Beloved Apple blog TUAW was shut down in 2015, sold to private equity, then sold to a company in Hong Kong. It recently relaunched as an AI content farm using the stolen identities and bylines of its former human staff. A nightmare:

https://www.404media.co/a-beloved-tech-blog-tuaw-is-now-publishing-ai-articles-under-the-names-of-its-old-human-staff/

In 1969, a teenager created the first “lunar lander” game

entirely text-based gameplay!

Decades later, after an interview with ace games journalist @benjedwards, the now-adult game developer puts that old code online

People start playing it

… and one engineer finds a bug — previously un-noticed in 55 year old code

I love stories like this

Item #4 in my latest “Linkfest” newsletter, free to read and subscribe here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-22-dragon-biology-soviet-food-kiosks-and/

I recently discovered an odd first-person maze game called “Lair of Squid” built into my HP 200LX palmtop PC, released in 1994

Then I found the author. Here’s the story of how this quirky Doom-inspired title came to be: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/07/how-i-found-a-forgotten-squid-based-ode-to-doom-on-a-1994-palmtop-pc/

So @briankrebs seems the skimmer electronics haven’t changed much since 2021 when you wrote your article. Found this today at a local supermarket.

Still the same gecko board and wireless module.

I’ve seen a few questions are still floating about, so here is your…

💫 STAR TREK: PRODIGY HOLIDAY GUIDE 💫

1.) All 20 episodes of #StarTrekProdigy Season One are dropping this Christmas on Netflix!

2.) Season Two of #StarTrekProdigy is debuting on Netflix in 2024!

3.) If you can’t find it on Netflix, a few international territories still air S1 on local channels.

4.) Netflix has a huge global audience. Don’t wait. Tell others, watch when it drops… who knows what the future holds! 🖖 💫

I keep getting reports of this Pixel Pals fake on the App Store (that stole my artwork and screenshots and is running ads with scammy costly weekly subs), but the only way I can seemingly report this is a form that gives this creep my home address.

Is there anything I can do?