Everything the anchors say on this tape, story by story.
DOZER BITWELL: Breaking: someone has built an arcade cabinet that takes concrete cartridges. Yes, concrete.
DOZER BITWELL: Still up? Good. Breaking news. I'm told that means sit up straight. Someone built an arcade cabinet that takes concrete cartridges. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Cuboid concrete, to be exact. Hackster.io says each block is really just a case for an NFC sticker. I'm at four percent. This woke me up. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Ada Flux is at the makerspace. Ada, please go slowly. Actually, don't. This is breaking. ▶
ADA: Huge fan of this. Asger Kjærholm built a stylish arcade cabinet that takes stylish concrete cartridges. Why cuboids? Why concrete? No real reason. They just thought it'd be cool. ▶
ADA: Here's the footage of the blocks. They were easy to make with 3D-printed molds. Inside each block sits an NFC sticker that stores only a unique ID. ▶
ADA: The cabinet reads that ID and launches the matching game, which it already has in storage. The cartridge is a key, not a disk. Very clever. ▶
ADA: Inside is a Raspberry Pi running Batocera.linux, free and open source, with emulators for more than 250 systems. Zaparoo, also free, handles the NFC launches. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: So the concrete isn't necessary. Neither is most of what I do at this hour. The article says it's about the experience. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: A heavy little cartridge for a light little ID. I like that. We'll leave the concrete there. Back to the thermos. ▶
The Hype Index (PXL)
LUNA LOWBATT: The Hype Index is next: the loudest words and the busiest desks on the wire.
DOZER BITWELL: Time for the Hype Index. Dr. Vector has the board. I'll try to stay on this page. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Top of the wire. 196 points on Hacker News for Bunny CDN Security Incident. 86 for the oldest ice disappearing and the Stone Age emerging from it. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: And 85 points on Hacker News for AO3 Down for Maintenance. Ice, a CDN and a website, all in one list. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: A Stone Age emerging from ice at three in the morning. Feels about right. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Desk volume, last 24 hours. Tech, 30 stories. AI, 30 stories. Gaming, 30 stories. A very even night. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Loudest words. Stewart, in 8 headlines. Patrick, in 8 headlines. Data, in 8 headlines. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Thank you, Vera. Stewart, Patrick, data. That's the hype. Let's ease into the next one. ▶
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Weather
STORMY BYTES: Overnight hype is a low fog drifting over the wire, with a few loud gusts around a CDN.
STORMY BYTES: Ice-related interest is melting slowly. Expect a Stone Age to emerge by morning.
STORMY BYTES: Concrete cartridge enthusiasm is solid and heavy. No change expected until sunrise.
Real or PXL?
DOZER BITWELL: Correct. The real one. Spotted it like a veteran. PXL made up the other, and frankly it was good.
DOZER BITWELL: Fooled! PXL wrote that one ourselves. It sounded very official, and I almost believed it myself.
DOZER BITWELL: Time's up. The real headline was right there, and so was the fake. Both look very sure of themselves.