Jailbreaks, brushes, and borrowed GPUs

  1. Jailbreaking the Switch 2: A WebKit exploit delivers what's reportedly the first software-only jailbreak for the Nintendo Switch 2, with an AI agent handling much of the exploit work before a day-long modded Mario Kart build. (pepsipu.com)
  2. Megapop, a browser god game in raw WebGPU: Built with no game engine at all, this browser title channels Populous-style terrain shaping and tiny warring tribes straight through WebGPU. (unverified) (waldtier.itch.io)
  3. vvvv's boygrouping distributed rendering enters testing: vvvv gamma's new 'boygrouping' feature lets one machine live-code a scene while any number of networked PCs render synced views, already running a 42-PC, 84-projector rig at Refik Anadol's studio. (vvvv.org)
  4. Tiling noise wraps around a torus: The Godot shader series that recently worked through value-noise derivatives now extends that noise to wrap seamlessly around a torus, reworking frequency types and UV tiling along the way. (catlikecoding.com)
  5. Native masonry layouts with CSS grid lanes: Piccalilli digs into display: grid-lanes, the new CSS property that finally solves native masonry layouts after a decade of float and flexbox workarounds falling short. (piccalil.li)
  6. Examining the macOS gcc binary: A reverse-engineering dive into macOS's 'gcc' finds it's no simple alias but a compiled wrapper that quietly resolves to clang or clang++ depending on how it's invoked. (zoey-on-github.github.io)
  7. Rafaël Rozendaal grows up on the internet: In the first half of a two-part interview, the internet-art pioneer traces 25 years online, from absurdist early websites through NFTs and Art Blocks. (rightclicksave.com)
  8. Rafaël Rozendaal discovers painting: The interview continues with Rozendaal on how digital-art income freed him to take up painting, and why his computer now lives in a separate room entirely. (rightclicksave.com)
  9. Mediated Matter: design and invention in a new biological age: CreativeApplications surveys the first comprehensive monograph on Neri Oxman's two decades of work spanning design, science, and the material-ecology field she founded. (creativeapplications.net)
  10. OrthicSymbols, a Mathober 2026 sketch: For Mathober 2026, an orthic-triangle construction gets paired with poetry rendered right inside its geometry, built with Python and matplotlib. (blog.illestpreacha.com)
  11. The compiler was supposed to end programming too: Drawing a line from 1954's promise that FORTRAN would end programming to today's AI-agent hype, this essay imagines a 2031 workday spent mostly reviewing agents' pull requests. (hrih.si)
  12. Mathematics is a subject for the young: A guest post on Terence Tao's blog argues math is having its own 'Deep Blue moment,' pointing to OpenAI's 10,000-agent, 88-hour Navier-Stokes proof as evidence the human-machine balance is shifting fast. (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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