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The Alan Wake developer says the objections that Rockstar Games’ parent company filed against its new logo were already resolved “entirely and amicably” late last year.

There’s ongoing discussion about a Nazi problem. Is there a business model problem as well? Joshua Brustein at Bloomberg thinks so:

Andy Baio has a great retrospective on Ello (remember Ello!?), which digs into all the ways the company’s values collided with its business ambitions — and just the realities of being a company. Even trying to do something the right way still costs money, and money never comes cheap.

(Besides, of course, paying to filter by intentions.) It is this: monogamists who settle down will delete dating apps. Non-monogamists are less likely to do so. Users = revenue, right?

Bethesda released a beta version of update 1.9.47.0 on Steam, and it adds “over a hundred fixes and adjustments,” according to a blog post. (Like improved widescreen support, if that’s your jam.)

Following yesterday’s news, that’s the text now shown at the top of Apple’s Series 9 and Ultra 2 websites.

The library is open and Perplexity is reading, my loves. (A reminder: shade is “I I don’t tell you you’re ugly, but I don’t have to tell you — because you know you’re ugly.” )

The company’s physical version of Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse was “was literally the last game produced on the US 3DS production line, with our cartridge order managing to get to Nintendo at the absolute last possible second,” CEO Josh Fairhurst says on X. The game is Limited Run’s final 3DS release.

At $999, KEF’s LSX II LT powered speakers aren’t what I’d call budget-priced, but they’re nonetheless cheaper than the company’s other products — as pointed out by AppleInsider. And looking beyond their impeccable style, these pack in nearly every playback option you could possibly want.

When a teenager spends more than 10 minutes watching Instagram Reels or sending DMs after 10PM, the app will now prompt them to close Instagram for the night. Meta’s launching the features amidst heightened concern over the impact of social media on its younger users; Mark Zuckerberg and other tech CEOs are due to appear before the US Senate later this month to “testify about their failure to protect children online.”

It’s always been kinds fun spotting silly, well-meant jokes flashing on the displays of the electronic signs posted along the sides of American highways.