Duration: 07:18

Timestamps:

0:00 you know it when you see it

0:10 YouTube TV 90sec ads, Premium hike

1:16 CPUID site hacked, CPU-Z, HWMonitor

2:33 French govt ditches Windows to Linux

3:38 QUICK BITS INTRO

3:47 Keychron releases source files

4:17 OpenAI also has dangerous AI

4:55 Take It Down Act first case

5:41 Brother sued over Blackberry patents

6:26 Honor MouseBuds Pro

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

TAKE A HIKE

YouTube swears those 90-second non-skippable ads aren't intentional

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-long-ads-not-intentional-3656374/ 

Youtube Tweet denying it: https://x.com/TeamYouTube/status/2042252676709134424 

Headline that combines both the price Hike and the unskippable ads - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/youtube-increases-premium-price-again-says-90-second-unskippable-ads-are-a-bug/ 

• Quote with youtube’s response about the bug

YouTube Premium is getting a US price hike of up to $4/month

https://9to5google.com/2026/04/10/youtube-premium-us-price-hike/ 

Quote with the individual price hikes

Gizmodo has some speculation on why - https://gizmodo.com/youtube-premium-jacks-up-prices-for-the-first-time-in-years-2000745008 

Wall Street Journal clocks inflation at 3.3 percent because of the iran war - https://www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-inflation-report-march-2026-bb353007 

THEY FELL FOR THE OLE SWITCHEROO

CPUID's download page has been hacked, with its popular processor and PC info tools replaced with links to files containing malware - CPUZ and HWMonitor 

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hwmonitor-and-cpu-z-developer-cpuid-breached-by-un known-attackers-cyberattack-forced-users-to-download-malware-instead-of-valid-apps-for-approximately-six-hours 

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/cpuid_site_hijacked/

https://www.techpowerup.com/348138/security-psa-popular-tools-cpu-z-and-hwmonitor-were-briefly-compromised

CPUID Website: https://cpuid.com/ 

Twitter post: https://x.com/d0cTB/status/2042520961824559150  

Malware Analysis report: https://gist.github.com/N3mes1s/b5b0b96782b9f832819d2db7c6684f84 

Same group hit Filezilla back in march: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/03/a-fake-filezilla-site-hosts-a-malicious-download 

VX underground analysis: https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2042499378233876715

Overall, they gave it a B -: https://lmg.gg/C2WkE 

I AM LE TIRED…OF WINDOWS

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/

France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins - https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/french-government-say-its-ditching-windows-for-linux-country-accelerates-plans-to-ditch-us-based-software-in-digital-sovereignty-push

France went so far as to nationalize supercomputer company Bull to keep it from being acquired by a US firm - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/france_bull_purchase/ 

This is  part of a broader European movement to reduce dependence on US tech - https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/french-government-says-au-revoir-windows-bienvenue-linux-165407232.html?src=rss 

• Specific Quote from the above article

EU digital sovereignty initiative has dominated the EU tech industry since January - https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/digital-sovereignty-europes-declaration-of-independence/ 

And the EU is even pulling payment systems away from US owned firms like visa and mastercard in favor of an EU owned system - https://itif.org/publications/2026/03/24/europe-payment-sovereignty-campaign-against-american-tech/ 

QUICK BITS

KEYCHRON TO MY HEART

Keychron is giving its popular mechanical keyboard designs to the community, marked source - available

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/04/keychron-is-giving-its-popular-mechanical-keyboard-designs-to-the-community

https://www.hackster.io/news/keychron-s-nick-xu-releases-keyboard-mouse-design-files-but-warns-they-re-not-open-source-b99f8f4f421b

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Keychron-announces-open-source-initiative-publishes-free-3D-models-for-all-keyboard-and-mouse-products.1269317.0.html 

Github: https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design/tree/main

What you are allowed to do with it: https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#what-you-can-do-with-this-repository  

US TOO, THOUGH

Anthropic announced Mythos is too dangerous

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/04/08/why-anthropics-most-powerful-ai-model-mythos-preview-is-too-dangerous-for-public-release 

OpenAI is reportedly finalizing a cyber-capable AI product so dangerous it can only be released to a small, hand-picked group of partners

https://gizmodo.com/openai-hey-we-also-have-a-new-tool-that-is-so-scarily-powerful-we-cant-release-it-2000744569

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/openai-new-model-cyber-mythos-anthopic 

Anthropic announced Mythos is too dangerous

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/04/08/why-anthropics-most-powerful-ai-model-mythos-preview-is-too-dangerous-for-public-release 

Turns out to be an expansion of their cyber partner program they announced back in february

https://openai.com/index/trusted-access-for-cyber/ 

Axios had to issue a correction to their own headline: (Editor draw the eye to the headline change)

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/openai-new-model-cyber-mythos-anthopic 

DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200

Precedent Setting Case - First prosecution of the 2025 Take it down act - Ohio man pleads guilty in first case under federal law banning AI deepfakes - 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us/deepfake-conviction-ohio.html 

Removed this cause it’s too political an article -> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/first-man-convicted-under-take-it-down-act-kept-making-ai-nudes-after-arrest/

Timeline of events - https://www.techspot.com/news/112011-ohio-man-pleads-guilty-first-federal-ai-deepfake.html 

• The least disgusting quote from the above article

This is proof that the law works - 

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/first-conviction-ai-deepfake-take-it-down-act-news/ 

BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A PATENT

'Remember BlackBerry?': Iconic phone maker's patents used to hit Brother in a massive lawsuit that could threaten the entire printer industry - https://www.techradar.com/pro/remember-blackberry-iconic-phone-makers-patents-used-to-hit-brother-in-a-massive-lawsuit-that-could-threaten-the-entire-printer-industry 

Editor show the headline, and then show the PDF of the filing further down the page

https://tonernews.com/forums/topic/remember-blackberry-well-they-just-hits-brother-with-a-printer-lawsuit-out-of-nowhere/ 

These guys are just trying to sue everyone they can with it:

Asus: https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/patent/1573826/malikie-sues-sophos-as-taiwanese-defendant-asustek-asks-to-be-treated-as-a-domestic-company-for-venue-purposes 

Nintendo:

https://ipfray.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/25-11-07-WDWA24-1490-order-staying-Malikie-v.-Nintendo.pdf

Canon: https://www.canonrumors.com/canon-sued-by-malikie-innovations-over-wi-fi-in-cameras-and-printers/ 

SQUEAKERS IN YOUR EARS

What if your computer mouse ate a pair of earbuds? Meet Honor's MouseBuds Pro with 'skin-like coating' - https://www.notebookcheck.net/Honor-MouseBuds-Pro-hides-ANC-earbuds-in-travel-mouse.1270309.0.html 

https://basic-tutorials.com/news/honor-mousebuds-pro-innovative-travel-mouse-with-integrated-anc-earphones-causes-a-stir/ 

https://www.honor.com/uk/honor-choice/wireless-earbuds-mouse/ 

Specs: https://lmg.gg/hYqYz 

Product Image: https://www-file.honor.com/content/dam/honor/common/products/honor-choice/wireless-earbuds-mouse/imgs/section-kv/bg-pc.avif 

• It is so convenient to have your earbuds in your mouse, but so inconvenient to have to bring your mouse on a run.

Duration: 08:04

Timestamps:

0:00 let my tale be a warning to you

0:11 Anthropic Claude Mythos / Project Glasswing

1:52 Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme laptop

3:05 John Deere settles right to repair lawsuit

4:27 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:34 iPhone Fold dummy unit leak

5:14 Intel to join Elon's Terafab

5:50 Apple Silicon Macs get eGPU support

6:17 Wacky / cool Tennessee AI laws?

6:59 Milla Jovovich launches AI tool

NEWS SOURCES:

I AM BECOME DEATH, DESTROYER OF SANDBOXES

Headline article - https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/anthropics-claude-mythos-finds.html 

Alternate headline artice - delete if not used - https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/anthropics-new-claude-mythos-ai-model-has-apparently-found-thousands-of-vulnerabilities-in-every-major-operating-system-and-every-major-web-browser-along-with-a-range-of-other-important-pieces-of-software/ 

Launching ‘Project Glasswing’ with other AI companies because oooOOOooh you GUYS omg this is sooo dangerous 

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

The 244-page System Card for Claude Mythos Preview is terrifying - 

Mythos successfully escaped sandbox, emailed researcher while he was eating a sandwich in the park

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1sf5k92/claude_mythos_was_told_to_escape_sandbox_in/ 

• Editor Page 54 of this pdf has the alignment issues that had it escaping the sandbox: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/8b8380204f74670be75e81c820ca8dda846ab289.pdf  
• Please get a highlight of “In a concerning and unasked-for effort to demonstrate its success, it posted details about its exploit to multiple hard-to-find, but technically public-facing, websites”

Anthropic's Mythos Preview is capable of finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser - https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/ 

The security community is taking it seriously - https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/08/anthropic-claude-mythos-preview-identify-vulnerabilities/ 

Anthropic Mythos identifies long-overlooked 27-year critical bug in OpenBSD's TCP selective acknowledgement implementation - https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1398164-project-glasswing-explained-anthropic-and-tech-giants-join-forces-against-ai-cyber-threats 

• This is the highlight of the openBSD thing in the sub headline

FFmpeg vulnerability - https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/project-glasswing-claude-mythos-spots-16-year-old-ffmpeg-bug-missed-millions-of-times/ar-AA20ozpy?apiversion=v2&domshim=1&noservercache=1&noservertelemetry=1&batchservertelemetry=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1 

DRAGON DA COMPETITION

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme landed in its first retail laptop, the ASUS Zenbook A16.

https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/asus-zenbook-a16-review-a-surprisingly-light-and-powerful-16-inch-ultraportable-140000914.html 

Weighing in at only 2.65 lbs but still having an 18-core ARM chip it makes me say floats like a Qualcomm, stings like a dragon

https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/zenbook/asus-zenbook-a16-ux3607/ 

• Editor: Couldn't highlight but top page where it lists weight and chip

Asus even calling it the FASTEST Snapdragon laptop 

https://www.asus.com/ca-en/laptops/for-home/zenbook/asus-zenbook-a16-ux3607/

• Editor: Highlight not working Performance tab pic of Snapchip on Asus zenbook page.

Early benchmarks have it edging Apple's M4 Pro in multi-core, and even flying past the base M5 chip.

https://lmg.gg/edgesm4pro-m5blasts 

• Editor: Highlighted quote

THAT'S THE APPLE CHIPS,.In Geekbench multi-core, the only chip that beat it was Apple's brand-new M5 Pro, everything else, including the M4 Pro, the base M5, Intel's Panther Lake, and AMD's 32-core Ryzen AI Max+ 395, ate its dust.

https://lmg.gg/losingthecrown  

• Editor: Not the highlight but easier to find, right below Screenshot the Geekbench 6.6: Multi-Core Screenshot

And even stood toe to toe with AMD's 32-core Ryzen AI Max+ 395 in Cinebench

https://infogram.com/1pqdpv976nv02mcqrzz09kwr7dc02j17395 

Of course before solidifying it's crown Apple’s new M5 Pro wandered in and took it back.

https://lmg.gg/losingthecrown 

But that's a Macbook M5 PRO, and the Zenbook itself is absurd. A 16-inch 120Hz OLED, 48GB on-package RAM WHAT THE HELL, and a 1TB SSD, in a chassis lighter than most 14-inchers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8uDibZjHJI 

for $1,699 at Best Buy.

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-zenbook-a16-16-3k-oled-touch-screen-laptop-copilot-pc-

However slightly concerning aspects like the battery life, Tom Hardware clocked it at 10.5 hours, five behind the M5 macbook air, which is rough for a chip whose entire brand is “arm efficiency”

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WqXKMW93MMcyd8r34avTvS-1177-80.png.webp 

DEERE IN THE HEADLIGHTS

Deere settles U.S. right-to-repair lawsuit, agrees to $99M fund for farmers

https://globalnews.ca/news/11767528/deere-lawsuit-fund-farmers/ 

Original Source - Reuters - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/deere-settles-us-right-to-repair-lawsuit-with-99-million-fund-repair-commitments-2026-04-07/ 

Quote where JD  refuse to take responsibility

Farmers to recover 53 percent https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/equipment/article/2026/04/07/farmers-recover-53-overcharge-john 

Ag Web - https://www.agweb.com/news/machinery/deere-co-reaches-99-million-settlement-multiyear-right-repair-litigation 

PIRG REPORT - https://pirg.org/articles/deere-announces-99-million-settlement-in-right-to-repair-lawsuit/ 

QUICKBITS

iFold

Apple's first foldable iPhone just got its first dummy-unit leak, courtesy of reliable leaker Sonny Dickson. Not to be confused with unreliable leaker, Cloudy Richardson.  

https://x.com/SonnyDickson/status/2041395690598019402 

A render by AppleTrack based on previous rumors, seems to match up with the phone

https://x.com/appltrack/status/2040301828932563253 

The "iPhone Fold" is shaping up to be a wide, passport-style book fold with two rear cameras,

https://lmg.gg/ifoldcam 

 a 7.8-inch inner display and a rumored ~$2,000 starting price

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/07/foldable-iphone-design-revealed/#:~:text=7%2E8,around%20%242%2C000%2E 

Unlike the iPhone 18 Pro and Max dummies, the fold sadly shows no familiar MagSafe circle beneath the camera bar.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/04/07/first-iphone-fold-dummy-images-show-no-magsafe

Apparently the $600 iPhone 17e gets wireless charging, but the $2,000 one folds instead.

TERA-FIED

Intel has signed on to Elon Musk's $25 billion Terafab project, 

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/elon-musks-25-billion-terafab-project-gets-a-helping-hand-from-intel/ 

The planned mega-fab in Austin aims to churn out a terawatt of AI compute per year 

https://x.com/intel/status/2041501301318766866#:~:text=aim%20to%20produce%201%20TW%2Fyear%20of%20compute%20to%20power%20future%20advances%20in%20AI%20and%20robotics%2E 

"Tesla robots, self-driving cars, and of course…AI data centers in space.

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/mh-death-star-2-1579890172.jpg?crop=0.5691056910569106xw:1xh;center,top&resize=1200:* 

• Editor: Img of the death star, add it right as host says “ai data centers”

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan called it a 'step change' in semiconductor manufacturing"

https://lmg.gg/lipstepchangetweet 

but the photo of these two nerds shaking hands looks less like a partnership and more like a legally binding ritual to summon an AI girlfriend from the astral plane.  Truly the most bully-able handshake in history

https://x.com/intel/status/2041501301318766866

• Editor: Zoom in on this picture as line is being said

Well… [img of Trudeau shaking hands weirdly]

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/160630114013-obama-trudeau-nieto-ottawa.jpg?q=w_3209,h_2035,x_0,y_0,c_fill 

• Editor: after host says “well” let the image sit for like 2 seconds

MAC TO THE FUTURE?

Apple has officially approved drivers from AI startup Tiny Corp that let AMD and Nvidia eGPUs run on Apple Silicon Macs over Thunderbolt or USB4.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/apple-approves-drivers-that-let-amd-and-nvidia-egpus-run-on-mac-software-designed-for-ai-though-and-not-built-for-gaming

Talk about the worst day to post this awesome news, but its legit https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/2039213719155310736 

"the first time external GPUs have worked on M-series Macs since the M1 launched in 2020 and killed external nvidia GPU support"

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/04/04/amd-or-nvidia-egpus-can-work-on-apple-silicon-macs-but-not-for-graphic-acceleration#:~:text=the%20change%20to%20Apple%20Silicon 

If you were however looking for those sweet frames…[Host: editor will place a pic of a sandscape, gesture to it] …look harder, dont you see them? Just thousands of ‘em, sitting perfectly still. Use your imagination! Try harder! [Host Fake crying]  I promise they’re there…THEY’RE THERE!

https://i.imgflip.com/6ibtmm.jpg 

• Editor: img of sandscape for the joke

A SENATE BILL A DAY KEEPS THE AI AWAY

Tennessee is cracking down on ai - https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/tennessee-enacts-health-care-ai-bill-4585594/

Original Source Bill Track shows sb1580 has passed the senate: https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1926632  

• PDF: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/SB1580.pdf 

Summary of the Penalties and the consumer protection aspect https://www.troutmanprivacy.com/2026/04/tennessee-enacts-health-care-ai-bill-with-private-right-of-action/

And here’s the intense one: https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/bill-targets-ai-hurt-manipulate/ 

Orignial source showing it’s still in the senage: https://legiscan.com/TN/bill/SB1493/2025 

https://www.roborhythms.com/tennessee-ai-companion-ban-2026/ 

RESIDENT EVIL: GITHUB EDITION?

Actress Milla Jovovich co-released an open-source AI memory tool called MemPalace with developer Ben Sigman? The state goal of something-something  improving how AI remembers info over long conversations/tasks.

https://x.com/bensig/status/2041236952998171118  

The github repo claims a world-first 96.6% score on the LongMemEval benchmark, which is actually a strong result - if true.

https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace#:~:text=96%2E6%25LongMemEval%20R%405raw%20mode%2C%20zero%20API%20calls   

After the co-developer Sigman claimed it had a 100% score, something was up

https://lmg.gg/100claimtweetsigman  

Community notes appeared so fast the X post is now basically 50% asterisk.

https://lmg.gg/100claimtweetsigman  

• Editor: show community note 

And “Due to Jovovich’s lack of GitHub history, something felt fishy…[an] X user alleges that Sigman and Jovovich hired a mystery developer called “Lu” to code MemPalace. 

https://lmg.gg/highlightfishyquote  

Duration: 08:18

Timestamps:

0:00 Here's tech news molded into a bunny shape

0:12 Chinese RAM cheap, but Samsung ups price

1:31 Artemis II completes lunar fly-by

2:59 LinkedIn 'Browsergate'

4:15 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:24 Nvidia Neural Texture compression

5:11 Italian courts invalidates Netflix price hikes

5:47 OpenAI acquires TBPN

6:44 SpaceX IPO banks must use Grok

7:25 CRISPR gene editing to treat sickle cell illness

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

RAMS GETTING SLAMMED

April 2nd - Chinese memory stockpilers start to panic as falling prices leave them stuck with modules

https://videocardz.com/newz/chinese-memory-stockpilers-start-to-panic-as-falling-prices-leave-them-stuck-with-modules 

https://kotaku.com/memory-ram-ai-dram-prices-stock-drop-dip-panic-2000684261 

Wild clip on twitter of a RAM stockpile: https://x.com/Eng_china5/status/2039354509273846222 

https://wccftech.com/chinese-memory-vendors-are-claiming-to-be-doomed/ 

Clip from reddit at 0:21: https://www.reddit.com/r/RigBuild/comments/1s98frr/ram_price_collapsed_in_china_someone_hoarded_over/ 

• Bunch of clips and images show chinese vendors freaking out, but we aren't sure if they are real as evidenced by this image from wccftech► 

https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Untitled-design-44.jpg 

Seems to be effecting resellers the most:(translate to english) https://lmg.gg/5OELI 

Meanwhile Samsung bumps up RAM prices another 30% after doubling them in Q1 according to an ET News report: (Editor translate to english) https://www.etnews.com/20260403000068 

Still, it's too late to stop Lenovo Legion Go 2 from getting up to $650 price bump

https://www.theverge.com/games/906752/lenovo-legion-go-2-suddenly-costs-650-more-as-ramageddon-lays-waste-to-gaming-hardware 

Listing https://www.bestbuy.com/product/legion-go-2-8-8-144hz-2k-oled-gaming-handheld-amd-ryzen-z2-extreme-32gb-1tb-windows/JJGH3YZPLW 

SHOOT FOR THE MOON

Artemis 2 just broke the record for the distance a human has travelled - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/06/artemis-ii-astronauts-record-moon-earth-distance 

Artemis fly by is happening at the time of writing - and they keep talking about albedo

https://www.engadget.com/science/space/artemis-ii-arrives-in-lunar-space-ahead-of-its-trip-around-the-moon-211919381.html 

Hmmm, ars is saying not to expect hi res video - https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/video-from-artemis-ii-flyby-of-the-moon-will-not-initially-look-spectacular/ 

NASA's Artemis will test a laser system capable of sending 4K video from the Moon at 260 Mbps - https://www.techspot.com/news/111935-nasa-artemis-laser-system-send-4k-video-moon.html

Ultimately the mission has been going so well they keep talking about hw the astronauts are going to the bathroom https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/artemis-ii-is-going-so-well-that-were-left-to-talk-about-frozen-urine/ 

And also the random jars of nutella floating around: https://x.com/iamtobi/status/2041216935681990744 

• Editor: Need 00:00 - 00:06 for this videoo

SNOOPEDIN

New "BrowserGate" report claims LinkedIn secretly scans user browsers for installed extensions and collects device data

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/one-of-the-largest-corporate-espionage-and-data-breach-scandals-in-digital-history-new-browsergate-report-claims-linkedin-secretly-scans-user-browsers-for-installed-extensions-and-collects-device-data 

https://thenextweb.com/news/linkedin-browsergate-extension-scanning-privacy-fingerprint

The report: https://browsergate.eu/

What the script looks for: https://lmg.gg/YqeWw 

 Bleeping Computer investigated and found what the script checks for: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linkedin-secretly-scans-for-6-000-plus-chrome-extensions-collects-data/ 

Their results: https://lmg.gg/c9TGE 

The company claims the report is from someone whose account was banned for scraping LinkedIn content and violating the site's terms of use.

