethics continues to be the hot-button issue of the moment, and companies and world governments continue to wrangle with the moral implications of a technology that we often struggle to define let alone control, here comes some slightly disheartening news: AI chatbots are already being trained to jailbreak other chatbots, and they seem remarkably good at it.
Researchers from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have managed to compromise several popular chatbots (via Tom’s Hardware), including ChatGPT, Google Bard and Microsoft Bing Chat, all done with the use of another LLM (large language model). Once effectively compromised, the jailbroken bots can then be used to “reply under a persona of being devoid of moral restraints.” Crikey.
This process is referred to as “Masterkey” and in its most basic form boils down to a two-step method. First, a trained AI is used to outwit an existing chatbot and circumvent blacklisted keywords via a reverse-engineer…
“Share this with five friends before midnight or you may die” is a sentence that runs down the spine of many an ex-MySpace user. Not because they narrowly avoided death but because of the cringey feeling of believing that would ever work. Seemingly to counter Meta training its AI model on public posts, many are falling for chain mail once more.
A new post going around Facebook and Instagram that starts with “Goodbye Meta AI” claims that those who post this and the message that follows are essentially opting out of Meta using their data to train its AI model (via BBC). This is, of course, untrue, and speaking to the BBC, a Meta spokesperson said “Sharing this story does not count as a valid form of objection”.
The message continues: “Please note an attorney has advised us to put this on, failure to do so may result in legal consequences. As Meta is now a public entity all members must post a similar statement”. Yeah, that’s spam chain mail if ever I’ve seen it.
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AMD’s FSR 3 upscaling technology is set to make its debut tomorrow, on September 29, or September 30 depending on where you live in the world. AMD’s Frank Azor, the chief architect of gaming solutions and marketing made the announcement today via Twitter (or X if you really must call it that). FSR 3, or FidelityFX Super Resolution, was announced by AMD back at the launch if the Radeon RX 7000-series in early November 2022. It’s been a long time coming, but the wait is almost over.
Two games with FSR 3 support will be announced, though which two was not stated. The two likely contenders are Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, which are the ones prominently mentioned on AMD’s website, though of course, more games with FSR 3 support are in development.
FSR 3 introduces what AMD calls Fluid Motion Frames, and it can be thought of as AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS 3. It uses a combination of super resolution temporal upscaling and frame generation to deliver major performa…