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Shop Pay Meets Grok: xAI Adds Buy-Now Product Cards To Its Chatbot

Shop Pay Meets Grok: xAI Adds Buy-Now Product Cards To Its Chatbot

A FourWeekMBA headline reports Shop Pay and buy-now product cards for Grok, but launch timing, merchant access and checkout details are unconfirmed.
Valve Admits Steam Has An AI Slop And Cloning Problem, But Says 'We Don't Want To Be Gatekeepers Telling Developers Which Tools They Should Or Shouldn't Use'

Valve Admits Steam Has An AI Slop And Cloning Problem, But Says ‘We Don’t Want To Be Gatekeepers Telling Developers Which Tools They Should Or Shouldn’t Use’

Valve says it does not want to police developers’ tools, as it weighs low-quality game listings and fears of AI-assisted cloning on Steam.
Python's Experimental JIT To Be Removed

Python’s Experimental JIT To Be Removed

The maintainers withdrew PEP 836 after Python’s steering council said the proposal did not sufficiently address plans for the experimental JIT.
The Missed Opportunities Of Sonic 06 (2025)

The Missed Opportunities Of Sonic 06 (2025)

A 2025 technical report on Sonic 06 finds disabled visual features in the game files, alongside shader and shadow limits that complicate restoration.
Hedra Is A 3D Open World Game I Wrote From Scratch While In Highschool

Hedra Is A 3D Open World Game I Wrote From Scratch While In Highschool

A developer’s GitHub project page describes Hedra, a procedurally generated 3D RPG and custom engine begun while he was about 15.
Enjoy The Game

Enjoy The Game

A Lemmy post titled “Enjoy the game” links to an image, but the supplied material does not establish what it depicts or when it was posted.
I Love Software Rendering

I Love Software Rendering

A retro-computing writer says modern PCs can run classic DOS games at high resolutions using CPU-based software rendering.
Why Jackson Olson’s Guillermo Rodriguez Diss Is Drawing Attention

Why Jackson Olson’s Guillermo Rodriguez Diss Is Drawing Attention

Jackson Olson apologized after a comment about Guillermo Rodriguez’s dancing drew criticism. Olson says the two spoke privately and are fine.
Turn A WiFi 7 Router Into A 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

Turn A WiFi 7 Router Into A 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

An open-source project repurposes Gemtek W1700K routers as 320 Msps SDR receivers, streaming raw IQ data over 10 GbE to a Linux host.
The Making Of Super Mario 64 – Full Giles Goddard Interview (2001)

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – Full Giles Goddard Interview (2001)

Pixelatron published an expanded, unedited 2001 interview with Super Mario 64 programmer Giles Goddard, covering the small team and early design experiments.