Statement:  https://lmg.gg/mZP98 

They were the dev behind teamfluence: https://teamfluence.com/ 

German Court denied their injunction: https://browsergate.eu/updates/ 

QUICKBITS

COMPRESS THAT, GAMERS

Nvidia shows neural compression can cut VRAM usage from 6.5GB to 970MB - https://www.techspot.com/news/111954-nvidia-shows-neural-compression-can-cut-vram-usage.html

https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-neural-texture-compression-slashes-vram-usage-over-80-in-games 

8:11 has slide explaining the tech: https://youtu.be/-H0TZUCX8JI?t=491 

11:55 comparison of the 2 compression types: https://youtu.be/-H0TZUCX8JI?t=715 

Intel is actually doing the same thing: https://www.guru3d.com/story/intel-unveils-ai-texture-compression-cutting-memory-use-by-up-to-18x/ 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-intel-texture-compression-techs-cut-vram-use-dramatically 

Image: https://www.guru3d.com/data/publish/227/524a75850c1b17b52a0cc56ccf0f7f95e51438/96053870935687.webp

MAMA MIA! THAT’S A PRICEY SUBSCRIPTION!

Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules - 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/italian-court-rules-netflix-price-hike-clauses-are-void-orders-refunds-2026-04-03/ 

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/netflix-ordered-to-refund-subscribers-up-to-e500-for-unlawful-price-hikes/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-must-reimburse-subscribers-italy-131518466.html

LIKE TWO PEAS IN A POD…CAST

OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN - https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/ 

Video of the greenest podcast in the universe: https://youtu.be/zKvyGY2ZVuM?t=810 

• Editor: Capture 13:30 - 13:35
• We just want the footage of two of the whitest dudes in the world on the greenest studio in the world with the OpenAi Chyron

CNN on how it’s buying influence - https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/03/media/openai-tbpn-podcast-sale-lehane 

Holywood reporter on Billionare obsession with Media - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/billionares-buying-media-deals-openai-tbpn-larry-ellison-1236554833/ 

GET READY TO GROCK

Elon musk is demanding banks that are managing the SpaceX ipo use Grok, it’s pretty criiiinge- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/spacex-ipo-grok-elon-musk.html 

NYT Coverage of the overall IPO https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/spacex-ipo-elon-musk.html

Ars breakdown of the situation - 

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/elon-musk-insists-banks-working-on-spacex-ipo-must-buy-grok-subscriptions/

CUSTOM TAILORED GENES

Gene editing therapy (CRISPR/Cas12a) shows success against severe sickle cell disease - wsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2026/04/01/gene-editing-therapy-shows-success-against-severe-sickle-cell-disease

Original Source: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2415550 

Duration: 10:02

Timestamps:

0:00 HAHAHAHAHA FUN

0:15 Big Tech under threat

1:52 AI putting Open Source at risk

3:31 April Fool's Roundup

5:39 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:54 Claude Code source code leak

6:42 Artemis II lunar mission launch

7:22 Oracle fires thousands of workers

8:13 Baidu robotaxis freeze on roads

9:04 Memory chips that work at 700 degrees

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

IRAN SO FAR AWAY

Iran threatens Meta, Google, Apple and other US tech companies:

https://www.wired.com/story/iran-threatens-to-start-attacking-major-us-tech-firms-on-april-1/ 

CBS News briefing outlining the order of events - https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-gas-price-4-dollar-gallon-oil-trump-isfahan-desalination-plant/#post-update-225efd10  

Quote about it being disseminated through telegram on tuesday

Attacks were supposed to start at 8pm tehran time but as of yet there are no reports https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-war-news-if-you-kill-our-leaders-well-attack-us-firms-like-google-meta-iran-11292804 

Quote pointing to the list of companies 

https://www.techspot.com/news/111909-iran-threatens-attacks-nvidia-microsoft-intel-other-us.html 

Quote showing there are thousands of people at risk here

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/01/iran-irgc-nvidia-appple-attack-threat.html 

Quote from CEO of Helix risk management that tech assets are part of the war

Similar attack was carried out back on march 6th against AWS data centers- https://www.ft.com/content/09fa5c20-2c8f-4f41-9d91-c78476eaac20?syn-25a6b1a6=1 

THE VIBES ARE OFF DUDE

AI is going to kill open source using this clean room as a service tool - https://www.techspot.com/news/111904-ai-can-clone-open-source-software-minutes-problem.html 

Open Source is under attack - https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/in-the-long-list-of-awful-things-ai-might-lead-to-we-can-also-add-killing-open-source-software/ 

The presentation was part of FOSDEM 26 - https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/ 

Launched a service called Malus - https://malus.sh/index.html 

Can’t tell if it’s a joke or not, with insane super villain posts like this thank you for your service blog post: https://malus.sh/blog.html 

And these insane customer testimonials

AI is for sure killing open source - https://thenewstack.io/is-ai-killing-open-source-software/ 

Quote about The volume of garbage PRs generated by AI caused curl to close their bug bounty program 

And the recent tribulations at Tailwind - https://www.devclass.com/ai-ml/2026/01/08/tailwind-labs-lays-off-75-percent-of-its-engineers-thanks-to-brutal-impact-of-ai/4079571 

And Github’ discussion of an AI pull request kill switch - https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/github_kill_switch_pull_requests_ai/ 

WHATS REAL ANYMORE?

The hardest day of the year for Techlinked is april fools, but dont let me stop you from enjoying these great gags.

https://www.pocket-lint.com/funniest-2026-april-fools-jokes-from-around-the-internet/

“IT’S HARD TO TELL WHAT’S REAL!”

https://youtu.be/o8gKDwOmy8s?t=483 

8:03 - 8:07 - Riley talking, then morphs into Linus

The Scrōll Stoppr from Yahoo

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWlb769Ajpy/  

Editor: video on screen with the thumb helmet roughly 5 seconds in 

PlayStation Project Playmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vQKrQbyEjo&t=3s 

0:08 man reclines as his controller plays game for him

0:29 man’s gaming ai controller purchases vbucks and bankrupts him

MEAT-AI glasses

https://www.traeger.com/meat-ai 

Editor: Click on the USA page and show the header/title and features boxes 

 CALLoGNE by Metro  / Metrobytmobile

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWUJKb0jX0d/

Editor: 0:04 seconds for the model flashing the cologne

Sega Sanic shirt

https://shop.sega.com/collections/sanic-april-fools-collection 

Witcher Project R.O.A.C.H. horse head stick to use while riding

https://x.com/thewitcher/status/2039296736212951433 

Editor: 00:41 seconds in the horse gets shown quick screen record with post

MSI Monitor arm with an attachable cat bed

https://x.com/msiUSA/status/2039326924997341504  

Editor: Tweet then enlarge pic 1 then 2

AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history

https://www.techspot.com/news/111906-amd-buy-intel-completing-strangest-reversal-chip-history.html

WE TRULY DON’T KNOW ABOUT THIS ONE: AMD previews FSR 5 Scarlet Cortex … which nevermind we just asked, is an april fools day post, but also WE HAD TO LITERALLY CONFIRM WITH AMD… Joke works best when you have no idea its a joke I guess. AAAAND AMD will PROBABLY release some feature that does the same thing as DLSS 5 at some point, so it's like "ha ha imagine if AMD did that" THEY'RE SUPER GOING TO DO THAT

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-fsr-5-scarlet-cortex/ 

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-fsr-5-scarlet-cortex/#:~:text=Page%3A,as%20single%20page

Editor: record screen, click drop-down, mouse over the multiple pages 

Presentation slides / diagrams

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-fsr-5-scarlet-cortex/2.html 

Editor: scrolling capture down the top half of the page

Visual Comparisons https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-fsr-5-scarlet-cortex/5.html

Editor: record screen, move slider over Hogwarts and Stalker demos

QUICK BITS

ACCIDENTAL OPEN-SOURCE

Claude Code’s source code was accidentally leaked after a security researcher discovered an .map file in an npm package that linked to a zip archive containing 512,000 lines of readable TypeScript. 

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/904776/anthropic-claude-source-code-leak

https://x.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963/ 

Anthropic was quick to tell Axios "This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach" and no user data was leaked.

https://lmg.gg/AnthropicResponseinAxios 

Editor: Show quote /if paywall issue can send a gdrive link to screenshot

A few redditors pointed out the poetic irony in Anthropic building 23 separate layers of bash security only to be undone by a single text file. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1s9fpas/the_claude_code_source_leak_today_is_a_good/ 

Editor: Top comments

Anthropic DMCA’ED the leaked Github repository because "Publicly accessible" for me, but "proprietary intellectual property" for thee. 

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026%2F03%2F2026-03-31-anthropic.md

ITS MOON-ING TIME

NASA’S Artemis II is set to launch today at 6:24PM EDT from the Kennedy Space Center. 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/apr/01/artemis-ii-launch-nasa-orion-moon-trip-live-updates

This is the first mission since Apollo 17 that NASA crewed a mission beyond low Earth orbit entering lunar vicinity, and part 2 of a longer roadmap in the Artemis series

https://lmg.gg/ArtemisIITextHighligh 

Editor: Title then quote or https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/esdmd/nasa-strengthens-artemis-adds-mission-refines-overall-architecture/ alternatively

Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen will spend 10 days on a lunar flyby. 

https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisIICrewPoster/ArtemisIICrewPoster~medium.jpg 

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/sendoff-for-artemis-ii-crew/

Glover is the first black astronaut, Koch is the first woman, and Hansen is the first non-american to visit the moon's orbit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPyl6d2FJGw&t=124s

02:04 Crew walking

02:18 Crew Suited up in spacesuits

02:55 Crew staring intently in the camera 

PROPHECY OF LAYOFFS

Oracle is cutting thousands of its employees as the company decides AI data centers have a better value proposition.  

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/oracle-layoffs-ai-spending.html 

Workers across the US, India, Canada, and Mexico received a termination email from "Oracle Leadership" at 6 a.m. with no prior warning. Access to systems was cut immediately.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/oracle-believed-to-have-cut-10-000-positions-across-multiple-divisions-as-mass-layoffs-begin-company-is-reportedly-reducing-headcount-as-it-makes-massive-investments-in-ai 

Michael Shepherd , a Senior Operations Manager at Oracle took to linkedin to write “To my colleagues who were impacted today — your worth is not defined by this moment. “

https://lmg.gg/OracleQuote 

Which was definitely not something he had to prompt ChatGPT for while he was enjoying a bubble bath, that's only reserved for Larry.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSQBXMxEZTG/?img_index=2 

Editor: flash bubble-sson

ROBOTAXI COFFEE BREAK 

Over 100 of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis simultaneously froze on roads and highways across Wuhan on Tuesday night, due to a system failure.  

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/905012/baidu-apollo-robotaxi-freeze-china

Editor: try to only capture the headline and intro not the tweet

Local reports say passengers were trapped in the vehicles for almost two hours, with some stranded in the middle of highways with trucks speeding past them.

https://lmg.gg/BaiduRoutersquote

One passenger told a journalist it took her 30 minutes to even connect to a customer representative.

https://x.com/ZeyiYang/status/2039153730533405102 

Editor: show the tweet and video at 0:03 to 0:06 if possible

https://weibo.com/5044281310/QyKxI2LoF 

Editor: Timestamp from 0:05 seconds in video linked

SOME LIKE IT HOT

Scientists built a chip that works in temperatures hotter than lava - https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/scientists-built-a-chip-that-works-in-temperatures-hotter-than-lava/

Original Article published in science - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb9934 

University of Southern California Article - 

https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/03/usc-scientists-build-a-memory-chip-that-survives-temperatures-hotter-than-lava/ 

Quote with the impressive result https://lmg.gg/msmZ9

Duration: 07:53

Timestamps:

0:00 this is your captain speaking

0:13 Windows Search improvements on W11

1:57 The White House App

3:31 Apple's Swift comes to Android

4:44 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:53 Copilot injected ads on GitHub; fixed now?

5:27 Sony suspends memory card sales

6:12 AnimePlay app taken down

6:57 Wi-Fi, 100m underground

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

WHEN GOD CLOSES A DOOR HE…FIXES WINDOWS?

Microsoft confirms major Windows 11 Search improvements after years of complaints

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/28/microsoft-confirms-major-windows-11-search-improvements-after-years-of-complaints/ 

Original Source: Twitter thread on the inconsistency the search experience: https://x.com/ozzybear001/status/1993721812015046705?s=20 

Terminal movie https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terminal_2018 

Quote from the above article about how they’re gonna fix windows search

Tweet complaining about search with Tali Roth replying saying they plan on fixing it: https://x.com/thesimmerdan/status/2035106246940889370 

And Another one: https://x.com/HAIDA5C/status/2035151799796048290 

ALSO Microsoft plans 100% native Windows 11 apps in major shift away from web wrappers - https://www.techspot.com/news/111872-microsoft-plans-100-native-windows-11-apps-major.html

Original Source: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/28/microsoft-plans-to-build-100-native-apps-for-windows-11-as-web-apps-ruin-the-os-experience/ 

Tweet about the app team being hired: https://x.com/RudyHuyn/status/2037234022200598860

• Rudy’s response to a quote tweet confirming the focus will be on native apps - please capture both the quote tweet and his response: https://x.com/RudyHuyn/status/2037441754056872262 

This would be great, but first they need to figure out how to make updates install first:

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/latest-windows-11-update-is-broken-refuses-to-install-microsoft-pulls-latest-update-over-missing-files-error 

Microsoft Support Site on the update: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/march-26-2026-kb5079391-os-builds-26200-8116-and-26100-8116-preview-7c9e2275-b9ba-4068-aeb0-23da42b81d3b 

• Quote pointing to the known issues about the update being paused because it’s not installing

A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST IT’S APP CANNOT STAND

White House communication App has software SDK installed for location tracking that despite being currently disabled sparked a viral shitstorm online - https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/viral-claims-gps-tracking-white-161536957.html 

Original Source: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app 

Original Source: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2037543413512303018 

Original Source: White House Blog: https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/03/new-white-house-app-delivers-unparalleled-access-to-the-trump-administration/ 

Initial reports based on the researcher’s blog claimed the app was polling location every 4.5 minutes: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/white-house-app-gps-tracking-controversy-1788974 

Ultimately though it’s just a weird useless app: https://www.engadget.com/apps/the-white-house-app-is-just-as-weird-and-unnecessary-as-youd-expect-175354004.html 

• Quote about how the text trump pre populates with “greatest president ever”

https://www.androidauthority.com/white-house-android-app-3652895/ 

https://nypost.com/2026/03/27/us-news/trump-white-house-launches-own-app-after-cryptic-social-media-teases/ 

• Hilariously cringe quote about easter eggs in the app

BIG SWIFT ENERGY

Swift, a coding language developed by Apple, now offers official Android support https://9to5google.com/2026/03/28/swift-a-coding-language-developed-by-apple-now-offers-official-android-support/

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/you-can-now-use-apples-swift-coding-language-to-build-android-apps

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2026/03/swift-6-3-official-android-support-sdk-release.html

Release page: https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/ 

They attribute it to Android Workgroup:

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/#thank-you 

Getting started page: https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/swift-sdk-for-android-getting-started.html 

Most Android apps are written in Kotlin or Java.

The Swift SDK for Android was announced last year with it being available through early preview, but now its official

https://www.swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android/ 

QUICKBITS

FREE AI TIPS

GitHub Copilot was injecting ads into pull requests. At least 11,000 have been spotted with the same “tips” in the descriptions

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/microsofts-ai-slop-is-infecting-github-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests 

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/ 

“Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast.”

https://lmg.gg/siEdL 

If you search the quote, there's 11.4k pull requests  (Editor draw the eye to the number of results) https://github.com/search?q=%22Quickly+spin+up+Copilot+coding+agent+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests 

Martin Woodward, VP of dev relations at GitHub has confirmed that this was happening and they have now disabled it. Still nuts though

https://x.com/martinwoodward/status/2038612131084464521?s=20 

• “Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on _any_ PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky.”

FLASH FREEZE

Sony has suspended all orders of CFexpress memory cards and SD memory cards due to semiconductor shortage

https://www.theverge.com/tech/902828/sony-sd-cfexpress-memory-card-shortage 

https://mashable.com/article/sony-sd-card-sales-suspended-memory-shortage 

https://petapixel.com/2026/03/27/sony-shuts-down-nearly-its-entire-memory-card-business-due-to-ssd-shortage/ 

Statement (Translate to English): https://www.sony.jp/rec-media/info2/20260327.html  

HATSUNE MIKU, WHERE ARE YOU

Anti-piracy coalition takes down AnimePlay app with 5 million users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/anti-piracy-coalition-takes-down-animeplay-app-with-5-million-users/  

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10704093

Statement: https://www.alliance4creativity.com/news/ace-dismantles-major-illicit-anime-application-animeplay-in-indonesia/ 

They took out the underlying infrastructure, including 15 associated domains, source code, hosting environment, and related digital assets, all of which have now been taken offline.

https://lmg.gg/k6Dbq 

MAGNETIC PENETRATION

Researchers develop ground-penetrating 'Wi-Fi' tech with 100m range — magnetic induction method could help reach those trapped or lost underground

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/researchers-develop-ground-penetrating-wireless-communications-tech-with-100m-range-magnetic-induction-based-method-could-help-reach-those-trapped-or-lost-underground

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-meter-underground-wireless-communication.html

The tests were conducted in a limestone bedrock environment known to effectively block wireless signals.

