Duration: 22:03

I spent an entire week in Taiwan, from the second I landed to the final day before WAN. So what happens during the week?

Duration: 15:59

Google is looking to dethrone the popular Whoop fitness tracker with the ultra-affordable FitBit Air. In our tests we found it to be extremely comfortable, but it's probably not for everyone.

Check out the FitBit Air: https://prsm2.com/yUe0WveY6

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CHAPTERS

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0:00 What's in the box

1:55 The new Google Health app

2:40 Why you want a screen free device

5:37 Sponsor

6:13 Diving back into the app

11:03 David working out

15:20 Final thoughts

16:20 Watch another video

Duration: 19:13

With a plan finally settled for the new kitchen and living spaces, Linus and the gang head to the tech house to clear the way for the Electricians and Plumbers to install some more up-to-date infrastructure and discover the unexpected in the crawl space.

Check out the new Tech House companion website at lmg.gg/house where you’ll find an interactive model of the house and links to the products and tools featured in each episode!

Duration: 06:38

Timestamps:

0:00 Windows Low Latency Profile

1:26 YouTube AI Music Training

2:36 Anthropic Releases Mythos

3:47 QUICK BITS INTRO

3:54 Instagram Algorithm Adjustments

4:17 Donut Lab Battery Investigation

4:51 Google Gemini Live Translate

5:17 Hospital Using Palantir System to Save Lives

5:51 Miniature Surgical Robot

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

SPRINTING TO START

Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday includes the "Low Latency Profile," a CPU-boosting feature that makes the Start menu, Search, and other shell elements open faster.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/10/windows-11s-performance-boost-released-today-enable-it-using-these-steps/  

https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CPU-speed-jumps-while-opening-Start-menu.gif  

The feature will have the greatest impact for budget, mid-range, and older PCs. Top-tier rigs will notice a subtle improvement - subtle like a hint-of-lime seltzer - where you only taste it because the lime factory is in the next building over. 

Unfortunately, installing the update doesn’t automatically turn Low Latency Profile on as Microsoft uses Controlled Feature Rollout to activate it gradually.

https://lmg.gg/ytfhs  

 This Patch Tuesday happens to also be - the largest ever, fixing roughly 200 flaws including three zero-days and blowing past the previous October record of 170. 

https://lmg.gg/QbYHA 

https://lmg.gg/sGtn8   

TERMS OF DISSERVICE 

YouTube Terms of Service Allow AI Music Training, Google Says in Copyright Lawsuit

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/google-youtube-terms-of-service-train-ai-models-lawsuit-1236771486/

https://www.theverge.com/tech/947770/google-lyria-music-ai-lawsuit-youtube

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/indie-artists-sue-google-claiming-it-used-youtubes-own-catalog-to-train-lyria-3-ai-music-tool/

The lawsuit: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/files/2026/03/google-lawsuit.pdf 

https://www.billboard.com/pro/google-youtube-terms-of-service-ai-music-training-lawsuit/ 

“Broad license to use content” quote

https://lmg.gg/wVA7v 

WASN'T THIS DANGEROUS? 

Anthropic is rolling out Claude Fable 5, claiming it's "safe for general use" - while the unrestricted Mythos 5 stays locked to members of its Project Glasswing program.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/anthropic-rolls-out-public-version-mythos-without-cybersecurity-capability-2026-06-09/   

According to Anthropic's head of product management, if a student asks Fable to find cyber vulnerabilities in some code, "the model would refuse, and Fable 5 will fall back to Opus 4.8."

https://lmg.gg/SpjLD  

Biology, chemistry, and distillation get downgraded too - which Anthropic says happens in under 5% of chats. Very reassuring that the headline safeguard is "lower your IQ and pretend you didn't hear the question."

https://lmg.gg/aqipT  

Still, it's reportedly state-of-the-art on nearly every benchmark - https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/oCsnxVuJg8oSVfU3kz7yfb-1200-80.png.webp  

Anthropic also boasts that Stripe reportedly used it to migrate a 50-million-line codebase in a day, a job that'd take two months by hand.

https://lmg.gg/zxQbG  

Fable costs twice as much as Anthropic's previous Opus 4.8 model so if that is too expensive for your company here is a hack: 

https://lmg.gg/VlhiU 

QUICKBITS

COMPUTAH, WE NEED TO TALK

You can just tell the Instagram algorithm what you want now

https://www.theverge.com/tech/947898/meta-instagram-your-algorithm-main-feed-tell 

According to a post from the head of instagram

https://www.threads.com/@mosseri/post/DZaS90Km3d3

“Talking to your algorithm” monologue in this post

https://www.threads.com/@mosseri/post/DZaS90Km3d3/media 

GLAZED AND CONFUSED 

Donut Lab’s ‘solid-state’ battery exposed as regular li-ion in damning investigation

https://electrek.co/2026/06/08/donut-lab-solid-state-battery-exposed-lithium-ion-fraud/ 

https://www.theautopian.com/the-worlds-first-production-solid-state-battery-is-probably-just-a-regular-lithium-battery-report/

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/startups-miracle-solid-state-battery-actually-uses-lithium-ion-chemistry-according-to-third-party-tests-donut-lab-raised-usd25m-and-is-valued-at-usd1-25b-on-what-now-appear-to-be-debunked-claims

https://youtu.be/j5oyVNjrUPI?t=1212 

THE UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR IS HERE

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/google-announces-gemini-3-5-live-translate-for-instant-voice-to-voice-translation/

https://9to5google.com/2026/06/09/gemini-3-5-live-translate-meet/ 

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-live-3-5-translate/

https://youtu.be/TNwKs39uSVk?t=99 

https://youtu.be/TNwKs39uSVk?t=159 

SAURON SAVES LIVES

A Florida hospital is using Palantir to catch sepsis earlier, it's saved 886 lives so far (rare palantir W)

https://www.techspot.com/news/112709-palantir-system-helps-florida-hospital-save-886-lives.html 

