Today's outages, hacks, phones, gadgets and fixes, plus the tech you grew up with, picked daily by Chris Pirillo for the pros everybody calls.https://lockergnome.com/en-ushttps://lockergnome.com/castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-ps1-mod-adds-saturn-areas-on-one-cd/https://lockergnome.com/castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-ps1-mod-adds-saturn-areas-on-one-cd/Modder BelaLugosiIsDead released SOTN Ultimate, which builds a single 683 MB PlayStation disc from your own PS1, Saturn and PSP copies of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, with the Saturn's Underground Garden, Cursed Prison and Maria plus the PSP's English dub.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:14:00 GMTGamingcastlevaniasymphony-of-the-nightplaystationsega-saturnrom-hacksdecompilationretro-gaminghttps://lockergnome.com/lemmings-ts-browser-lemmings-runs-from-your-own-windows-cd/https://lockergnome.com/lemmings-ts-browser-lemmings-runs-from-your-own-windows-cd/Paul O'Brien's Lemmings TS reads the levels, art and music out of your own Windows Lemmings disc image or DOS files, keeps them in the browser, and adds a tested hint for every one of the 120 DOS and 114 Windows levels.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:14:00 GMTGaminglemmingsbrowser-gamesopen-sourcetypescriptpwaretro-gaminghttps://lockergnome.com/understand-anything-claude-code-plugin-maps-any-codebase-as-clickable-graph/https://lockergnome.com/understand-anything-claude-code-plugin-maps-any-codebase-as-clickable-graph/One /understand command has a team of AI agents read a whole project and save every file, function, class and dependency to a JSON graph, then opens a dashboard with guided tours, a change-impact view and a chat. The MIT-licensed project had 89,139 GitHub stars on October 30.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:14:00 GMTAIclaude-codecodexdeveloper-toolsopen-sourceknowledge-graphonboardinghttps://lockergnome.com/captcha-began-yahoo-chat-room-bots-posing-as-teenagers-gimpy/https://lockergnome.com/captcha-began-yahoo-chat-room-bots-posing-as-teenagers-gimpy/A September 2000 conference call between Yahoo's chief scientist and Manuel Blum's group produced Gimpy, distorted words drawn from an 850-word dictionary, and a bet that every broken test would be an AI problem solved.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTSecuritycaptchayahoocarnegie-mellonbotsinternet-historyaihttps://lockergnome.com/florilegium-lualatex-procedural-delft-margins/https://lockergnome.com/florilegium-lualatex-procedural-delft-margins/Kevin Raymond's MIT-licensed florilegium package paints watercolor floral margins in Lua while TeX typesets the page: no images, no imported paths, and page n always gets garden n. It started as an answer to a Reddit question.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTSoftwarelatexlualatexgenerative-arttypographyopen-sourcepdfhttps://lockergnome.com/global-law-world-law-as-git-history/https://lockergnome.com/global-law-world-law-as-git-history/Lexifina's CC0 global-law repository pins 107 corpora of national law as git submodules, interleaved by the date each change took force, with a read-only MCP server so an AI model can quote what a statute said on a given day.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTSoftwaregitlawopen-datamcplegal-techversion-controlhttps://lockergnome.com/jetbrains-thinkrail-ide-shelves-workspaces-when-pull-request-merges/https://lockergnome.com/jetbrains-thinkrail-ide-shelves-workspaces-when-pull-request-merges/ThinkRail, a JetBrains incubator project under Apache-2.0, wraps the pi coding agent in a desktop IDE where every task is its own git worktree, and a finished one settles onto a shelf by itself. Version 0.3.0 shipped October 29.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTSoftwarejetbrainsideai-agentsgitopen-sourcedeveloper-toolshttps://lockergnome.com/nesformer-nes-compiled-into-qwen-weights/https://lockergnome.com/nesformer-nes-compiled-into-qwen-weights/Drew Breunig's nesformer puts a 6502 CPU, 2 KB of RAM and a cartridge's program ROM inside a stock Qwen3.5 checkpoint. Nobody trained the weights; a compiler computed every one, and the model plays games by predicting the CPU's execution log.