Marvel has a long history of making big announcements the way a developer ships a “minor patch” that quietly changes half the codebase. You look away for a second, and suddenly Jessica Jones is back in live-action, trading barbs with Matt Murdock, while Wilson Fisk appears to be running New York like it’s his personal…
Pokémon Winds and Waves heads to Switch 2 in 2027: why Game Freak’s longer dev cycle might finally pay off
After years of “please, just give the frame rate a snack” discourse, The Pokémon Company and Game Freak have finally said the quiet part out loud: the next mainline Pokémon adventure will be built for newer hardware first, and nostalgia can ride in the back seat. During the February 27, 2026 Pokémon Presents livestream (Pokémon…
Antarctica’s Blood Falls: The Final Piece of the “Bleeding Glacier” Mystery—and Why the Answer Sounds Like Plumbing
On February 24, 2026, WIRED published a story with a wonderfully confident headline: “The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved.” The article, written by Simone Valesini (and credited by WIRED as translated from WIRED Italia), argues that scientists now have the missing physical mechanism that explains why the Taylor Glacier occasionally…
F-16 Falcon Strike: The Atari XL/XE Combat Flight Sim That Shouldn’t Exist (But Absolutely Does)
Somewhere in the multiverse, there’s a timeline where the Atari 65XE is a respected platform for modern combat flight simulators. In our timeline, that idea sounds like a prank—until you boot F-16 Falcon Strike and realize the joke is on you. F-16 Falcon Strike is a new 3D, six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) combat flight simulator for Atari…
CreepyLink: The URL Shortener Designed to Look Like a Phishing Attack (and Why That’s Useful)
Normal URL shorteners try to be invisible. CreepyLink does the opposite: it takes an innocent destination and dresses it up like it belongs in a “please don’t click this” corporate phishing slideshow. The project’s tagline says it all: “The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible.” If you’ve ever hovered over…
PawSense: Catproof Your Computer (and Your Sanity)
Some inventions arrive with the subtlety of a kernel panic. Others show up with a gentle purr, then proceed to sit directly on your keyboard and send your manager a love letter composed entirely of “;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;” and the occasional “m” (for “meow,” presumably). PawSense belongs to the second category—software designed to detect when a cat…