October 4, 2025: Check Your Accounts For Fishy Activity

Whatever you may expect to read on a Wikipedia entry for a random fish – say, a black neon tetra – you quite probably aren't prepared for a subheading entitled "Credit Card Fraud."

The whole entry is worth reading (it's short!), but the summary is that a YouTube channel rigged motion-tracking software to let fish play video games by mapping their motion to inputs. The fish managed to crash a game of Pokémon Violet they were playing and open the Nintendo eShop, committing some financial hijinks in the process.

In the meantime, I think I need to ask Irene Zielinski if she has any ideas for a "Black Neon Tetra" card for Hacker . . .

-- Steven Marsh