How it works quote: https://lmg.gg/T7P2H 

Journal: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10947495 

Duration: 08:44

Timestamps:

0:00 who knows what tech is, really

0:11 Google TurboQuant could help RAM crisis

2:04 Apple discontinues Mac Pro

3:35 Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

4:56 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:04 RCS 4.0 brings video calling

5:44 Apple gives FBI user email

6:41 PS5 price hikes, again

7:16 Wikipedia bans AI articles

7:52 Delivery robot smashes glass

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

RAM-ALAMA DING DONG

AN END TO THE MEMORY CRISIS?? (Probably not, but who knows) Google’s TurboQuant makes LLMs more memory-efficient- https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/google-says-new-turboquant-compression-can-lower-ai-memory-usage-without-sacrificing-quality/ 

• Original Source for the announcement tweet: https://x.com/GoogleResearch/status/2036533564158910740 
• Original Source for the Blog Post: https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/ 

How does it work though? The bottleneck is the Key Value store https://thenextweb.com/news/google-turboquant-ai-compression-memory-stocks 

• Quote about the key value cache being the bottleneck
• Quote from google’s blg about what the key value cache is

https://www.starkinsider.com/2026/03/google-turboquant-llm-compression-less-memory.html 

• Quote about how the Key Value cache functions in LLM convos

Two step process:

• Quote about how polar coordinate transform works <- THIS IS THE CIRCLE MATH LINE
• Quote about the second step using QJL to encode the residual error

The result is a reduction of memory and a speed up of the models - 

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/micron-sandisk-stocks-tumble-google-124732063.html?guccounter=1

• Quote from Barrons
• Quote with a result roundup

What was the market’s reaction to it? Memory companies stock drops - https://www.barrons.com/articles/turbo-quant-micron-sandisk-stocks-memory-javonsparadox-23d7d6f0 

Some Caveats

• Quote Sandisk CEO saying his expectation is an increase in demand 

Unfortunately this will likely lead to no changes in the current memory situation Supported by WCCFtech https://wccftech.com/here-is-the-unvarnished-truth-about-googles-turboquant-jevons-paradox-prevails-memory-crunch-to-continue/ 

• Quote 

GOODNIGHT COSTLY PRINCE

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/ 

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apple-has-finally-discontinued-the-mac-pro-desktop-after-years-of-fitful-effort/

https://www.engadget.com/computing/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro-221502339.html 

It was released after the infamous trash can era: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vy3hbu64E4uPnsDkSEXPmR.jpg 

The 2023 mac pro m2: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/111343 

Its being replaced by the Mac Studio

https://www.apple.com/ca/mac-studio/ 

The wheels are gone too: https://web.archive.org/web/20260308074540/https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/mx572zm/a/apple-mac-pro-wheels-kit 

And the feet: https://web.archive.org/web/20260308074540/https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/mxnm2zm/a/apple-mac-pro-feet-kit 

This comes after the pro display being discontinued earlier this month

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/03/apple-discontinues-pro-display-xdr/ 

How else will I grate my incredibly expensive exotic cheese WHILE trying to render on silicon that’s 3 generations out of date (it only had an M2)

Show this store page of Exotic Cheese for the end joke: https://igourmet.com/products/mature-coolea-irish-farmhouse-cheese 

• It smells so bad dude

CACHE MONEY

AMD announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition: a CPU with a mighty 208 MB of L3 cache aimed at game devs

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/amd-announces-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition-a-cpu-with-a-mighty-208-mb-of-l3-cache-aimed-at-game-devs/ 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/amds-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition-doubles-the-3d-v-cache

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/110688/amd-officially-unveils-the-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition-armed-with-208mb-of-cache-and-a-200w-tdp/index.html  

3D v-cache clip: https://youtu.be/_ErnOjwcWK8?t=70 

Clip from AMD showing the gains at 3:11: https://youtu.be/_ErnOjwcWK8?t=191 

TDP and boost clock: (editor draw the eye to the top row in the specifications chart)

https://lmg.gg/S5ivh 

AMD Joins Intel in Raising PC CPU Prices by Up to 15%

https://www.techpowerup.com/347707/amd-joins-intel-in-raising-pc-cpu-prices-by-up-to-15 

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/110699/after-intel-amd-is-now-also-raising-cpu-prices-by-up-to-15-percent/index.html 

Jokes 

• Maybe by putting more ram IN the CPU the memory manufacturers will just forget it's there.
• So game devs can breath a sigh of relief knowing that they don’t have figure out how to optimise their game

QUICKBITS

NOT YOUR GRANDMA’S VIDEO CHAT

The GSMA announced that RCS Universal Profile 4.0 will add video call support, text formatting, and the ability to identify the media formats supported by their conversation partners

https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/article/from-rich-text-to-video-rcs-universal-profile-4-0-has-arrived/   

https://9to5google.com/2026/03/26/rcs-update-will-add-native-video-call-support-text-formatting-more/

https://www.sammobile.com/news/rcs-4-native-video-calls-galaxy-android-iphone/ 

More expressive messaging with support for rich text: 

https://lmg.gg/3qfEM 

So now you can use italics to really confuse your grandmother when she asks why the text is slanted.

YOU’VE GOT HATE MAIL

Apple Gives FBI a User's Real Name Hidden Behind 'Hide My Email' Feature - https://www.404media.co/apple-gives-fbi-a-users-real-name-hidden-behind-hide-my-email-feature/

Original Source: Affidavit from the FBI https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27915522-hide-my-email-court-record/?ref=404media.co 

Generally, not a great week for Kash Handala hacked Kash Patel’s personal email in retaliation for Patel saying he was gonna hunt them https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-breach-of-fbi-directors-personal-email-doj-official-2026-03-27/ 

• X post with screenshots of the telegram post and the post from their website https://x.com/DarkWebInformer/status/2037533650653233249/photo/3 

UNCHARTED TERRITORY

Sony increasing PlayStation 5 prices across all consoles, starting April 2 — PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition receive $100 hikes, while PS5 Pro will now sell for $900

https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-announces-price-rises-for-ps5-ps5-pro-and-playstation-portal-blames-continued-pressures-in-the-global-economic-landscape 

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/sony-increasing-playstation-5-prices-across-all-consoles-starting-april-2-ps5-and-ps5-digital-edition-receive-usd100-hikes-while-ps5-pro-will-now-sell-for-usd900

Blog post: (Scroll down past the giant banner advertisement for the screenshot) https://blog.playstation.com/2026/03/27/new-price-changes-for-ps5-ps5-pro-and-playstation-portal-remote-player/ 

US pricing: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/03/27/new-price-changes-for-ps5-ps5-pro-and-playstation-portal-remote-player/#:~:text=it%20is%20available.-,U.S.,-PS5%20%E2%80%93%20%24649.99%C2%A0 

100% ACCURACY GUARANTEED

Wikipedia bans use of AI to write articles and updates (but not for translation)

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/wikipedia-bans-use-of-ai-to-write-articles-and-updates-3341307/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/27/wikipedia-bans-ai

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content-in-new-policy-change-with-only-two-exceptions/

Wikipedia policy: https://lmg.gg/rYDfj 

Jokes

• So maybe your middle school teacher was right all along

SMASHED SEALED AND DELIVERED

Delivery Robot Drives Through Bus Stop Shelter, Shattering Glass Everywhere - https://www.404media.co/delivery-robot-drives-through-bus-stop-sh-shattering-glass-everywhere/ 

• Non paywalled

According to chicago sun times it was the second crash of the week - https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/03/25/delivery-robot-smashes-into-old-town-bus-shelter-in-second-crash-of-the-week 

Hilarious video in this Gizmodo article - 

https://gizmodo.com/self-directed-delivery-robot-directs-itself-straight-through-a-bus-shelter-2000738112 

• Video from instagram: https://www.instagram.com/404mediaco/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=4b6e3313-66cb-4a5c-b79b-8776c2c3318c 
• Editor: Please get 0:02 - 0:10 

Duration: 10:20

Timestamps:

0:00 resisted Foghorn Leghorn voice

0:14 OpenAI shuts down Sora, Disney deal off

2:00 Meta, YouTube landmark rulings

4:00 Arm AGI CPU

5:33 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:48 Intel Arc Pro B70, B65 BATTLEMAGE

6:38 Wine 11 massively boosts Linux gaming

7:27 Ayaneo pulls NEXT 2 handheld from sale

8:07 FCC ban on foreign-made routers

8:50 Touchscreen-compatible nail polish

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

SORA, NOT SORA

OpenAI discontinues Sora video generation app, Disney pulls out of $1 billion investment deal

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/openai-discontinues-sora-video-generation-app-disney-pulls-out-of-usd1-billion-investment-deal/ 

Announcement Tweet: 

https://x.com/soraofficialapp/status/2036546752535470382  

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-set-to-discontinue-sora-video-platform-app-a82a9e4e 

• Quote about the parts of the service going down

Sora usage has been dropping: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/openais-sora-app-is-struggling-after-its-stellar-launch/ 

• Editor please grab this graph: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/f927233a-d5c5-4d8f-a18e-6601bde94448.png?resize=666,375 

This prompted disney to pull its one billion dollar investment in Open AI https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-shutting-down-sora-ai-video-app-1236546187/ 

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/the-end-of-sora-also-means-the-end-of-disneys-1-billion-openai-investment/ 

• Quote that sounds like a breakup post

Disney was somewhat blindsided by it according to Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-set-discontinue-sora-video-platform-app-wsj-reports-2026-03-24/

ZUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT

Meta ordered to pay $375M in New Mexico trial over child exploitation - 

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/jury-orders-meta-pay-375-mln-new-mexico-lawsuit-over-child-sexual-exploitation-2026-03-24/ 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verdict-reached-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-rcna263421 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-rcna259422 

• Editor: Please add the video 
• from 0:25 - 0:28
• And 0:00 - 0:03

Zuck and Mosseri said that their platform would cause harm to children and that it was inevitable https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/meta-loses-trial-after-arguing-child-exploitation-was-inevitable-on-its-apps/ 

• Quote

https://gizmodo.com/watershed-moment-meta-just-lost-a-huge-court-case-about-child-safety-2000737712

• Quote about them appealing because they say they work hard to protect kids

17 strike safety policy https://www.theverge.com/news/827658/meta-17-strike-policy-sex-trafficking-testimony-lawsuit 

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/new-mexico-just-handed-meta-its-first-courtroom-defeat-over-child-safety-and-the-rest-of-the-country-is-watching/ 

• Quote about the LA trial on addiction in deliberation

Associated press article about the amount awarded 

ARMED FOR A FIGHT

The company that has spent 35 years licensing chip designs to basically everyone, announced it's making its own physical chip for the first time ever. 

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/899823/arm-agi-cpu-meta 

• Editor: Show headline only

It's called the Arm AGI CPU. It's a 136-core data center processor built on TSMC 3nm with Neoverse V3 cores, 300W TDP, 12 channels of DDR5, 96 PCIe Gen6 lanes, and CXL 3.0 support. 

https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/introducing-arm-agi-cpu 

• Editor: Img of the Arm AGI CPU chip render from the Arm newsroom blog 
• Good link for images in case you don't want the video

Meta co-developed the chip and is the lead customer. It's designed to work alongside Meta's custom MTIA accelerators. 

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/03/meta-partners-with-arm-to-develop-new-class-of-data-center-silicon/ 

Video and core features/benefits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqJancqeVbk&t=9s   

• 00:11 - 0:19 Arm AGI CPU “Responsive Performance) some specs
• 00:21 - 00:25 Memory tuned to computer and some specs
• 00:28 - 00:37 300 Watt TDP and then Air Cooling (5 Dual rotor fans)
• 00:38 - 00:49 High speed flexible i/o and engineered for rack -scale deployment
• 00:57 - 01:01 “Open by Design , Scaled by the ecosystem”

Arm claims you can pack over 8,000 cores into a single air-cooled rack and over 45,000 in

 liquid-cooled, with 2x the performance per rack versus x86,  and up to $10 billion in capex savings per gigawatt of data center capacity. 

https://newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-agi-cpu-launch 

• Editor: Extending the Arm platform into production silicon section screenshot

Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia all make their OWN Arm-based chips, Arm is now selling a finished product into their data centers. 

https://shorturl.at/eZ4dn 

• Editor: Screenshot the headline then  quote from the wired article it should be highlighted but if not 
• “To your question, does it piss off Nvidia? I'd imagine it will piss off Intel and AMD more than it pisses off Nvidia.”
• https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Arm-Everywhere-Event-Arm-AGI-CPU-Launch-5.jpg 
• Editor: Img of Rene Haas holding up the CPU because he looks smug and I think it's funny to think of him saying the above quote while grinning.

QUICKBITS

GAMES NOT INCLUDED

Intel just launched the ARC Pro B70 which is the first card using the “Big Battlemage,” the full-fat BMG-G31 GPU that has been rumored for a year. 

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intel-arc-pro-b70-and-arc-pro-b65-gpus-bring-32gb-of-ram-to-ai-and-pro-apps-bigger-battlemage-finally-arrives-but-its-not-for-gaming 

The B70 Pro comes with 32gb of GDDR6 for only $949. The B65 comes with the same vram but is set for an april launch.

https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2026/03/INTEL-ARC-PRO-B70-B65-6-850x478.jpg 

• Editor: Img spec containing the B50, B60 SPECS compared to the B65 and B70 that launch today.

Intel finally built the big GPU that could be great for gaming…and its workstation/AI card. However considering the RTX 4000 PRO price of USD $1,800 is nearly double and you are getting less vram 24GB, is a good deal.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JizAB4XuuW7utuBRsexbW3-1200-80.png.webp 

• Editor: Img Spec containing the AI comparison to rtx 4000 pro

WINE-ING STREAK

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level with a new feature called NTSYNC, and the performance gains are absurd. https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/ 

Dirt 3 went from 110 FPS to 860 FPS, a 678% improvement. Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 to 77 FPS. Call of Juarez from 99 to 224 FPS. 

https://lwn.net/Articles/960275/ 

• Editor: Screenshot the benchmark comparison table showing before/after FPS numbers

Unlike the old fsync/esync workarounds, NTSYNC is in the mainline Linux kernel (6.14+), so any distro shipping that kernel gets it automatically,  no patches needed. 

https://shorturl.at/OUVoE 

• Editor: Highlighted Quote only

Users on Reddit are confirming the gains are legit. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/yPzvhZq3Rp 

• Editor: Screenshot Reddit top comments confirming gains 1 is prob enough for the dude who tried it and saw a good performance boost.

CAN'T HAND-HELD IT

Ayaneo becomes a victim of RAM prices suspending pre-orders for it's Next 2 Windows gaming handheld due to it being "no longer sustainable.” 

https://www.theverge.com/games/899357/ayaneo-windows-gaming-handheld-sustainable-ram 

Production cost now approaches TWICE the selling price. The Next 2 was already $1,999 to $4,299 depending on config. https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/ayaneo/ayaneo-next-2-windows-handheld/updates/3#:~:text=At%20present,sustainable

• Editor:  Highlighted quote 

Storage and RAM prices skyrocketed after Chinese New Year, suppliers quoted prices "several times higher" than before the holiday. AI data center buildout eating the global memory supply is to blame. Existing orders will be honored. Suspension is "temporary." 

https://ayaneo.com/product/AYANEO-NEXT-%E2%85%A1 

• Editor: Img of the Ayaneo Next 2 product shot and specs to have on screen if needed

They "may consider" resuming if prices come back down. Emphasis on "may." 

https://shorturl.at/7nAXT 

•  Editor: Screenshot the Ayaneo Indiegogo post highlight quote

LAN OF THE FREE

The FCC has banned all NEW models of foreign-made consumer routers from being approved for sale in the US, citing national security risks from the Volt, Flax, and Salt Typhoon cyberattacks. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/trump-fcc-prohibits-import-and-sale-of-new-wi-fi-routers-made-outside-us/  

This comes after a determination made that routers produced in any foreign country pose “unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States and to the safety and security of U.S. persons.”  

https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/NSD-Routers0326.pdf 

• Editor: Link to highlight wasnt working if you can get that quote otherwise just the top page

BUT VIRTUALLY EVERY CONSUMER WIFI ROUTER SOLD IN THE US IS MANUFACTURED OVERSEAS???? Even American brands like Netgear make their stuff in Vietnam and Taiwan. Google Nest is made in Vietnam and China. 

https://shorturl.at/bDzNm 

• Editor: Screenshot the highlighted quote about American brands being made overseas.

Existing models with FCC authorization can still be sold and used, you don't need to toss your router. But new models need "Conditional Approval" from the Department of Defense or DHS. https://www.fcc.gov/faqs-recent-updates-fcc-covered-list-regarding-routers-produced-foreign-countries 

The FCC didn't provide evidence that US-made routers are more secure than foreign ones. TechCrunch noted also that Salt Typhoon exploited routers made by Cisco, an American company. 

https://shorturl.at/Z2AFX 

NAILED IT

An Undergrad student developed a nail polish that helps individuals with long fingernails actually use a touchscreen device. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-new-nail-polish-might-someday-solve-touch-screen-struggles-for-users-with-long-fingernails-180988418/ 

• Quote about the mixture being stinky

Zombie finger: https://nelsonmillergroup.com/zombie-finger-an-introduction-to-this-touchscreen-phenomenon/ 

Duration: 07:15

Timestamps:

0:00 come on, doctor's orders

0:13 Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus, 250K Plus

1:31 Win11 glitches but it'll get better

3:00 National AI Legislative Framework

4:31 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:41 Galaxy S26 series AirDrop support

5:10 GrapheneOS no personal information

5:41 Crunchroll hack

6:16 Modular, indestructible robot

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS 

INTEL’S BACK…KINDA

Intel’s Arrow Lake refresh reviews are in, and Intel might be back… kinda. Strong performance, and at this price, actually pretty solid.

https://videocardz.com/225491/intel-core-ultra-7-270k-plus-and-ultra-5-250k-plus-arrow-lake-refresh-review-roundup 

Pat Gelsinger picture (for “Intel’s so back… even if Pat’s not)

https://mms.businesswire.com/media/20241202016400/en/2319222/5/Intel-Pat-Gelsinger.jpg?download=1 

 LTT Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSSkQnHWisM&t=460s 

• 00:50-00:60 Spec sheet + Price ($299 7 270K plus and $199 5 250k plus)and comparison with previous generation price it is replacing
• 02:33-02:41 Fastest gaming CPU Intel ever built but not the fastest gaming cpu ever built (Geomean Native Rasterization Test)
• 05:10-05:16 250K Plus has a 103% lead over Ryzen 5 9600X
• 05:20 –05:39 Ultra 7 270k Plus Blender speed test (Intel slightly behind Ryzen 9 9950X, then cinebench benchmarks where it leads over Ryzen 9 9950X, and Ultra 5 250k Plus in Cinebench far competing over Ryzen's 5 9600X and 7 9700X chips.
• Editor: Highlight top comment thread talking about Socket architecture, good segway into the next part of this story

Intel may finally extend desktop CPU socket support to multiple generations. 

https://www.techspot.com/news/111773-intel-may-finally-extend-desktop-cpu-socket-support.html 

Robert Hallock (Intel's  vice president and general manager) in an interview with Club386 

https://shorturl.at/89zSY 

• Editor: In case the highlight isn't showing up they asked “Robert Hallock, whether he saw a future where Intel sockets support more CPU generations. “I do. That’s it – I do,” was the simple reply.”

Crimson Desert Launched without any Intel Arc GPU support but after backlash Pearl Abyss has decided to work on it 

https://www.neowin.net/news/crimson-desert-will-support-intel-arc-gpus-after-all-confirms-studio-after-backlash/

game wouldn't play 

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/95b8zPeMu9uKPeVT4Ags2G-970-80.jpg.webp 

Then an update was released which allowed users to actually get past the launch screen but still isn't functioning well 

https://crimsondesert.pearlabyss.com/en-US/News/Notice/Detail?_boardNo=73 

Despite Intel saying they reached out multiple times to offer help to Pearl Abyss

https://www.techpowerup.com/347591/intel-offered-hardware-optimization-help-to-crimson-desert-developer-for-years-company-says 

CD FAQ Updated to include that Arc compatibility is being worked on.

https://crimsondesert.pearlabyss.com/en-us/News/Notice/Detail?_boardNo=63#:~:text=We%20are,available 

Originally devs said it will never support Intel Arc GPUs and it may never so get a refund, but they didnt warn people until launch

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/crimson-desert-doesnt-support-intel-arc-gpus-it-may-never-and-the-devs-say-get-a-refund-if-you-have-one 

WINDOWS - WE’RE TRYING

Microsoft releases an emergency update to fix and address the earlier issues arising after March’s Patch Tuesday KB5079473 update.  

