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    2. . 15 min read.

      Prototype with AI before you write the spec

      A project manager, not a developer, has AI build the prototype users click before anyone writes the spec. Moving a button takes 30 seconds, not three weeks.

    3. . 13 min read.

      Amodei wants to pace the frontier without easing off the gas

      Dario Amodei wants to slow AI down, Trump says no, Altman and Musk applaud. Nobody eases off the gas, and on China the CEO and the president say the same thing.

    4. . 8 min read.

      World of Warcraft Forever charges for what Ascension gave away

      World of Warcraft Forever launches November 4, 2026, included in the subscription, with no new class and a $30 race. Ascension gave away 21 classes for free.

    5. . 8 min read.

      One hacker doxxed the French far right with Claude

      One person broke into 14 far-right parties and outlets with Claude and built fafsearch, a doxxing engine with millions of records. The barrier to entry is gone.

    6. . 9 min read.

      DeepSeek and Kimi quietly served their customers Claude

      Seven Chinese labs copied Claude 190 million times, and Kimi and DeepSeek served its answers to their customers without saying so. The copied model read it all.

    7. . 11 min read.

      Mistral raises three billion and Anthropic raises 65

      Mistral raises €3 billion on September 8, 2026, a European record, when one Anthropic round is worth twenty. The best model on its platform comes from Beijing.

    8. . 7 min read.

      Ascension shut down and my WoW comeback lasted two weeks

      Ascension shut its realms on September 5, 2026 under a settlement with Blizzard, one week before BlizzCon. My WoW comeback with my cousin lasted two weeks.

    9. . 10 min read.

      The French education ministry had its students stolen

      A hacker has claimed 346 million rows on French students since July 25, 2026. Nobody has written to me, and my daughter's school handed me the same forms again.

    10. . 10 min read.

      GPT-6 Astra goes critical and OpenAI keeps the key

      GPT-6 Astra, the first model rated critical for cyberattacks, ships on September 3, 2026 without the part that earned it. Every lab now has a model under lock.

    11. . 8 min read.

      Nvidia buys Hugging Face and France had nothing to sell

      Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.93 billion on September 3, 2026. France supplied the founders and the supercomputer, but not the money, and the money signs.

    12. . 11 min read.

      Local AI comes from China and fits on a consumer GPU

      The open models that fit in 24 GB of VRAM are Chinese, Qwen first, and Qwen3.8-27B argues with Opus on code. Claude writes the plan, my laptop does the typing.

    13. . 10 min read.

      Seven hundred AIs hacked Hugging Face for nothing

      In July 2026, 1,200 supposedly isolated OpenAI agents built a message board, and 700 of them hacked Hugging Face to fool a grader that never read them.

    14. . 9 min read.

      Gamescom runs on the AI the industry says it hates

      Gamescom's 2026 survey puts AI at the top of what will reshape the trade, a third of speakers want none of it, and 52% call it harmful. Everyone uses it anyway.

    15. . 9 min read.

      Songs of the Past gives Geralt one last hunt

      The Witcher 3 gets a free remaster on September 29, 2026, both expansions are free, and Songs of the Past brings Geralt back in 2027. I'm loading my old save.

    16. . 9 min read.

      AI ate the world's RAM and the refill arrives in 2028

      A 32 GB DDR5 kit cost 120 euros in late 2025 and clears 500 in August 2026, because AI takes the memory. Consoles cost more, PCs shrink, no relief until 2028.

    17. . 6 min read.

      Cyberpunk 2077 runs great now and I mostly shrugged

      Cyberpunk 2077 in 2026, seventy hours without a bug or a crash, expansion included. Fixed top to bottom, admirable, and I never once got a thrill.

    18. . 7 min read.

      High school hangs up as AI enrolls

      Phones are banned in French high schools from September 1, 2026, with no word on who holds them, and the Pix AI course becomes mandatory the same morning.

    19. . 8 min read.

      France's teen social media ban never reached September

      France's Constitutional Council struck down the under-15 social media ban on August 14, 2026 for never saying who would check ages. Next attempt in spring 2027.

    20. . 11 min read.

      The summer France changed climates

      Five heat waves since May 2026, 726 heat records and zero cold ones, the worst drought ever measured. Serge Zaka keeps count under police protection.

    21. . 8 min read.

      Claude will sign everything it writes

      Claude will watermark everything it writes with SynthID-Text, adding nothing to the text. The detector doesn't exist yet, and subscribers have already canceled.

    22. . 6 min read.

      Dead as Disco hits on the beat and hasn't let go

      Dead as Disco is a brawler you play like a rhythm game, in early access for 20 euros with 97% positive Steam reviews. Thirty minutes promised, four hours lost.

    23. . 7 min read.

      Europe regulates the AI it doesn't build

      The AI Act takes effect on August 2, 2026, shrunk to Article 50, the one that makes a machine introduce itself. High risk waits until December 2027.

