Stargrace gives World of Warcraft’s Azeroth the unofficial tour, swapping heroic landmarks for smugglers, shady fish deals, and Booty Bay gossip.
Belghast jumps from selling an old RV and meeting Ginger to FFXIV FanFest hype, Jollibee cosplay, and renewed interest in Evercold.
Ellie finds Ninja Gaiden II on NES a faithful, brutally hard sequel that doubles down on the first game’s 80s action-movie charm.
Wilhelm highlights Andrew Groen’s The Archive, a Kickstarter book collecting big virtual-world histories from EVE Online, WoW, Shadowbane, Urban Dead, and Asheron’s Call.
Bruce Schneier says Claude Mythos finding 271 Firefox zero-days is staggering, but argues AI-driven bug hunting could finally tilt security toward defenders.
Dave Winer rolls through an XML-RPC JavaScript update, WordPress platform angst, and AI regressions, then wonders if today’s giant AI data centers are just a phase.
Brennan makes a friendly case that games like Super Mario 64 and Factorio can reveal the beauty of math through glitches, systems, and algorithmic thinking.