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Apple is back in the courtroom spotlight, proposing a commission of five to fifteen percent on purchases made outside its App Store ecosystem. The move comes as the company continues its long-running legal battle with Epic Games, and it raises a pointed question: is Apple offering a genuine concession, or simply redefining the walls of the same garden?
On a quieter but equally telling note, a developer has released a video game built entirely without traditional assets — no sprites, no sound files, no pre-made graphics. It's a creative experiment that strips game design down to its logical bones, and it's drawing attention from the indie community as a genuinely curious exercise in minimalism and craft.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of technology and accountability, Anthropic's Claude Code tool is reportedly returning empty thinking blocks to users, even when those users have specifically requested summarized reasoning from the model. The catch: those blank responses are still drawing charges for reasoning tokens, meaning developers are paying for a process they cannot see and results they are not receiving.
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