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTAInesllmqwenemulation6502retro-gaminghttps://lockergnome.com/netbsd-adds-atto-editor-to-base/https://lockergnome.com/netbsd-adds-atto-editor-to-base/NetBSD-current now ships atto(1), a small Emacs-keyed text editor written mainly by Hugh Barney, as an alternative to vi for people who never learned modes. The project calls it small enough for the rescue system.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTSoftwarenetbsdtext-editorsviunixbsdopen-sourcehttps://lockergnome.com/original-1989-simcity-ran-on-16-mhz-by-skipping-simulation-frames/https://lockergnome.com/original-1989-simcity-ran-on-16-mhz-by-skipping-simulation-frames/The open-sourced Micropolis code, Electronic Arts' release of the SimCity engine, shows Simulate() stepping a counter from 0 to 15 so map scans, taxes, power, pollution, crime, population and fire each take a turn instead of running every frame.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTGamingsimcitymicropoliswill-wrightgame-developmentoptimizationopen-sourcehttps://lockergnome.com/playstation-creator-ken-kutaragi-nintendo-snes-cd-revenge/https://lockergnome.com/playstation-creator-ken-kutaragi-nintendo-snes-cd-revenge/The father of the PlayStation told GamesIndustry.biz that Nintendo's switch to Philips went from a 'bad shock' to 'we are free to do anything' — and that today's multi-year, thousand-person games are 'meaningless.'Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTGamingplaystationsonynintendoken-kutaragigaming-historysuper-famicomhttps://lockergnome.com/rfc-675-1974-tcp-spec-shortened-internetwork-to-internet/https://lockergnome.com/rfc-675-1974-tcp-spec-shortened-internetwork-to-internet/Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine's December 1974 RFC 675 is headed "Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program," while every sentence underneath says "internetwork" and describes data as letters, fragments and gateways.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTRetrorfctcpvint-cerfinternet-historysocketsarpanethttps://lockergnome.com/robots-txt-usage-ai-training-token/https://lockergnome.com/robots-txt-usage-ai-training-token/A new IETF draft lets a site write one robots.txt group for a made-up user agent called __usage_ai-training. Google says it will treat a Disallow there like a Google-Extended opt-out. A site that blocks every bot with User-agent: * has said nothing about training until it adds the line.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTAIrobots-txtai-traininggoogleietfweb-publishingseohttps://lockergnome.com/sonic-06-cut-lighting-shaders-still-in-game-files/https://lockergnome.com/sonic-06-cut-lighting-shaders-still-in-game-files/Isaac Marovitz, digging through Sonic '06 for the Marathon Recompiled PC port, found eight Billboard shader tiers on the disc, with most of the game drawn by Billboard02, and stages that feed eight or more point lights into a two-light slot.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTGamingsonic-06segarenderingshadersdecompilationxbox-360https://lockergnome.com/tomb-raider-game-boy-color-score-retconned-below-pokemon-zelda/https://lockergnome.com/tomb-raider-game-boy-color-score-retconned-below-pokemon-zelda/Core Design artist Matt Charlesworth says the Game Boy Color Tomb Raider began as a Flashback-style space prototype called Salvage, and that a magazine later walked back its perfect score because it was ranking above Nintendo's biggest games.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:05:51 GMTGamingtomb-raidergame-boy-colorcore-designretro-gamingpixel-artgaming-historyhttps://lockergnome.com/rfc-706-postel-1975-junk-mail-blocklist-before-spam/https://lockergnome.com/rfc-706-postel-1975-junk-mail-blocklist-before-spam/In November 1975, Jon Postel wrote that an Arpanet host had no way to turn away unwanted network messages and sketched a "refuse messages from Host X" command with a per-sender threshold, two and a half years before a DEC sales pitch reached hundreds of Arpanet users in May 1978.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:31 GMTRetroarpanetjon-postelrfcspaminternet-historyblocklistshttps://lockergnome.com/simantic-bot-runs-firmware-on-simulated-chip-catches-off-by-one-led-never-turns-off/https://lockergnome.com/simantic-bot-runs-firmware-on-simulated-chip-catches-off-by-one-led-never-turns-off/Simantic Bot, from a Fall 2026 Y Combinator startup, builds the firmware in a GitHub pull request, runs it on a simulated microcontroller, and posts a review whose every runtime claim comes from those runs; its homepage example flags a +15 that should be +16.