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Yield Guild Games (YGG) has launched its own publishing division named YGG Play to develop and distribute games directly under its own brand.The first release under this new initiative is LOL Land, a browser-based board game that went live this week on Abstract Chain, with over 100,000 users pre-registered ahead of launch. The game incorporates token rewards and features characters from the Pudgy Penguins community.The shift in strategy follows years of volatility in the blockchain gaming sector, with many projects struggling to retain long-term users. YGG’s new approach is focused on targeting existing crypto users, rather than attempting to appeal…

Michael Calore: That’s pretty good. Katie?Katie Drummond: My recommendation is very specific and very strange. It is a 2003 film called What a Girl Wants, starring Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth.Michael Calore: Wow.Katie Drummond: I watched this movie in high school, where I was cheating on my math exams. Sorry. For some reason, just the memory of me cheating on my high school math exams makes me laugh, and then I rewatched it with my daughter this weekend, and it’s so bad and so ludicrous and just so fabulous. Colin Firth is a babe. Amanda Bynes is amazing, and I…

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In this tutorial, we demonstrated how Microsoft’s AutoGen framework empowers developers to orchestrate complex, multi-agent workflows with minimal code. By leveraging AutoGen’s RoundRobinGroupChat and TeamTool abstractions, you can seamlessly assemble specialist assistants, such as Researchers, FactCheckers, Critics, Summarizers, and Editors, into a cohesive “DeepDive” tool. AutoGen handles the intricacies of turn‐taking, termination conditions, and streaming output, allowing you to focus on defining each agent’s expertise and system prompts rather than plumbing together callbacks or manual prompt chains. Whether conducting in‐depth research, validating facts, refining prose, or integrating third‐party tools, AutoGen provides a unified API that scales from simple two‐agent pipelines…

“Observability alone isn’t enough,” said Manish Ranjan, research director for software & cloud at IDC EMEA. “In today’s complex IT environments — especially with distributed AI workloads — security must be embedded as a strategic pillar, supported by governance, not treated as an afterthought.” AI is indeed compounding existing security gaps. Companies are seeing a surge in AI-powered ransomware—up from 41% in 2024 to 58% this year—and 47% have already encountered attacks specifically targeting large language models (LLMs). Mark Walmsley, CISO at Freshfields, warned that “AI security can’t be an afterthought,” urging enterprises to adopt deep observability and rethink public…

General Hospital sees Friday, May 23rd, that’s the day we officially got to greet the new hunk in Port Charles, recast Michael Corinthos. We’ve got everything you need to know about Rory Gibson and why we think he is an amazing replacement for Chad Duell in the role. With Michael’s return coming at the end of this week, you may have already seen it. We wanted to have all the information you need to dive into what’s going on with this new actor. Meet Rory Gibson: The New Michael Corinthos on General Hospital All right. So, it was confirmed this…

Get up to P170,000 of discounts on Toyota vehicles from May 23 to 25 Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) is giving people more reasons to join in the fun at Race Weekend 2 of the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Philippine Cup this weekend at Villar City, south of Manila. From May 23 to 25, customers can get event-exclusive deals on their favorite Toyota vehicles. Customers who will attend the event and reserve a unit onsite can get a walk-in discount of up to P10,000 and a reservation discount of up to P30,000. The reserved unit must be released between May 23 to…

Mihailo Bjelic, co-founder of Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Polygon, has stepped down from his role at Polygon but suggests he will stay active in the crypto industry in some capacity.His resignation drew reactions across Polygon and the wider crypto community, with several seeing it as a loss for Polygon, which has been tied to several major developments in recent months.Bjelic winds down ‘day-to-day involvement’“After much thought and reflection, I’ve decided to step down from the board of the Polygon Foundation and wind down my day-to-day involvement with Polygon Labs,” Bjelic said in a May 23 X post.“I’ll always be cheering…

Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Joseph Schweitzer for review. Sharding is one of the many improvements that eth2 has over eth1. The term was borrowed from database research where a shard means a piece of a larger whole. In the context of databases and eth2, sharding means breaking up the storage and computation of the whole system into shards, processing the shards separately, and combining the results as needed. Specifically, eth2 implements many shard chains, where each shard has similar capabilities to the eth1 chain. This results in massive scaling improvements. However, there’s a less-well-known type of sharding…