Zack Shutt

My dad was nice enough to be on camera at @METAPCs and talk about how I got started

Over 200 console games now run on PC natively, no emulator. Modders rebuilt them: Zelda, Mario 64, Skate 3, three Gears of War games in one launcher. Xbox's CEO called it giving old games new life. Which one are you installing first?

South Park just showed new GTA 6 gameplay before Rockstar did. It's a guy on the beach throwing dog poop at people. Peak GTA and the game isn't even out yet.

Discord is about to put your messages on Google. It's on by default in the US, off by default in Europe because the law makes them. The off switch is buried in Data and Privacy. Are you flipping it?

GTA 6's full score by Justice just showed up early on Apple Music. 50 tracks, out December 11. Justice cooked for Vice City.

The man who invented the PlayStation says wanting to own your games is a mentality issue. His exact words: "I don't think it's economically reasonable. Maybe it's a mentality issue." Is he right?

Thieves have stolen over $100M in AI data center hardware off US highways since June. In one heist, an SUV hit the security escort and a truck carrying ~$10M in server parts just drove off. Its tracker was apparently spoofed. $100M sounds like a lot until you price out RAM.

GTA 6 isn't even out and a used Burger Shot bag just sold for $501 on eBay. That's more than Rockstar's $400 Collector's Box. A $15 Vice City foam finger from the Heat's arena went for $555. $501 for a used bag. We're fine.

A Pokémon Red prototype that doesn't even work in a Game Boy just sold for $123,220. It's from 1998. Bidding opened at $25,000. Go check your parents' garage.

Airbnb hosts are threatening a boycott because guests won't have to do chores anymore. One host warned guests will "rob us of toilet paper." A cleaning fee plus a chore list was always double dipping.

AMD says your Radeon card needs a security patch. Gigabyte told a 7900 XTX owner his card is out of warranty. Your graphics card is a software product now, and the update schedule depends on which logo is on the box. Would you buy Gigabyte again?

EA shut down BioWare and cancelled the next Mass Effect. So fans bought a billboard in Times Square. The petition is past 200,000 signatures, and the composer just dropped 22 minutes of unused ME5 music. Fans want it more than EA does.

Sony paid a hacker $50,000 to kill the PS5 bug that could have cracked GTA 6. Other hackers were sitting on it. Kotaku says that's why GTA 6 won't be crackable at launch. He took the $50K. Smart.

Sony's internet provider in Japan just leaked 2.58 million customer records. Names, emails, about 54,000 email passwords, and customers heard about it 8 days after the hack. Sony data breaches are an annual tradition now.

Apple mocked other foldables for "oversized black bars." Then it shipped its own Store app boxed in on the $1,999 iPhone Duo, black bars on both sides. Courage.

Facebook just got fined 25 billion dollars. That's about three months of profit. Last time the FTC fined them five billion, the stock went up the same day. What number would actually scare Facebook?

Sony's family sharing has a stranger problem. Hackers are adding fake "child" accounts to people's PlayStation Family groups, and victims say no password or 2FA stopped them. Sony says it's investigating. Pull your card off PSN tonight.

A free mod just unlocked up to 80% more AI performance on RTX 30 cards. Nvidia runs some AI math on GeForce cards at half the speed of its pro cards. This flips that limit back. It's Linux only and won't raise your FPS. Would you install it on your 3090?

Apple's $1,999 folding iPhone has a crack problem. Owners are posting inner screens cracking in the same spot by the hinge, one just six hours in. iFixit's teardown points to a hinge part that may not drop far enough. Would you buy a first-gen folding iPhone?

Microsoft is pulling eight Copilot buttons out of Windows and calling it "simplifying." Copilot in Notepad also got renamed Writing Tools. Same AI, new name tag. What should they rip out next?

Microsoft just offered buyouts to about 60,000 employees. That's roughly 1 in 4 people at the company, while it spends $190 billion on AI this year. The memo calls it a way for employees to "shape their next chapter." Would you take the buyout?