๐ฎ Wendy's made a pixel RPG. It actually looks good.
Wendy's โ the burger chain โ is dropping a turn-based RPG on Steam: WendyQuest: Legend of the Four Corner Stones. The trailer is out, and the internet is split between "wait, is this good?" and "this is genuinely good."
Wendy and three companions (Sir Chicken included) battle mech-monsters to save a culinary kingdom. Enemies are animated menu items โ
Developer is 81monkeys, an indie studio from BC. The Steam page proudly notes it's "100% human made" โ which in 2025 is its own kind of flex, per IGN.
Marketing you'd actually want to finish. Rare species.
Wendy's โ the burger chain โ is dropping a turn-based RPG on Steam: WendyQuest: Legend of the Four Corner Stones. The trailer is out, and the internet is split between "wait, is this good?" and "this is genuinely good."
Wendy and three companions (Sir Chicken included) battle mech-monsters to save a culinary kingdom. Enemies are animated menu items โ
Frydusa is a fry container gone full snake-pit. HP restores via Dave's Single. The dialogue leans in: "Where's the beef?"Developer is 81monkeys, an indie studio from BC. The Steam page proudly notes it's "100% human made" โ which in 2025 is its own kind of flex, per IGN.
Marketing you'd actually want to finish. Rare species.
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๐ธ The Quiet Price of Silence
xAI has been building massive data centers in Southaven, Mississippi โ and is already facing lawsuits from residents over near-constant noise from its gas-fired turbines. The company's solution: buy the neighbors out.
Subsidiary MZX is reportedly offering to purchase 418 homes near the site. The catch: sellers must sign away all legal claims. Eighteen owners have already agreed; renters got 60 days to leave after their landlords said yes.
MZX's letter is admirably candid โ the company "denies all allegations" but happens to need the property for business purposes. Legally tidy. Morally, well.
Via The Guardian.
The Verge
xAI has been building massive data centers in Southaven, Mississippi โ and is already facing lawsuits from residents over near-constant noise from its gas-fired turbines. The company's solution: buy the neighbors out.
Subsidiary MZX is reportedly offering to purchase 418 homes near the site. The catch: sellers must sign away all legal claims. Eighteen owners have already agreed; renters got 60 days to leave after their landlords said yes.
MZX's letter is admirably candid โ the company "denies all allegations" but happens to need the property for business purposes. Legally tidy. Morally, well.
Via The Guardian.
The Verge
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๐ฌ Mr. Darcy has a new address: Netflix
Jane Austen doesn't go out of style โ she just gets a new streaming deal. Netflix has dropped the first trailer for its six-part Pride and Prejudice, arriving December 3, 2026.
Emma Corrin plays Elizabeth Bennet; Jack Lowden โ fresh off *Slow Horses* and a serious run at James Bond โ steps in as the famously proud Mr. Darcy. Dolly Alderton wrote the scripts, Euros Lyn directs, and the team is billing it as a faithful retelling: adversaries to lovers, 19th-century English society, the whole beloved machinery.
The trailer reads warm and sun-soaked. Classic is classic โ sometimes you don't reinvent the wheel, you just polish it.
Collider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuRYRhP6kag
Jane Austen doesn't go out of style โ she just gets a new streaming deal. Netflix has dropped the first trailer for its six-part Pride and Prejudice, arriving December 3, 2026.
Emma Corrin plays Elizabeth Bennet; Jack Lowden โ fresh off *Slow Horses* and a serious run at James Bond โ steps in as the famously proud Mr. Darcy. Dolly Alderton wrote the scripts, Euros Lyn directs, and the team is billing it as a faithful retelling: adversaries to lovers, 19th-century English society, the whole beloved machinery.
The trailer reads warm and sun-soaked. Classic is classic โ sometimes you don't reinvent the wheel, you just polish it.
Collider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuRYRhP6kag
YouTube
Pride and Prejudice | Official Trailer | Netflix
"It is a truth universally acknowledged..."
From the pages of Jane Austen's beloved novel comes a six-part adaptation on love, longing and first impressions written for the screen by Dolly Alderton
Pride and Prejudice starring Emma Corrin as Elizabethโฆ
From the pages of Jane Austen's beloved novel comes a six-part adaptation on love, longing and first impressions written for the screen by Dolly Alderton
Pride and Prejudice starring Emma Corrin as Elizabethโฆ
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๐ป Apple finally caved
A decade of resistance, one buried Touch Bar experiment, and today โ a full touchscreen MacBook Pro. No caveats.
๐ธ PROLED XDR, 14" and 16", 2,000 nits, 10,000,000:1 contrast
๐ธ M5 Pro / M5 Max, up to 128GB RAM, up to 16TB storage
๐ธ Dynamic Island cutout, stabilising hinge for tap-without-wobble
Starts at
Second big launch in two months for new CEO John Turnus. The man did not come to coast.