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:30 GMTSoftwaresimanticfirmwareembeddedcode-reviewstm32https://lockergnome.com/overtone-captions-one-file-cuts-separate-captions-for-widescreen-and-phone-video/https://lockergnome.com/overtone-captions-one-file-cuts-separate-captions-for-widescreen-and-phone-video/Overtone stores each spoken word once with its time and speaker, then cuts its own captions for 16:9 and 9:16 from that file, and a single offline command turns a subtitle file you already have into both shapes with no API key and no ffmpeg.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:29 GMTSoftwarecaptionssubtitlesopen-sourcevideoaccessibilityhttps://lockergnome.com/martin-fowler-llm-voice-dont-let-ai-write-even-the-first-draft/https://lockergnome.com/martin-fowler-llm-voice-dont-let-ai-write-even-the-first-draft/In an October 29 post, software author Martin Fowler says a human edit rarely removes the telltale voice of an LLM-written draft, that even accepting an AI's rephrasing is dangerous, and that an outline is as far as he would let one go.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:28 GMTAImartin-fowlerllmwritinggenerative-aieditinghttps://lockergnome.com/keplearn-free-tool-named-for-kepler-finds-gravity-formula-from-five-row-table/https://lockergnome.com/keplearn-free-tool-named-for-kepler-finds-gravity-formula-from-five-row-table/Keplearn is an MIT-licensed symbolic regression program that takes columns of numbers, searches for the compact formula linking them, and on SRBench's 116 Feynman physics equations reports solving 75 exactly.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:27 GMTSoftwarekeplearnsymbolic-regressionrustopen-sourcephysicshttps://lockergnome.com/impeccable-coding-agent-add-on-flags-62-tells-of-ai-web-design-purple-gradients-nested-cards/https://lockergnome.com/impeccable-coding-agent-add-on-flags-62-tells-of-ai-web-design-purple-gradients-nested-cards/Paul Bakaus's open-source Impeccable gives Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other coding agents a design vocabulary, a reviewer and a slop detector whose 62 fixed rules catch the habits AI page builders repeat, with no LLM and no API key.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:26 GMTAIai-codingweb-designclaude-codecursorcodexopen-sourcedesign-toolshttps://lockergnome.com/why-c-compilers-still-name-your-program-a-out/https://lockergnome.com/why-c-compilers-still-name-your-program-a-out/Dennis Ritchie's history of C explains that Ken Thompson's PDP-7 assembler had no loader or linker and always wrote its output to one fixed file, a.out, a name gcc still uses when you leave off -o.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:25 GMTRetrounixcken-thompsondennis-ritchiegcchttps://lockergnome.com/telnet-subliminal-message-option-caps-lock-morse-code/https://lockergnome.com/telnet-subliminal-message-option-caps-lock-morse-code/B. Miller of CMU-NetDev dated RFC 1097, the TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE option, April 1, 1989: a server sends a text, a display time in milliseconds and a gap in seconds, and the client flashes it at the edge of the screen to nudge stubborn users into upgrading.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:24 GMTRetrotelnetrfcapril-foolsinternet-historycmuprotocolshttps://lockergnome.com/telnet-randomly-lose-option-rfc-748/https://lockergnome.com/telnet-randomly-lose-option-rfc-748/Mark Crispin's RFC 748, dated April 1, 1978, defined a Telnet option numbered 256 that a server had to negotiate with you before it was allowed to crash, garble files or otherwise lose at random.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:23 GMTRetrotelnetrfcapril-foolsinternet-historynetworkinghttps://lockergnome.com/rfc-1925-twelve-networking-truths-indirection/https://lockergnome.com/rfc-1925-twelve-networking-truths-indirection/Ross Callon's RFC 1925, The Twelve Networking Truths, was published on April 1, 1996 as an Informational joke memo, yet its rules about indirection, pigs with enough thrust and good-fast-cheap still get quoted, including in a serious 2002 RFC on Internet architecture.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:22 GMTRetrorfcietfnetworkingapril-foolsinternet-historysoftware-designhttps://lockergnome.com/ipv4-evil-bit-rfc-3514-attack-traffic-flag/https://lockergnome.com/ipv4-evil-bit-rfc-3514-attack-traffic-flag/Steven Bellovin's April 1, 2003 RFC 3514 claimed the IPv4 header's only unused bit as a security flag that attackers are required to set, and years later some real networks were still dropping packets that set it.