Palm Royale is coming back for season 2 soon as the next comedy debut on Apple TV. And the just-released trailer shows the series going deep into the cut-throat waters of high society.

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Maximum Entertainment popped up at the Fall IGN Fan Fest to reveal that the delightfully weird sandbox shooter, Squirrel with a Gun, will be blasting onto Switch 2 on 18th November.

Even if you didn’t catch this one on its PC release last year, the title tells you just about everything you need to know. You play as a squirrel. You have a gun. What you do with it is up to you.

There’s a fair emphasis on the ’sandbox’ elements here, with platforming, collectibles, weird little challenges and a bunch of funky gun abilities at your disposal. And let’s not beat about the bush, the titular conceit paints a funny enough image on its own.

In a new study, Apple researchers present a diffusion model that can write up to 128 times faster than its counterparts. Here’s how it works.

The nerdy bits

Here’s what you need to know for this study: LLMs such as ChatGPT are autoregressive models. They generate text sequentially, one token at a time, taking into account both the user’s prompt and all previously generated tokens.

In contrast to autoregressive models, there are diffusion models. They generate multiple tokens in parallel and refine them over several iterative steps until the full response takes shape.

In an open letter, EA employees have publicly criticized the company’s proposed $55 billion sale to an investor consortium, warning that the deal could have dire consequences for the people who make EA’s games. The letter comes as EA prepares to go private under the new ownership of Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, Silver Lake, and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, pending regulatory approval.