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Andru Marino
The iPhone Duo vs vertical video: which will fold?

I took a foldable phone to New York City’s first ever microdrama film festival to see if the entertainment industry’s investment in vertical video will clash with the wider aspect ratio screens of the iPhone Duo and Galaxy Z Fold 8.

Retro gaming is being overrun with AI

A rise in AI-powered decomps, recomps, and ports has thrust the community into chaos.

Andrew Webster
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Two games to give your thumbs a workout.

Nintendo Switch Sports Resort (thumb wrestling), and Final Fantasy Resonance (random battles to mash through) are both out today. They’re great, and they should help you stay busy ahead of the Ocarina of Time remake and GTA VI next month.

Wildwood director: AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’
Interview

Laika CEO Travis Knight explains why he remains hopeful despite the potential for AI to be ‘devastating.’

Andrew Webster
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
The Internet Archive was briefly forced offline because of PHP.

The list of sites that had to go down, at least temporarily, because of the recently disclosed PHP vulnerability keeps growing. Thankfully, the Internet Archive’s ops team quickly got things patched, secured, and back online. Digital librarian Brewster Kahle posted his thanks on Mastodon last night: “Given the severity, there are heroes in many many orgs from last night. Could have been no lights, no traffic signals, real problems.“

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Carrie carries on.

It was pretty obvious from the show’s finale, but now it’s official: Mike Flanagan is making a second season of his Carrie remake on Prime Video. “From the beginning, we imagined a story that goes far beyond the prom, and I’m incredibly grateful for Stephen [King]’s trust and support in exploring what comes next,” Flanagan said in a statement.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Build it, stack it, sort it, make it.

Lego and Daft Punk have revealed a new collaboration that will include an upcoming set based on the pyramid stage design from the duo’s 2007 Alive concert tour. The Daft Punk Concert set was originally submitted to the Lego Ideas platform in 2020 by a father-son duo from Belgium, according to Variety, but has finally been approved for production by Lego after amassing 10,000 supporters.