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Wired has a cool interactive piece highlighting some of the content creators on the right and left who drive political discourse and change. The size of the bubbles corresponds to the number of followers the individual has on their social media platform of choice. Check out the full story for details on each person.

But it’s not Elder Scrolls VI. Instead, Bethesda’s sword and board series is getting its own version of Fallout Shelter called The Elder Scrolls: Castles. You’ll be tasked with building the perfect medieval domicile with all the amenities to keep your subjects happy, healthy, and therefore, less likely to stab you.

The Elder Scrolls: Castles launches on iOS and Android on September 10th.

Trombone Champ: Unflattened, which is launching this fall, looks just as silly as the flatscreen game.

Colombian singer-songwriter Karol G will be the star of Fortnite Festival’s fifth season, which launches tomorrow. Like with other Festival seasons, there will be themed items based on the artist that you can acquire.

Epic Games also will be hosting a playable Karol G concert inside Fortnite (made by Magnopus, the team behind the recent Metallica show) that debuts on August 23rd.

Opting out of Google’s generative AI overviews means you become invisible in search — a no-go for most publishers. But keeping content in search means it can be scraped for AI Overviews. As one publisher puts it:

You drop out and you die immediately, or you partner with them and you probably just die slowly, because eventually they’re not going to need you either.”

It’s seemingly easy to make the chatbot’s new image generator spit out the few things it supposedly can’t generate — including gore and even “child pornography if given the proper prompts,” says X user Christian Montessori.

While all AI models have loopholes, Elon Musk seems unfazed by the abuse, calling it a “step for people to have some fun.”

Nvidia has partnered up with modding repository CurseForge to support 25 of the most popular WoW Addons — including options for UI customization, combat, action bars, and quest helpers — for Ultimate and Priority subcribers of the cloud streaming service.

The mods are pre-installed ready for launch, always updated to the latest release, and don’t require users to have a CurseForge account.

Specifically, about $60 million — a hefty civil penalty to settle allegations that the telecom giant failed to report incidents of unauthorized access to sensitive data, violating a national security agreement it made to acquire Sprint in 2020.

It’s the largest fine ever imposed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, and just one of many data breaches T-Mobile has faced in recent years.

Acer to The Verge, today:

We are offering a two-year extended warranty for affected 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core desktop processors causing instability issues. While we are working closely with Intel to address the situation through microcode updates, customers experiencing such issues should contact their nearest Acer service center.

I think that’s just about everyone. Now we see if everyone makes exchanges difficult... or easy.

Lenovo previously had an unsatisfactory answer, but it’s come around:

For affected processors, we will honor Intel’s 2-year processor warranty extension and recommend customers impacted by any CPU instability issues to contact Lenovo service for support.

Fuller statement in our big story:

Previously only available in purple or aqua, the $29 Playdate Cover that magnetically attaches to the crankable handheld to protect its unlit screen is now available in a third option: the Pizza Cover.

It looks like a miniature pizza box without the grease stains or a delicious late night snack inside, and is now available through the Playdate website in “limited quantities.”