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The Tetris Company is taking legal aim at the White House after the administration published an online arcade featuring parody versions of classic games, including an apparent Tetris clone. It's a collision between intellectual property law and political satire, and it raises a genuinely interesting question about how far parody protections extend when a government gets playful with someone else's trademark.
Shifting gears, Charles Petzold — the author behind some of the most beloved books on how computers actually work — has published a piece asking whether guitar frets can perform multiplication. It sounds like a riddle, but it's really a meditation on logarithmic scales, physical objects as analog computers, and the quiet mathematics hiding inside everyday instruments. Worth a slow read.
And on the AI front, GPT-six Astra has arrived on Codex, OpenAI's code-focused platform. Details are still thin and community discussion hasn't had time to build, but the release signals that the cadence of frontier model updates is only accelerating — and that coding tools remain the sharpest edge of that competition.
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