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В сентябре 2024-го Nintendo подала патентный иск — и индустрия затаила дыхание. Теперь юридический анализ показывает: Nintendo добьётся лишь минимальных выплат, не блокировки игры.

Resident Evil Requiem — хоррор-экшен от Capcom с видом от третьего лица, девятая часть серии. Несколько протагонистов расследуют новую биологическую угрозу, связанную с историей серии.

Вышла в феврале 2026 года с оценкой «Overwhelmingly Positive» в Steam. Сейчас идут скидки и доступно бесплатное демо — Capcom приурочила это к Summer Game Fest.

FIFA 23 — футбольный симулятор от EA Canada (2022), последняя игра под брендом FIFA перед переходом к EA Sports FC. Ultimate Team, карьера, лицензированные клубы.

Игра технически ещё доступна, но поддержка деградирует: EA сосредоточилась на FC 26. Свежие отзывы превратились в волну предупреждений новым покупателям.

Fall Guys — соревновательный батл-рояль в формате мини-игр: 60 игроков, полосы препятствий, один победитель. Бесплатен с 2022 года после покупки Mediatonic компанией Epic.

Игра вернулась в чарты без конкретного события — летняя волна. Но самые популярные отзывы недели — предупреждения от игроков, которые помнят платную версию.

World of Tanks Blitz — бесплатный танковый шутер от Wargaming (7v7), ускоренная версия WoT с быстрыми матчами. На PC и мобильных с 2016 года.

Обновление Reforged переработало прогрессию и экономику игры. Старые игроки оценивают изменения по-разному — часть довольна, часть жалуется на матчмейкинг.

Last week's board: PowerToys, Microsoft's Windows utility belt; FunASR, an Alibaba speech-recognition toolkit pitched as a Whisper replacement; Trivy, a container vulnerability scanner; and two web frameworks, Astro and Fastify.

Not one new viral repo among them. Every project is years old and carries between 17k and 135k stars. The outlier is Trivy, climbing again only weeks after attackers hijacked its release pipeline and turned the scanner itself into a credential stealer running inside thousands of CI jobs.

In today's GitHub Trending: PowerToys (Windows power-user utilities), freeCodeCamp (the 447k-star learn-to-code curriculum), Stable Diffusion WebUI (the original image-gen UI), plus HackTricks (a pentester's knowledge base) and Meshery (a Kubernetes manager).

What's notable is the absence: no new AI agent framework, no overnight viral repo. The youngest project here launched in 2022 and hasn't shipped a commit since March. Today's board is a roll call of incumbents, not a discovery feed.

Graham frames the billion as pure exponential math: growth rate times market size, and "it will happen automatically if you just keep making customers happy." His honest-earner examples are Airbnb, Apple, Facebook.

The sharpest pushback wasn't outrage but bookkeeping. Creative destruction credits the creation and quietly writes off the destruction, one engineer argued. Another did the YC math back at him: out of ~6,500 funded, about 30 billionaires, under 0.5%.

Gabriel Weinberg's data: 86% of desktop users hit a search engine 10+ times a month; only 21% touch AI chat tools that often. His framing — people consume AI like they eat meat: some embrace, some limit, some avoid.

Simon Willison called the headline a strawman but flagged the Microsoft stat — 30% of the US working-age population using AI 90+ minutes a month — as "impressively" high. Then practitioners split on whether the tools even work.

The post cites RULER and Chroma's context-rot report: performance degrades long before the advertised limit. The author's rule of thumb is a ~100k smart zone, reached "before lunch" in any real agent session.

An Xfce core dev routinely pushes Opus past 800k with no severe problem. Others swear the dumb zone starts under 100k. One voice cut through: every reply is anecdote, while the post at least cites standardized tests.

An essayist read Amodei's own policy ask line by line against the export order that just killed Fable: third-party assessment, scope to cybersecurity risk, government block authority. His verdict — 'they got what they asked for, letter for letter.'

The thread splits hard. Some call it karmic: the leopard ate their face first. Others note the third party here was Amazon, which owns 15–20% of Anthropic — and that OpenAI shipped a comparable model, got a government contract, and no notice at all.

The standout pattern isn't 'AI side-project' — it's the backlash to it. A search engine you can download the source of after 12 months as a paying customer. A baby tracker with zero analytics and on-device-only data. A publishing platform with 'strictly human content' and no algorithm.

And the deep cuts: a JVM written entirely in Go, a formally verified motion planner using arbitrary-precision math to fight numeric instability, and Magic: The Gathering played over webcam with whole-frame card detection.

The 'cold blob' sits where the Labrador Current meets the Atlantic — a region cooling while the rest of the ocean warms. It's read as a possible fingerprint of a weakening AMOC, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation that shunts tropical heat north and keeps Europe mild.

The honest catch a commenter surfaced: continuous AMOC monitoring only began in 2004. Twenty years of data is thin for calling a multi-century system's collapse, and a recent Science news piece argued the current is, for now, holding up.

Switzerland sits at 9.1 million people. The rejected initiative, from the right-wing SVP, would have forced measures — up to ending EU free movement — if the country hit 9.5 million before 2050. Voters said no by 54.8% to 45.2% on 58% turnout.

Swiss commenters flagged the real mechanics: this needed a 'double majority' of people AND cantons, and it failed both. A precedent looms — a 2014 immigration initiative passed and parliament quietly declined to implement it.

Britain is moving toward an age threshold of 16 for social media, built on the Online Safety Act that already lets Ofcom fine platforms. Australia switched on its own under-16 ban in December 2025, so the UK has a live precedent to copy.

