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The Laravel ecosystem continues to lean into the agent-driven future with the launch of Laravel Skills, an open directory of reusable AI agent skills designed specifically for Laravel and PHP developers.

Available at https://skills.laravel.cloud/, the new site makes it easy to discover, share, and install skills that help AI tools better understand your codebase, workflows, and best practices.

What Is Laravel Skills?

Laravel Skills is described as an open directory of reusable AI agent skills for Laravel and PHP, where developers can browse and install skills with a single command.

These skills are designed to work with popular AI coding environments including Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, and others, helping agents perform tasks like:

• Following Laravel conventions
• Applying PHP best practices
• Working with Eloquent and queues
• Running TDD workflows
• Structuring applications correctly
• Reviewing code quality

Instead of repeatedly explaining your stack or preferences, you can load a skill that teaches your agent how to behave.

Install Skills with a Single Command

One of the highlights is how lightweight the workflow is. Skills can be installed using a simple command:

npx skills add <owner/repo>

A Growing Library of Community Skills

The directory already includes skills covering areas like:

• Laravel architecture guidelines
• Eloquent optimization
• Modern PHP patterns
• Testing workflows
• API design practices
• Frontend integrations

Because it’s community powered, developers can submit their own skills and contribute patterns that reflect real-world experience.

Roblox — a popular online gaming platform specifically targeted at children but available to players of all ages — has repeatedly been criticized by parents and concerned players for inappropriate content. And thanks to the recent mass shooting in Canada, those growing concerns have once again come to the forefront.

The gaming site has hundreds of millions of subscribers, 40% of whom are 13 or younger. Users can create virtual worlds and games within those worlds to share with others. The gender-confused man who killed eight last week in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was a Roblox player, and he even created a first-person shooter in which players go through a shopping mall and mow down shoppers as they try to flee.

Despicable.

The simulator was taken down after users brought the “virtual experience” to the attention of Roblox officials. It seems pretty clear that this so-called game was intended to be a practice round of sorts for the public atrocity that the young man ultimately committed.

This isn’t the first time Roblox has gotten into trouble for virtual games like this. After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a user made his own simulator of the assassination for people to participate in.

Having these killing simulators is bad enough, but there are even worse things on Roblox for your kids.

Roblox is a magnet for pedophiles to connect with children. The virtual worlds and virtual characters allow players to disguise their age and intent. The chat feature is how the predators initiate contact with young players. An Iowa family found this out in the worst way possible, as their child was groomed and kidnapped, trafficked, and raped by an online predator on Roblox. They are suing the company for allowing adult grooming of children. Some 250 other similar lawsuits are now on the docket against the gaming platform.

The tricky thing about going after a company like Roblox is that it is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Like social media platforms, Roblox is shielded from liability for user-created content. However, it is not protected if management demonstrably failed to make the platform safe or failed to stop known risks.

In truth, Roblox has done very little to mitigate risks and protect children. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill accurately stated that Roblox “prioritizes user growth, revenue and profits over child safety.”

Other states are also suing Roblox for its blatant disregard for children’s safety, including Texas and Florida. Lawmakers are urging the federal government to take action against platforms that are marketed for children.

In a show of “good faith” in the face of litigation heading its way, Roblox made a half-hearted effort to keep children away from mature content. In July, it announced that it was testing an age-verification simulator. According to The Washington Times, though, the only age verification is entering a date of birth.

Roblox is not appropriate for children. Frankly, no gaming app that allows your child to have unfettered communication with strangers is appropriate or safe. Roblox, however, refuses to choose: is it a platform just for children, or for both children and adults? If it’s for children, management needs to do a significantly better job of keeping pedophiles and other monsters off the platform. If it’s for adults, they need to stop marketing to children and do a better job of keeping kids away. Any 13-year-old can outsmart a birth date verification.

Parents also share some of the blame. They are the dictators of their children’s screen time and access to the internet, cellphones, and online gaming. They need to be aware of what their child is doing and not allow them to use platforms on which strangers can chat with them or create virtual worlds.

As it stands, Roblox is disregarding the safety of its user base, and parents need to be aware that this platform is not a good place for their children. It is, in fact, a cesspit from which they should be kept far away.

It may be just four months or so away, but much of The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars film since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, remains shrouded in mystery. But after we got a very broad teaser that leaned more on Star Wars familiarity than telling us what’s up with our titular heroes, people would’ve expected that our next look at the film would at least give us a little more of an inkling about what’s pulling Din and his ward back into the fight. But don’t expect that just yet.

During the Super Bowl, Lucasfilm released the latest teaser for The Mandalorian and Grogu. Set after the events of the streaming series’ third season, the movie follows up on Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and the youngling Grogu after their retirement to Navarro in the wake of the re-liberation of Mandalore, and Din’s newest job working as a freelance agent of the burgeoning New Republic. This teaser, however? It’s still vibes, it’s just this time it’s in the snow.

The new teaser comes after practically months of silence since the initial trailer, a tactic that The Mandalorian is more than familiar with, maintaining an air of secrecy for as much as possible in the run-up to each season’s debut on Disney+. Even as the new film draws even closer, it looks like we’re still going to have to wait and see what makes this film worth heading out to theaters for instead of a fourth season on Disney+.

The Mandalorian and Grogu, which also stars Sigourney Weaver as New Republic officer Colonel Ward, and Jeremy Allen White as Clone Wars character Rotta the Hutt, hits theaters May 22.

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BOLZANO — The Galactic Empire was met with collective disappointment in its first chance at bringing home a medal at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, as an Imperial stormtrooper once again finished dead last in the qualifying round of the men’s biathlon.

While insiders said that the Empire had high hopes for winning multiple events at the games, the opening days left leadership underwhelmed, as for the 13th consecutive Winter Olympics, the Imperial stormtrooper sent to compete in the biathlon put on a miserable performance.

"He didn’t hit a single target," said NBC commentator and former biathlon competitor Chad Salmela. "I know he spent months training for this event on Hoth, but it was almost like he couldn’t see anything at all with that helmet on. He would ski up to the shooting range, get into position with his blaster, and just not come anywhere near the target. It was embarrassing. I’m not sure why the Empire continues to send stormtroopers to compete in the biathlon. They’ve been trying since the 1980 games, but they finish last every time. They can’t hit anything."

Though other events still offered promise, sources close to the Imperial contingent revealed that stormtrooper biathletes regularly draw the ire of Emperor Palpatine. "We usually never see them again after we get back to Coruscant," said one Imperial athlete. "There’s usually a flash of blueish-purple lightning and some screams of agony, and the stormtrooper is gone. It’s a shame, because they’re actually really good at the cross-country skiing part of the event."

At publishing time, the Imperial ski jumping team had been hit with a cheating scandal alleging that the height and distance of their jumps were artificially aided by the Force abilities of Coach Darth Vader.

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