Richard Lawler

They’re red.

“You’re not overcooked, you’re emotionally complex.”

If you had any doubt where GI Joe’s antagonist would stand on the blockchain, Hasbro has repurposed this clip from S1E21, “Money to Burn.”

Feeling like Bluesky posts are a little too long? The Twitter-like platform is cutting down allowable character counts, from 300 to... 299.

Wired reports that one of DOGE’s many government initiatives is an attempt to rewrite the Social Security Administration codebase in a more modern programming language in just a few months. A proposed migration in 2017 predicted that modernizing properly would take around five years.

The NBA regular season only has a few games left, but the well-known content creator LeBron James is about to kick off a new season of the Mind the Game podcast.

Less than a week after its release to Gemini Advanced subscribers, the Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) model is now available to anyone who wants to try it, albeit with rate limits. Google says the new models now incorporate step-by-step “thinking” processes to become the best ones yet, and outpace the competition on LLM benchmarks.

Drone footage provided by Isar Aerospace (a startup incubated as part of the Bavaria One space program) shows the first test flight of its Spectrum orbital vehicle in Norway. The flight termination system was triggered before it attempted a first-stage separation, and the rocket fell into the sea, though Isar called it a success and said it has more vehicles in production.

Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter notes Apple’s push for an AI agent-powered “Project Mulberry” upgrade for its Health app next year, and that its its long-running attempt noninvasive glucose monitoring via Apple Watch sensors is still “many years away.” (Here’s more on why that’s been so difficult).

The framerate counters over at Digital Foundry looked into reports of noticeable stutters every eight seconds for games like Elden Ring and Spider-Man Remastered while using variable refresh rate, testing 19 games with a number of displays and comparing to Xbox versions where available.