Newly Granted Nintendo Patents An ‘Embarrassing Failure’ By The USPTO, Says Patent Attorney Summary Nintendo was recently granted two U.S. patents (US 12,409,387 and US 12,403,397) covering broad gameplay mechanics such as riding/flying systems and a summoning/battling loop involving “sub-characters.” Patent attorney Kirk Sigmon calls the grants an “embarrassing failure” of the USPTO because the […]
Aristocrat appoints former Light & Wonder executive Dylan Slaney as Interactive CEO Published: 2025-09-12T08:44:31+00:00 | Reading time: 1:18 min Summary Aristocrat Leisure has named Dylan Slaney as the new Chief Executive Officer of its Interactive division, with an expected start date of 3 November 2025 subject to regulatory approvals. Slaney joins from Light & Wonder, […]
Hacked Routers Linger on the Internet for Years, Data Shows Summary Researchers using Censys Internet-scan data found several hundred Ubiquiti routers still showing hacked banners — defacements that, in many cases, date back years rather than representing recent attacks. The defaced banners trace to campaigns going back to at least 2016–2017 (for example, MF worm-related […]
WhatsApp Bug Anchors Targeted Zero-Click iPhone Attacks Summary Attackers exploited a WhatsApp vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177, CVSS 5.4) in a zero-click campaign against specific Apple users that likely delivered spyware. The WhatsApp flaw allowed processing of content from arbitrary URLs on a target device and was used in combination with an Apple OS out-of-bounds write zero-day (CVE-2025-43300), […]
The Download: Trump’s impact on science, and meet our climate and energy honourees Summary MIT Technology Review’s The Download rounds up several linked stories: how the Trump administration’s actions are reshaping early-career science in the US; highlights from the 2025 Innovators Under 35, with a focus on climate and energy honourees such as Iwnetim Abate; […]
National Guard Accidentally Sends Evidence Of Troop Disillusionment To The Washington Post Summary An internal National Guard “media roll up” assessing public and social media sentiment about Guard deployments in Washington was inadvertently emailed to The Washington Post. The document highlights alarm and discomfort among residents and, importantly, veterans and active-duty personnel who described the […]
Brandom Without Entitlement Author: Santiago Napoli (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) — a punchy, targeted intervention in Brandom scholarship. Summary This article examines the role of “entitlement” in Robert Brandom’s deontic scorekeeping account of discursive agency. Napoli tests how dispensable entitlement is relative to Brandom’s other central notion, commitment. He develops three deflationary manoeuvres: a strong […]
The Multinational Revenue, Employment, and Investment Database (MREID) Summary The Multinational Revenue, Employment, and Investment Database (MREID) compiles firm-level measures of revenue, employment and investment for multinational enterprises (MNEs) using Orbis data, harmonised for cross-country and cross-industry analysis. The database covers 185 countries, 25 industries (from agriculture and mining to services), and an initial 12-year […]
Can Small Economies Act Strategically? The Case of Consumption Pollution and Non‐Tradable Goods Summary This paper builds an analytical model of a federation of asymmetric, small jurisdictions with internationally mobile capital and cross-border pollution generated by consumption of either tradable or non-tradable goods. Governments use two instruments — a consumption tax on the polluting good […]
Untangling US Employment Changes: Production Technology Versus Trade Structure Summary This paper uses structural decomposition analysis (SDA) within a global multiregional input–output (GMRIO) framework to split changes in US employment between 1995 and 2008 into contributions from: production technology (changes in production recipes and employment intensities), trade structure (shifts in import/export shares, including the China […]
