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A solo developer has turned heads this week with a fully walkable cyberpunk city built entirely from ASCII characters, running in the browser on a two hundred eighty three kilobyte Rust WebAssembly engine paired with a WebGL renderer. The original video crossed a million views, and a new update showcasing interiors and skyscrapers is already generating serious attention. Small team, serious craft.
Meanwhile, Logitech is facing a class-action lawsuit over allegations it pocketed sixty one million dollars in tariff refunds it never passed back to customers. The suit claims the company raised prices on more than half its product line by as much as twenty five percent in April two thousand twenty five, then extracted up to ninety seven million dollars from consumers through two thousand twenty six, even after those tariffs were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. That is a significant allegation, and one worth watching closely.
And Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods are moving from whisper to near-certainty, with fresh leaks suggesting one megapixel sensors and environmental context awareness. The headline writing itself online, that these could get AirPods banned in sensitive spaces, tells you everything about the privacy questions already forming around the concept.
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