Richard Lawler

Polygon has more details, including a reclassification of the game’s characters, a playlist of rotating alternate modes, and bot matches to help new players get their feet wet when it launches on February 14th.

French luxury designer Hermès International SA is suing Mason Rothschild, the creator of “MetaBirkin” NFTs that are based on its iconic handbags. While Hermès views the collection as a ripoff, Rothschild says they’re art, and everyone else is wondering how NFTs are still a thing.

However, our thoughts are also with everyone affected by the disaster in Turkey and Syria where a pair of earthquakes, measured at 7.8 and 7.5, have reportedly killed over 2,300 people and left many trapped. The Associated Press, CNN, New York Times, and Reuters have the latest updates.

There’s more info on Bandcamp Friday here.

Other than the Galaxy Unpacked news, we also discussed earnings results from Apple and Google as they were announced on Thursday and tried to get a handle on what’s happening to big tech companies.

And for anyone who hasn’t paid attention to CutCo in a while, even Vector doesn’t make new members buy a set of sample knives upfront — they stopped doing that in 2011.

Julius “Zeekill” Kivimaki’s exploits allegedly include swatting, data breaches, defrauding the US Air Force, and more. The most recent accusation is that he hacked an online therapy center, Vastaamo, attempted to extort individual patients, then leaked all of their records online.

Come for the discussion of the flattest mirrors ever produced (and why Joe Biden is so concerned about where they get shipped), stay for the history of TSMC and Intel’s bad bet on lithography.

It can generate personalized text, pulling from customer records and emails in Office, with pricing details and other info, presumably making schmoozing current / prospective clients a bit easier.