The catch is mechanical: 'highly effective age assurance' means face-scan estimation or photo-ID at sign-up. As one games-industry engineer put it, the IDs don't go to the government, they go to verification vendors like Persona and Yoti, who then confirm to Meta and ByteDance exactly who you are.

The paper studies who gains and loses from rent control by tracking St. Paul property values after its 2021 ordinance. The headline finding: values fell 4.4–5.8% in nine months, a hit it attributes to lost landlord and homeowner wealth.

Commenters punctured the setup. The data window is nine months of pandemic-and-unrest 2021; the study dropped Minneapolis as a control on what one reader called a 'bullshit reason'; and the host, RHAWA, is a landlord lobbying group.

Kage drives headless Chrome to render a page the way a human sees it, snapshots the settled DOM, deletes every script, downloads CSS, images and fonts locally, then bundles the mirror into a standalone binary or a ZIM archive.

The first reply pointed to SingleFile, which packs a page into one self-contained HTML file with no server needed. A security researcher caught Chrome launched with --no-sandbox; others called the README LLM slop and assumed the code was too.

Tired of tools with paywalls, signups, or servers that swallow your schema, robhati built sqltoerdiagram.com: a client-side canvas where pasted DDL becomes an interactive diagram you can drag, auto-arrange, and export as PNG or SVG.

The engineering flex: tables are rasterized into cached bitmaps with viewport culling, and the SQL parser tracks source spans so a rename stays surgical. The pushback: tables aren't entities, so SQL alone can't give you a real ER diagram.

Jane Street argues the value of programming is shifting from writing code to verifying it: when GenAI produces tens of thousands of lines no one can review, formal specs and proofs become the affordable way to be certain. They point to OxCaml, seL4, Dafny and TLA+ as the industrial track.

A reverse engineer flagged the asterisk: seL4 is formally verified and still shipped gnarly bugs. The deeper crack came from a commenter who keeps trying for years: a formal spec is just 'the same implementation written a different way' and can carry the same bug.

A finished EPUB validates fine, then renders as a blank or broken page on Kobo with no error. The cause is RMSDK, Adobe's proprietary engine inside Kobo, built around 2010 for EPUB2 — no flexbox, no grid, no CSS math functions. Modern CSS doesn't degrade, it crashes.

An indie who tried to license RMSDK directly: the email on Adobe's site answers nothing, no internal docs exist, the product was quietly sold off. Kobo is now rewriting its reader to drop Adobe entirely.

Bernhardt's 2014 talk wasn't really about JavaScript dying. Its thesis: a fast bytecode-like subset (asm.js) becomes the universal compile target, the boundary between OS and browser dissolves, and JS survives as an invisible substrate you compile to but never touch.

The grades are split. WebAssembly proved him broadly right on direction. But one engineer flags the catch: Wasm still can't touch the DOM, so JavaScript glue isn't going anywhere — the prediction's timeline is slipping.

Linux 7.1 ships a rewritten in-kernel NTFS driver with real write performance, an Apple SMC battery driver for Asahi MacBooks, and early Intel Nova Lake and AMD graphics enablement. It also deletes over 140,000 lines: ISDN, PCMCIA controllers, i486-era subarchitectures.

The motive for some of those removals is new: AI-assisted bug reporting was generating noise against drivers for obsolete hardware, so the maintainers simply removed the targets.

Yserver is a from-scratch X11 server in Rust — not an Xorg fork. It implements 19 extensions (Composite, DRI3, GLX, RANDR) and deliberately drops multiple screens, non-TrueColor visuals, indirect GLX and the DDX driver ABI as 'legacy baggage'.

Two objections collide: practitioners who still need X11's network transparency and multi-monitor support that Wayland abandoned, and a chorus calling the project AI 'slop' that should disclose how much was machine-generated.

zeroserve's new Caddy-compat mode JIT-compiles a subset of Caddyfile directives to eBPF, then to native machine code, running it in an io_uring event loop for 3x throughput and 70% lower latency over Caddy.

The thread didn't dispute the numbers — it disputed the point. 'Caddy compatible minus everything that matters,' one wrote, since ACME and plugins are gone. Another did the math: at 35k qps on two threads, you're optimizing a metric that was never the bottleneck.

Garrit Franke's browser toy hands you a single ghost and lets the classic Pac-Man AI flee. Built in ~400 lines of HTML, vibe-coded with Claude. The complaint everyone hits: it feels impossible to catch him, and the swipe controls are rough.

Then the thread cracked it: Pac-Man never grabs the power pellets, so chase him into the bottom corridor by alternating right-down and you'll always close the gap. Others want Inky and Pinky added so you can actually corner him.

Cohen dates the shift precisely: fine through Opus 4.6, argumentative from 4.7, 'insufferable' on Fable. One engineer reproduced it live: Fable kept score in a debate about GPU inference and only ever awarded itself half-points.

The counter-camp says it's a mirror. Read the thinking trace, one reader argued, and you watch the model decide 'I can't just agree, I should find something' — an anti-sycophancy instruction tuned too far, not a personality.

The claim is forensic, not vibes: every weight tensor in Rio-3.5-Open-397B is, to thousands of standard deviations, a 0.6 Nex-N2 / 0.4 Qwen3.5 blend across all 60 layers. Strip the system prompt and it calls itself "Nex" 79% of the time.

A commenter caught the HuggingFace page adding a paragraph that wasn't there before: it now admits the merge and apologizes "profusely" for uploading the un-distilled version by mistake.