xkcd Goes Interactive, M5 MacBooks Land, and Knuth Writes About Claude

The beloved xkcd Dependency comic becomes an interactive physics toy where you can yank blocks and watch infrastructure collapse, Apple launches MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max featuring 128GB unified memory and Thunderbolt 5, Ars Technica fires their senior AI reporter after AI-fabricated quotes slip into an article, a developer builds a sub-500ms voice agent from scratch in one day, Donald Knuth publishes a paper about Claude solving an open conjecture from The Art of Computer Programming, Arm's Cortex X925 reaches desktop-class single-threaded performance, a laser-cut mechanical screw counter dispenses exactly six screws per pull, and physicists work on an open-source quantum computer.