The Twenty-Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest – or IOCCC for short – is back again with the results of the 2025 competition. This year, one of the entrants has a unique new trick up their ...

Love Island USA introduced a new code word when “French fries” was used to describe a sex act — but what does it mean? The June 21, episode briefly showed Kenzie and Corbin hooking up in bed. The next ...

AI and vibe-coding have fueled a massive surge in mobile game releases, but the top 1% of publishers still control the vast ...

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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become ...

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its closely watched Mythos model. What can Fable actually do? All kinds of things, it turns out. Ethan Mollick, a notable ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. The trailer shows Claire Redfield entering a run-down ...

Using Nuke Your City codes is the fastest way to supercharge your destructive potential in this incremental simulator by Nuclear Fun. Built around a gloriously chaotic premise, the game tasks you with ...

[Kert Gartner]’s ASCII Aquarium turns a cheap yellow display (CYD) into a tiny simulated aquarium, complete with ASCII sea creatures each with their own behaviors. There’s all kinds of options and ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Soccer fans in Little Rock will have a new place to gather this summer, with a local venue turning match days into an all-are-welcome hangout. The Soccer Center in Little ...

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...

Anthropic hosted Code with Claude 2026 in San Francisco on May 6, publishing livestream sessions to YouTube that covered shipping work across Claude Code, the Claude Developer Platform, and partner ...