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A legal case involving one of Silicon Valley's most prominent figures has taken a new turn. A judge has dismissed the amended lawsuit filed by Sam Altman's sister against the OpenAI chief executive, who stands accused of sexual abuse. The case, which drew significant attention given Altman's position at the forefront of the AI industry, now faces a higher bar to proceed.
On a very different note, a piece of computing history is getting new attention. The xnufont project on GitHub resurrects classic bitmap fonts from early Apple systems, making them available for modern use. It's a quiet act of digital preservation — the kind of work that rarely makes headlines but keeps institutional memory alive for developers and designers who care about where this all came from.
And from the extreme edge of programming craft, a demoscene release called eight-pinski is generating admiration online. It renders a Sierpinski triangle animation in just eight bytes of MS-DOS executable code. Eight bytes. It's a reminder that constraints don't limit creativity — sometimes they define it entirely.
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