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Today's topics:

GameStop bids to buy eBay - GameStop launched a surprise cash-and-stock bid for eBay, raising questions about activist strategy, leverage, and whether cost-cutting can revive a shrinking marketplace.

ASML EUV machine as Lego - ASML’s EUV lithography tools power advanced chips, but a scarce Lego replica became the unlikely hot item—showing how tangible models help explain complex engineering.

Notepad++ macOS impersonation site - Notepad++ creator Don Ho warned about a fake website claiming an “official” macOS release, highlighting trademark abuse, user confusion, and malware-risk lookalike distribution.

Reliable text in AI images - A practical workflow pairs deterministic layouts (SVG/HTML) with generative rendering so AI image models preserve accurate text and numbering—useful for design, UI mockups, and diagrams.

Why huge AI contexts disappoint - A CACM report argues long context windows are constrained by memory bandwidth and KV-cache pressure, leading to latency, paging, and ‘context rot’ despite big token counts.

Cheaper backends for coding agents - The open-source deepclaude project reroutes Claude Code-style agent workflows to cheaper Anthropic-compatible APIs, cutting costs and accelerating experimentation with coding agents.

Reverse-engineering hard drives via timing - Researchers used read-only microbenchmarks to infer HDD physical geometry and remapping behavior, showing timing alone can reveal modern firmware-controlled storage quirks.

Unplugged programming education for kids - NHK’s “Texico” teaches computational thinking without computers, reflecting a broader push for accessible digital literacy through ‘unplugged’ problem-solving skills.

Giant RC airliner engineering goes mainstream - A creator-built, flyable RC Airbus A380 drew attention to how hobby projects now rival aerospace-style systems engineering, amplified by online audiences.

-GameStop launches $55.5bn bid to acquire eBay
-ASML’s Most Coveted Item Becomes a Scarce Employee-Only Lego EUV Set
-Notepad++ Warns of Fake ‘Mac Version’ Site Using Its Trademark
-‘Underdrawing’ technique improves text and number accuracy in AI-generated images
-NHK WORLD-JAPAN Introduces ‘Texico,’ an Unplugged Programming Education Series for Kids
-Ramy RC Reveals Giant 1/8-Scale Lufthansa A380 for Airline’s 100th Anniversary
-Nullagent Unveils BYOMesh D