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California’s proposed Protect Our Games Act advanced out of an Assembly appropriations committee, aiming to require publishers that shut down online games to provide refunds or an offline-playable version with advance notice despite industry objections.

The page is a practical guide to detecting fraud in transaction logs using six common SQL pattern queries—velocity, impossible travel, amount anomalies, suspicious merchants, off-hours behavior, and window-function features—plus advice on combining signals and avoiding pitfalls like false positives and costly windows.

Zulip is being transitioned from Kandra Labs to a new independent nonprofit Zulip Foundation to ensure long-term stability, values-based governance, and expanded fundraising options as founder Tim Abbott and several leaders step back to join Anthropic.

A veteran CTF competitor argues that frontier LLM agents have made most open online CTFs effectively pay-to-win and no longer reflective of human security skill, breaking the learning ladder and demotivating players and organizers while urging the community to shift toward other learning and social avenues.

The author describes migrating sites from Tailwind to semantic HTML and vanilla CSS, outlining the practical “systems” they’re adopting (reset, component-scoped CSS, shared variables for colors and type scales, limited utilities, spacing/responsive patterns, and an esbuild-based bundle) and why Tailwind started to feel limiting.

An updated report on Arizona State University research finds microbiota transplant therapy (fecal microbiota transplants) can improve gastrointestinal issues and is associated with substantial, lasting reductions in autism-related symptoms, with the approach now advancing toward Phase 3 trials.