Taiwan will hand roughly $314 USD in cash to every resident next year as a boon for the island’s residents generated by the AI gold rush. The 2027 central government budget sets aside $7.4 billion USD for the dividend.

id Software included locked versions of its entire game library on the $10 Quake shareware CD it released in 1996. But the system meant to allow gamers to pay for and unlock those titles over the phone proved vulnerable to crackers who discovered a way to unlock every game on the disc for free.

A developer has revealed that they used Claude Code to create a macOS laser printer driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a machine designed for Windows users.

Building neural networks in Minecraft using redstone is a relatively common pursuit, but a clever creator has worked around the limitations of command blocks’ available math operations to implement an LLM in just 445,782 blocks, down from over a million in the initial implementation.

A developer posted their Doom port for the Canon EOS 550D on GitHub. The game uses the Magic Lantern firmware add-on to run on the camera, and uses various camera buttons to play the game directly from the SD card.