new statement from steam and the FBI regarding "blockblasters" malware game. In general it looks like people who hid malware in steam games are cooked

25 years ago, on October 22, 2001, Grand Theft Auto III was released. This is the team that made it. (I'm second from the right) Here's what I remember about making it. For most of development, GTA3 was in a sorry state. It crashed frequently, the frame rate was terrible and the map was full of holes. Only in the last six months did everything come together. For the longest time, it looked like the frame rate was going to be 20 fps. Only in the final months did we manage to hit 30. In 1999, DMA Design, based in Dundee, Scotland, was going through some changes. The company had recently been bought by Take-Two Interactive, and a satellite office had opened in Edinburgh. Space Station Silicon Valley for the N64 had been finished in 1998, but there was no new project lined up. Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut started working on GTA3. Unprompted. Meanwhile, the original GTA1 and GTA2 team had started work on GTA2.5, set in Miami. It was called 2.5 because it used the 2.5D (isometric) perspective. In March 2000, the Dundee office was closed and GTA2.5 was cancelled. Take-Two/Rockstar gave GTA3 the green light. Everything was written from scratch. Only two people worked on both GTA2 and GTA3, and no code or art from GTA2 was reused. The way we worked was organic. People would come up with ideas for missions and we'd just try them. If they were fun, they were in. The story was secondary. In fact, the opening plot involving Catalina trying to kill Claude was added well into development. Leslie Benzies (the producer) plastered a wall in the boardroom with Post-it notes. They were yellow, green and pink, representing missions, contacts and locations. Missions were moved around all the time, often handed from one contact to another. Only once the voice acting was recorded were these things set in stone. You sometimes come across locations on the map that are more detailed than you'd expect. Chances are there used to be a mission contact there that got moved elsewhere. Working on GTA3 was a lot of fun. Every day there was something new going in. A new mission, radio station, car, pedestrian, building or whatever. The game was growing at an incredible rate. Other than the multiplayer mode we did some work on, I can’t remember a lot of wastage. Although everybody worked hard, I don't remember many people doing crazy hours. On the rare occasions I was in over the weekend, there were usually only one or two others. Even during crunch time, most people left the office around 9 or 10 in the evening. I always thought it was better to work eight focused hours than spend your life in the office. Although we liked the game, it wasn't at all clear that it would be a hit. GTA3 had a disappointing showing at E3 in May 2001. Most people weren't interested, and those who were thought it was too violent. It had an OK launch, but sales never tapered off. Our office was in Leith, Edinburgh. It was a fairly run-down neighbourhood at the time. Just a couple of years before we arrived, J.K. Rowling had been writing the first Harry Potter in that very same neighbourhood. The thing I remember most is the camaraderie. In a small team, everybody relies on each other and everybody has a lot of input. Most of us were young and had only recently moved to Edinburgh. We went to the pub together. It felt like a group of friends who happened to be working on a project together. xitter.cf/ObbeVermeij/status/178… xitter.cf/ObbeVermeij/status/175… xitter.cf/ObbeVermeij/status/187… xitter.cf/ObbeVermeij/status/182… xitter.cf/ObbeVermeij/status/179…

Claude Code just found a hidden camera in my Airbnb. In the smoke detector… Checked into one of those $60 Airbnbs where the microwave sits on top of the fridge. Opened Claude Code and asked what else is on this Wi-Fi It listed everything on the router. All of it was the usual stuff except one box made by a company that only makes CCTV cameras, quietly sending video out of the room every 4 seconds Claude sent it the "find me" ping installers use. The smoke detector above the bed beeped for 5 seconds and its red recording light came on The check takes 2 minutes: step 1 → join the Wi-Fi, open Claude Code, paste the prompt from the first comment step 2 → it lists every device and flags anything that looks like a camera or a mic step 3 → if it flags one, turn the lights off and shine your phone flashlight at smoke detectors, clocks and chargers. A lens glints back You won't remember this at 1am in a strange room. Save it now, thank me on your next trip Every week I point Claude Code at something in my life and post what it finds. Follow if you want the next one Ever found one? What did you use to check?

❗️ A Mac user says Claude Code was building them a temperature monitor app when it found a cryptominer using 12 cores. The readings looked too high, so it checked the CPU and found XMRig at ~1175%, with the chip at 112°C.

Infinite tokens and you still produce an electron app...

Vibe coded my parents' TV this afternoon! It was showing a sponsored ad before you could even get to Netflix. Gave Claude Code the model number, it found the TV on wifi, removed 25 Xiaomi packages and wrote a new launcher. Looks like an Apple TV now lol

I have spent 3 weeks and two claude max accounts vibe coding a 50-person battle royale. Kong Royale. We invented hive coding, chats messages prompt 20 agents working overnight to fix and improve the game. and today we finally launch 🦍🍌 live playtest TODAY 1 PM ET. drop in with us 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=b5n1K_IA…

Since leaving X, I decided to try a new challenge. Could I make a chicken sandwich No. 1 on the App Store? Well, guess what.

we vibecoded linux support