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:21 GMTRetrorfc-3514evil-bitipv4april-foolsfirewallsinternet-historyhttps://lockergnome.com/yorkshire-farm-windows-xp-pc-patched-by-14-year-old-grandson/https://lockergnome.com/yorkshire-farm-windows-xp-pc-patched-by-14-year-old-grandson/A support tech told The Register's On Call column that a Yorkshire dairy farm ran feeding, milk yields, breeding and government reporting for a few hundred cattle on a single Windows XP PC, just after XP's mainstream support ended in 2009, with no backup, no spare and no firewall.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:20 GMTSecuritywindows-xpsmall-business-itbackupsfirewallsagriculturetech-supporthttps://lockergnome.com/vghf-colin-williamson-photos-japan-game-culture-1999-dreamcast-tgs/https://lockergnome.com/vghf-colin-williamson-photos-japan-game-culture-1999-dreamcast-tgs/Colin Williamson covered Japan for IGN, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine and PC Gamer starting in 1999, and because he carried a digital camera when that was still unusual, the arcades, booths and street kiosks nobody thought to document survived; the Video Game History Foundation has published the collection with permission to reuse it with credit.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:19 GMTRetrovideo-game-historydreamcasttokyo-game-showjapanretro-gaminghttps://lockergnome.com/teapuppies-ochaken-fansite-2004-now-gambling-ads-back-it-up-warc/https://lockergnome.com/teapuppies-ochaken-fansite-2004-now-gambling-ads-back-it-up-warc/Web archivist Misty De Meo found that teapuppies.com, a fansite for the tea-eared puppy series Ochaken that had barely changed since 2005, now serves gambling ads, and wrote a step-by-step guide to saving a site yourself with Webrecorder's free tools.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:18 GMTSoftwareweb-archivingwarcwebrecorderfansiteslink-rotdigital-preservationhttps://lockergnome.com/sylphide-os-512x384-black-and-white-desktop-for-rp2350-microcontrollers/https://lockergnome.com/sylphide-os-512x384-black-and-white-desktop-for-rp2350-microcontrollers/Developer Thomas Capricelli announced Sylphide OS 0.1 on October 28: a FreeRTOS-based system with a window manager, menus and a mouse cursor for computers built on microcontrollers like the ESP32-P4 and the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, plus a VGA board he wired himself.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:17 GMTHacks & Buildssylphide-osmicrocontrollersraspberry-pi-pico-2rp2350esp32-p4retrocomputingoperating-systemsopen-hardwarehttps://lockergnome.com/stack-overflow-969-surviving-questions-september-2026-vs-141749-in-2020/https://lockergnome.com/stack-overflow-969-surviving-questions-september-2026-vs-141749-in-2020/Stack Exchange's public API, asked for every Stack Overflow question still on the site from September 2026, returns 969, against 5,072 for September 2025 and 141,728 for September 2020, a drop of more than 99 percent in six years.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:16 GMTSoftwarestack-overflowdeveloperschatgptaiprogramminghttps://lockergnome.com/sms-of-death-wap-push-integer-overflow-crashes-android-phone-app/https://lockergnome.com/sms-of-death-wap-push-integer-overflow-crashes-android-phone-app/A disclosed Android flaw in the WapPushOverSms telephony code turns an out-of-range header length into a negative array size, crashing com.android.phone; it is zero-click and silent, affects Android 12 through 17, and the October 2026 update fixes only 14 through 17.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:15 GMTSecurityandroidsecuritysmstelephonydenial-of-servicehttps://lockergnome.com/skyreader-rss-subscriptions-public-on-at-protocol-pds-private-feeds-leak/https://lockergnome.com/skyreader-rss-subscriptions-public-on-at-protocol-pds-private-feeds-leak/Melanie Kat pulled more than 1,300 RSS feed URLs from public app.skyreader.feed.subscription records on Bluesky's AT Protocol, including private feeds for Club MacStories, 404 Media full text, Patreon and GitLab, because every record on a PDS is readable by anyone.