Sega and Creative Assembly pulled Total War: Shogun 2 — Complete Edition from stores. The remaster launched Tuesday to "Overwhelmingly Negative" reviews on Steam, with users citing bugs and suspected AI-generated image upscaling.
The open-source tool RemoveMacAI can quickly remove Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 and has earned 1,700 stars on GitHub.
Simon Willison released datasette-atom 0.11a0 on October 6. It is a pre-release of the Datasette plugin, and npm-related statistics show the datasette tag now has 1,549 associated projects.
Simon Willison shared Photo Scrubber, an experimental tool he built with GPT-6 Astra that automatically detects faces in photos and blurs them, avoiding sharing photos that identify strangers' faces. The tool uses Google's MediaPipe C++ library, compiled to WebAssembly via @mediapipe/tasks-vision, and employs the BlazeFace face detection model.
Simon Willison released the Bluesky reply bot checker, which identifies suspected automated reply-bot accounts by analyzing behavioral signals in recent posts such as typing speed, posting times and interaction patterns. The tool shows every measurement and rule and lets you view the example replies that triggered the most signals; the author built it with Opus 5.5 vibe coding and notes Bluesky still has a free, usable API that makes this kind of investigation easy.
Interactive examples demonstrate shadow DOM's style encapsulation, inheritance, slots, parts, and JavaScript access, showing how shadow roots create isolated DOM trees with private stylesheets that interact with the page DOM in controlled ways. The explainer page was generated by Fable 5.1 Medium from a prompt.