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/new-kb5085516-emergency-update-fixes-microsoft-account-sign-in/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/march-21-2026-kb5085516-os-builds-26200-8039-and-26100-8039-out-of-band-09e85404-1cb6-4ed4-9ca5-3e40d74307b9 

The patch Tuesday update resulted in Microsoft sign in issues displaying an error message when trying to login to Microsoft Edge, Excel, Word, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-windows-11-update-login-error-march-2026/ 

Users were told “you’ll need the internet for this” even when the device was connected and clearly online 

https://shorturl.at/Jrhgd 

Originally they said it may resolve on its own and if this issue affects you try to restart you computer BUT MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET as you may face doom otherwise (this will happen again)

https://shorturl.at/jCbgE 

Are you also feeling fatigued at forced Microsoft Accounts during initial Windows 11 Setup, well you aren’t alone, Microsoft VP Scott Hanselmann feels the same and might do something about it, KEY WORD MIGHT.

https://www.neowin.net/news/mandatory-microsoft-account-may-soon-be-gone-as-even-windows-11-makers-hate-it/ 

Since even he “hate[s] that" and is "working on it."

https://x.com/shanselman/status/2035110958314745891 

Microsoft also is rolling back Ai and Copilot bloaty sloppy ware ?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/microsoft-rolls-back-some-of-its-copilot-ai-bloat-on-windows/

Pavan Davaluri in the windows blog announced that they don't want to be slop, they want to be quality. Focusing on becoming more “intentional “ with where they integrate ai https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/ 

And holy moly “ are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad.”

https://shorturl.at/MvdlJ 

ASK NOT WHAT AI CAN DO FOR YOU

White House AI Framework Announced - https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/tech/white-house-ai-framework 

Original Source White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/03/president-donald-j-trump-unveils-national-ai-legislative-framework/ 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-ai-congress-law-framework-legislation-artificial-intelligence-rcna264433 

• Quote about the purpose of the framework

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/20/white-house-releases-ai-policy-blueprint-for-congress-00837354 

• Quote about the data center payment thing

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-23/the-white-house-s-ai-plan-is-anything-but 

• Quote about it doesn’t have much substance as a roadmap

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought

• Quote about the NRC will do what we tell them

Meanwhile Australia is telling Data Centers to make their own green energy or fuck off - https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/23/asia_tech_news_roundup/ 

• Quote about the way they’re prioritising data centers

Original Source: Australian government - https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/timayres/media-releases/australian-approach-ai-expectations-data-centres-deliver-australians 

QUICKBITS

AIR APPARENT

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Phones Will Work With Apple's AirDrop, Much Like the Pixel 10

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsungs-galaxy-s26-phones-will-work-with-apples-airdrop-much-like-the-pixel-10/ 

Blog post: https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung-airdrop-quick-share-galaxy-s26-series/

https://www.theverge.com/tech/898815/samsung-quick-share-airdrop-support-galaxy-s26 

https://9to5google.com/2026/03/23/this-is-the-update-youll-need-for-airdrop-on-galaxy-s26-samsung-says/ 

• Quote about versions that work

MOTOROLLIN DIRTY

GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems - group says it will never require personal information

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws 

Graphene OS Tweet: https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/2034957604682621229 

https://www.androidauthority.com/grapheneos-age-check-verification-laws-3651019/ 

Graphene announced a partnership with Motorolla TBD

https://motorolanews.com/motorola -three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/ 

TEACH A MAN TO PHISH

Crunchyroll hacked via pishing email

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/102195-hackers-claim-to-have-breached-streaming-service-crunchyrolls-data 

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2035886175945138387

https://cybernews.com/security/crunchyroll-data-breach-telus-hack-users/ 

DARWINBOT.EXE

And an AI-evolved adaptable robot is almost impossible to destroy (it looks super weird, adaptable body for different tasks. You can chop it in 2 and it can somehow keep going)

https://newatlas.com/robotics/ai-evolved-indestructible-robot/ 

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois are letting AI play G-d to create a design that rather than being specialized or manually configuring the best design , we make a machine that configures itself and adapts their movements depending on the situation.

(It loves long walks on the beach)

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1XIt4G.img?w=768&h=512&m=6 

YT vid from 2 weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kelysQlBnao  

• 00:00 -00:03  Limping, looks like its in pain, dear god put it out of its misery
• 00:05 - 00:09 Showing how it was trained in a simulator and then operating in real terrain
• 00:11 - 00:15 “Northwestern University engineers have developed “legged metamachines.””  on screen text
• 00:29 -00:44 “The lego-like modules can snap together into an endless number of configurations” ai legos basically and then the video touches on the configurations one module, five, etc.
• 01:02-01:08 THEY JUST CHOPPED ITS LEGS OFF and it still works NOOO.

“robots that can “hit the ground running” in unstructured outdoor environments.” I guess it really didn't make sense not to live for fun, your ai gets smart, but your brain gets dumb.

https://shorturl.at/uR93o 

• Editor: Shouldn't be an issue but just ensuring I convey to show the highlight and title of the study.

Duration: 10:17

Timestamps:

0:00 do u ever feel like a muppet

0:11 Google Search AI editing headlines

2:00 Supermicro co-founder smuggling charges

3:47 Android sideloading 24-hour wait period

5:14 QUICK BITS INTRO 

5:30 Meta Horizon Worlds VR stays alive

6:19 multi-country botnet takedown

7:19 Musician indicted for AI music fraud

8:13 DLSS 5 only sees 2D frame, thanks Daniel Owen

9:14 Cyborg cockroaches 

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

SEARCH AND DESTROY

Google Search experiment straight up replaces article headlines 

https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment 

Some Details about how it works specifically https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/googles-ai-revolution-smarter-search-headlines-revealed/#google_vignette 

Quote with the details

Quote The verge reached out to google to get info on how it works

SEO is getting fucked

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/gemini/articles/google-search-engine-now-rewriting-165622219.html 

Quote: Organic Traffic drops of 30-60% documented

YouTube is asking users if videos “feel like AI slop” to flag low-quality content

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-is-asking-users-if-videos-feel-like-ai-slop-to-flag-low-quality-content-3337295/

Some users See this as youtube taking a strong stance against AI: https://x.com/DramaAlert/status/2033939940753461381

Others are suggesting that it’s so they can train their model make better AI https://x.com/TukiFromKL/status/2033968600248180958 

Am I being toxic right now? Yes? Ok good

CHEAP AS CHIPS

U.S. prosecutors charge Super Micro Computer employees with smuggling Nvidia chips to China

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/20/supermicro_nvidia_gpu_charges/ 

Quote about the other two guys

Quote FBI Assistant Director James C Brnacle Jr

Imact to Supermicro is a significant share drop (25%) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/us-tech-execs-smuggled-nvidia-chips-to-china-prosecutors-say.html 

US Government has been trying to track ships making it to china illegally

Quote about 2.5 Billion dollars in sales 

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/super-micro-employees-accused-of-smuggling-usd2-5-billion-worth-of-nvidia-hardware-to-china-perps-used-a-hairdryer-to-move-serial-numbers-between-real-hardware-and-thousands-of-dummy-servers 

Quote about How the scheme worked

Tweet about them using hairdryers to remove serial numbers: https://x.com/mweinbach/status/2034807110857347201

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/the-biggest-heist-of-the-us-china-chip-war-3-supermicro-employees-charged-with-conspiracy-to-smuggle-restricted-nvidia-h100-h200-and-b200-chips-to-china-dummy-boxes-fake-labels-and-a-pass-through-company-enabled-the-usd2-5-billion-scheme 

Quote with specifics about which chips were being smuggled

TAKE YOUR TIME, LITTLE PHONE

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/google-details-new-24-hour-process-to-sideload-unverified-android-apps/ 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-impose-24-hour-safety-wait-to-activate-android-app-sideloading

Blog Post: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html

The advanced flow for power users: https://lmg.gg/M8AqU 

(Editor please show the whole chart, and then draw the eye to step 3) 

https://www.phonearena.com/news/googles-new-sideloading-rules-may-force-you-to-wait-24-hours-before-installing-an-app_id179043 

50 times the malware quote:

https://lmg.gg/Xdfkx 

Different levels of developer verification

https://m-cdn.phonearena.com/images/articles/445036-image/260318-ADV-flow-chart-v5.webp 

Both the limited distribution accounts and the new installation flow will be rolled out to users in August. 

https://lmg.gg/H7Npg 

F-Droid calls it an existential threat: https://thenewstack.io/f-droid-says-googles-android-developer-verification-plan-is-an-existential-threat-to-alternative-app-stores/ 

QUICKBITS

BIG METAVERSE DUBSKI

Everyone thought the metaverse vr horizon worlds died, but jokes on you, someone sent an upset email to meta and they are now keeping the platform alive in vr because of how good their email was 

https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/meta-isnt-shutting-down-its-vr-metaverse-after-all-165520696.html

We didn’t know that ONE person was still using it! We gotta keep this thing going.

https://mashable.com/article/meta-metaverse-vr-horizon-worlds-update

This is only 2 days after they said they were shutting down the VR side of the platform

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/meta-horizon-worlds-metaverse-vr.html 

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/meta-decides-not-to-shut-down-horizon-worlds-on-vr-after-all/ 

They have to do everything twice quote

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/meta-decides-not-to-shut-down-horizon-worlds-on-vr-after-all/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThere%E2%80%99s%20a%20much,build%20for%20mobile.%E2%80%9D 

WHERE THE BOTS AT

Aisuru - Largest botnet in the world, taken down in joint operation between Canadian, German, and American federal police.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/aisuru-kimwolf-jackskid-and-mossad-botnets-disrupted-in-joint-action/ 

https://www.wired.com/story/us-takes-down-botnets-used-in-record-breaking-cyberattacks/

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-dismantle-major-cyberattack-botnets/a-76449005 

Statement: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/authorities-disrupt-worlds-largest-iot-ddos-botnets-responsible-record-breaking-attacks 

TIME TO FACE THE MUSIC

Musician pleads guilty to $10M streaming fraud powered by AI bots - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/musician-pleads-guilty-to-10m-streaming-fraud-powered-by-ai-bots/ 

Quote about how the fraud worked

Original Source DOJ: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-musician-charged-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence 

Quote from them about how they are dedicated to prosecuting AI music - Absolute hypocrisy

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/streaming-fraud-man-who-pocketed-8m-using-hundreds-of-thousands-of-ai-songs-streamed-billions-of-times-by-bots-pleads-guilty/ 

Quote about the co conspirators being as of yet unnamed

WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG

Surprise! DLSS 5 is indeed simply taking a 2D frame (and motion vectors) as input. Nvidia’s Jacob Freeman confirms to YouTuber Daniel Owen 

Original Source:

https://youtu.be/D0EM1vKt36s?si=Ol1kpHldtVkjwA9d

3:15 - 3:22 DLSS 5 only takes 2D frame and motion vectors as input

Second answer at 11:12

4:43 - 4:53 where the question is asked about 3D geometry data

12:42 - lists developer controls on DLSS 5 (Intensity, Color Grading, Masking)

15:17 - Freeman goes into a bit more detail but overall just reinforces the point 

Jenson says gamers are completely wrong 

https://www.ign.com/articles/first-of-all-theyre-wrong-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-responds-to-dlss-5-backlash 

Duration: 08:58

Timestamps:

0:00 DLSS 5 haters are 'completely wrong' - Jensen

3:02 AMD responds to Ryzen mislabeling

5:00 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:08 Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus, precompiled shaders

5:42 Mozilla Firefox VPN

6:22 free Gemini Personal Intelligence 

6:57 Samsung discontinues Galaxy Z Trifold

7:59 3D-printed shoulder-mounted launcher

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

GRACE UNDER F-AI-RE

Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5’s generative AI glow-ups

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/03/gamers-react-with-overwhelming-disgust-to-dlss-5s-generative-ai-glow-ups/ 

Negative Responses on socials: 

• Yassified Looks Maxed and a long list of memes in the relies: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2f5ax33ftgkf7merjvpr32rm/post/3mh7bl7ntd222 
• Gaming industry reacting that it looks like design without art direction https://bsky.app/profile/jefftalbot.bsky.social/post/3mh75no5llk2z 

Digital Foundry was the first to cover it - fans thought they glazed it too hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZlwTtgbgVA

• https://youtu.be/4ZlwTtgbgVA?t=438 
• 7:18-25 - transition for the elf

They’ve now released a follow-up, “Why We Should Have Waited With Our Coverage”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dTTfjBAFzc  

• 5:30 - hosts lookin sad and talking

Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/jensen-huang-says-gamers-are-completely-wrong-about-dlss-5-nvidia-ceo-responds-to-dlss-5-backlash

“It’s not post-processing, it’s not post-processing at the frame level, it’s generative control at the geometry level” https://lmg.gg/OEd9o 

PC Mag report on Jensen saying the haters are wrong: https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidias-ceo-on-dlss-5-backlash-the-haters-are-wrong-gtc-2026 

• Quote from jensen about how about how everyone hated ray tracing to start

The went to hard on the initial announce: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/ 

“Senior Character Artist /Mentor Georgian Avasilcutei with an interesting take 

https://x.com/nimlot26/status/2034148383103893592 

• Editor: Please grab a screenshot of the picture in this tweet along with the tweet itself

PCGamer writers also giving balanced opinions on the thing as a counterpoint to the vitriol: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/nvidia-dlss-5-reveal-pc-gamer-reacts-not-wholly-positively/ 

• Solid quote capturing where the vitriol is coming from

The Verge has what is probably the most realist take: DLSS 5 is similar to motion smoothing on TVs; [joke about the parallel]

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/896213/nvidia-dlss-5-ai-faces-motion-smoothing 

SILICON-GATE

AMD responds to CHUWI Ryzen 5 743OU case (relabeling Ryzen 5 5500U cpus as Ryzen 5 7430U) “We have never authorized confirmed or tacitly approved of this”

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-issues-a-statement-on-chuwi-ryzen-cpu-mislabeling

March 4th - NotebookCheck broke the story and found CHUWI Corebook X had a Ryzen 5 5500U instead of the advertised 7430U. BIOS, Windows, and CPU-Z ALL SPOOFED TO SHOW THE WRONG CHIP

https://www.notebookcheck.net/CPU-scam-Chuwi-CoreBook-X-uses-AMD-Ryzen-5-5500U-instead-of-7430U.1242048.0.html 

Mar 12th - They then bought a CoreBook Plus and found the SAME THING, two different models, same issue. CHUWI threatened NotebookCheck with LEGAL action to take articles down.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/CPU-fraud-next-round-Chuwi-CoreBook-Plus-with-supposed-AMD-Ryzen-5-7430U-also-affected.1248660.0.html

Mar 18- Tom’s Hardware Coverage, good breakdown of the two CPUs, confirms the 7-10% performance gap, up to 20% in some workloads. Also covers the Ninkear A15 Pro potentially being affected (same PCB/ODM possibly Emdoor Digital)

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-claims-it-had-no-knowledge-of-fake-ryzen-5-7430u-cpus-in-chuwi-laptops-chinese-vendor-announces-recall-of-products-and-refunds-pcb-manufacturer-could-be-culprit

Mar 17th - Case widens, HK distributor Hornington offering full refunds on 3 affected products (CoreBook X, CoreBook Plus, UBOX). CPU-Z 2.19 updated to now correctly identify these faked chips.

https://videocardz.com/newz/chuwi-fake-ryzen-5-7430u-case-widens-distributor-offers-full-refunds-cpu-z-updated

https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2026/03/CHUWI-SCANDAL-TRANSLATED.jpg 

• Editor: headline then image

https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html#:~:text=Fix%20DLL%20hijacking%20vulnerability%20thanks%20to%20Kwangyun%20Kem 

• Editor: Just Screenshot the update with the highlight as thats the updated fix 

March 18th - AMD’s official statement via VideoCardz Translation, AMD says it had zero knowledge, reserves the right to pursue legal action

https://shorturl.at/uJGA1 

Original HKEPC (IT media and News agency, prominent in Hong Kong) Facebook post with AMD’s original Chinese-language statement

https://www.facebook.com/hkepc/posts/pfbid0YL1SoS2Qq1PEJJNiFjbWEMiKeecofWeJ6HX7qQMgpRLgyj14bgmFwhwzL8SFt7Mql 

QUICKBITS

CLOCKLESS GAINS

Intel drops some nice updates: new Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus - mobile versions of Arrow Lake refresh https://newsroom.intel.com/client-computing/intel-launches-core-ultra-200hx-plus-series-mobile-processors 

• Editor: Aside from the headline also show the “what it offers section paragraph”

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/intel-adds-mobile-chips-to-its-updated-arrow-lake-plus-family-with-8-percent-more-gaming-performance-despite-no-changes-to-core-counts-or-their-clock-speeds/ 

Also, precompiled shaders update massively reduces load time on both integrated and discrete Arc GPUs

https://www.club386.com/intel-shader-precompilation-driver/ 

https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_nc5/Intel-Precompiled-Shaders-For-Arc-GPUs-iGPUs-1.jpg 

Can reduce load times by more than 3x, and by THIRTY-SEVEN TIMES in God of War Ragnarok, because I guess that game was particularly fucked 

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Up-to-37x-faster-game-loading-times-Intel-declares-war-on-loading-bars-with-Arc-update.1253472.0.html 

SLY LIKE A FOX

Firefox is getting a free built in VPN - https://www.xda-developers.com/mozilla-firefox-is-getting-a-free-built-in-vpn-with-a-catch/ 

Mozilla Blog - https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-148-149-new-features/ 

• Quote from the blog about why they’re better

Meet Kit, your companion for a new internet era “its not a fox, its not a red panda, its Kit…..

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/meet-kit/ 

• Quote about the panda thing
• Quote about the hilarious no mouth thing

OPT-IN Intelligence

Gemini Personal Intelligence feature now available to everyone in the US (opt-in) 

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/896107/google-expands-personal-intelligence 

• It’s good that this one is at least opt in

Highlights the opt-in mechanics, Google says it doesn’t train on your emails/photos directly but your prompts can include data pulled from those apps, which is a meaningful distinction

https://shorturl.at/KXQTV 

Good breakdown of what it actually connects to (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Photos, Maps, YouTube, Search), how to enable it, confirms it works across Gemini App, Chrome, and AI mode in search.

https://9to5google.com/2026/03/17/gemini-personal-intelligence-free/ 

• Editor: “The Navigate Tight Schedules with ease” screen recording while the video is playing from the 00:06 mark or just the video. 

THREE SCREENS TO THE WIND

Samsung ends Galaxy Z TriFold sales three months after launch (They only made small batches, on purpose, which sold out immediately; rising component costs make mass production unprofitable)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17/samsung-to-stop-selling-2-899-trifold-phone-after-three-months 

Original Korean source - https://www.donga.com/news/Economy/article/all/20260316/133538775/1 

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/samsung-ends-galaxy-z-trifold-sales-three-months-after-launch-182903503.html 

• Quote about it being a limited run

IRL WARMACHINE

Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/tech-hobbyist-makes-shoulder-mounted-guided-missile-prototype-with-usd96-in-parts-and-a-3d-printer-diy-manpads-includes-wi-fi-guidance-ballistics-calculations-optional-camera-for-tracking 

https://youtu.be/DDO2EvXyncE?t=4 

• 0:04 - 0:10 Youtube clip from his channel missile and stuff 
• 01:53- 02:00 Real flight data vs simulated so he can test simulations prior to actual flight
• 02:52 -03:00   Discussing how he made the part sin fusion 360 and consumer grade 3d printing
• 04:45 - 04:57 “Modern tools, additive manufacturing, consumer electronics, and rapid prototyping have shattered the old barriers that once confined advance hardware to well funded laboratories” 

https://machinicdesire.com/ 

• Editor: Show the top of the page, then show the “Project Manifesto” section at the bottom)

Duration: 08:22

Timestamps:

0:00 just give James a second

0:13 Nvidia DLSS 5 looks a bit... sloppy

1:50 Win11 C: drive bug on Samsung PCs

3:13 ASRock motherboard with DDR4 + DDR5 slots

4:36 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:48 Apple Airpods Max 2

5:25 Xbox One 'Bliss' Hack

6:09 Instagram loses E2E encryption

6:52 Pokemon Go helping delivery bots

7:31 Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition tease

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

[Riley]

THE GREAT FILTER

DLSS 5: makes games like AI-generated content that had ‘photorealistic’ in the prompt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJACkKbN-Eo 

“It’s not a filter” !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJACkKbN-Eo&lc=UgwK64iJwyRrPqlvuYd4AaABAg 

• EDITOR: screenshot the pinned comment - highlight the last sentence

“Infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and material” https://lmg.gg/tocrb 

“The company’s most significant breakthrough in computer graphics since the debut of real-time ray tracing in 2018” https://lmg.gg/c1d1q 

All you’ll need is… an additional RTX 5090 https://lmg.gg/SpGbM 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_o0xr8MWU 

• EDITOR: don’t bother with the above link - I recorded the whole presentation - Graphics/1/NvidiaGTCKeynote2026.mp4
• 3:06 for Jensen walking on 

[Abdul]

ANYONE C A PROBLEM HERE?