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:14 GMTSecurityblueskyat-protocolrssprivacyskyreaderpdshttps://lockergnome.com/legend-of-xanadu-pc-engine-cd-english-patch-recompresses-whole-game/https://lockergnome.com/legend-of-xanadu-pc-engine-cd-english-patch-recompresses-whole-game/Homebrewer Elmer and translator SamIam released xdelta3 patches that decompress Falcom's files, apply the English text, and recompress the whole game with a tighter method so the longer English script still fits the PC Engine's limited memory, with no AI text and no AI-generated code.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:13 GMTRetrofalcompc-engineturbografx-16fan-translationretro-gaminghttps://lockergnome.com/doomformer-neural-network-computed-by-voodoo-dolls-inside-doom-maps/https://lockergnome.com/doomformer-neural-network-computed-by-voodoo-dolls-inside-doom-maps/An open-source tool turns an integer neural network into a playable DOOM level, where crowds of voodoo dolls carry the numbers, and it reads 10,000 of 10,000 MNIST test digits with the same values NumPy computes, at tolerance zero.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:12 GMTHacks & Buildsdoomneural-networksmnistopen-sourcevoodoo-dollshttps://lockergnome.com/dontallow-auto-denies-macos-local-network-prompt-chromium-temp-folder/https://lockergnome.com/dontallow-auto-denies-macos-local-network-prompt-chromium-temp-folder/JP Cassil's open-source dontallow, two Swift files and a Homebrew install, watches for the macOS Sequoia-and-later Local Network permission dialog and presses Don't Allow within a fraction of a second, because Chrome, Brave, Edge and Arc keep bringing it back.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:11 GMTSoftwaremacosprivacychromechromiumlocal-networkopen-sourceswifthttps://lockergnome.com/windows-blocks-con-nul-ms-dos-assembler-extensions/https://lockergnome.com/windows-blocks-con-nul-ms-dos-assembler-extensions/Raymond Chen traced Windows' reserved names CON, PRN, AUX and NUL to MS-DOS 1.0, where typing PRN at an assembler prompt sent a listing to the printer; Windows 11 still blocks the bare names but now lets CON.txt and NUL.txt through.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:10 GMTSoftwarewindowsms-dosraymond-chenfile-namesbackward-compatibilitywindows-11https://lockergnome.com/steve-jobs-roll-your-own-mac-calculator/https://lockergnome.com/steve-jobs-roll-your-own-mac-calculator/In early 1982, after Steve Jobs found new faults in Chris Espinosa's Macintosh calculator for a couple of days, Espinosa turned every visual choice into a pull-down menu; Jobs picked his settings in about ten minutes, and that design shipped as the Mac calculator through OS 9, Andy Hertzfeld recalls on Folklore.org.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:09 GMTRetroapplemacintoshsteve-jobsandy-hertzfeldfolkloreui-designmac-historyhttps://lockergnome.com/openjutsu-free-local-video-character-swap-comfyui/https://lockergnome.com/openjutsu-free-local-video-character-swap-comfyui/Openjutsu is an MIT-licensed app that runs MiniMax H3, SAM 3.1 and Qwen3-VL through ComfyUI on a local NVIDIA card to replace the main person in a clip with your character, keeping the camera, cuts, motion and soundtrack.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:08 GMTAIopenjutsucomfyuiai-videoopen-sourcelocal-aihttps://lockergnome.com/nokia-2360-flip-phone-remote-sms-management-2g-only/https://lockergnome.com/nokia-2360-flip-phone-remote-sms-management-2g-only/HMD's new Nokia 2360 Flip is a dual-screen 2G flip phone that a relative configures through the free Family Assist app by text message, with an SOS button that calls one number and texts five contacts, and it can't connect anywhere 2G networks are gone, the US included.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:07 GMTHardwarenokiahmdflip-phonesfeature-phonesseniors2ghttps://lockergnome.com/lenovo-googlebook-15-review-android-pairing-200mb-file-limit/https://lockergnome.com/lenovo-googlebook-15-review-android-pairing-200mb-file-limit/Engadget's review of Lenovo's 2.85-pound 15.3-inch OLED laptop, found phone pairing as easy as a QR scan but file drags capped under 200MB, phone apps that stutter on its Intel chip, and 8.5 hours of video playback.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:06 GMTHardwarelenovogooglebookgoogleandroidlaptopshttps://lockergnome.com/github-repo-prints-your-avatar-on-receipt-printer/https://lockergnome.com/github-repo-prints-your-avatar-on-receipt-printer/Developer Andrew Schmelyun wired a GitHub star webhook to a Raspberry Pi and a used Epson receipt printer, so every star on his print-my-profile-pic repo prints the starrer's avatar in a paper frame for a pinboard he calls the Hall of Frame.