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What we've been playing - "That's one of gaming's great cities, that is"
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing.
Archive
October 2026
- Gaming
What are we all playing this weekend?
You slip through my bedroom window as a cold draft on a crisp morning, both making my covers more welcome and the long walk to the kitchen for coffee that much harder.
- Technology
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages.
- Technology
Someone got Doom in an SQL database
1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.
- Technology
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
- Technology
Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.
- Gaming
30 Years Later, Nintendo's Forgotten N64 Racing Game Deserves a Switch 2 Rebirth
Released not long after the Nintendo 64 launched, one great racing game showed what the hardware could do.
- Technology
Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
Critics say workers are still owed far more.
- Technology
The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
It wasn't obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth.
- Technology
US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
- Technology
Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
Also: Spooky action at the LHC, Ice Age psychoactive use, yeast for building homes on Mars, and more.
- Gaming
"This is your Dreamcast moment": Former PlayStation boss thinks Xbox needs to "pick a lane" with exclusive games to fix itself
Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has some thoughts on where Team Xbox is at right now and where the green machine can go from here, but the console maker needs to "pick a lane" with exclusive games, either way.
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