This is a fun story about Sophos getting back at their Chinese hacker tormentors. If you can’t screw with the people who are screwing with you, is life even worth living?

iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games - Ars Technica

Yeah, I played games on my 5th gen iPod. Who didn’t?

Geoffrey Hinton’s misguided views on AI

Paris Marx is quite a bit more negative on AI than I am, but I do appreciate his point that a lot of this extinction event panic is really just a distraction from the fact that AI, like crypto, wants all of earth’s water and electricity for itself.

‘Alien signal’ sent from Mars decoded by father-daughter team | Space

Apparently the key to success in life is intuition and running simulations for hours and days on end. Now I know what I’ve been doing wrong.