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:05 GMTHacks & Buildsgithubraspberry-pireceipt-printerwebhookscloudflarephpmakerhttps://lockergnome.com/engelbart-1970-mouse-patent-xy-position-indicator-feet/https://lockergnome.com/engelbart-1970-mouse-patent-xy-position-indicator-feet/US Patent 3,541,541, granted to Douglas Engelbart and Stanford Research Institute on November 17, 1970, describes the first mouse as a wheeled box that rolls across a desk, or, in its own words, 'even may be moved by the feet.'Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:04 GMTHardwaredouglas-engelbartmousepatentssricomputer-historyhttps://lockergnome.com/apple-homeview-needs-your-iphone-nearby-while-echo-show-16-runs-solo/https://lockergnome.com/apple-homeview-needs-your-iphone-nearby-while-echo-show-16-runs-solo/Apple's new 7-inch HomeView shows your personal content only when it recognizes your face and your paired iPhone or iPad is present, while Amazon's 16-inch Echo Show 16 is built as one screen for the whole household, at a much higher price.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:03 GMTHardwareapplehomeviewamazonecho-showsmart-displayhttps://lockergnome.com/wizball-enhanced-edition-zx-spectrum-128k-c64-music-final/https://lockergnome.com/wizball-enhanced-edition-zx-spectrum-128k-c64-music-final/Modder Leigh Ashton's free Wizball Enhanced Edition, rebuilt from a decompile of the Spectrum original, reached its final version 1.3 on itch.io with the C64 and Atari ST title themes converted for the AY chip, a fix for a +2A/+3 loading freeze, and a note that AI tools helped with the music.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:02 GMTGamingzx-spectrumwizballcommodore-64chiptunegame-modsretro-gamingitch-ioai-assistedhttps://lockergnome.com/sabre-wulf-remastered-c64-genesis-project-free-d64/https://lockergnome.com/sabre-wulf-remastered-c64-genesis-project-free-d64/C64 demo group Genesis Project released Sabre Wulf Remastered on October 25, a free fan remake with all-new code, full-width 320x200 graphics, new music and a fog-of-war map, built to run on a real Commodore 64 and 1541 drive.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:01 GMTGamingcommodore-64sabre-wulfgenesis-projectremasterretro-gamingultimate-play-the-gamehttps://lockergnome.com/miyamoto-super-mario-bros-biggest-invention-mario-never-fights-bowser/https://lockergnome.com/miyamoto-super-mario-bros-biggest-invention-mario-never-fights-bowser/At an October 22 press conference in Kyoto, the day before Japan named him the first game maker to receive the Order of Culture, Miyamoto said a boss fight was too hard to build, so he made the goal running to the right edge and let Mario hop over Bowser.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:14:00 GMTGamingnintendoshigeru-miyamotosuper-mario-brosgame-designorder-of-culturehttps://lockergnome.com/ios-27-1-only-for-iphone-duo-everyone-else-skips-to-27-2/https://lockergnome.com/ios-27-1-only-for-iphone-duo-everyone-else-skips-to-27-2/iOS 27.1 shipped October 23 for the iPhone Duo alone, likely to keep the foldable's features from leaking in public betas, and iOS 27.2 arrived October 26 for the iPhone 11 and later, the Duo included.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:13:59 GMTSoftwareappleiosiphone-duoios-27software-updateshttps://lockergnome.com/konami-code-gradius-nes-hashimoto-too-hard-to-beat/https://lockergnome.com/konami-code-gradius-nes-hashimoto-too-hard-to-beat/Kazuhisa Hashimoto said he added up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A to Konami's 1986 Famicom port of Gradius because he couldn't beat the arcade game himself, and made it easy to remember since he was the one who'd use it.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:13:58 GMTGamingkonamikonami-codegradiusfamicomnescheat-codesgame-historyhttps://lockergnome.com/anti-bot-script-hides-behind-fake-bioweapon-function-names-to-scare-off-ai/https://lockergnome.com/anti-bot-script-hides-behind-fake-bioweapon-function-names-to-scare-off-ai/A researcher at nullpt.rs found a browser fingerprinting script on servicepipe.tech whose obfuscated code is stuffed with weapon and self-harm themed function names, and one AI model declined to deobfuscate it.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:13:57 GMTSecuritysecurityfingerprintingobfuscationaireverse-engineeringanti-bot