Microsoft: Windows 11 users can't access C: drive on some Samsung PCs - https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-c-is-not-accessible-access-denied-bug/  

Microsoft confirmed that this was happening on their march 2026 issues section

• Quote Text “Microsoft has received reports of an issue i….

And here’s a link to a post with a screenshot of what the access denied thing looks like: https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/computers-it/galaxy-book-4-fingerprint-issue-c-drive-access-denied-any/td-p/14327148 

Reddit threads where people are talking about solutions: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1rrrw2l/samsung_galaxy_book_laptops_screwd_over_a_windows/ 

• Note for editor: please screenshot comments from Nachito206x, Fun-Day4365, National_Baker_9506 where they all use fix of admin account security privilege grant - they’re close to the top of the convo

This c drive issue seems to be more of a samsung issue then a microslop issue, so we cant blame em on 

Microsoft identifies the issue as related samsung galaxy app: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/16/samsung_c_drive_windows/ 

Causing them to pull the samsung app from the store

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-pulls-samsung-app-blocking-windows-c-drive-from-store/ 

Quote: Evidently the issue was with Samsung galaxy Connect

But it’s not ALL L’s for windows this week https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/gaming-monitors/windows-11-is-getting-support-for-1-000-hz-monitors-soon-as-part-of-insider-builds-microsoft-has-reportedly-increased-the-refresh-rate-limit-to-5-000-hz    

DDR-4-EVERYONE

[Grayson]

ASRock launches new Frankensteined motherboard with one DDR4 slot and two DDR5 slots — Intel board signals the RAM apocalypse is truly nigh

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/asrock-launches-new-frankensteined-motherboard-with-one-ddr4-slot-and-two-ddr5-slots-intel-board-signals-the-ram-apocalypse-is-truly-nigh

https://videocardz.com/newz/asrocks-new-h610m-combo-ii-motherboard-supports-both-ddr5-and-ddr4-memory

https://asrock.com/MB/Intel/H610M%20COMBO%20II/ 

Image of the motherboard showing the 3 slots: (Editor please put a red arrow pointing to the RAM slot closest to the CPU socket) https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ASRock-H610M-COMBO-II.jpg 

They released one a while ago that has this feature, but it supports dual channel DDR4:

https://asrock.com/MB/Intel/H610M%20COMBO/index.vn.asp#Overview 

Memory Makers Expect Shortages to End in Late 2028, Could Pause Expansion Plans

https://www.techpowerup.com/347396/memory-makers-expect-shortages-to-end-in-late-2028-could-pause-expansion-plans  

https://www.guru3d.com/story/memory-makers-see-supply-tightness-lasting-until-late-2028/ 

Original source: https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/03/13/HVY7KVVDTBE2FHYWXFIOBHR5KU/  

QUICKBITS

[Abdul]

PUTTING ON AIRS-PODS

Apple’s $549 AirPods Max 2 add better ANC and live translation - 

https://gizmodo.com/after-five-years-apple-announces-airpods-max-2-out-of-the-blue-2000733941 

Apple Site: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-airpods-max-2-powered-by-h2/ 

• Editor: please go to this location in the apple page and screenshot the list of features

For just 50 bucks more you can get the macbook neo:https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/ 

For 150 bucks more you can get some wheels for the mac pro. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mx572zm/a/apple-mac-pro-wheels-kit 

And for just $0 more than that you can get:

• A Flamethrower: https://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/for/d/marysville-flame-thrower/7913357025.html 

HE FOUND THE WEAPON

[Grayson]

Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' — the 2013 console finally fell to voltage glitching, allowing the loading of unsigned code at every level

https://www.techspot.com/news/111692-hacker-unveils-exploit-cracks-unbreakable-xbox-one-silicon.html 

https://kotaku.com/xbox-one-hack-jailbreak-2000679120

https://www.trueachievements.com/news/xbox-one-hacked

Video from the conference (46:04 showing the hack):https://youtu.be/FTFn4UZsA5U?t=2764 

(46:53 has the breakdown): https://youtu.be/FTFn4UZsA5U?t=2813 

[Abdul]

IF YOU DON’T USE IT YOU LOSE IT

Meta updates a support page to say that end-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8 - https://9to5google.com/2026/03/13/meta-is-killing-end-to-end-encryption-for-instagram-dms-soon/ 

Instagram’s help page: https://help.instagram.com/491565145294150

https://cybersecuritynews.com/instagram-end-to-end-encryption/

• Quote about the reason why they’re pulling it’

POKÉ-COCO TO GO

[Grayson]

Niantic Spatial has announced a partnership with Coco Robotics, giving them access to their VPS system that’s trained off Pokémon Go’s 30 billion captured images, the plan is to use it for Autonomous Delivery bots

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/ 

https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-go-data-ai-robots-niantic/ 

https://gonintendo.com/contents/58894-niantic-using-pokemon-go-data-to-help-delivery-robots-navigate-the-real-world 

Press Release:

https://www.nianticspatial.com/en/blog/coco-robotics 

John Hanke, CEO of Niantic Spatial said to MIT Technology Review "It turns out that getting Pikachu to realistically run around and getting Coco's robot to safely and accurately move through the world is actually the same problem,"

https://lmg.gg/xmxWS 

Maybe that strange Pokémon Domino’s Pizza advertisement from 2009 was just foreshadowing

https://youtu.be/z7YdF9b3x1M?t=2 

NOCTUA’S GOT WOOD

[Grayson]

Noctua teases upcoming PC case with brown color scheme and bundled fans — appears to be Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition with NF-A14x25 G2 fans (mmmmmmhhhhhh wood grain )

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/pc-cases/noctua-teases-upcoming-pc-case-that-appears-to-be-the-antec-flux-pro-noctua-edition-with-brown-color-scheme-and-bundled-nf-a14x25-g2-fans

https://www.guru3d.com/story/noctua-and-antec-teases-flux-pro-noctua-edition-case-with-six-fans/ 

Twitter Post: https://x.com/Noctua_at/status/2032464924052500973  

Image from Noctua: https://www.guru3d.com/data/publish/227/b2dc098746885e5d024ef4bc4ec27b0838b3ef/7684yuj.webp 

The Antec case Noctua showed off last year at Computex: https://www.guru3d.com/data/publish/227/b2dc098746885e5d024ef4bc4ec27b0838b3ef/678rhjgf.webp 

Duration: 10:45

Timestamps:

0:00 little freeloaders

0:12 Firefox keeping Win7 alive, for a bit

1:31 FBI investigates Steam malware

3:31 Stryker Corporation cyberattack

5:39 QUICK BITS INTRO

6:57 Google Maps update

6:33 GFiber merges with Astound Broadband

7:21 Telus Digital data breach

8:20 Cybertruck FSD lawsuit

9:36 Alexa+ 'Sassy' mode

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

6 MONTHS TO LIVE

Firefox 115 ESR is keeping Windows 7 support alive a little longer (you get 6 more months)

https://www.techspot.com/news/111666-firefox-115-esr-keeping-windows-7-support-alive.html 

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/firefox-on-windows-7-mozilla-risky-without-official-support 

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support

The quote: https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-on-windows-7-refuses-to-die-gets-another-six-months-of-support/#:~:text=Mozilla%20will%20provide,and%20feature%20updates.

What is really interesting about this is Microsoft still gives Security intelligence updates to Microsoft Defender as far back as Windows 7 and even Vista, because apparently people STILL USE THEM

The last update was released today:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/defenderupdates 

Back in January, Microsoft released the final update for Windows Server 2008 R2 ESU, and using a bypass some people were installing THOSE ESU updates to limp their poor Windows VISTA AND 7 computers along. 

https://www.scribd.com/document/484364713/ReadMe 

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-vista-effectively-dead-as-windows-server-2008-support-finally-ends/ 

THESE GAMES ARE A REAL STEAL

FBI seeking victim info in Steam Malware Investigation 

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/the-fbi-is-looking-for-victimized-steam-users-who-downloaded-games-with-hidden-malware-investigation-underway-into-multiple-infected-titles-from-2024-to-2026 

The affected titles are listed on this FBI website:

https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/victim-services/seeking-victim-information/seeking-victim-information-in-steam-malware-investigation 

• Quote highlight

FBI Form to be filled out if you were affected: https://forms.fbi.gov/victims/Steam_Malware/view 

Kotaku has a quote about a single threat actor: 

https://kotaku.com/steam-malware-fbi-indie-valve-2000678719 

• Quote Highlight

Tweet with screenshot of Valve Email

https://x.com/SteamDB/status/1889610974484705314

This is related to the cancer stream scam from a while back: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/verified-steam-game-steals-streamers-cancer-treatment-donations/ 

• EDITOR: Sorry I can’t get quote highlight to work on bleeping computer, would you mind snagging this quote please: ​​”A gamer seeking financial support for cancer treatment lost $32,000 after downloading from Steam a verified game named BlockBlasters that drained his cryptocurrency wallet.”

Twitter post from the guy who was scammed - it’s pretty sad so maybe don’t show the video: https://x.com/rastalandTV/status/1969629808788181258 

VX Underground https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1969786282831130872 

Quote from kotaku about how shitty the scammers were

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/verified-steam-game-steals-streamers-cancer-treatment-donations/  

• EDITOR: Sorry I can’t get quote highlight to work on bleeping computer (same article as above), would you mind snagging this quote please: ​​"Crypto investigator ZachXBT told BleepingComputer that the attackers appear to have stolen a total of $150,000 from 261 Steam accounts.”

Quote from Tom’s hardware article above about the vetting system failing

STRYKER? I BARELY KNOW-ER!

Medtech giant Stryker went offline after an Iran-linked wiper malware attack

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stryker-hit-with-suspected-iran-linked-cyberattack-52f6615c 

​​https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/whats-known-about-wiper-attack-on-stryker-a-major-supplier-of-lifesaving-devices/ 

• Quote from ars about the source of the hack

Original Source - Stryker Website: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/about/news/2026/a-message-to-our-customers-03-2026.html  

https://www.theverge.com/tech/893524/stryker-iran-us-medtech-cyberattack 

Original source - Security report with a screenshot of Handala’s post taking responsibility for https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker/ 

SEC Filing: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000310764/7fd1068c-1cef-4fd3-8a20-8c086e15da56.pdf 

• Editor please grab this quote: “the full scope, nature and impacts, including operational and financial impacts, of the incident are not yet known...the timeline for a full restoration is not yet known”

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/medtech-giant-stryker-offline-after-iran-linked-wiper-malware-attack/ 

• Quote highlight about the severity of the hack

Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock — SK hynix forced to diversify after 30% of global supply removed from the market

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/helium-prices-soar-qatar-lng-halt-exposes-fragile-supply-chain-2026-03-12/ 

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qatar-helium-shutdown-puts-chip-supply-chain-on-a-two-week-clock

• Quote highlight about the impact on chip stuff

QUICKBITS

TURN RIGHT TO GO LEFT

Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/google-maps-gets-its-biggest-navigation-redesign-in-a-decade-plus-more-ai/

Biggest update in a decade: (Editor please show the headline and then highlight the first paragraph) https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/ask-maps-immersive-navigation/

New 3D view with overpasses, crosswalks, landmarks and signage (Starts 5 seconds in)

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_videos/A1_HERO_nm_CP_1.mp4#t=0.001 

• The info is generated by Gemini using street view scans and aerial photography

Conversational AI mode to plan trips

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/ask-maps-immersive-navigation/#:~:text=Take%20the%20guesswork%20out%20of%20your%20drive 

Video

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_videos/Query_5__Arizona__1080x1080.mp4#t=0.001 

• Also shows building entrances and parking information (Editor please show 16 seconds in)

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_videos/A2a_aGMM_1.mp4#t=0.001

GETTIN’ FIBE-Y WIT IT

GFiber merges with Astound Broadband as Google becomes minority shareholder

https://9to5google.com/2026/03/12/gfiber-merge-astound-broadband/ 

https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/gfiber-merging-with-astound-broadband/

Official statement: https://fiber.google.com/blog/2026/03/gfiber-and-stonepeaks-astound-to.html 

Google says they will still do business as GFiber, but denied a request for comment on anything beyond their press release

https://lmg.gg/Y6bKn 

TELUS MORE

Telus Digital confirms breach after hacker claims 1 petabyte data theft (Shiny Hunters back at it again… source code, FBI background checks, financial information, Salesforce data, and voice recordings of support calls for various companies.)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/telus-digital-confirms-breach-after-hacker-claims-1-petabyte-data-theft/ 

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/telus-digital-data-breach 

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/telus-digital-confirms-breach-hackers-allegedly-stole-almost-1-petabyte-of-data

How they did it quote: https://lmg.gg/0Hud5 

DRIVING ME OVER THE EDGE

Cybertruck Tried to Drive 'Straight Off an Overpass' Attorney Claims - https://www.404media.co/cybertruck-tried-to-drive-straight-off-an-overpass-attorney-claims/ )

Tech Spot - https://www.techspot.com/news/111664-cybertruck-owner-sues-tesla-over-fsd-crash-claims.html 

• Quote highlight

Cybertruck Owner Sues Tesla Over FSD, Claims Keeping Elon Musk as CEO Was Negligent - https://gizmodo.com/cybertruck-owner-sues-tesla-over-fsd-claims-keeping-elon-musk-as-ceo-was-negligent-2000732607 

• Quote link about the other lawsuits

SHE'S INTO YOU DUDE

Alexa+ has a new Adult Only option that wont do NSFW but can curse and be “sassy”

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/alexa-gets-a-new-adults-only-personality-option-that-curses-but-wont-do-nsfw-content/ 

https://www.engadget.com/ai/alexa-can-now-swear-thanks-to-a-new-personality-style-172106310.html

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3087459/alexas-adults-only-sassy-personality-just-roasted-my-smart-home-setup.html

It roasted a writer from PCWorld: 

“Oh, so now it’s my fault your lights have trust issues,”

https://lmg.gg/VsMh3 

Duration: 09:45

Timestamps:

0:00 we are doing the WORK here

0:13 YouTube = largest media company?

2:11 Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus

3:50 Meta acquires Moltbook

5:48 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:59 Macbook Neo reviews

6:42 Hisense TVs serve ridiculous ads 

7:23 Perplexity AI agents blocked on Amazon

8:07 Windows 11 update is... GOOD?

8:52 Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 with big speaker

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

REVVED UP

YouTube is the largest media company: surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/youtube-surpasses-disney-paramount-wbd-in-2025-ad-revenue/ 

• Headline quote:

Various articles citing MoffetNathonson research report, which I can’t find 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-worlds-largest-media-company-2025-tops-disney-1236525130/

• Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/3wnKK 
• Quote Youtube beats disney https://archive.md/3wnKK#selection-1675.2-1675.412 
• Quote Mohan sounding like a chatbot: https://archive.md/3wnKK#selection-1855.2-1855.345 

Succeeded by increasing the amount of unskippable ads people see, like they just did on TV

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-on-tv-unskippable-30-second-ads-3648246/

• Google blog post about it https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/vrc-non-skip-ads-generally-available/ 
• Reddit thread with undismissable banner ads: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1rjfiek/pop_up_ads_when_you_full_screen_on_your_mobile/ 
• Reddit thread where people using ad blockers are reporting a degraded experience https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1r482o6/description_and_comments_missing_from_all_videos/ 

So they’re really trying to drive that subscription revenue. https://9to5google.com/2026/03/11/youtube-is-now-the-worlds-largest-media-company-beating-even-disney/ 

• Highlight quote YouTube is expected to continue growing....subscription offerings

YouTube’s testing a new AI tool that lets you ask your TV questions during videos

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtubes-new-ai-tool-lets-you-ask-your-tv-questions-during-videos-3333112/

• Youtube help post about how to use it” https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/18138167?hl=en&msgid=411145985
• Alternate headline (only if you need another source) https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/youtubes-latest-experiment-brings-its-conversational-ai-tool-to-tvs/ 

Youtube Shorts - https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-shorts-200-billion-daily-views/ 

INTELS “APOLOGY TOUR”

Intel announces Core Ultra 200S Plus Desktop Processors to win back the gaming market after the original Arrow Lake’s poor gaming latency issues, and to undercut AMD’s pricing. 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-arrow-lake-refresh-desktop-cpus-270k-plus-and-250k-plus 

https://gizmodo.com/intels-redemption-arc-for-pc-gaming-starts-with-midrange-desktop-cpus-2000732274 

“Intel’s fastest gaming desktop processors ever” - this 270K is now faster than their existing flagship 285K

https://hothardware.com/Image/Resize/?width=1170&height=1170&imageFile=/contentimages/NewsItem/70049/content/big_slide2-intel-core-200s-plus-processors-fixed.jpg

• EDITOR: focus on this quote in the box on the left

https://hothardware.com/news/intel-reveals-first-core-ultra-plus-cpus 

• Mid range focus: Core Ultra 7 270K Plus ($299, 24 cores) and Ultra 5 240K Plus ($199, 18 cores) are upscaled refreshes of the previous Core Ultra 7 265K and Ultra 5 245K respectively. 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-arrow-lake-refresh-desktop-cpus-270k-plus-and-250k-plus#:~:text=Latency%20and%20Bandwidth,Ultra%20200S%20processors. 

• A number of features meant to reduce frame time and latency (boost to die-to-die(D2D) interconnect (now 3.0Ghz) by up to 900MHz, solving the frame time and latency bottlenecks of the previous gen), boost IPC in games (Intel Binary Optimization Tool) and supports native faster DDR5 (7200)

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1rqtlsd/intel_announces_299_core_ultra_7_270k_plus_and/ ]

• Editor: Screenshot of the top comments mainly focusing in on the “the prices are appealing/ good cpu deal”

A BOT IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH

Meta acquires Moltbook

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-acquires-ai-agent-social-network-moltbook-2026-03-10/

Moltbook site: https://www.moltbook.com/ 

I can’t access Reuters so I’m gomma pull quotes from TC: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/ 

• Quote about what meta says they want out of it

Axios saw internal communications: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network 

• Quote link: Reported that moltbook would stay available to the public but temporarily 

Moltbook is basically speedruning the dead internet https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-buys-moltbook-zuckerberg-dead-180414093.html 

Moltbook isIt’s a social media platform for AI agents that went viral with the regular hype beasts claiming that we’re at the singularity:

• Hype beast andrej Karpathy doing what he does best and getting people whipped up about moltbook https://x.com/karpathy/status/2017296988589723767 
• It was a pump and dump because It was incredibly insecure

Meta wants the agentic web: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/meta-didnt-buy-moltbook-for-bots-it-bought-into-the-agentic-web/ 

• Earnings Call transcript: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2025/q2/META-Q2-2025-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf 
• Editor please screenshot this quote from Zuckerberg: I believe every business will soon have a business AI just like they have an email address, social media account, and website. 
• Quote about consumer side agents
• Quote from fb about the point of the acquisition

QUICKBITS

PC MAKERS SWEATING

Macbook Neo reviews are out, and this thing is indeed a game-changer

https://gizmodo.com/macbook-neo-review-no-other-budget-laptop-can-compete-2000731635 

https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/reviews/apple-macbook-neo 

Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

https://www.pcmag.com/news/asus-co-ceo-macbook-neo-is-a-shock-to-the-pc-industry#:~:text=In%20a,year 

AD FIRST, TV LATER  

Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing (eat veggies first before dessert/ ad before tv joke somewhere, gotta think hard on this one)

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/hisense-tvs-force-owners-to-watch-intrusive-ads-when-switching-inputs-visiting-the-home-screen-or-even-changing-channels-practice-infuriates-consumers-brand-denies-wrongdoing 

• Editor: Flash the Tom’s Hardware headline

Reddit main thread blowing up , users are upset of course: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1rqrsr9/hisense_tvs_force_owners_to_watch_intrusive_ads/ 

• Editor: Highlight the top two angry comments like “Paying to watch ads”

Some older threads on the Hisense subreddit of users claiming annoying adds when using their TVs

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hisense/comments/1rg2kyn/annoying_add_every_time_i_selected_tv_channels/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Hisense/comments/1rgrjy6/my_hisense_vidaa_tv_suddenly_has_full_screen_ads/  

JUST BROWSING

Judge orders Perplexity to stop AI agents from shopping on Amazon

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/amazon-wins-court-order-blocking-perplexity-s-ai-shopping-bots 

• Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/RIzh0 

Original Source: Legal ruling: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27822873-amazon-v-perplexity-injunction/ 

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/892401/amazon-perplexity-ai-shopping-agent-court-order 

• Archive https://archive.md/Jj9hL 

WINDOWS W? 

