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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Anthropic rolls out its codebase-scanning security tool for businesses.

Claude Security uses the Opus 4.7 model to scan a business’s codebase for vulnerabilities and issue a fix. This tool is rolling out to enterprise customers globally and isn’t to be confused with Anthropic’s Mythos, a powerful AI model that can identify and exploit vulnerabilities across operating systems and web browsers.

Screenshot: Anthropic via X
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Seahawks fans: Are we Cooked?

Outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook and current Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are considering bids for the Seattle Seahawks, Front Office Sports reports.

Paul Allen’s estate began the sale process for the NFL team in February after this year’s Super Bowl win. (Go Hawks, that was a great game.)

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Lawmakers advance bill that would age-gate AI chatbots.

Introduced last year, the GUARD Act would ban kids under 18 from accessing chatbots, while implementing age checks for everyone else. The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to advance the bill on Thursday, and now it’s headed to the Senate floor.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
The best part of the new Mandalorian movie might be this $600 animatronic Grogu.

Ahead of The Mandalorian and Grogu hitting theaters on May 22nd, Hasbro has announced a new animatronic version of Grogu packed with motors, sensors, and the ability to shuffle around on its own two feet. CNET’s Bridget Carey visited Hasbro HQ for an early look at the toy including how it simulates using the Force.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
XOXO has launched a full archive of the festival.

I missed this last week, but the XOXO organizers put together a wonderful website where you can watch all the videos from past years of the conference (which held its last iteration in 2024).

I encourage you to explore the whole site, but if you watch just one talk, make it this one from Panic’s Cabel Sasser.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Super Mario Galaxy 2 just got a weird update 16 years after its release.

Nintendo added a new epilogue to the storybook. It doesn’t tie the game to the movie or add much to the story. It’s mostly just left players confused. If you don’t feel like firing up the game to unlock the new bit, you can watch it below.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Star Wars: Galactic Racer takes off on October 6th.

There’s an obvious joke here but I’ve used it about this game already. Twice. Anyway, the game looks great.