Matthew Gault

Matthew Gault

Matthew Gault is a writer covering weird tech, nuclear war, and video games. He’s worked for Reuters, Motherboard, and the New York Times.
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Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech
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Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech

Tech companies spent $1.2 billion on political influence since 2024. It’s paid off.
4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old 'Master and Commander' Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay
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4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old 'Master and Commander' Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay

The cult classic 2005 film is selling for double the MSRP on the secondary market.
UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought
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UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought

As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.
The U.S. Army Is Testing AI Controlled Ground Drones Near a Border with Russia
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The U.S. Army Is Testing AI Controlled Ground Drones Near a Border with Russia

The OverDrive is made to let ground vehicles navigate tough terrain with minimal input from humans.
Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda
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Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda

Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.
Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity
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Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

America’s scandalous president is teaming up with its most disreputable AI company to make a search engine.
Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’
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Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’

The decision highlights hurdles faced by developers as they navigate a world where credit card companies dictate what is and isn't appropriate.
Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search
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Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search

Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.
Gun Nerds Dismantle Infamous Pistol to Research If It Fires at Random
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Gun Nerds Dismantle Infamous Pistol to Research If It Fires at Random

The Sig Sauer P320 has a reputation for firing without pulling the trigger. The manufacturer says that's impossible, but the firearms community is showing the truth is more complicated.
Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games
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Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games

The games were mentioned in a 2024 report and are now part of a new lawsuit in which a 11 year old girl was allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted after meeting a stranger on Roblox.
ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It
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ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It

Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
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The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia

Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.