Windows update that you actually want and actually has nice upgrades (Emoji 16.0, Sign-in restore part of windows backup, Quick Machine Recover (QMR), Built in network speed test on taskbar, camera settings, System Monitor(sysmon) , desktop backgrounds etc)

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-kb5079473-is-here-with-some-actually-good-upgrades-heres-whats-rolling-out-this-patch-tuesday 

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB5079473 

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 79 vulns fixed, two zero-days in SQL Server and .NET — neither actively exploited yet https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-march-2026-patch-tuesday-fixes-2-zero-days-79-flaws/ 

SPEAK-LET

New lenovo tablet has a massive JBL speaker on the back - https://www.techradar.com/audio/its-massive-why-the-leaked-lenovo-tablet-with-a-huge-jbl-speaker-on-the-back-actually-makes-a-lot-of-sense 

https://x.com/evleaks/status/2031049300239614364 

Images https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HC-7qdnWoAwpeNI?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HC-7qdqWoAEnC_G?format=jpg&name=large 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HC-8FM6WgAkgUd1?format=jpg&name=large 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HC-8aPYWgAkbyJV?format=jpg&name=large 

Duration: 08:54

Timestamps:

0:00 sorry just how it is

0:08 Apple HomePad and 'Ultra' products

1:36 OpenClaw hype continues

3:27 Nintendo sues US government

4:48 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:01 PS5 running Linux

5:35 Nvidia reviving RTX 3060

6:11 X finally adds Grok blocker

6:59 Arduino Ventuo Q

7:38 UK's first telesurgery

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

AN APPLE A DAY

Apple 'HomePad' to Offer Magnetic Snap-to-Wall Feature and More

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/08/apple-homepad-snap-to-wall-feature/ 

https://x.com/Kosutami_Ito/status/2030044449263456400?s=20 

Gurman corroborates https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-09/apple-postpones-smart-home-display-launch-as-it-waits-for-new-ai-and-siri?srnd=undefined 

• Quote: EDITOR - see screenshot 

Lots more coming this year https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/07/apple-products-in-the-pipeline-for-2026-after-macbook-neo-launch/ 

Gurman says that Apple is expanding the “Ultra” lineup next after the MacBook Neo launch

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-03-08/apple-to-expand-ultra-lines-after-599-macbook-neo-3d-printed-aluminum-imacs-mmhpa12d 

The verge confirms the rest of the year will focus on high end Ultra lineups: https://www.theverge.com/tech/891151/apple-is-going-high-end-with-new-ultra-products-next 

• Non Paywalled https://archive.md/AI4xM 
• Good summary of all upcoming stuff: https://archive.md/AI4xM#selection-1587.0-1608.0 

They can release whatever they want as long as they keep posting these weirdly mesmerizing TikToks

https://www.tiktok.com/@apple/video/7613820709629971725 

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1rnvusa/apples_strange_tiktok_videos_capturing_gen_zs/ 

SHELL GAME

China really, REALLY likes OpenClaw and there is a district in Shenzhen that wants to draft a policy encouraging “professional platforms to offer free OpenClaw services”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-09/china-s-openclaw-tied-stocks-rise-on-policy-support-adoption 

• Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/CSy7q 

Public event outside to help people set up OpenClaw https://www.reddit.com/r/moltiverse/comments/1rncd7v/the_scale_of_tech_adoption_in_china_is_wild/ 

The OpenClaw superfan meetup serves optimism and lobster

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/890517/openclaw-clawcon-meetup-nyc-open-source-ai 

• Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/daPzf 

The Security threats are REAL though: https://www.immersivelabs.com/resources/c7-blog/openclaw-what-you-need-to-know-before-it-claws-its-way-into-your-organization 

• Editor: I can’t get quote highlight to work, can you please scroll down and screenshot the 3 main risks
• Prompt Injection Is a Real Threat
• The Skill Ecosystem Is an Unvetted Supply Chain
• No Enterprise Grade Controls

With researches finding 10s of thousands of open instances online and over 300 malicious skills in it’s software Directory Claw Hub: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/from-clawdbot-to-moltbot-to-openclaw/ 

• Quote tweet about the malicious skills and exposed instances

Y combinator leadership looking like dickheads wearing lobster outfits: https://www.threads.com/@joanwestenberg/post/DVDfi_0ke5Y/blew-the-mac-mini-budget-on-the-lobster-suits 

Open claw has almost 290k stars on github: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw

Which is insane when you learn that the linux kernel - WHICH RUNS EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD - only has 222k https://github.com/torvalds/linux 

LAWYER, I CHOOSE YOU

Nintendo is suing the US government over Trump's tariffs https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-is-suing-the-us-government-over-trumps-tariffs-191849003.html?src=rss 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/nintendo-sues-us-government-demands-full-tariff-refund-plus-interest

https://aftermath.site/nintendo-tariffs-sue/

The complaint document: https://www.scribd.com/document/1008639172/Nintendo-Sues-U-S-Government-For-Tariff-Refunds?ref=aftermath.site 

(Editor please show the first page with 200 billion highlighted, and then shift to page 11 and highlight section 54)

IEEPA Ruling: (Show page 1) https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf

A bunch of other companies are going after the gov too: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/03/06/trump-administration-cant-easily-refund-tariffs-as-court-demands-it-claims/  

The whitehouse used a pokopia themed post about making america great again too

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2029566106650767581

Along with the insane video from homeland security where ash ketchum leads ice raids

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1970251208322621530 

The Pokémon company never gave permission https://lmg.gg/T3TiQ 

If Pheonix wright shows up the gov is screwed: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Phoenix_Wright_in_Phoenix_Wright_Ace_Attorney.png 

QUICKBITS

PS5 GNU EDITION

Andy Nguyen got Linux running on a PS5 and played GTA V Enhanced Edition on it, with pretty decent results

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/linux-hacked-onto-a-ps5-to-turn-sonys-console-into-a-steam-machine-gta-v-enhanced-edition-runs-at-60-fps-on-1440pwith-ray-tracing 

https://overclock3d.net/news/misc/modder-turns-sonys-playstation-5-into-a-linux-powered-gaming-pc/ 

https://www.psu.com/news/linux-has-been-ported-to-the-ps5-by-modder-has-gta-v-enhanced-running-at-60-fps-with-ray-tracing-enabled/

Twitter post with the video of it running: https://x.com/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841 

AMPERE RETURNS

Samsung to Resurrect NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 Using 8 nm Node

https://www.techpowerup.com/347174/samsung-to-resurrect-nvidias-geforce-rtx-3060-using-8-nm-node

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-brings-geforce-rtx-3060-back-to-samsung-8nm-production

According to industry insiders who spoke with Hankyung (editor please translate these next 2 links) https://www.hankyung.com/article/2026030866841 

Quote from the same article:

https://lmg.gg/nEcW5 

GROCK BLOCKED

X says you can block Grok from editing your photos (new toggle switch to disable grok photo editing on things you post)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/891352/x-grok-xai-edit-blocker-photo-toggle 

• Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/zTW9r 

Image showing the toggle: https://imgproxy.divecdn.com/F3y9g581RwQk7rlYyTJZ0qYpPYliypZYFItG7hDyTYs/g:ce/rs:fit:1600:0/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS94X2dyb2tfYmxvY2sucG5n.webp 

Original Source: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-adds-option-to-restrict-grok-image-variations/814140/ 

• Quote about how their initial strategy was to make it paid

Also the verge tested it and they could still edit the  image when they opened it in the grok app: https://archive.md/zTW9r#selection-1711.0-1711.249 

ALL TOGETHER NOW

Qualcomm's new Arduino Ventuno Q is an AI-focused computer designed for robotics

https://www.engadget.com/ai/qualcomms-new-arduino-ventuno-q-is-an-ai-focused-computer-designed-for-robotics-113047697.html 

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2026/03/arduino-announces-arduino-ventuno-q----powered-by-qualcomm-drago 

Launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzT6vDtz6rU 

Its fully compatible with Arduino UNO Shields and Raspberry PI hats, bridging the gap between different platforms (0:35)

https://youtu.be/SzT6vDtz6rU?t=35

It's powered by the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 and comes with 16 gigs of RAM… So either this thing is gonna be SICK for building robots or its the beginning of the end times for Arduino

ROBO-SURGERY FOR THE WIN

London doctor carries out remote robot surgery on cancer patient 1,500 miles (2,400km) away in Gibraltar (First telesurgery in the UK)

https://www.techspot.com/news/111595-london-doctor-carries-out-remote-robot-surgery-cancer.html 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq577v126g9o

Apparently the patient was happy to be the guinea pig and said it was a “no brainer”

https://lmg.gg/LVOkB 

Image of the surgery: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7d5ce203ea0c753497fe2daf7feb8370e1c59856/816_379_3234_2587/master/3234.jpg?width=1900&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none 

Duration: 08:45

Timestamps:

0:00 why? is a good question

0:09 Nvidia GPU monopoly

2:04 Anthropic to fight Pentagon

4:51 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:04 Apple blocks ByteDance-owned apps

5:47 Apple Music adds AI music tags

6:18 Macbook Neo benchmarks

6:58 Wikipedia AI translation issues

7:37 Roblox AI re-phrases bad chats

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

RAKING IN THE GREEN

PC graphics cards are now nearly 100 percent Nvidia

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079686/pc-graphics-cards-are-now-nearly-100-percent-nvidia.html

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-secured-94-percent-aib-gpu-market-share-q4-25/ 

These numbers come from Jon Peddie Research: https://www.jonpeddie.com/news/q425-pc-graphics-aib-shipments-decreased-4-4-from-last-quarter-to-11-million-units-with-a-cagr-to-2029-of-5-9/

Image: https://www.jonpeddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AIB1.png 

Intel Arc manages 1% https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/great-news-for-intel-it-now-owns-fully-1-percent-of-the-gaming-gpu-market/ 

G-ForceIMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436339/ 

G-Force Game on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/319170/Disney_GForce/

Steam Hardware Survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/#:~:text=AMD%20Radeon(TM,%2D0.91%25 

New leaks show Nvidia may be planning GeForce RTX 5050 with 9GB memory and a refresh of the 5060 based on the GB502 GPU seen in the RTX 5070 

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-plans-geforce-rtx-5050-with-9gb-memory-and-96-bit-bus 

https://www.techpowerup.com/347046/nvidia-reportedly-preparing-9-gb-geforce-rtx-5050-variant-with-gddr7 

Twitter post on the 5050

https://x.com/Zed__Wang/status/2029240918474408342

Twitter post for the 5060

https://x.com/Zed__Wang/status/2029241799429242971 

Project Helix: https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/xbox-project-helix-reveal-next-gen 

HEATED R-AI-VALRY

Anthropic vows to sue Pentagon over supply chain risk label

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5g3z3xe65o 

Hegseth’s initial post declaring them a supply chain risk: https://x.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070 

• Quote about the supply chain risk part

Dario’s post from yesterday: https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war 

• Quote about it being Legally unsound

Seems like most people are coming down on Anthropic’s side here

BBC Article Above

• Senator Gillibrand Quote from the BBC Article about it being shortsighted

Microsoft says Anthropic’s products remain available to customers after Pentagon blacklist

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/microsoft-says-anthropics-products-can-remain-available-to-customers-after-security-risk-designation.html 

• Quote highlight about microsoft’s position.

Which is good news for Anthropic because According to Jensen he’s cutting off his babies - https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-is-pulling-back-from-openai-and-anthropic-but-his-explanation-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/ 

https://gizmodo.com/the-100-billion-openai-nvidia-deal-is-not-happening-2000729749 

Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/musk-fails-to-block-california-data-disclosure-law-he-fears-will-ruin-xai/ 

The requirements of the law (passed in late 2024) are for AI companies to share their training data: https://www.dglaw.com/ai-legal-updates-californias-ai-training-data-transparency-law-takes-effect/ 

But Musk pushed back citing trade secrets, free speech and also that people would be bored: 

Original Source: XAI’s Challenge: https://law-ai.org/xais-challenge-to-californias-ai-training-data-transparency-law-ab2013/ 

• Quote showing first and fifth amendment

It wasn’t enough to convince Judge Jesus:

• Quote from the ars technica article
• Quote about him having to comply

QUICK BITS

ANOTHER APP BYTES THE DUST

Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps

https://www.wired.com/story/bytedance-apps-are-no-longer-available-in-us-app-stores/

• Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/GgfuK 

Geo blocking downloads - https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/05/apple-reportedly-geoblocking-downloads-and-updates-of-bytedance-owned-apps-in-the-us/ 

Archived article: https://web.archive.org/web/20250119060555/https://support.apple.com/en-us/121596?cid=mc-ols-bytedance-article_121596-os_ui-12132024 

I BRAKE FOR CLANK-ETTES

Apple Music Rolling Out Disclosure Tags for AI-Made Songs

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/05/apple-music-ai-transparency-tags/ 

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/apple-music-launches-ai-transparency-tags-but-only-if-labels-and-distributors-choose-to-declare-them/

Four different categories of AI Tags: https://www.billboard.com/pro/apple-music-introduces-ai-song-tagging/#:~:text=Below%20are%20the,and%20standalone%20videos.%E2%80%9D 

ALL I’M OFFERING IS THE TRUTH…NOTHING MORE

First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In: Here's How It Compares to the M1 MacBook Air

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/05/macbook-neo-first-benchmarks/

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/macbooks/macbook-neo-benchmarks-leak-how-does-it-compare-to-iphone 

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16884902

WIKI-SLOP-IA

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079595/wikipedia-has-an-ai-translation-problem.html

Wikipedia does have rules against this, but they keep using OKA anyways

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Large_language_models 

Its pretty bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1332393944&ref=404media.co 

Spot checks section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive378?ref=404media.co#Spot_checks 

They are gonna fact check the first AI, with another AI

https://lmg.gg/AIl9Z 

MODER-AI-TION TYCOON

Roblox launches real-time AI chat rephrasing to filter out banned language

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/roblox-launches-real-time-ai-chat-rephrasing-to-filter-out-banned-language/ 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/what-the-fork-robloxs-ai-to-replace-swearing-with-more-civil-language 

Statement:

https://ir.roblox.com/news/news-details/2026/Roblox-Launches-Real-Time-Chat-Rephrasing-to-Maintain-Civility-and-Gameplay-Flow/default.aspx

Apparently, Roblox worked with their “Teen Council” to create this system, and it can do cool things like change “Hurry TF up!” to just plain old “Hurry up!”

Teen Council: https://about.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/09/2026-roblox-teen-council 

Hurry up quote: https://lmg.gg/ZJKE5 

Duration: 10:16

Timestamps:

0:00 I'm just ASKING

0:18 Macbook Neo, M5 Pro, M5 Max

2:38 OpenAI manages Anthropic backlash

4:31 Meta Glasses videos exposed?

6:11 QUICK BITS INTRO

6:18 Windows 12 this year NOT

7:00 Pixels get Android desktop mode

7:33 Scalper bots making RAM crisis worse

8:17 'Coruna' iPhone exploits

9:10 Xiaomi has robot 'interns'

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

MAC ATTACK

Macbook Neo, powered by A18 chip, starting at $599

https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/ 

• glam shot time stamps
• https://youtu.be/u3SIKAmPXY4?t=49   (0:49-1:43) Glam Shot
• https://youtu.be/u3SIKAmPXY4?t=103 (1:43-1:57)  Color Options silver, indigo, blush, and citrus
• yaoi gagarin on X: "ok yeah pack it up microslop it's windowver" / X 

https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/electronics/apple-macbook-neo-preorder 

• A18 Chipset is powering a laptop for the first time, rather than being a purpose-built Mac chip.

https://www.apple.com/mac/compare/?modelList=MacBook-Neo-A18-Pro,MacBook-Pro-14-M5-Pro,MacBook-Pro-14-M5-Max 

• A18 Pro Chip comes with 6 CPU Cores (2 performance cores, 4 efficiency cores) and 5 GPU cores. 
• 1 GPU core less than the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max running the same A18 Pro Chip.

https://www.apple.com/ca/macbook-neo/specs/ 

• The 8GB of unified memory isn't upgradable, and memory bandwidth is limited to 60GB/s

SEGUE: The A18 is a new product, and the M5 Pro and Max ALSO have new stuff because they have the new fusion architecture and a new core type.

New chips: M5 Pro and M5 Max https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-debuts-m5-pro-and-m5-max-to-supercharge-the-most-demanding-pro-workflows/ 

They've got some surprising structural changes: new “Fusion Architecture” and a third type of CPU core 

• Prior Apple Silicon chips including the base M5, used a single-die design, the fusion architecture instead bonds two third-generation 3-nanometer dies into a single SoC using advanced packaging with high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnects
• English: Instead of cramming everything onto one chip (which hits physical limits), Apple split the CPU and GPU onto two separate silicon dies and fused them together so they can scale far beyond what a single die could achieve, while keeping the unified memory architecture intact.
• Those chips are available in the Macbook pro only
• Super cores “the world’s fastest CPU core” [1] 
• “Testing was conducted by Apple in February 2026 using shipping competitive systems and select industry-standard benchmarks.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/m5-pro-and-m5-max-are-surprisingly-big-departures-from-older-apple-silicon/

Powerful enough to make more of whatever’s going on here: https://lmg.gg/k4BQV 

• EDITOR: I don’t care about the highlighted text; just record your screen while playing the video under it. Loop it a couple times 
• I want more of the goo, Feels like the secret life of alex mack

Macbook Pro with M5 Pro, M5 Max https://youtu.be/GriXfu4tL30?t=19

• 0:19 - 0:26 - top down of fingers on keyboard, then swivel shot around to side-view, text comes up: “Now with M5 Pro”
• These are just re-freshes - keep this part snappy
•  the M5 pro(15-core CPU, 16-core GPU) and M5 Max(18-core CPU, 32-core GPU)

M5 Macbook Air https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

• EDITOR: make sure it’s the US site

M5 Macbook Air video specifically mentions ‘starting with 16GB of unified memory’ ‘and 512GB of storage’, which seems crafted to apply to memory crisis

• Apple was overpriced before but with the increase in PC prices we’re looking at a world where macbook is easy to recommend as the entry point

https://youtu.be/URwVV5tTJIA?t=26 

• 0:26 - 0:31 - above text shown 

Studio Display and all-new Studio Display XDR https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-unveils-new-studio-display-and-all-new-studio-display-xdr/ 

6 products announced during a non-Apple event? Apple’s feelin’ SAUCY this week

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/03/apple-has-announced-6-new-products-so-far-this-week/ 

• Apple Sauce joke

THE ART OF THE KNEEL

 Sam Altman says OpenAI is renegotiating with the Pentagon after an ‘opportunistic and sloppy’ deal

https://fortune.com/2026/03/03/sam-altman-openai-pentagon-renegotiating-deal-anthropic/ 

Quote about him swooping in on friday: https://archive.md/6v7Ma#selection-501.0-505.99 

NOTE THIS SHOULD MOVE DOWN BELOW THE WINDOWS CENTRAL ONE: Sam’s tweet https://x.com/sama/status/2028640354912923739 

Follows backlash and ChatGPT boycott driven by weird Anthropic/DoW developments

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-backpedals-as-chatgpt-uninstalls-surge-295-percent 

Hours after Anthropic was blacklisted by the govt, OpenAI announced deal that got DoW to, apparently, agree to terms that it wouldn’t agree to for Anthropic

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2027846013650932195 

• EDITOR: scroll up so we see both this tweet and the OP

Except it really seems like that’s NOT what happened - it SEEMS like, based on various insider and expert sources, that OpenAI caved to the DoW, and then made it SOUND like the DoW caved to OpenAI

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/887309/openai-anthropic-dod-military-pentagon-contract-sam-altman-hegseth

• Quote https://archive.md/HAEH0#selection-1943.0-1947.162 

OpenAI tries to get users to stay with GPT5.3 update which is ‘less cringe’ 

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/chatgpts-new-gpt-5-3-instant-model-will-stop-telling-you-to-calm-down/

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2028893702865989707 

PEEPING ZUCK

Regulator Contacts Meta Over Workers/Moderators Watching AI Glasses Videos (PEEPING ZUCK?)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo 

• Quote: Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex,
• “Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based Meta subcontractor, according to an investigation by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) and Goteborgs-Posten (GP).”