TechCrunch
A decade of resistance, one buried Touch Bar experiment, and today โ a full touchscreen MacBook Pro. No caveats.
๐ธ PROLED XDR, 14" and 16", 2,000 nits, 10,000,000:1 contrast
๐ธ M5 Pro / M5 Max, up to 128GB RAM, up to 16TB storage
๐ธ Dynamic Island cutout, stabilising hinge for tap-without-wobble
Starts at
$2,899 (14") and $3,399 (16"). Yesterday's M6 MacBook Pro from $1,999 makes the touchscreen clearly a premium tier, not the new normal.Second big launch in two months for new CEO John Turnus. The man did not come to coast.
TechCrunch
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๐ฎ Sony just remembered what cool looked like
In the late '90s, translucent plastic was everywhere โ Game Boy, iMac, PlayStation controllers. Then it quietly disappeared. Sony has decided it's time.
The Prism Collection brings three see-through DualSense controllers to PS5 โ orange, green, and gray โ with a high-gloss clear finish that lets you peek at the hardware inside. Matching console cover plates come in the same colors, though those won't reveal any PS5 internals, just vibes.
Preorders open November 10, shipping in February. Controllers run
Worth noting, per The Verge: Sony has been making translucent gamepads since the PS1 era. Every PlayStation generation has gotten one eventually. They're just calling it nostalgia now โ and honestly, fair enough.
Engadget
In the late '90s, translucent plastic was everywhere โ Game Boy, iMac, PlayStation controllers. Then it quietly disappeared. Sony has decided it's time.
The Prism Collection brings three see-through DualSense controllers to PS5 โ orange, green, and gray โ with a high-gloss clear finish that lets you peek at the hardware inside. Matching console cover plates come in the same colors, though those won't reveal any PS5 internals, just vibes.
Preorders open November 10, shipping in February. Controllers run
$85, cover plates $75.Worth noting, per The Verge: Sony has been making translucent gamepads since the PS1 era. Every PlayStation generation has gotten one eventually. They're just calling it nostalgia now โ and honestly, fair enough.
Engadget
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๐ Daily Recap ยท Oct 30
๐ Wendy's made an RPG and it slaps
๐ธ xAI is buying noisy neighbors out of existence
๐ฌ Netflix's Pride and Prejudice gets a December premiere date
๐ป Apple finally shipped a touchscreen MacBook Pro, no asterisks
๐ฎ Sony brought back see-through plastic and it rules
That person who was offline all day deserves to catch up โ pass this along
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
๐ Wendy's made an RPG and it slaps
๐ธ xAI is buying noisy neighbors out of existence
๐ฌ Netflix's Pride and Prejudice gets a December premiere date
๐ป Apple finally shipped a touchscreen MacBook Pro, no asterisks
๐ฎ Sony brought back see-through plastic and it rules
That person who was offline all day deserves to catch up โ pass this along
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
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๐ฌ The window, not the door
"Sunrise on the Reaping" opens November 20, and Jennifer Lawrence just confirmed the original trio is back โ Katniss, Peeta, and Haymitch.
Speaking on *Call Her Daddy*, she described an emotional reunion with the same crew after 11 years. Josh Hutcherson never left her side. Woody Harrelson skipped the door and climbed through her hotel window. "It wouldn't be the same if he listened to boundaries," she said.
The prequel follows a young Haymitch at the 50th Hunger Games, but Suzanne Collins' novel ends with a flash-forward featuring all three โ and the film appears to follow suit.
Variety
"Sunrise on the Reaping" opens November 20, and Jennifer Lawrence just confirmed the original trio is back โ Katniss, Peeta, and Haymitch.
Speaking on *Call Her Daddy*, she described an emotional reunion with the same crew after 11 years. Josh Hutcherson never left her side. Woody Harrelson skipped the door and climbed through her hotel window. "It wouldn't be the same if he listened to boundaries," she said.
The prequel follows a young Haymitch at the 50th Hunger Games, but Suzanne Collins' novel ends with a flash-forward featuring all three โ and the film appears to follow suit.
Variety
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๐ฎ The poster someone almost trashed just sold for $329,400
In 1981, Nintendo of America employee Donna Darbous rescued a Donkey Kong arcade flyer from a pile of materials marked for disposal. It just became the most expensive video game artwork ever sold at auction โ beating the previous record, the original Prince of Persia cover art (
The flyer shows Donkey Kong mid-barrel-hurl and a tiny Jumpman โ future Mario โ climbing to the rescue. Standard marketing material. Nearly landfill.
At the same Landry Pop Auctions sale, original Mario and Luigi artwork fetched
Check your attic.
