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    1. Published on . 11 min read.

      Local AI comes from China and fits on a consumer GPU

      Before installing anything, I went looking for what I could actually run on my own machine. Every serious candidate turned out to be Chinese.

    2. Published on . 10 min read.

      Seven hundred AIs hacked Hugging Face for nothing

      In July, an OpenAI model broke into Hugging Face to cheat on a test. The two investigations published since tell a story far stranger than the hack itself.

    3. Published on . 9 min read.

      Gamescom runs on the AI the industry says it hates

      Two hours of trailers on the Cologne stage, and three days of conference rooms next door where the people who make games argued about a tool they all use.

    4. Published on . 9 min read.

      Songs of the Past gives Geralt one last hunt

      CD Projekt showed The Witcher 3's third expansion in Cologne, handed the first two out for free, and promised a free remaster of the whole game in September.

    5. Published on . 9 min read.

      AI ate the world's RAM and the refill arrives in 2028

      A 32 GB DDR5 kit ran about 120 euros in late 2025 and now clears 500, because the foundries followed the AI money. The new factories don't open until 2028.

    6. Published on . 6 min read.

      Cyberpunk 2077 runs great now and I mostly shrugged

      Seventy hours in Night City, six years after the worst launch of the decade, without a single bug in sight and without much of a thrill either.

    7. Published on . 7 min read.

      High school hangs up as AI enrolls

      The headline measure of France's Miller law died on August 14. Its quiet one takes effect September 1, the same morning AI becomes required coursework.

    8. Published on . 8 min read.

      France's teen social media ban never reached September

      The Constitutional Council struck down the under-15 ban over the exact hole I wrote about last month. Nobody had said who would check anyone's age.

    9. Published on . 11 min read.

      The summer France changed climates

      France has taken five heat waves since May, broken 726 heat records, and set none for cold. Serge Zaka keeps counting, and gets threats for it.

    10. Published on . 8 min read.

      Claude will sign everything it writes

      Anthropic is slipping an invisible signature into everything Claude writes, and subscribers revolted before a single marked sentence existed.

    11. Published on . 6 min read.

      Dead as Disco hits on the beat and hasn't let go

      I sat a friend down for thirty minutes of Dead as Disco on Friday night, we lost the entire evening to it, and I still haven't come up for air.

    12. Published on . 7 min read.

      Europe regulates the AI it doesn't build

      On Sunday, the machines that talk to us have to admit they are machines. That is roughly all the AI Act delivers, because the hard part slipped to 2027.

    13. Published on . 8 min read.

      The prompt engineer is fading and that suits me fine

      Anthropic now teaches Claude by watching you work. Behind the gimmick sits the end of a job that never quite happened, and the return of what we're good at.

    14. Published on . 8 min read.

      Banning teens from social media without knowing how

      The science backs the lawmakers, Australia undercuts them, and nobody can yet say who will check our children's ages or what they will keep afterward.

    15. Published on . 5 min read.

      Nolan's Odyssey hugs the coastline

      I promised a report on Christopher Nolan's movie. Here it is, lukewarm, while every critic in the business rolled out the red carpet for Odysseus.

    16. Published on . 5 min read.

      Clair Obscur paints the finest RPG

      A friend wanted RPG tips, and I circled back to the game that stuck with me most, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, whose eight-hour soundtrack I keep on loop.

    17. Published on . 5 min read.

      La Bataille de Gaulle, my Bastille Day with the General

      Five hours and sixteen minutes in the dark with Charles de Gaulle, on a day France offered both a World Cup semifinal and a red heat alert.

    18. Published on . 6 min read.

      GPT-5.6 Sol, the sun that throws shade at Fable

      OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 and its flagship Sol right as Anthropic prepares to pull Fable 5 from its subscription plans. The timing is nobody's accident.

    19. Published on . 5 min read.

      Xbox cuts jobs, the Fed hires its CEO to study jobs

      Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs the same week its CEO joined a Federal Reserve task force on productivity and employment. You can't make this stuff up.

    20. Published on . 5 min read.

      SGDQ 2026, my speedrunning World Cup

      Summer Games Done Quick 2026 just wrapped up in Minneapolis, so let me explain why speedrunning impresses me more than the World Cup ever will.

    21. Published on . 6 min read.

      Fable 5 Is Back, the Government in the Loop

      Anthropic switches Fable 5 back on worldwide after export controls lift, but the accuser turns out to be Amazon and the government is now in the loop.

    22. Published on . 3 min read.

      The Biter Bit, Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Copying Claude

      Anthropic says Alibaba siphoned Claude's capabilities through fake accounts to train Qwen, but the company crying theft has done plenty of taking itself.

    23. Published on . 4 min read.

      Midjourney Dreams of an MRI at Spa Speed

      Known for synthetic images, Midjourney now promises to scan your whole body in sixty seconds, somewhere between the radiology lab and the spa.

    24. Published on . 14 min read.

      Keeping a cool head when France melts

      From a well-placed fan to chalk wash on the windows, how I keep a home livable through a French heat wave without wrecking my health.

    25. Published on . 5 min read.

      Soundcore Sleep, and finally sound asleep

      A non-sponsored field report on soundcore Sleep earbuds, which finally cured my trouble falling asleep after fifteen years of wax and foam earplugs.

    26. Published on . 4 min read.

      MapTap, guessing the world one tap at a time

      MapTap is a daily geography game where you tap five places on a globe, and every answer comes with a short history lesson that actually sticks.

    27. Published on . 5 min read.

      On the web, humans are already outnumbered

      For the first time, Cloudflare has measured more web requests coming from bots than from humans, a tipping point that arrived far sooner than anyone expected.

    28. Published on . 5 min read.

      Le Chaton Fat, the model too fat to be true

      For one weekend, Reddit and X crowned Le Chaton Fat, a world-beating Mistral AI model with absurd benchmark scores, before remembering it had never existed.

    29. Published on . 4 min read.

      Guild Wars 3, the MMORPG I won't have time to love

      ArenaNet announced Guild Wars 3 at Summer Game Fest, and the MMORPG veteran dozing inside me snapped awake, dragging twenty-five years of memories with him.

    30. Published on . 6 min read.

      Fable and Mythos, the day AI got classified

      Three days after launch, Anthropic had to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on Washington's orders, and export controls now reach artificial intelligence.

    31. Published on . 4 min read.

      Elon Musk, a trillionaire despite it all

      SpaceX's record-smashing IPO just made Elon Musk the first trillionaire in history, a feat that commands respect and unease in roughly equal measure.

    32. Published on . 6 min read.

      The Wave, or how to build a dictatorship in five days

      A lunch with a friend, a movie memory, and a handful of social experiments later, a look back at the German film where a whole classroom flips in a single week.

    33. Published on . 4 min read.

      Alba, my daughter, and one controller for four hands

      Why Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is the perfect game to share with a four-year-old: an open world with no enemies, wildlife to photograph, and no lecture.

    34. Published on . 3 min read.

      Welcome to this blog

      First things first: why this blog exists, how it's built, and what you're in for, from tech to video games, confessions included.