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Dominic Sessa plays Anthony Bourdain in a fun biopic, and the ever-danceable UK funksters are back with a sun-dappled new album

The Nintendo Switch Pro Controller is a great “baseline” controller. It’s sturdy, feels good in hand, has an excellent directional pad, and features impressive motion sensors and vibration tech. On top of that, the gamepad uses Bluetooth, so you don’t need an adapter to connect it to your PC. The Switch 2 Pro Controller is even…

Calgary is about to get a whole lot more competitive, with FallCon bringing thousands of board games to the city this month. The three-day convention will take over the Telus Convention Centre, giving you the opportunity to play everything from typical family favourites to strategic titles.

Eclipse week here in the UK, so I spent some time out of doors on Wednesday grumbling that I couldn’t see the pages of the issues ofZot!orMiraclemanthat I was trying to readwhile wearing the special protective glasses being handed out at the Royal Observatory, before being roundly booed out of Greenwich Park by hordes of…

Twitch uses its streamers’ content to train Amazon’s generative AI models. The setting for it turned up in account settings on August 12, and it is switched on by default for every user. Anyone who does not want their material feeding Amazon’s models has to act. There was no email about it, and no notice…

The Xbox system update released on August 12, 2026, comes with a handful of useful features beyond typical bug fixes and performance improvements. The update this time included features for Game Pass subscribers and those who play Xbox 360 games. It also follows cool new features released earlier in the summer involving power consumption, customization and other…

Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the default plainly, saying that if it were opt-in, nobody would opt in.

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Creating content on Twitch? Unless you’ve changed your settings, it’s being used to train AI.

The setting arrived quietly, tucked into a security menu most streamers never open: a single toggle that decides whether everything they broadcast becomes fuel for Amazon‘s artificial intelligence. On Twitch, that toggle is already flipped on. To keep your work out of the training data, you have to know it exists, find it, and switch…