Month: October 2025

Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code

UZDoom fork promises to fix other top-down leadership problems with the decades-old mod.

If you've even idly checked in on the robust world of Doom fan development in recent years, you've probably encountered one of the hundreds of gameplay mods, WAD files, or entire commercial games based on GZDoom. The open source Doom port—which can trace its lineage back to the original launch of ZDoom back in 1998—adds modern graphics rendering, quality-of-life additions, and incredibly deep modding features to the original Doom source code that John Carmack released in 1997.

Now, though, the community behind GZDoom is publicly fracturing, with a large contingent of developers uniting behind a new fork called UZDoom. The move is in apparent protest of the leadership of GZDoom creator and maintainer Cristoph Oelckers (aka Graf Zahl), who recently admitted to inserting untested AI-generated code into the GZDoom codebase.

"Due to some disagreements—some recent; some tolerated for close to 2 decades—with how collaboration should work, we've decided that the best course of action was to fork the project," developer Nash Muhandes wrote on the DoomWorld forums Wednesday. "I don't want to see the GZDoom legacy die, as do most all of us, hence why I think the best thing to do is to continue development through a fork, while introducing a different development model that highly favors transparent collaboration between multiple people."

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OpenAI thinks Elon Musk funded its biggest critics—who also hate Musk

“Cutthroat” OpenAI accused of exploiting Musk fight to intimidate and silence critics.

Over the past week, OpenAI has faced backlash over subpoenas it sent to nonprofits accused of conspiring with Elon Musk to amplify public criticism of OpenAI as it sought to shift from a nonprofit to for-profit structure.

The subpoenas are supposed to support OpenAI's defense in a lawsuit Musk's X Corp filed to block the for-profit transition. Seeking a "wide variety of documents"—including a sweeping request for all communications regarding Musk and all information on nonprofits' funders and donations—OpenAI claimed that the subpoenas are intended to probe if Musk was involved in the actions or paid nonprofits to make critical comments, NBC News wrote in a report exhaustively documenting the controversy.

But nonprofits have alleged it's obvious that OpenAI is using the lawsuit to harass, silence, and intimidate its critics—most glaringly when it comes to targeting nonprofits that are even more publicly critical of Musk's companies than they are of OpenAI.

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Vorschau: Albion zeigt das raue Herz von Anno 117

Wir haben Anno 117 gespielt: Latinum glänzt im Wohlstand, Albion fordert mit Regen, Schlick und Widerstand – und zeigt, wie lebendig sich das neue Anno anfühlt. Ein Hands-on von Peter Steinlechner (Anno, Ubisoft)

Wir haben Anno 117 gespielt: Latinum glänzt im Wohlstand, Albion fordert mit Regen, Schlick und Widerstand - und zeigt, wie lebendig sich das neue Anno anfühlt. Ein Hands-on von Peter Steinlechner (Anno, Ubisoft)

SpaceX has plans to launch Falcon Heavy from California—if anyone wants it to

There’s no big rush to bring SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to Vandenberg Space Force Base.

The Department of the Air Force has approved SpaceX's plans to launch up to 100 missions per year from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

This would continue the tectonic turnaround at the spaceport on California's Central Coast. Five years ago, Vandenberg hosted just a single orbital launch. This year's number stands at 51 orbital flights, or 53 launches if you count a pair of Minuteman missile tests, the most in a single calendar year at Vandenberg since the early 1970s.

Vandenberg is used for missions launching into polar orbits, paths oriented north-south that, over time, cover most of the Earth's surface area. These orbits are popular for Earth observation satellites.

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Microsoft is bringing Copilot AI controls to all Windows 11 PCs

For the past few years Microsoft has been pushing the idea of Copilot+ PCs as special systems that have NPU’s with enough AI processing performance to allow you to use certain AI features without a cloud connection. But now Microsoft has announce…

For the past few years Microsoft has been pushing the idea of Copilot+ PCs as special systems that have NPU’s with enough AI processing performance to allow you to use certain AI features without a cloud connection. But now Microsoft has announced plans to make every Windows 11 computer an AI PC that use the company’s […]

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