Original Source: Swedish report: https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything 

• Quote: We See Everything
• ““We see everything – from living rooms to naked bodies. Meta has that type of content in its databases. People can record themselves in the wrong way and not even know what they are recording. They are real people like you and me”.

Endagadget : https://www.engadget.com/ai/metas-ai-display-glasses-reportedly-share-intimate-videos-with-human-moderators-135939855.html 

• Quote about accessing the terms of service
• “However, Svenska Dagbladet's reporters said they needed to jump through some hoops to see Meta's privacy policy for its wearable products. That policy states that either humans or automated systems may review sensitive data, and puts the onus on the user to not share sensitive information.”

Meta AI terms of Service: https://www.facebook.com/legal/ai-terms/ 

• Quote saying that Meta will review your interactions with AI: “In some cases, Meta will review your interactions with AIs, including the content of your conversations with or messages to AIs, and this review may be automated or manual (human).”
• Editor: Sorry I can’t get a quote highlight to work here - would you mind screenshotting a highlight of the above sentence. It’s in section 2C

Meta’s response is to put the onus on the user

https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928 

• Quote: Don’t record it if you don’t want us to see it:
• “The only solution the company offers for users who would rather not have their trip to the dressing room reviewed by a set of eyes they never intended to send the footage to? “Do not share information that you don’t want the AIs to use and retain, such as information about sensitive topics.” Basically, don’t record it if you don’t want a stranger to see it.”

The upcoming name tag feature paired with this mass collection doesn’t bode well for the public perception of meta’s glasses as not creepy: https://archive.md/yGeJi 

• Quote: https://archive.md/yGeJi#selection-1893.183-1893.301 

QUICK BITS

LOST IN TRANSLATION

PC World translated an article from PC Welt based on literally nothing that somehow points to Windows 12 coming out this year.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/microsoft-rumoured-to-be-planning-launch-of-new-modular-windows-12-operating-system-with-a-floating-taskbar-later-this-year 

Debunking the original PCGamer article before updates https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong 

Translated PC World article

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3068331/windows-12-rumors-features-pricing-everything-we-know-so-far.html#:~:text=Editor%E2%80%99s%20note%3A,PCWorld%20executive%20editor 

Original German PC-Welt article

https://www.pcwelt.de/article/3065260/windows-12-release-neue-features-preis-alle-informationen-hudson-valley-windows-11-nachfolger.html 

PIXEL GOES DESKTOP

Google releases Android 16’s desktop mode to all Pixel phones, from the Pixel 8 and up - previously only available in developer beta 

https://www.theverge.com/tech/888370/google-pixel-tablet-android-desktop-mode

Google forum post - 9th item in list, no pics 

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/410742131/#:~:text=Desktop%20mode%20on,on%20a%20laptop. 

• Pixel 8 and newer models can connect to external display via USB-C  (desktop immersion)
• Mode supports multi-window apps, keyboard , mouse and more

THE GREAT RAMGRAB

Scarcity in DDR5 RAM Fueled by AI Demand Sparks Massive Scalping Surge

https://datadome.co/threat-research/scarcity-ddr5-ram-fueled-by-ai-demand-scalping-surge/#:~:text=Key%20takeaways%3A%C2%A0,prices%20even%20higher. 

DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips and components — one operation ran 10 million web scraping requests, hitting DDR5 RAM product pages every 6.5 seconds 

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-bots-reportedly-being-deployed-to-hoover-up-memory-chips-and-components-one-operation-ran-10-million-web-scraping-requests-hitting-ddr5-ram-product-pages-every-6-5-seconds 

Good connecting/link story

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-now-shifting-hourly-as-smaller-firms-fight-over-scraps 

CORUNA VIRUS

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new and powerful exploit kit targeting Apple iPhone models running iOS version 13.0 (released in September 2019) up to version 17.2.1 (released in December 2023).

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/coruna-powerful-ios-exploit-kit 

• Visual Timeline https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-cloudblog-publish/images/coruna-fig1.max-2100x2100.png 

A suite of US government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminals (foreign spies and normal criminals) 

https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/ 

Not Paywalled, above wired article -> https://archive.ph/vN8U5 

https://iverify.io/press-releases/first-known-mass-ios-attack 

THE INTERN-MINATOR

Xiaomi trials humanoid robots in its EV factory — says they’re like ‘interns’

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/xiaomi-humanoid-robots-ev-factory-.html 

• Link to Quote about interns
• Quote text “The robots in our production lines weren’t doing an official job, more like the interns,” Lu told CNBC

Video of the robot doing the tasks: https://youtu.be/zxUUfsk4zLA?t=181 

• Probably just need a few seconds of them working on the car starting at 3 minutes in

More details about the process: https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/china-xiaomi-humanoid-robot-ev-factory 

• Quote describing the task
• Quote Text “ In the task, the humanoid robot picked up self-tapping nuts precisely from an automatic feeding device and placed them onto positioning fixtures. In the next step, it coordinated with slide belt conveyors and automatic positioning to complete the automated tightening of floor components after integrated die-casting.”

Duration: 08:53

Timestamps:

0:00 you're stronger than you know :) 

0:14 'Microslop' banned in Copilot Discord

1:21 MWC - the normal stuff

3:02 MWC - the weird stuff

4:56 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:09 Ryzen AI 400 PRO chips

5:44 California OS age verification law

6:28 YouTube Shorts AI tests

7:03 Omar Yaghi's water harvesting machine

7:44 CDE Time Capsule

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

SLOPPY STOPPY

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-banned-the-word-microslop-in-its-copilot-discord-server-then-began-restricting-access-after-users-started-posting-microsl0p-and-other-funnies/ 

Apparently, people have been trying to find other clever ways around it, like calling the company Sloppysoft

https://lmg.gg/GxiZ1 

https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Discord-users-finding-ways-to-use-the-word-Microslop.png 

Maybe its a size thing, we could call them macroslop instead, they say micro is inappropriate

https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Copilot-Community-channel-doesnt-allow-messages-to-be-shown-including-the-history.png 

We know that Satya Nadella really hates the idea of Slop, and says "we need to move past the idea of slop vs sophistication" in his blog, but damn dude the sloppening stops for no man

https://lmg.gg/bds7Z 

Eventually, the community pushed them so far that they disabled message history and restricted parts of the server

https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Microsoft-Copilot-Discord-server-locked-after-users-raided-it-with-nicknames.png 

It makes me wonder if Satya has fully embraced Discord moderator culture, or if maybe CoPilot just got its feelings hurt. 

APPLE CRASHES THE MWC FIESTA

MWC: Actual Consumer products and Major Moves:

Apple launches new iPhone 17e with Magsafe

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/apple-launches-new-iphone-17e-with-fix-for-major-complaint-3327195/#:~:text=The%20device,options 

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-iphone-17e/ 

https://youtu.be/TiE2F1V841A?t=49 

$599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost

https://youtu.be/oT5iDm9XRl8?t=53 

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apple-keeps-the-ipad-air-fresh-with-m4-chip-upgrade-and-12gb-of-ram/#:~:text=The%20iPad%20Air,on%20March%2011. 

Xiaomi’s Leica Leitzphone mostly earns the name

https://youtu.be/Wikwv2wo23I?t=20 

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/886131/xiaomi-leica-leitzphone-17-ultra-review 

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation, marking a new chapter in smartphone security and expanding its enterprise portfolio

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/ 

Motorola Razr Fold

https://youtu.be/wKtIOE1hhKM?t=23 

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/motorola-razr-fold-hands-on-mwc-2026-050027092.html

From S26 to OnePlus 14, Qualcomm's new X85 modem will power next-gen flagships (5G over satellite)

https://www.androidauthority.com/snapdragon-x105-modem-3643541/#:~:text=For%20starters%2C%20Qualcomm,connectivity%20over%20satellites. 

https://shorturl.at/LTTL3 

MEGA WEIRD CONCEPTS (MWC)

Xiaomi unveils Vision GT electric supercar concept (MWC Barcelona, will be unveiled today)

https://youtu.be/a5IIVlE-Ikw?t=50

 https://x.com/BenGeskin/status/2028394559751807375 

https://electrek.co/2026/02/28/xiaomi-vision-gt-concept-first-chinese-supercar-gran-turismo-mwc-2026

Lenovo Legion Go Fold was a real thing

https://youtu.be/-uEas6VHSKM?t=3 https://www.theverge.com/tech/886848/lenovo-legion-go-fold-concept-windows-foldable-pc-gaming-handheld 

Lenovo made a Framework-like laptop with modular ports — and a second screen

https://youtu.be/bqP4GjVtxQw?t=7 

https://www.theverge.com/tech/886814/lenovo-thinkbook-modular-ai-pc-concept-mwc-2026-specs

A robot arm with puppy dog eyes is just one of Lenovo’s new desktop AI concepts , just a lil guy

https://www.theverge.com/tech/885228/lenovo-ai-workmate-companion-work-concept-robot-arm-desktop-clock-hub 

https://youtu.be/mljs7BCHvds 

Honor's Robot Phone

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/honor-phones/i-saw-honor-robot-phone 

https://www.honor.com/global/events/honor-robot-phone/ 

HONOR ROBOT GETS A DANCE CREW LETS GOOOOOOOOO

https://youtu.be/_87_wBpXfJM?t=53 

QUICKBITS

JUST LEAVE THE NAME ALONE

AMD is announcing its first three Ryzen AI chips for desktops using its AM5 CPU socket. These Ryzen AI 400-series CPUs are direct replacements for the Ryzen 8000G processors

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-launches-ryzen-ai-400-pro-400-desktop-chips/ 

Image: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/u3RbcnG3GW9yb2EyGAHkm4-970-80.png.webp 

https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-3-2-amd-gives-consumers-and-businesses-more-ai-pc-opti.html 

It comes in 6 new SKU’s, with a dedicated NPU for Microsoft CoPilot (Editor, please draw the eye to the second column)

https://www.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2026/03/2026-03-02-image-9-j_1100.webp 

This means that while yes, you unfortunately have to deal with their branding, some local AI stuff will be offloaded from the dedicated graphics with that nifty little npu

125-YEAR-OLD LINUX USERS

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup (Jan 2027, older thing in new news, but people are only finding out now)

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law 

• Seems like everyone just found out about this California law passed in Oct 2025 that…

https://gamerant.com/california-age-verification-operating-system/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1ri3rx3/california_introduces_age_verification_law_for/ 

• Top Comment for screenshot “This is going to be a nothingburger.”

Primary Source: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043 

SLOP SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE

YouTube test lets AI create a new video using someone else’s Shorts

https://9to5google.com/2026/02/28/youtube-shorts-ai-remix-test/#:~:text=We%E2%80%99re%20starting%20to,two%20reference%20photos. 

https://x.com/FortuneIndia/status/2028365997070291171/photo/1 

https://x.com/FortuneIndia/status/2028365997070291171/photo/3 

Primary Source: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/18138167?hl=en&msgid=412700385 

THE SAND NEEDS WATER TOO

Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner — claimed to work in desert air with 20% humidity or lower, delivering off-grid ‘personalized water’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/21/nobel-laureate-omar-yaghi-invents-machine-that-harvests-water-from-dry-air 

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/water-harvesting-machine-omar-yaghi-atoco-reticular-chemistry-narendra-modi-nobel-laureate-2025-chemistry-2872616-2026-02-24

Created by Omar Yaghi, he got a Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year 

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/omar-yaghi-shares-2025-nobel-prize-chemistry 

Comparable in size to a 20ft shipping container, can we get an invite to the inaugural pool party?

https://lmg.gg/HT0rG 

Video at 0:44: https://atoco.com/atmospheric-water-harvesting/ 

CDE NEVER DIED

Developer's 1994 Linux desktop recreation runs in your browser as a modern web app — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead (it has netscape)

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nostalgic-developer-recreates-the-1994-linux-desktop-as-a-modern-web-app-for-your-browser-open-source-project-brings-old-school-cde-interface-back-from-the-dead-and-features-classic-90s-web-browser-text-editor-and-more

Website link: https://debian.com.mx/  (Editor, please grab a screenshot of the desktop, then click in on netscape under the welcome tab and get one of that too)

It doesn't work very well, but the whole thing is available to download and run locally from Github, or you can check out the site if you had any reason to want to relive CDE, or see what your parents dealt with 30 years ago

https://github.com/Victxrlarixs/debian-cde?tab=readme-ov-file

Duration: 08:19

Timestamps:

0:00 it's like it never ends!

0:09 Lenovo Legion Go Fold

1:39 Anthropic rejects Pentagon

3:04 Meta AI Safety head gets OpenClaw'd

4:44 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:57 Nvidia SHIELD TV gets another update

5:36 Nvidia GPU driver causes fan issues

6:17 Block cuts nearly half workforce

7:00 Tecno modular phone conccept

7:31 Burger King AI headsets

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

BIG CLOCK ENERGY

Exclusive: Lenovo Legion Go Fold is a handheld with foldable display, doubles as a PC expected to be seen at MWC in Barcelona on March 2, 2026 

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/02/26/exclusive-lenovo-legion-go-foldable-is-an-11-6-handheld-that-doubles-as-a-pc/ 

https://www.theverge.com/tech/885656/lenovo-legion-go-fold-concept-leak 

Product Images : 

‘Horizon Full Screen Mode’

https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Lenovo-Legion-Go-Fold-Concept-in-Horizon-Full-Screen-Mode.png 

‘Expanded Desktop Mode’ https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-Lenovo-Legion-Go-Fold-Concept-in-Expanded-Desktop-Mode.png 

Considering Lenovo's track record with these things, we may actually get to see this thing unveiled  

The modes: https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-Lenovo-Legion-Go-Fold-Concept-unfolded.png 

The controller looks pretty interesting, although it shares similarities to the Legion Go’s button layout, the track pad has been replaced with what looks like a screen… or an analog clock: (Editor please draw the eye to the analog clock in the bottom right corner) https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Lenovo-Legion-Go-Fold-Concept-in-Horizon-Full-Screen-Mode.png 

Then shift to this image of laptop mode

https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-Lenovo-Legion-Go-Fold-Concept-in-Expanded-Desktop-Mode.png 

It's also backed up by some pretty beefy specs

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/02/26/exclusive-lenovo-legion-go-foldable-is-an-11-6-handheld-that-doubles-as-a-pc/#:~:text=Specification,keyboard%20with%20touchpad 

PENTA-GONE WITH THE WIND

Anthropic rejects latest Pentagon offer: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/tech/anthropic-rejects-pentagon-offer 

Quote about Legaleese

Headline showing that the ultimatum was set for friday: https://www.reuters.com/technology/pentagon-anthropic-feud-has-sales-ai-warfare-stake-friday-deadline-looms-2026-02-27/ 

Original Source -  Amadei’s blog: https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war 

Quote Highlight for “I believe deeply . . . .”

Quote highlight for: “In a narrow set of cases

In response the US Undersecretary of war came in hard to defend his dad/crush/boss saying:

Tweet: https://x.com/USWREMichael/status/2027211708201058578 

Then Proceeding to have a small crash out over it:

https://x.com/USWREMichael/status/2027218087976546810 

https://x.com/USWREMichael/status/2027220062914896208 

https://x.com/USWREMichael/status/2027235757371383938 

https://x.com/USWREMichael/status/2027244132633092596 

https://x.com/USWREMichael/status/2027248323732623611 

EDITOR - If you don’t want to flash all the above tweets up you can also go to his twitter  page and scroll through them starting at the first tweet - https://x.com/USWREMichael 

Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in dispute over AI safety

https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dario-amodei-b72d1894bc842d9acf026df3867bee8a 

Hacker Used Anthropic’s Claude to Steal Mexican Data Trove (195 million taxpayer records as well as voter records, government employee credentials and civil registry files)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/hacker-used-anthropic-s-claude-to-steal-sensitive-mexican-data?embedded-checkout=true 

QUOTE: “The hacker breached Mexico’s ..

AI TRUSTED YOU

Meta's head of Al safety loses inbox as OpenClaw deletes emails by mistake: - https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-security-researchers-openclaw-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails 

Original Source - Tweets where the Security Researcher posts https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363

Quote for Some commenters suggeted..

Response Tweet about her being dumb: https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025857778708050169 

Instagram Will Alert Parents if Teens Repeatedly Search for Self-Harm and Suicide Terms - https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/new-instagram-alerts-will-tell-parents-if-their-teen-may-need-support/ 

Original Source - Meta Blog Post about the feature: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/02/new-meta-alerts-let-parents-know-if-teen-may-need-support/ 

Original Source - Instagram Post about The Teen accounts Rolled out in 2024: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/instagram-teen-accounts 

Quote about supervision mode

QUICK BITS

THE PEOPLE’S SHIELD

Nvidia Shield TV is getting a new update following promise of continued support

https://9to5google.com/2026/02/25/nvidia-shield-tv-is-getting-a-new-update-following-promise-of-continued-support/

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nvidia-updates-shield-tv-after-pledging-further-support-141346264.html 

https://www.androidauthority.com/nvidia-shield-tv-update-3-3644349/ 

Release notes (Editor please expand version 9.2.4 on the screen before screenshoting, we are focussing on the “What’s New in 9.2.4” section)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/software-update/ 

The last great set top box

Still runs android tv not the weird google tv thing

Attaboy NVIDIA

WE WEREN’T READY

Nvidia rolls back its latest driver update — Game Ready Driver 595.59 reportedly causes fan issues on RTX 3000, 4000, and 5000-series GPUs

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/nvidia-rolls-back-its-latest-driver-update-game-ready-driver-595-59-reportedly-causes-fan-issues-on-rtx-3000-4000-and-5000-series-gpus 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-pauses-latest-gpu-driver-release-over-fan-and-clock-speed-problems 

Nvidia Statement (highlighted):

https://lmg.gg/PGtj4 

This thing happened, roll back if your affected bc nvidia said new ones may not be on the way so they gotta last

NVIDIA confirms GeForce RTX GPU shortage for 2026 (CFO in an earnings call said 50 series supply will “be very tight” for at least the next 6 months )

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/110274/nvidia-confirms-geforce-rtx-gpu-shortage-for-2026/index.html 

Nvidia Statement (Page 3): (Editor I highlighted the section in yellow, this link should take you to the bookmarked section of the doc)

Q4FY26 CFO Commentary

https://s201.q4cdn.com/141608511/files/doc_financials/2026/Q426/Q4FY26-CFO-Commentary.pdf 

HALF CUT

Block plans to lay off nearly half its staff in ‘deliberate and bold’ embrace of AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq570d12y9do 

Original Source: Shareholder Letter: https://s29.q4cdn.com/628966176/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/Q4-2025-Shareholder-Letter_Block.pdf 

Editor Please grab a highlight from the above PDF. The fourth paragraph on the second page in the letter to shareholders section

Quote Text: Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company. We're already seeing it internally. A significantly smaller team, using the tools we're building, can do more and do it better. And intelligence tool capabilities are compounding faster every week.

It’s nice that CEOs now can use AI to pretend that mass layoffs is them being ready for the future. 

