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🎮 The poster someone almost trashed just sold for $329,400 In 1981, Nintendo of America employee Donna Darbous rescued a Donkey Kong arcade flyer from a pile of materials marked for disposal. It just became the most expensive video game artwork ever sold at auction — beating the previous record, the original Prince of Persia cover art ($63,000 in 2023), by over a quarter million dollars. The flyer shows Donkey Kong mid-barrel-hurl and a tiny Jumpman — future Mario — climbing to the rescue. Sta…

🎬 The window, not the door "Sunrise on the Reaping" opens November 20, and Jennifer Lawrence just confirmed the original trio is back — Katniss, Peeta, and Haymitch. Speaking on *Call Her Daddy*, she described an emotional reunion with the same crew after 11 years. Josh Hutcherson never left her side. Woody Harrelson skipped the door and climbed through her hotel window. "It wouldn't be the same if he listened to boundaries," she said. The prequel follows a young Haymitch at the 50th Hunger G…

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📌 Daily Recap · Oct 30 🍔 Wendy's made an RPG and it slaps 💸 xAI is buying noisy neighbors out of existence 🎬 Netflix's Pride and Prejudice gets a December premiere date 💻 Apple finally shipped a touchscreen MacBook Pro, no asterisks 🎮 Sony brought back see-through plastic and it rules That person who was offline all day deserves to catch up — pass this along CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

🎮 Sony just remembered what cool looked like In the late '90s, translucent plastic was everywhere — Game Boy, iMac, PlayStation controllers. Then it quietly disappeared. Sony has decided it's time. The Prism Collection brings three see-through DualSense controllers to PS5 — orange, green, and gray — with a high-gloss clear finish that lets you peek at the hardware inside. Matching console cover plates come in the same colors, though those won't reveal any PS5 internals, just vibes. Preorders …

💻 Apple finally caved A decade of resistance, one buried Touch Bar experiment, and today — a full touchscreen MacBook Pro. No caveats. 🔸 PROLED XDR, 14" and 16", 2,000 nits, 10,000,000:1 contrast 🔸 M5 Pro / M5 Max, up to 128GB RAM, up to 16TB storage 🔸 Dynamic Island cutout, stabilising hinge for tap-without-wobble Starts at $2,899 (14") and $3,399 (16"). Yesterday's M6 MacBook Pro from $1,999 makes the touchscreen clearly a premium tier, not the new normal. Second big launch in two months f…

🎬 Mr. Darcy has a new address: Netflix Jane Austen doesn't go out of style — she just gets a new streaming deal. Netflix has dropped the first trailer for its six-part Pride and Prejudice, arriving December 3, 2026. Emma Corrin plays Elizabeth Bennet; Jack Lowden — fresh off *Slow Horses* and a serious run at James Bond — steps in as the famously proud Mr. Darcy. Dolly Alderton wrote the scripts, Euros Lyn directs, and the team is billing it as a faithful retelling: adversaries to lovers, 19th…

💸 The Quiet Price of Silence xAI has been building massive data centers in Southaven, Mississippi — and is already facing lawsuits from residents over near-constant noise from its gas-fired turbines. The company's solution: buy the neighbors out. Subsidiary MZX is reportedly offering to purchase 418 homes near the site. The catch: sellers must sign away all legal claims. Eighteen owners have already agreed; renters got 60 days to leave after their landlords said yes. MZX's letter is admirably…

🎮 Wendy's made a pixel RPG. It actually looks good. Wendy's — the burger chain — is dropping a turn-based RPG on Steam: WendyQuest: Legend of the Four Corner Stones. The trailer is out, and the internet is split between "wait, is this good?" and "this is genuinely good." Wendy and three companions (Sir Chicken included) battle mech-monsters to save a culinary kingdom. Enemies are animated menu items — Frydusa is a fry container gone full snake-pit. HP restores via Dave's Single. The dialogue l…

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📌 Daily Recap · Oct 29 🔌 Ford's $28K Fathom buries the power grid inside 💸 Jio Platforms soared 21% on India's biggest IPO debut 🖖 Walter Koenig, Trek's Chekov, has left the bridge 🎬 Noah Wyle named Sexiest Man Alive at 54 💾 SK Hynix can't keep up with AI memory demand Somebody in your orbit definitely had a no-phone day — pass this along CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

💾 AI memory demand is double what SK Hynix can actually ship South Korea's SK Hynix, the primary supplier of high-bandwidth memory for AI chips, just posted its first-ever quarter above 100 trillion won in revenue (~$78B) — up 328% year-on-year, with an 80% operating margin. The real story: DRAM and HBM volumes through 2029 are sold out, demand is expected to exceed supply through 2030, and customers are asking for double what the company can deliver. Fourteen major cloud and tech customers ha…

🎬 The doctor's time has come Noah Wyle is 54, and he's just been named People's Sexiest Man Alive — for the first time in a career that started back in 1994. Most people know him as John Carter from *ER*, the show that also launched George Clooney. Clooney, for what it's worth, publicly "nominated" Wyle for exactly this title back in January, saying "when I grow up, I want to be Noah Wyle." Called it. These days Wyle anchors HBO's *The Pitt*, playing a worn-down attending physician who clearl…

🖖 Walter Koenig, 1936–2025 Chekov has left the bridge. Walter Koenig — the actor behind *Star Trek*'s Russian navigator Ensign Pavel Chekov — died Sunday at his home in North Hollywood, daughter and niece by his side. He was 90. He joined the show in its second season, Beatles mop-top and all, and stayed for every one of the six original-cast feature films. With his passing, only William Shatner and George Takei remain from that first Enterprise crew. His last interview came in 2024 — 57 year…

💸 India's biggest debut Jio Platforms — Mukesh Ambani's telecom giant, backed by Meta and Google — jumped 21% on its market debut Wednesday, opening at ₹1,358 against an IPO price of ₹1,119. That puts its valuation at $131.9 billion, India's second-largest listed company after parent Reliance Industries. Demand ran 22 times the shares available; 13.8 million people applied — a record for any Indian IPO. The company listed with $3.2 billion in annual profit (+15%) and 540 million subscribers. …

🔌 Ford Fathom: the truck with a power grid inside The F-150 Lightning needed a separate $10,000 inverter box to back up your home. Ford's upcoming Fathom — a $28K pickup due later this year — buries the inverter inside the vehicle and pushes out over 10 kW of AC power natively. Ford is also cutting the cost of the required home hardware: the backup bundle targets ~$3,123 vs. a typical $5,205, and five major US and Canadian utilities are onboard to reduce the paperwork. Permitting and an elect…

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📌 Daily Recap · Oct 28 🎮 Xbox's Project Helix might be its priciest console ever 🤖 Anthropic files for IPO with $80B in losses 🇧🇷 Polymarket called Brazil wrong and wallets felt it 🧱 LEGO Vader ship dethrones Titanic by one stud Someone in your life had a long Monday and missed all of this — fix that CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

🚀 The longest LEGO ever built — and of course it's Vader's ship LEGO's Executor Super Star Destroyer just knocked the LEGO Titanic off the top spot: 53.5 inches versus 53.1. The margin is 0.4 inches — roughly one stud tile. Two boxes, 54 bags, four booklets. The finished model takes over an entire desk, and IGN's reviewer notes it looks more like a convention display than something you can actually buy at retail. The fan service runs deep: a micro-scale Devastator from A New Hope's opening sh…