BREAKING: The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. apnews.com/article/fort-hood…

Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the main use cases. And they won't want to use some Amazon-supplied agent to do it.

I have not seen ‘The wire’. Do you guys think it’s still worth watching in 2026 or I should move on.

500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV vote for The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century for @nytimes. (nytimes.com/interactive/2026…)

And I managed to smuggle a Game of Thrones reference into my piece for @TheAtlantic.

We implemented 1024-bit RSA signature forgery in nearly SNFS time! Temporary access to an HSM allows an attacker to forge arbitrary signatures (without factoring). Join work with Laura (1st author!), Adam, Nadia, and Emmanuel github.com/ucsd-hacc/NSNFSSS…

little surprised we haven't seen a really high-profile "AI psychosis" case yet (to my knowledge), like some big celebrity falling in love with fable or whatever. the dawkins piece from awhile back is the closest thing i can remember. think it's only a matter of time

Insane things are happening in the Pokémon scalping discords.

In this episode of lanterns Hal Jordan tells people he’ll bang other dudes if the opportunity presents itself. This is 100% a humiliation ritual.

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Featuring Elizabeth Holmes. Only in theaters this October.

I am the Lead Developer on Arcade.gov. We shipped 5 games in one sprint, which is fast for a government website and, I've been told by 2 separate reporters this week, fast for anything. Nobody on this team has the title "18F" anymore, because there is no 18F anymore. GSA zeroed it out in a March 2025 reduction-in-force, 85 people, gone in a memo. I want that on the record because every retro clone we shipped this week is the kind of project that office used to exist specifically to slow down and ask hard questions about. There was nobody left whose job it was to ask. Build the Wall is a Tetris clone. Same 7 piece shapes, same rotation system, same color palette, all of it, running under a loading screen that says protect the border from the coming horde. I want to be honest about the legal read here, because I did the legal read myself, at 1 in the morning, three nights before launch. There is a 2012 federal case, Tetris Holding v. Xio Interactive, that already settled this exact question. A court in New Jersey ruled that the specific shapes, the specific colors, the specific way a piece falls and locks, that's not just an idea, that's expression, and expression is copyrightable. I read the opinion. I shipped the game anyway. Those two facts are both true and I've stopped waiting for them to resolve into one feeling. Rio Run is a Snake clone. A character who resembles the President patrols the Rio Grande, and you collect icons, and the icons represent people. I said that sentence out loud once, in a standup, to my team, and nobody asked a follow-up question, which I've thought about more than I've thought about almost anything else we shipped. Supply Line is a Tapper clone. In 1983 the original Tapper was a Budweiser promotion, sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, with real beer-tap handles bolted on as the actual controllers, until enough bars and parents complained that Bally Midway quietly de-alcoholized it into Root Beer Tapper, same game, same mechanics, cleaner conscience. We did the reverse. We took the version that already got sanitized once, for children, in 1984, and reskinned it as sorting a cafeteria tray for federal nutrition compliance. I don't think anyone on the team knew that history when they picked it. I looked it up after, the way you look up a word after you've already used it in a meeting. Flappy Bill is an eagle carrying a bill across the National Mall. I don't have a joke here. Of the 5 games, the one about legislation is the one where you're a bird, and the one about the border is the one where you're building a wall against a word, horde, that the copy team chose over 6 other options in a shared document I still have access to. Trump Savings Tycoon has you catching money out of the air to fill your kids' Trump Accounts. It is, mechanically, the most honest game on the site. You are, on screen, grabbing at money that is falling from somewhere above you and does not belong to you yet. A White House official told a reporter this week that the administration is laser focused on innovating and telling the story of the President's accomplishments in a way that lands with every American. I read that quote the same day Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs filed its second formal diplomatic protest against us this year, for the same reason as the first: we did not ask before we borrowed the shape of their games. Nintendo is suing the federal government right now, over Tetris, Snake, and Tapper mechanics running on a .gov domain, which is a genuinely novel category of defendant for their legal team, and I have to assume a genuinely novel category of Tuesday for mine. Federal law actually requires us to build to something called the U.S. Web Design System, and to meet accessibility standards under Section 508, screen readers, color contrast, keyboard navigation, all of it, on every site with this domain suffix. Nobody has asked yet how a screen reader is supposed to narrate Build the Wall. I've started drafting that answer in my head at night, and every version of it sounds worse read aloud than it did as a bullet point in the sprint plan. We have a leaderboard. Top score on Rio Run right now belongs to somebody who signed off as "B.M." I don't know who that is. I've decided not to ask, the same way I've decided not to ask several other things this month. We're doing a sixth game next quarter. I already know it'll ship on time. Everything here ships on time.

StarCraft 3 is reportedly on the table after more than a decade Developer Nexon is pursuing an agreement with Blizzard that would allow it to develop a sequel

It's really starting to look like a new StarCraft game will be revealed at BlizzCon pcgamer.com/games/its-really…

I’m probably the only person who remembers this, but in 2013 someone at U of Maryland leaked a sorority group email to Gawker and it remains to this day one of the most evil but also rhetorically impressive (in a Ryan Murphy way) things I’ve ever read (here are some excerpts):