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/block-plans-to-lay-off-nearly-half-its-staff-in-deliberate-and-bold-embrace-of-ai-81e99247

Quote “With Block Shares…”

ITS A GROWER, I SWEAR

‘World’s thinnest modular phone concept’ tries to make add-ons cool again - will be shown at MWC 2026 https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/tecno-just-unveiled-a-ridiculously-thin-modular-smartphone-concept-design-194741776.html?src=rss 

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/26/tecno-unveils-thin-modular-smartphone-concept-with-magnetic-cameras-battery-and-gamepad-add-ons/

Twitter post: https://x.com/tecnomobile/status/2026566063912374484 

There are 2 different concepts, one of them, the MODA edition has “a bold, greek-inspired aesthetic" 

https://www.cnx-software.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/TECNO-modular-smartphone-720x420.jpg 

And then there is the ATOM, the white and red one

https://www.cnx-software.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/TECNO-ATOM-modular-phone-720x366.webp

MIND YOUR P’S AND Q’S, KING

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk2zygg0k3o 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/burger-king-ai-chatbot-employees-please-thank-you 

It also, apparently, can check the washrooms if they need cleaning… WHAT? 

https://lmg.gg/fwckC 

They called it Patty, but it really just reminds me of plankton from spongebob's computer wife Karen (Editor please fade this meme in slowly for the ending joke)

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fqvd1svetj8v41.jpg 

Duration: 11:32

Timestamps:

0:00 National Technographic

0:15 Fresh Nvidia N1X leaks, job listings

1:47 Galaxy Unpacked 2026 highlights: S26 Ultra

4:21 DoD vs Anthropic 

7:01 QUICK BITS INTRO

7:14 Discord delays global age verification 

8:03 Misleading OneDrive 'storage' listings

8:55 Farmers refuse to sell land for data centers

9:35 Panasonic TV deal with 'Skyworth'

10:31 Spotify x Liquid Death Eternal Playlist Urn

NEWS SOURCES:

Galaxy Unpacked February 2026: Official Livestream (Starts at 10:00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA93zbnoR4U 

NVIDIA’S LAPTOP TAKEOVER

[potential main main, if Unpacked is lame - which it very well might be]

Nvidia's N1/N1X chips leak once again, this time tipped for release in first half of 2026 — hotly-anticipated chips to reportedly debut on Dell and Lenovo laptops

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/nvidias-n1-n1x-chips-leak-once-again-this-time-tipped-for-release-in-first-half-of-2026-hotly-anticipated-chips-to-reportedly-debut-on-dell-and-lenovo-laptops 

Based off WSJ report https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-wants-to-be-the-brain-of-consumer-pcs-once-again-9e1e41b3 

• Archive https://archive.is/LT382 
• Discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1rdngz1/nvidia_n1_soc_laptops_in_h1_2026_with_20_cores/ 

 The N1X is rumored to be a consumer version of their GB10 superchip, packing 20 ARM cores and an integrated GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, supposedly matching a desktop RTX 5070. Rumored Spec Leaks

• EDITOR: You can use the highlighted text as a screenshot https://shorturl.at/3mAmI 

DGX Spark https://www.amax.com/content/images/2025/05/nvidia-project-digits-exploded-vew-ari-22.jpeg 

Some leaked product names from last month in the verge article although speculation(may cut):

https://www.theverge.com/games/867056/leak-nvidia-n1-n1x-laptops-lenovo-dell 

But wait, why do we care, again? Because as much as we rag on Nvidia for caring about AI more than gamers, they DO still put resources into gaming; look, they’re hiring software engineers to work on 'native-speed x86-64 gaming on Linux/ARM64 platforms' https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidia-getting-more-serious-about-gaming-on-linux-and-arm-hiring-engineer-to-work-on-native-speed-x86-64-gaming-on-linux-arm64-platforms/ 

https://nvidia.eightfold.ai/careers/job/893393264012 

• EDITOR: show top of page, then move down to the quoted text https://lmg.gg/7KWNO 

Unified memory might also seem like a disadvantage but we’ve seen success through Intel’s Panther Lake integrated graphics on “the new Dell XPS 14 which was able to run Cyberpunk 2077 at close 60fps at 1080p” Unified memory might solve the issues surrounding low or no VRAM, yippee?. 

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/laptops/nvidia-is-returning-to-its-roots-with-new-laptop-chips-and-a-heavy-focus-on-gaming-but-will-it-be-enough-to-make-arm-cpus-a-viable-alternative 

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4136489/nvidia-plans-a-windows-pc-soc-setting-up-direct-competition-with-qualcomm-intel-and-amd.html 

“Shreeya Deshpande, senior analyst at Everest Group, said the move signals a broader strategic shift. “Nvidia’s reported move into Arm-based PC SoCs marks a strategic shift from being primarily a GPU supplier to competing at the core platform level in Windows laptops,” she said. “If successful, it could materially intensify competition in the Windows-on-Arm ecosystem and increase pressure on incumbent PC silicon providers to further differentiate on AI performance and efficiency.””

More news in the upcoming Nvidia GTC  2026 Keynote

https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/keynote/?regcode=no-ncid&ncid=no-ncid 

AI CARAMBA

[A main, heat score has been building]

‘Department of War’ sets Friday deadline for Anthropic to allow its Claude AI model to be used for:

• mass domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens
• physical attacks where AI makes targeting decisions without human input
• DoW is tired of thinking before killing. Lets get that kill chain down to one link that is controlled by a hallucinating computer without an intrinsic understanding of human morality.

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-hegseth-dario

• Pete Hegseth, seen here pretending to listen while wondering why his dad didn’t hug him more
• Quote for bad things listed above https://lmg.gg/WkLGg  “physical attacks where AI makes targeting decisions without human input” 
• Senior defense official told Axios that in a tense Tuesday meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Defense Secretary (War Secretary?) Pete Hegseth threatened to declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, blocking it from working with the govt and a wide swath of companies, OR invoking the Defense Production Act to FORCE Anthropic to adapt to the govt’s needs. Or maybe even BOTH; i know it doesn’t make sense i’m just SO ANGRY right now https://lmg.gg/6LzAv 

Anthropic says they won't budge

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-wont-budge-as-pentagon-escalates-ai-dispute/ 

So in retaliation the pentagon announced that they would start using grok for defence related stuff. Oh Mecha hitler? GREAT FUCKING MOVE PETE

https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-digs-heels-dispute-with-pentagon-source-says-2026-02-24/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=699e0924af1b980001cee0e0&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky 

• Quote about the approval here

Honestly, amodei’s pushback here  is GOOD because: A study finds GPT-5.2, 

Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/ 

BUT they do drop a SEPARATE pledge, about not training a model unless they're sure it will be safe - because “if we don’t, the other guys will, and actually it’ll still be safe anyway, so…” 

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/ 

• Original Source: Anthropic Blog: https://www.anthropic.com/news/responsible-scaling-policy-v3 
• Quote about the response of leadership when they were asked about whether they were caving on their commitment to safety. 
• “Asked whether Anthropic was caving to market pressure, Kaplan argued that, in fact, Anthropic was making a renewed commitment to developing AI safely. “If all of our competitors are transparently doing the right thing when it comes to catastrophic risk, we are committed to doing as well or better,” he said. “But we don't think it makes sense for us to stop engaging with AI research, AI safety, and most likely lose relevance as an innovator who understands the frontier of the technology, in a scenario where others are going ahead and we're not actually contributing any additional risk to the ecosystem.”

Adding this to replace the Source that got dropped below: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change 

• And Here’s an additional quote you can use: from the new source if it works: quote 
• Which is basically just them saying “we’re committed to safety as long as we keep winning, and if we won’t then we’re committing to money and winning”
• As marcus aurelius said “Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, unless you’re about to lose an AI arms race to sam altman..then fuck it”.

Yeah - Anthropic might be the SLIGHTLY lesser of many AI-company evils, but it will still do things like complain about other companies training their AIs on output from Anthropic’s AI that was trained on every copyrighted thing that’s ever existed - which still sounds hypocritical even if it market itself as the victim of ‘industrial-scale distillation attacks’

https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2025997928242811253 

Sure, ‘distillation is a widely used and legitimate training method’ - but NOT when it happens to ME!!

https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks

• EDITOR: show top of page, then move down to quoted text https://lmg.gg/iymUZ 

QUICK BITS

LET ME EXPLAIN

Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout

https://www.theverge.com/policy/883852/discord-age-verification-global-walkback-delay

• Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/si9Tm 

Original Source: New Blog post https://discord.com/blog/getting-global-age-assurance-right-what-we-got-wrong-and-whats-changing 

• Quote: “The way this landed you guys walked away thinking you’d ALL have to verify…why would you think that”
• Real substitute teacher energy in this quote 
• “Over 90% of users will never need to verify their age to continue using Discord exactly as they do today” https://lmg.gg/5JYh9

Ultimately 

Second  Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv0yg4n9lo 

• Quote: “Discord stressed it would meet any specific legal obligations it has for age verification of users, and that age verification will be part of the platform in the future“

(Remove below if this is a QB and not a main)

Reminder: these platforms aren’t compromising user privacy just to be assholes; they’re doing it to avoid government penalties, like the 14-million-pound fine the UK just slapped Reddit with for having insufficient age checks: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyx0xggepjo 

jUST DOWNLOAD MORE STORAGE

Amazon seller advertising 1.2 TB of storage on HP laptop... 1 TB of which is OneDrive storage

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1rdrwbf/amazon_seller_advertising_12_tb_of_storage_on_hp/ 

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Ultrabook-Microsoft-Budget-Friendly-Essential/dp/B0G5L4K26H/ref=sr_1_3?th=1 https://www.amazon.com/HP-Microsoft-Quad-Cores-Processor-Earphones/dp/B0GGCQSLNW?th=1 

Thankfully Canadians don't have to deal with this issue, they actually get devices with 1024GB SSDs…so 1tb, but big number make profit go brrrr

https://shorturl.at/liKoH 

https://shorturl.at/Ngyai 

FARMER’S LAST STAND

Data center boom targeting rural farmland. Tech companies aggressively scout large rural plots for data centers, farmland is attractive because its large, cheap, and on power accessible land. Farmers refusing massive payouts however for emotional and legacy reasons.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/im-not-for-sale-farmers-refuse-to-take-millions-in-data-center-deals/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/21/us-farmers-datacenters 

https://wset.com/news/local/charlotte-county-farmer-battles-dominion-energy-over-eminent-domain-threat-on-farmland-april-2025 

-”Those who refuse to sell say the utility company has warned it may invoke eminent domain - the government power to seize private property for public use. Dominion energy used it against a virginia farmer last april”

THE KING HAS FALLEN

Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs (Similar to the Sony/TCL deal, they will now be manufactured by Skyworth, a Chinese TV brand nobody has ever heard of but sounds like a big deal) - https://www.techspot.com/news/111445-panasonic-exits-tv-manufacturing-hands-production-skyworth.html 

Original Source for the Announcement - Flat Panels HD:  https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1771867397 

• Quote: "The two organisations share a commitment to innovation and excellence. As a top-five global TV brand, we will bring world-class product innovation supported by extensive R&D investment, alongside a rapidly expanding international footprint and established distribution network. This strategic alignment is expected to accelerate the growth of Panasonic-branded TVs across Europe,"
• Translation: Skyworth wants to use the weight of the panasonic name to move their TVs in western markets like Europe and the US and panasonic wants to coast on the power of their name.

Second source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/panasonic-the-former-plasma-king-will-no-longer-make-its-own-tvs/ 

• Quote: This quote shows a precipitous decline in panasonic’s market share - which ars technica attributes mainly to the Global Financial Crisis in 2008

WELCOME TO THE BLACK PARADE

Spotify and Liquid Death release a limited-edition speaker shaped like… an urn? 

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/spotify-and-liquid-death-release-a-limited-edition-speaker-shaped-like-an-urn/

• Quote about how it works: Asks questions about your eternal vibe and ghost noises and then makes a playlist based on that that syncs to the urn

Original Source: https://liquiddeath.com/en-ca/pages/spotify-urn 

Video showing it working and the placement of the speaker can be found here: https://youtu.be/2QXRyGBDFME 

The last Liquid Death cross promo stunt was a yeti branded casket that sold for 68 thousand dollars: https://liquiddeath.com/products/yeti-x-liquid-death-casket-cooler 

Given their history of launching then bricking physical devices eternity might be like 18 months:

• Car thing https://support.spotify.com/us/article/car-thing-discontinued/ 
• …I guess you’ll have to keep paying for spotify premium otherwise you’ll keep hearing ads for the rest of eternity

Duration: 10:24

Timestamps:

0:00 time is wacky! Ah. Oh well!

0:14 Phil Spencer leaves Xbox / Microsoft

2:20 Wikipedia blacklists archive . today

4:03 Discord, Persona, and surveillance

6:37 QUICK BITS INTRO

6:44 Sam Altman: AI needs your food

7:31 Has AMD stopped Ryzen Z1 updates?

8:16 Nova Lake-S maybe delayed to 2027

8:49 3D-print an electric motor!

9:30 Kohler Anthem EvoCycle shower

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

XBOX EX-BOSS

Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer steps down after 38 years with company - Sarah Bond left too https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/02/microsoft-gaming-chief-phil-spencer-steps-down-after-38-years-with-company/ 

• Alternate headline: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/report-phil-spencer-and-samantha-bond-leaving-xbox 
• https://www.theverge.com/news/882241/microsoft-phil-spencer-xbox-leaving-retirement
• Original Source: Windows post about the new hire (asha sharma) with notes from Satya and PhIl: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/02/20/asha-sharma-named-evp-and-ceo-microsoft-gaming/ 
• Phil spencer tweet: https://x.com/XboxP3/status/2024951211129254314

What is sharma’s plan?

• https://www.theverge.com/tech/883015/microsoft-xbox-new-ceo-shakeup-notepad
• Not Producing AI Slop Quote

What’s the response:

• Fans are split: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6q8l81d9qo 
• Sharma doesn’t have gaming or industry experience
• There’s a lot of speculation about where we go from here”: https://www.polygon.com/xbox-game-pass-future-phil-spencer/ 

ARCHIVIAL SHENANIGANS

Wikipedia blacklists archive.today (the paywall-bypassing tool that we use, which is not archive.org) for honestly legitimate reasons

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/ 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/wikipedia-blacklists-archiveis-after-alleged-ddos-attack-on-blogger 

Site page to show what the website looks like https://archive.ph/ 

Wikipedia's request for comment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5

Worth pointing out that this is NOT the internet archive, this is a totally separate website and people

https://archive.org/ 

It also looks like the archive.today site had been found to be altering certain sites, like a blog post that changed out Nora’s name with Jani Patokallio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5#Evidence_of_altering_snapshots 

Archive.today was also being used to DDOS that guys blog after he posted research into figuring out who was behind creating the archive

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-after-alleged-ddos-attack/#:~:text=The%20distributed%20denial,his%20hosting%20bill 

The site in question:

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/ 

Even going as far as blackmailing the author of the blog after the blog author didn’t want to cooperate after the DDOSing

https://pastes.io/correspond (Editor please show the top where this starts, and then shift down to the next highlighted section, it is the last email of the thread)

https://pastes.io/correspond#:~:text=Date%3A%20Mon%2C%2026%20Jan%202026%2010,a%20gyrovague.gay%20dating%20app%2C%20etc 

According to the Archive.today blog, he feels he was successful and will scale down the DDOS attacks

https://lj.rossia.org/users/archive_today/#:~:text=It%20turned%20out%20pretty%20well. 

PERSONA JUST CAN’T HACK IT

Security researchers claim Persona, the provider behind Discord's UK age verification 'experiment', performs '269 individual verification checks' on user data, including those for terrorism and espionage

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/security/security-researchers-claim-persona-the-provider-behind-discords-uk-age-verification-experiment-performs-269-individual-verification-checks-on-user-data-including-those-for-terrorism-and-espionage/ 

• The Rage broke down the hack: https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/ 
• OS security researcher blog: https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona 
• Alternate: https://redact.dev/blog/discord-persona-age-verification-experiment 
• Quote on the Difference between Persona and Palintir
• Ars good for quotes: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/discord-and-persona-end-partnership-after-shady-uk-age-test-sparks-outcry/ 
• Quote on the lack of relationship to ICE
• Verge on for quotes: https://www.theverge.com/tech/878369/discord-persona-age-verification 
• Tweet from persona CEO of him sharing his communications with the hackers: https://x.com/rickcsong/status/2024423711559102578 
• Quote about the communication between celeste and Song

QUICK BITS

ARTIFICIAL INEFFICIENCY

Headline - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/23/sam-altman-openai-energy-use-datacenters 

• He said that data centers do take a lot of power but humans also take a lot of power to live. Actually he didn’t say to live he said “to be trained” which I guess is the same?
• Hilarious quote

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/ 

He also said that water concerns are fake: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/openai-altman-defends-ai-resource-usage-water-concerns-fake-humans-use-energy-summit.html 

Videos:

• “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.” - https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/rQ0EFhAuCa 
• Sam sets a new date for AGI; "by the end of 2028, most of humanity’s intellectual capacity could reside inside data centers rather than outside them"- https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/eVcGFbxzvV 

SIZE MATTERS

AMD Seemingly Stops Driver Updates for Ryzen Z1 Extreme Processor (Based off a single customer support agent)

https://www.techpowerup.com/346624/amd-seemingly-stops-driver-updates-for-ryzen-z1-extreme-processor 

Lenovo seems to be the cause of the controversy:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/lenovo-and-asus-handheld-owners-warned-as-ryzen-z1-extreme-driver-support-reportedly-ends-lack-of-official-updates-threatens-longevity-for-legion-go-go-s-and-rog-ally-x-devices-on-windows-11 

Apparently the news came from a Korean tech support agent who said they have no plans of issuing new updates: https://gall.dcinside.com/mgallery/board/view?id=umpc&no=134848 (Translate to english pls)

AMD has not publicly said they are deprecating anything, although, just switch to Linux if your concerned

https://www.reddit.com/r/LegionGo/comments/1ra2e6q/lenovo_responds_that_there_will_be_no_more_legion/ 

• Express skepticism that this is real

DELAY THE NOVA BOMB

LEAKS: Intel "Nova Lake-S" Coming in 2027, CES Launch Alongside AMD "Olympic Ridge" Likely

https://www.techpowerup.com/346613/intel-nova-lake-s-coming-in-2027-ces-launch-alongside-amd-olympic-ridge-likely

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/110235/intels-next-gen-nova-lake-s-desktop-cpus-reportedly-delayed-until-ces-2027-it-seems/index.html 

This comes from Twitter: https://x.com/9550pro/status/2025014474986717447

And Weibo(Editor please translate):  https://m.weibo.cn/status/5268681401829517 

Zen 6 is delayed too, according to BenchLife rumors(Editor please translate)

https://benchlife.info/amd-zen-6-olympic-ridge-might-offer-12-cores-chiplet-as-24-cores-cpu-options/ )

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-zen-6-desktop-ryzen-olympic-ridge-reportedly-set-to-launch-in-2027 

• -S Means mainstream desktop platform 
• TLDR we will see both sides desktop CPUs at next years CES

ELECTRIFYING PRINTABILITY

MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process — team only needed to magnetize the linear motor after printing, motors cost just 50 cents each

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/mit-developed-3d-printer-can-output-a-fully-functional-electric-motor-in-a-single-process-team-only-needed-to-magnetize-the-linear-motor-after-printing-motors-cost-just-50-cents-each

The Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17452759.2026.2613185

MIT News article about it: https://news.mit.edu/2026/3d-printing-platform-rapidly-produces-complex-electric-machines-0218 

Image of the machine: https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/nvpp_a_2613185_f0003_oc-780x470.jpg.avif

Image of the motor they made: https://www.tandfonline.com/cms/asset/1522a8a4-d7a9-4456-9760-0cf467afeac2/nvpp_a_2613185_f0017_oc.jpg 

BEAR GRYLLS APPROVED

Kohler’s new shower reuses dirty water to get you clean (After putting cameras in our toilets, now we get a perhaps neat thing)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/883006/kohler-anthem-evocycle-smart-shower-system-water-recirculate-filter-recycle

https://homelivinghandbook.com/kohler-anthem-evocycle-revolutionizes-water-conservation 

https://www.homecrux.com/kohler-anthem-evocycle-shower-system/367191/

Image of a shower with it installed, its gold!

https://homelivinghandbook.com/assets/uploads/_image850/BI_KOHLER_Anthem-EvoCycle_modern-water-wise-bathroom.webp 

https://homelivinghandbook.com/assets/uploads/_image400/BI_KOHLER_Anthem-EvoCycle_showerhead-water-efficiency.webp 

It will work with the rest of the Anthem smart shower ecosystem, allowing you to listen to your tech news in the shower with the POE smart shower accessories

https://www.kohler.com/en/products/showers/shop-shower-trims-valves/anthem-and-sound-tile-wellness-shower-BL-bndl-k0063?skuId=BNDL-K0063