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Microsoft Azure's chief technology officer Mark Russinovich has found a creative use for his downtime, rigging up classic Doom to display inside Microsoft Paint by routing each frame through the Windows clipboard. Paint itself is doing nothing fancy here — it's just a canvas being pasted onto, repeatedly, which is somehow both the silliest and most elegant part of the whole experiment.
On a more serious note, a volunteer group of developers has flagged eighty-five critical bugs in Bitcoin's codebase, using AI models to scan through the code at a rate of roughly one critical finding per hour per person. They say the effort is costing around ten thousand dollars a day in compute, and the developers themselves are describing the overall situation as, quote, extremely bad.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of law, AI, and child safety, xAI filed an emergency legal request to block a Minnesota law banning AI nudification technology — the first such law to be enforced in the United States. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle publicly called out Grok by name, arguing that technology simply should not be a tool that enables predators to target children.
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