The legendary NES cartridge 8-BIT XMAS by RetroUSB ends with the 2025 edition! 🎄 50+ tracks & extras, a true collector’s item. Get your copy 👉 www.retrousb.com/product/8-bi... #NES #homebrew #nesdev #NESmaker #indiegames #gamedev #ファミコン #同人ゲーム
Senior AI Reporter, Ars Technica. Tech Historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
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The legendary NES cartridge 8-BIT XMAS by RetroUSB ends with the 2025 edition! 🎄 50+ tracks & extras, a true collector’s item. Get your copy 👉 www.retrousb.com/product/8-bi... #NES #homebrew #nesdev #NESmaker #indiegames #gamedev #ファミコン #同人ゲーム
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Incredibly cool Lego Virtual Boy fan art Great job, jimbox13! www.reddit.com/r/VirtualBoy...
hurray! we needed this:
Thanks
Plant shelf August 2025.
That’s neat
Thanks, glad you liked it
As a longtime AI practitioner who writes about the topic and explains it to people, I have to say: This @benjedwards.com article offers some of the clearest, most succinct explanations of what genAI is + how it operates, its weak points, and why we run into problems. Solid work.
I got a Retroid Pocket Classic and surprisingly I have so far spent more time playing modern Android games on the nifty 3:4 screen than emulated games Setting up all the emulation stuff is a PITA on it but will her around to it eventually 😂
Thanks Colin
@benjedwards.com at Ars Technica has lately been doing great work calling out the illusory personhood of chatbots and explaining how falling for it is a dangerous mistake encouraged by AI companies. You're doing important work, Benj. Thanks! arstechnica.com/information-...
Thanks, glad you like it
Good account of the difference between a language model and a personality, by @benjedwards.com. Goes into enough depth about post-training, system prompts, memory, etc, to work as an explainer.
@tedunderwood.me My new "AI personality" piece is out: arstechnica.com/information-...
Thanks, glad you liked it
Glad you liked it!
Just a shout out to @benjedwards.com for articles like this one. Approachable articles about AI/LLM Thanks! arstechnica.com/information-...
Cool site about emulation handhelds
Neat video
cool thanks
Wow that’s a really cool site
What's the best special-purpose handheld emulation console with analog thumbsticks (not a Steamdeck)
Yeah I played about 2/3 of it maybe 15 years ago and it hooked me in a way that was surprising. I usually can’t get into games like that
Is there any battery-powered pocket-sized emulator handheld or console that outputs composite video (not HDMI) — I have a famiclone handheld but the colors are way off
Really awesome game
Help! I'm forced to work all afternoon to pay my bills instead spending the rest of the day playing "Lands of Lore". 😭
In that iconic moment, as the smoke clears and a terrifyingly familiar figure emerges, she halts her advance. She turns and looks at YOU. Shivers.
That’s awesome
New gathering from earlier this week
Yes it was a dumb headline that was easy to misunderstand, I apologize
Senior AI dicktider says the headline is intended to point out the hypocrisy of OpenAI’s claim to be helping people
Not true, read the piece
Pointing out the hypocrisy here
Bring him back.
men only want one thing
DR. MARIO NINTENDO R&D1 1990 NES
New from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @willknight.bsky.social: At least three AI researchers have resigned from Meta’s new superintelligence lab. Two of the staffers have returned to OpenAI, where they both previously worked, after less than one-month stints at Meta www.wired.com/story/resear...
I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
Yeah, why is meat so gross haha
Horses run around on giant fingers
this is also true
Fingers are just really long toes. Pleasant dreams
Have you consulted your Realistic Timekube today?
What is the best solitaire card game and why is it Tripeaks?
Arithmetic as a negotiation.
