2025-04-24
CivitAI, possibly the most popular AI model repository on the internet, has finally conceded to pressure from payment facilitators MasterCard and Visa to radically revise their policies on NSFW content – and particularly their TOS regarding celebrity LoRAs, one of the site's most popular user-submitted content streams, which enable people to use freely downloadable adjunct […]
2025-07-10
Apple, Mastercard and Visa have successfully dodged a lawsuit that claimed the companies were colluding to maintain the current status quo in point-of-sale-payment card services, Reuters reports. The [...]
2025-08-05
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related to [...]
2025-05-20
President Trump has now signed the Take It Down Act, criminalizing sexual deepfakes at a federal level in the US. At the same time, the CivitAI community's bid to ‘clean up its act' regard [...]
2025-07-31
Over the past few weeks, thousands of video games have been banned, removed and delisted from Steam and Itch.io. The justifications for doing so have been almost comically vague, and at least one high [...]
2025-04-28
The UK's Children's Commissioner is calling for a ban on AI deepfake apps that create nude or sexual images of children, according to a new report. It states that such "nudification&quo [...]
2025-07-16
Steam has added a new rule to its guidelines that has resulted in certain games getting banned, according to a report by Automaton. The new clause states that "content that may violate the rules [...]