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Seekers then come and try to find the hiders and, this being an online video game, shoot them. It's frantic, silly and fiendishly creative: finding a spot on one of the maps that you feel confident to paint yourself into - whether it's a laundry room or a farm outbuilding - is a challenging artistic and perceptual task, as well as a neat game mechanic. Meccha Chameleon perfectly encapsulates two popular and interconnected indie genres - prop games (hide and seek, but people disguise themselves as everyday objects) and the slightly pejoratively named "friendslop" (accessible, crudely designed multiplayer titles). So no wonder it has sold 7m units in less than a month.

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PCWorld reports Microsoft released the Secure Boot 2023 certificate update for Windows 10 and 11 just before original 2011 certificates expired in 2026. This critical security update prevents potential PC boot issues and maintains protection against rootkits and bootkits at startup. Users can verify their certificate status through Windows Settings, with green indicating success and red requiring BIOS updates from manufacturers. Microsoft just pushed the Secure Boot 2023 certificate update to all eligible Windows 11 and Windows 10 computers, just in time given that old certificates were due to expire today . It's a good thing, too, since your PC could face real problems without updated certificates .

Google's first new smart speaker in six years is here and once again leads its competitors--now with paywalled features. Sounds a little more human than competitors. Gemini is helpful and smart. Some assistant features are hidden behind paywalls. Works best if you buy or have bought several Google devices for your home.

The question is whether Gemini is a good enough smart home assistant. Somehow, it's been almost nine months since Google first revealed its latest smart speaker, the boringly-named Google Home Speaker. I don't understand why it took the company so long to get it to market, as there's nothing that particularly changes the game here hardware-wise. The $99 orb looks a lot like Apple's HomePod mini, with a speaker that fires audio in 360 degrees and microphones so you can chat with Google Assistant Gemini for Home. It's the definition of an expected, iterative piece of hardware -- but on the other hand, it's been almost six years since Google released the Nest Audio and seven since the Nest Home Mini.

PCWorld explores how a long-time Chromebook enthusiast successfully convinced his Windows-loyal brother to switch by debunking common misconceptions about ChromeOS devices. Modern Chromebooks have evolved beyond outdated limitations, now supporting Android and Linux apps, offering offline functionality, and providing robust security features suitable for all users. The key to Chromebook satisfaction involves investing around $500 for quality hardware rather than choosing budget models that create poor user experiences. I've been a Chromebook fan and advocate for many years now. I bought my first one back in 2013, just a couple years after they debuted, and I've since purchased several more. If you ask me why, it's because I love their affordability, versatility, and simplicity. This trio of pros led me to switch from Windows laptops to Chromebooks and I haven't looked back. But not everyone is as gung-ho about Google's laptops as me, and that includes my older brother--we'll call him "Jack"--who, for every bit of praise I lavish on Chromebooks, always has an objection. Jack was recently in the market for a new laptop, so I made it my mission to convince him to buy a Chromebook.

Modular, one of the most promising chip software startups of the AI era, heads for a multibillion-dollar exit. Qualcomm will acquire the Silicon Valley chip startup Modular for nearly $4 billion. The companies announced the acquisition on Wednesday; Qualcomm said it expects to issue up to 19.2 million shares of common stock in the deal, which works out to just under $4 billion based on the company's last closing share price. The deal, which includes $300 million for Modular employees, comes nine months after the chip startup raised $250 million at a $1.6 billion valuation . It's expected to close in the second half of this year.

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has emerged as a powerful framework for modeling autonomous agents that independently optimize their individual objectives. However, in mixed-motive MARL environments, rational self-interested behaviors often lead to collectively suboptimal outcomes situations commonly referred to as social dilemmas. A key challenge in addressing social dilemmas lies in accurately quantifying and representing them in a numerical form that captures how self-interested agent behaviors impact social welfare. To address this challenge, \textit{externalities} in the economic concept is adopted and extended to denote the unaccounted-for impact of one agent's actions on others, as a means to rigorously quantify social dilemmas.