- The best books we read in 2025 (The Verge)
- The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy movies of 2025, ranked (Polygon)
- The best JRPGs of 2025 (Polygon)
- The 10 best horror TV shows of 2025, ranked (Polygon)
- Zelda: ToTK on Switch 2 was my 2025 GOTY (Polygon)
- The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy TV shows of 2025, ranked (Polygon)
- The best PS5 games from 2025 (The Verge)
- 2025’s best video game remakes and remasters (Polygon)
Tag: CBS
Weekly Links 10.06–10.12
- A cartoonist’s review of AI art (The Oatmeal)
News
- AMD teams up with OpenAI to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance
- CBS News was just taken over by a Substack
- California bans noisy ads on Netflix, YouTube, and other streamers
- Qualcomm is acquiring DIY electronics platform Arduino
- Mastodon snags Bluesky’s starter packs feature and includes the ability to opt out
- Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions
- KPop Demon Hunters’ Huntrix makes live singing debut on SNL
- KPop Demon Hunters Huntr/x performance on Jimmy Fallon was Honmoon-worthy
- Penguins pounce in opener, spoil Sullivan’s return to Rangers — The Penguins played a great game, and the young guys looked good.
- The Minecraft movie is getting a sequel
- Brendan Carr wants to let internet providers charge hidden fees again
- Edifier’s new wireless speaker looks like a gaming PC
- Boox’s new smartphone-sized e-readers come with a steep price hike
- OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door
- Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank
- Amazon awkwardly edited the guns out of James Bond art
Weekly Links 07.14–07.20
- Not a joke: there is a new Commodore 64 coming out (kottke.org)
- Taking Journalism’s ‘Experts Said…’ Chicanery About Facts to Its Natural, Absurd Conclusion (kottke.org)
- Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP (kottke.org)
- Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects (kottke.org)
- Bloc Party’s Tiny Desk Concert (kottke.org)
- Star Wars Lofi (kottke.org)
- Network Pinheads at CBS Are Ending ‘The Late Show’ (Daring Fireball) — See also Colbert’s Cancellation Is a Dark Warning (via kottke.org)
- Who writes the documentation? (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Cursed Knowledge (Immich, via Frontend Masters Blog)
- A stack of browsers (Rachel Smith)
- This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii (Alex Haydock)
News
- Texas governor says his emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate or embarrassing’ to release
- The Pro 3 is 8BitDo’s first controller with swappable buttons
- Nintendo’s Zelda movie has found its princess and hero of time
- Stranger Things 5’s first trailer promises an epic showdown
- Elgato brightens up its Stream Deck and mics with four new colors
- Why a South Park lawsuit could mean season 27 is the show’s last