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Ten years ago this month, Pokémon Go turned sidewalks into treasure hunts and parks into gathering places. A decade on, millions are still playing, and Scopely vice president Michael Steranka says the game's enduring secret has never really been about catching creatures — it's been about the people you meet while doing it.
Shifting to infrastructure, a detailed breakdown of China's Great Firewall is making the rounds, and it's a genuinely illuminating read. The system isn't a single wall but a layered architecture of DNS poisoning, deep packet inspection, and IP blocking — a reminder that censorship at scale is an engineering project as much as a political one, with real trade-offs in speed and reliability for everyday users inside the country.
And in an interesting data point for the AI industry, Australia has emerged as the world's leading per-capita user of Anthropic's Claude. That's a notable signal — not just about Australian adoption rates, but about how AI usage is spreading in ways that don't simply mirror population size or economic weight. Anthropic says it wants more.
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