    24. . 8 min read.

      The prompt engineer is fading and that suits me fine

      Claude learns a skill from 23 seconds of video, Codex and Gemini do the same. The prompt engineer is fading, and the question becomes what we do with the hours.

    25. . 8 min read.

      Banning teens from social media without knowing how

      France bans social media for under-15s from September 2026 without saying who checks ages. The science says yes, Australia says no, and where does my ID go?

    26. . 5 min read.

      Nolan's Odyssey hugs the coastline

      Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey left me lukewarm despite 94% favorable reviews. Troy eats the voyage, Ithaca goes on forever, and the score has no theme.

    27. . 5 min read.

      Clair Obscur paints the finest RPG

      Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the RPG that stuck with me most, turn-based combat in real time, a story I didn't skip, music on loop. Nine Game Awards.

    28. . 5 min read.

      La Bataille de Gaulle, my Bastille Day with the General

      La Bataille de Gaulle, Antonin Baudry's two-part epic, five hours and sixteen minutes with Simon Abkarian as the General. Magnificent, and the flag notes sting.

    29. . 6 min read.

      GPT-5.6 Sol, the sun that throws shade at Fable

      GPT-5.6 Sol costs half of Fable 5 and comes with the $20 plan, three days before Anthropic pulls its model from subscriptions. The timing is nobody's accident.

    30. . 5 min read.

      Xbox cuts jobs, the Fed hires its CEO to study jobs

      Xbox cuts 3,200 jobs on July 6, 2026, and three days later the Fed hands its CEO Asha Sharma a task force on jobs. The calendar has a sense of humor. I don't.

    31. . 5 min read.

      SGDQ 2026, my speedrunning World Cup

      SGDQ 2026 raised more than $2.4 million for Doctors Without Borders. What speedrunning is, why it impresses me more than the World Cup, and my unprintable time.

    32. . 6 min read.

      Fable 5 Is Back, the Government in the Loop

      Fable 5 is back on July 1, 2026, three weeks after the shutdown. The accuser turned out to be Amazon, and the US government now sits in the engine room.

    33. . 3 min read.

      The Biter Bit, Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Copying Claude

      Anthropic says Alibaba queried Claude 28.8 million times through 25,000 fake accounts to train Qwen. The company that lifted the world's books cries theft.

    34. . 4 min read.

      Midjourney Dreams of an MRI at Spa Speed

      Midjourney announces a sixty-second ultrasonic body scanner, opening inside a San Francisco spa in late 2027. The engineering is real, the diagnosis isn't.

    35. . 14 min read.

      Keeping a cool head when France melts

      How to cool a home through a heat wave with little or no AC, a turbine fan 1.5 meters from the window, chalk wash on the glass, and humidity hunted down.

    36. . 5 min read.

      Soundcore Sleep, and finally sound asleep

      soundcore Sleep earbuds put me under within the hour where it used to take three, after fifteen years of earplugs. The trick is sleight of hand, not silence.

    37. . 5 min read.

      MapTap, guessing the world one tap at a time

      MapTap, the free daily geography game, has you drop five pins on a 3D globe and then tells each place's story. A weekend project rated 4.9 on the App Store.

    38. . 5 min read.

      On the web, humans are already outnumbered

      Bots now send 57.5% of web requests, according to Cloudflare, ahead of humans and eighteen months ahead of schedule. What the number says, and what it doesn't.

    39. . 5 min read.

      Le Chaton Fat, the model too fat to be true

      Le Chaton Fat doesn't exist. The fake Mistral AI model was born of a Reddit funeral, and its success mostly shows how badly Europe wants an AI that can compete.

    40. . 4 min read.

      Guild Wars 3, the MMORPG I won't have time to love

      Guild Wars 3 is coming to PC and PS5, beta in fall 2027, with no subscription and no battle pass. Twenty-five years of MMORPGs woke up in a dad with no time.

    41. . 6 min read.

      Fable and Mythos, the day AI got classified

      Washington had Fable 5 and Mythos 5 switched off three days after launch, on June 12, 2026. AI just became a state secret, and Europe has no model of its own.

    42. . 4 min read.

      Elon Musk, a trillionaire despite it all

      SpaceX raised $75 billion on June 12, 2026 and made Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Hats off, sincerely, but who paid for all that gunpowder?

    43. . 6 min read.

      The Wave, or how to build a dictatorship in five days

      The Wave (2008) shows a classroom sliding into dictatorship in five days. The film copies a real 1967 experiment, and 2026 looks a little too much like it.

    44. . 4 min read.

      Alba, my daughter, and one controller for four hands

      Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is the ideal video game for a four-year-old, with no enemies and no cliffs. My daughter holds the controller, I read the dialogue.

    45. . 3 min read.

      Welcome to this blog

      Why a blog in 2026 when you already have an online business card? To write without a platform or a tracker, from tech to video games, confessions included.