IGN
In 1981, Nintendo of America employee Donna Darbous rescued a Donkey Kong arcade flyer from a pile of materials marked for disposal. It just became the most expensive video game artwork ever sold at auction โ beating the previous record, the original Prince of Persia cover art (
$63,000 in 2023), by over a quarter million dollars.The flyer shows Donkey Kong mid-barrel-hurl and a tiny Jumpman โ future Mario โ climbing to the rescue. Standard marketing material. Nearly landfill.
At the same Landry Pop Auctions sale, original Mario and Luigi artwork fetched
$17,080 against a $6,000 estimate, and a Nintendo employee orientation VHS tape starring Mario went for $3,660.Check your attic.
IGN
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๐ Patrick Stewart, 1940โ2025
Patrick Stewart died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home, aged 86, after a brief battle with Alzheimer's and Lewy Body Dementia. Two roles defined him for most of the world: Captain Picard across seven seasons of *Star Trek: TNG* and Professor Xavier through two decades of *X-Men*. Behind them sat twenty years at the Royal Shakespeare Company, an Olivier Award for *Hamlet*, and โ somehow โ a chilling neo-Nazi in *Green Room*. The range was almost unreasonable.
His final appearance as Xavier comes in *Avengers: Doomsday* this December. A film he won't see in a theatre.
Variety
Patrick Stewart died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home, aged 86, after a brief battle with Alzheimer's and Lewy Body Dementia. Two roles defined him for most of the world: Captain Picard across seven seasons of *Star Trek: TNG* and Professor Xavier through two decades of *X-Men*. Behind them sat twenty years at the Royal Shakespeare Company, an Olivier Award for *Hamlet*, and โ somehow โ a chilling neo-Nazi in *Green Room*. The range was almost unreasonable.
His final appearance as Xavier comes in *Avengers: Doomsday* this December. A film he won't see in a theatre.
Variety
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๐ธ Binance freezes withdrawals โ breach in progress
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, confirmed to TechCrunch it's dealing with an active security incident. Funds are being drained from its hot wallets right now.
Unverified but already alarming:
๐ธ Minimum estimated loss: $2 billion
๐ธ Some observers say up to
๐ธ Tether froze
Founder Zhao โ no longer CEO but still the biggest shareholder โ posted on X that losses will be "fully covered." How, exactly, remains unsaid.
For scale: the Bybit hack in 2025 was
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, confirmed to TechCrunch it's dealing with an active security incident. Funds are being drained from its hot wallets right now.
Unverified but already alarming:
๐ธ Minimum estimated loss: $2 billion
๐ธ Some observers say up to
$5.7 billion๐ธ Tether froze
$1.56 billion; Circle froze another $800 millionFounder Zhao โ no longer CEO but still the biggest shareholder โ posted on X that losses will be "fully covered." How, exactly, remains unsaid.
For scale: the Bybit hack in 2025 was
$1.4 billion โ a record, blamed on North Korea. The upper estimate here is four times that.๐2
๐ฌ Prada drew this one by hand โ literally
Two-thirds of advertisers now use generative AI in production (2026 IAB report); Prada called a Disney legend instead. John Pomeroy โ animator of *Pocahontas* and *Fantasia 2000* โ hand-drew the brand's entire holiday campaign, placing Sadie Sink, Maya Hawke and co. among pencil-sketched woodland creatures.
Coca-Cola ran AI holiday ads two years straight and got roasted each time. Prada picked up a pencil. Rebellion has excellent taste.
Via Variety.
Two-thirds of advertisers now use generative AI in production (2026 IAB report); Prada called a Disney legend instead. John Pomeroy โ animator of *Pocahontas* and *Fantasia 2000* โ hand-drew the brand's entire holiday campaign, placing Sadie Sink, Maya Hawke and co. among pencil-sketched woodland creatures.
"There's a very distinct reason to do hand-drawn animation โ to show that the human touch still has value."
Coca-Cola ran AI holiday ads two years straight and got roasted each time. Prada picked up a pencil. Rebellion has excellent taste.
Via Variety.
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๐ Daily Recap ยท Nov 02
๐ Patrick Stewart's unlikely rise from Yorkshire to Picard
๐ Captain Picard and Professor X actor dies at 86
๐ธ Binance actively losing billions in live security breach
๐ฌ Prada hired a Disney legend to hand-draw its ads
Someone in your life just had a very long day and missed all of this โ pass it along
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
๐ Patrick Stewart's unlikely rise from Yorkshire to Picard
๐ Captain Picard and Professor X actor dies at 86
๐ธ Binance actively losing billions in live security breach
๐ฌ Prada hired a Disney legend to hand-draw its ads
Someone in your life just had a very long day and missed all of this โ pass it along
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
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๐ธ DoorDash is buying Instacart โ and now it delivers everything
DoorDash dominates restaurant takeout; Instacart owns grocery runs. As of Thursday, that's one company's problem to solve.