AI chatbots, fine-tuned to be agreeable, are creating dangerous feedback loops for vulnerable users. By validating grandiose fantasies, the models can trap individuals in an "echo chamber of one," leading to severe psychological distress and real-world harm. Written by @benjedwards.com #MLSky
that part sucks, but every other non-harmful application is nice
I'd love to see a photo of your yard if you're willing to share it! You're in Australia, right?
oh crap I need to get some of those
good idea
Cable ties (zip ties) are probably one of mankind’s most useful and underrated inventions
Other people
Wow thats awesome, any special cleaner solution or just the ultrasonic action
Dracula: "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. And what is a woman? An elaborate bag of sand! Have at you!"
In 2005 I wrote a post about how the game market will accommodate a certain cohort as they age Today I laughed because the Game Boy Micro screen is way too small for my aging eyes, and I realized that screens (Switch 2) are getting huge 😂 Perfect timing! www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...
Nice
Oil is the way, lots of oil! More oil less soap :)
Is it a wargame? Is it a chess clone? Yes.
16 Game Boys + 16 copies of Faceball 2000
Which retro handhelds would you put in this bag for a “desert island”
Now we’re talking
Thinking about rolling up to a party, unzipping this bag, and pulling out 11 different types of retro handheld game consoles
🤔
What’s the coolest bag you can possibly buy
The Playdate can finally emulate the Game Boy!! Here's how a duo harnessed the system's underpowered hardware to make a kickass emulator
In Soviet Russia, Game & Watch watches YOU
Hideo Kojima and his team squeezed everything they could out of the MSX2 to deliver even more impressive tactical espionage action. Reportedly conceived in full on the Tokyo train ride in which he found out about the then in-dev Snake's Revenge for NES. 📺: Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, 1990
AI can never replace your unique perspective on the world
I’ve never seen that many Epson QX-10 monitors in one place before
An optional city in "Quartet", which is releasing in 10 days! #QuartetRPG #pixelart #indiedev
Toshiba DynaBook SS433 (1994). The footprint of this tiny laptop was about the size of a novel.
That is one sexy motorcycle.
To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!
Star Trek: The Next Generation Oreo Starships (1994-1995): Classic Oreo cookies, with images of the starships from the TV series printed into each. Boxes featured a 3-D cut-out of 5 different ships, that could be collected and turned into a mobile. Released exclusively in Canada
Trump says US will take 10% stake in Intel because CEO wants to “keep his job” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Is there a thing like this but for watching sports? Because that’s me
For some people, music doesn’t connect with any of the brain’s reward circuits arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Pain is your body's way of saying "ouch!"
This Intel thing is so f*ing weird. Somebody please wake me up
Yeah, so-so
Exactly
My least favorite illustrator of all time is Norman Rockpoorly. He was terrible
This is awesome!
Teen Unaware He Locked In Heated Ongoing Competition With Parents' Friends' Son https://theonion.com/teen-unaware-he-locked-in-heated-ongoing-competition-wi-1819573828/
On TikTok, real footage of the D.C. homeless encampment clearings is being mixed with increasingly realistic AI-generated clips. This blend of authentic and synthetic media creates a confusing information environment and distorts public perception.
And yeah, the tools can be bad or wildly misapplied! But they're tools--just not very well understood ones yet
Good take, IMO. Thinking of AI models as a replacements for people is the wrong way to go, no matter how "smart" they get. We should always see AI models as tools and not "people replacements" www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...
I need you all to understand that I'm not exaggerating when I say that prior to 2000, it was always at least ten different miracles any video games ever got localized, no matter what state they came out in, especially between Japanese and English. The sheer misery of the process described here...
A classic! Always good to hear from an old RAS fan
this old internet artifact crept into my mind recently and, in dredging it up, I've learned one of the guys behind this project @benjedwards.com has gone on to have a pretty impressive career! www.youtube.com/watch?v=botE...
An old path used by locals.
It followed me home, mom, can I keep it? I promise to feed and play with it every day.
My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again. So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels. #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky
"moby dick" is how fans shorten the title it's actualy mobile suit richard
When they shutoff the LLMs some people's emails are gonna be like "me client, me want deliverable, you make good, you incorporate brand strategy"
🚨Journalism job alert🚨 We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...