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Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He’s also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn’t Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale and turns it into fodder for a more serious series about relationships,…
What do you want from a flip phone when it’s closed? A simple interface, perhaps notifications and a widget or two, for handling the basics? Or a fully fledged Android experience shrunk down for the Flip form factor? For years, Samsung has insisted on the former, even as some fans – and Razr rival Motorola…
As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists. While some of the people pumping out this kind of content immediately own up to using AI, others have denied using the technology…
Heroku’s slow decline pushed an entire generation of developers toward three platforms that promised the same “git push to deploy” simplicity without the baggage: Render, Railway, and Fly.io. By August 2026, all three have grown up in public, and not always gracefully. Render closed a $100 million Series C extension in February 2026 that valued…
Atlassian stopped selling new Opsgenie licenses in mid-2025 and set an end-of-support date of April 5, 2027, pushing thousands of on-call teams toward a forced migration decision. That single calendar date has turned a routine tooling comparison into an urgent budget conversation for any engineering org that still routes pages through Opsgenie. Meanwhile PagerDuty closed…
Four years of near-total silence on Electronic Arts’ Iron Man game ended abruptly this week, not with a marketing reveal but with a leak. Roughly two-and-a-half minutes of internal test footage from developer Motive Studio surfaced online on August 28, 2026, watermarked “AUG26 TEST,” and by August 29 the studio’s official account had confirmed it…
A leaked, unfinished trailer for EA Motive’s “Marvel’s Iron Man” spread across gaming forums and social media on August 28 and 29, 2026, and the reaction has landed in a genuinely unusual place: relief. After years of false starts on Iron Man games, fans are looking at a 2.5-minute clip of flight, combat, and a…
Every enterprise security team eventually hits the same wall: dozens, sometimes thousands, of vendors touching sensitive data, and no realistic way to audit each one by hand. That’s the gap that security ratings platforms were built to close, and in 2026 three vendors dominate the conversation whenever a CISO asks “which third-party risk management (TPRM)…
Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch locked to 30 frames per second on every console, including the PlayStation 5 Pro, according to reporting published this week by Tom’s Hardware. There is no performance mode confirmed for day one, and Rockstar has not committed to adding one later. For a game that has been in development…
Vulnerability scanning used to be a quarterly checkbox. In 2026, it is closer to a live feed. Security teams are watching CVEs land, get weaponized, and show up in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog within days, sometimes hours. That shift has put fresh pressure on the three tools most enterprises actually run day to day:…
