The Weekend Mauling: 5/23/26

Weekend Link Dump Kansas baseball is headed to the Big 12 Championship Game! Kansas catcher Augie Mungarrieta is helping the ...

‘Shortcuts Playground’ lets you create shortcuts using natural langauge

Federico Viticci at MacStories is out today with yet another wild tool that integrates with Apple’s Shortcuts app. Shortcuts ...

Registration opens for 2026 Florida Python Challenge: What to know

Registration is now open for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, when avid and amateur hunters alike can compete for cash ...
Fighting Irish Wire

Florida python hunters find out dates for annual challenge this week

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will announce the dates for this year's Python Challenge on May 19.

Forrest Galante, wildlife expert, on invasive species in the U.S.: “The Burmese python problem really is out of control in Florida”

In Florida, the Burmese python has established itself as “a slithering menace that is wiping out species”, Galante says.
InfoWorld

Why it’s so hard to create stand-alone Python apps

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...
IGN

Fortnite Adding Ability to Create Your Own Star Wars Games This Week

Fortnite will finally allow creators to make their own officially-licensed Star Wars minigames, beginning this week. The ability to create Star Wars-themed games within Fortnite has long been promised ...
The New York Times

Playing Games With the Décor

Dedicated rooms at home for board games, jigsaw puzzles and toys are making a comeback among the whimsical at heart. By Dina Cheney When the owners of a curiosity shop, Art of Play, renovated a condo ...
Polygon

The RAM crisis could completely change the way your games are made

There were a lot of reasons for developers to be stressed out at this year's Game Developers Conference. Layoffs at EA the day the event started put job insecurity in the air, generative AI's presence ...
GamesIndustry

Google unveils new AI cloud tools to support game development

Google has detailed the next phase of its 'Living Games' concept: using autonomous AI agents as a core component to support cloud-based game development. Announced at GDC Festival of Gaming, Google ...
New Scientist

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...
Digital Trends

Unity will soon let you create casual games using simple text prompts

Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...