The deal: $17 billion, or $65 a share, boards of both companies signed off. Instacart's stock is up 25% this year, and the timing is deliberate โ talks with Uber had quietly collapsed. Closing is expected late 2027 or early 2028.
Both brands stay intact and keep running independently until then. The combined pitch is simple: give smaller grocers ordering tech, ad tools, and a delivery network in one package. As DoorDash CEO Tony Xu put it โ someone has to pick the ripe avocado and get the ice cream there before it melts. Now one team owns that problem end to end.
TechCrunch
DoorDash dominates restaurant takeout; Instacart owns grocery runs. As of Thursday, that's one company's problem to solve.
The deal: $17 billion, or $65 a share, boards of both companies signed off. Instacart's stock is up 25% this year, and the timing is deliberate โ talks with Uber had quietly collapsed. Closing is expected late 2027 or early 2028.
Both brands stay intact and keep running independently until then. The combined pitch is simple: give smaller grocers ordering tech, ad tools, and a delivery network in one package. As DoorDash CEO Tony Xu put it โ someone has to pick the ripe avocado and get the ice cream there before it melts. Now one team owns that problem end to end.
TechCrunch
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๐ธ Reddit fed the hand that's now eating it
Reddit's model was simple: someone Googles a question, a Reddit thread appears, they click through, they see ads. Google's AI Overviews broke that chain โ the answer now lives inside the search page, and the click never comes.
CEO Steve Huffman told investors that Google referrals fell by over a million per week in October. If the trend holds, daily active users could drop by a low double-digit percentage from the current ~130 million base. The market responded: shares fell
The irony: in early 2024 Reddit sold Google access to its discussions for a reported $60M a year to train AI models. That content helped make Google's AI sharper. That sharper AI now keeps users on Google's page instead of Reddit's.
Via Decrypt.
Reddit's model was simple: someone Googles a question, a Reddit thread appears, they click through, they see ads. Google's AI Overviews broke that chain โ the answer now lives inside the search page, and the click never comes.
CEO Steve Huffman told investors that Google referrals fell by over a million per week in October. If the trend holds, daily active users could drop by a low double-digit percentage from the current ~130 million base. The market responded: shares fell
30.44% in one session โ 44% on the week โ landing at $90.15.The irony: in early 2024 Reddit sold Google access to its discussions for a reported $60M a year to train AI models. That content helped make Google's AI sharper. That sharper AI now keeps users on Google's page instead of Reddit's.
Via Decrypt.
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๐ฌ David Bowie's lost 1978 concert is finally seeing the light
Bowie commissioned a film of his London tour that year, hated the result, and shelved it. The reels sat untouched for nearly 40 years โ until director Brett Morgen found them while making *Moonage Daydream*.
His verdict: "the finest film performance of David Bowie's career." No character, no mask โ just the man himself. Syncing Visconti's 24-track audio to the footage alone took eight months.
On February 14, 2027, *Stage* premieres at Berlin's Uber Arena as a full arena experience: multiple screens, immersive sound, lighting by Patrick Woodroffe. Fifty years for the technology to catch up. More at Variety.
Bowie commissioned a film of his London tour that year, hated the result, and shelved it. The reels sat untouched for nearly 40 years โ until director Brett Morgen found them while making *Moonage Daydream*.
His verdict: "the finest film performance of David Bowie's career." No character, no mask โ just the man himself. Syncing Visconti's 24-track audio to the footage alone took eight months.
On February 14, 2027, *Stage* premieres at Berlin's Uber Arena as a full arena experience: multiple screens, immersive sound, lighting by Patrick Woodroffe. Fifty years for the technology to catch up. More at Variety.
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๐ธ Intel's worst day in 50 years
Shares dropped nearly 30% to
The quarter itself was solid: revenue up 21% year over year, EPS of $0.52, eighth consecutive beat. But the market looked ahead and didn't like it. Q4 guidance landed $1.6 billion below analyst expectations, and CFO Dave Zinsner warned free cash flow will likely stay negative next year.
The cruel irony: demand for Intel's AI server chips is booming โ the company just can't manufacture enough of them. Fabs are being built, cash is being burned, and the PC market keeps shrinking. A good recovery story and a cash-generating business are still two different things.
Via Decrypt.
Shares dropped nearly 30% to
$65.76 on Friday, wiping out over $146 billion in market value โ Intel's worst single-day crash since the 1970s.The quarter itself was solid: revenue up 21% year over year, EPS of $0.52, eighth consecutive beat. But the market looked ahead and didn't like it. Q4 guidance landed $1.6 billion below analyst expectations, and CFO Dave Zinsner warned free cash flow will likely stay negative next year.
The cruel irony: demand for Intel's AI server chips is booming โ the company just can't manufacture enough of them. Fabs are being built, cash is being burned, and the PC market keeps shrinking. A good recovery story and a cash-generating business are still two different things.
Via Decrypt.
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