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-tool-saves-lives-detecting-sepsis-florida-hospital-1801840

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/palantir-software-halves-sepsis-deaths-hospital-tampa-bmbk83pdq

HONEY, I SHRUNK THE MEDICAL BOT

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore built a seed-sized surgical robot

https://newatlas.com/robotics/5-in-1-surgical-robot/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owKVqJFU94A  

Duration: 22:59

These are the extras from Who is Staying on Linux, Who is Going Back to Windows? - Linux Challenge Pt 4. Enjoy!

Duration: 27:45

The Linux Challenge PT 4 is OVER! After more than 1 month using some flavor of Linux Linus, Luke and Elijah all sit down to discuss what they liked and didn't like about using it. While there are some cons (obviously) there was WAY more surprises and positives that all 3 experienced this time around. So much so that ALL of them are struggling with deciding if they are switching back to Windows or staying on Linux...

Linux Challenge PT 1: https://www.floatplane.com/post/GTm8MRHpAQ

Linux Challenge PT 2: https://www.floatplane.com/post/glBhLeOtl2

Linux Challenge PT 3: https://www.floatplane.com/post/WBEfI70FK0

Luke's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/luke_lafr

Elijah's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bocabola

Duration: 12:02

WWDC '26 was PACKED with announcements ranging from Airpods EQ to Parental controls to Design changes. But the biggest announcement is of course surrounding AI and Apple's integration with Siri. Whether it's reminding you to buy concert tickets, or helping you plan a holiday, if Apple can deliver on the promises they are making it seems like the rest of the industry could be playing catch up so some time.

Duration: 07:16

Timestamps:

0:00 Apple Announcements at WWDC 2026

2:37 Meta’s AI App Controversy

3:55 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:03 Google Paying SpaceX for Compute Capacity

4:37 New York State Moratorium on Data Centers

5:14 Canada’s Controversial Bill C-22

5:49 Windows 95 on a Graphing Calculator

6:22 TeamGroup’s Self-Destructing SSD

NEWS SOURCES:

MAIN

FOOL ME ONCE SHAME ON YOU…

Apple’s WWDC kicked off today and the headline is APPLE AI IS GONNA BE BETTER- https://www.theverge.com/tech/944245/apple-wwdc-2026-ai-siri-gemini

Because, we’re using Gemini now! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8swzNR1-o

• 29:36 - 29:42

Craig Fedirigi went out of his way to call out companies that are “Pursuing AI for the sake of AI” saying apple’s approach to their new “SiriAI” is 

• https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/62a8d53bed963e58c849c825/Apple-Event/0x0.jpg?width=960&dpr=2 

focused on making useful tools that are enhanced with “Personal Context Understanding” which is their attempt to use all the information on the device to enable useful tools

• 30:58 - 31:04

has significant privacy focus, which is enabled by apple focusing on using local processing as much as possible and encrypting anything that goes to cloud so it’s not accessible to apple

• 32:39 - 32:59

They demoed the power of SiriAI by having a forgetful guy named mike listen to Buy Tickets to a suki waterhouse concert, remember where his friend lives, and remember what happened on his vacation with his family

• 36:45 - 36:53

And by helping his guy plan a menu for a fifa watch party 

• 40:40 - 40:45

Props to the presenters for standing perfectly still for 5 full seconds every time they asked a question

They’re also launching a dedicated siri app where these conversations with siri will live so you can return –to them 

• 46:12 - 46:16

They’re also enhancing the Image Playground feature to allow you to generate photorealistic slop/alter actual photos using generative models that are running on private cloud compute. So ONLY YOU get to see this slop.

• 1:00:50 - 1:01:04

A BRIDGE TOO FAR?

In addition to SiriAI apple introduced MacOS 27 Golden Gate with the all the charm and humor of a first year improv class - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8swzNR1-o

• 4:44 - 4:55

First, they’re fixing liquid glass by optimizing the animations so they don’t kill your battery and adding a setting slider to determine how liquid and how glass you want it to be -

• 7:46 - 7:54

Responsiveness in general is improving with apps launching up to 30% faster, Airdrop transfers up to 80% Faster, File Browsing and transfers is up to 5x Faster

• 10:31 - 10:35
• 11:05 - 11:15

Improved Search through an improved indexing methodology

• 14:17 - 14:25

And airpods are allowing you to control your EQ to personalize your listening experience and also ruin songs

• 15:41 - 15:46

Also improving child safety by introducing features to let parents regulate their children’s device use through Children's account

• 19:54 - 19:58

Allows parents to block inappropriate content, and be aware of who their kids are communicating with

• 22:14 - 22:19
• 22:50 - 22:56
• 23:07 - 23:19

GOOD “FOR YOU” /S

Meta Pulls Its AI "For You" Feed After It Filled Up With AI-Generated Clickbait -https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/944235/meta-app-ai-clickbait-articles

https://letsdatascience.com/news/meta-launches-ai-generated-clickbait-for-you-feed-16f185e1 

It’s filling with clickbait and fake stories:

https://lmg.gg/B4o7j 

Targeted/stereotypical content:

https://lmg.gg/Y6FpB 

Note about pulling:

https://lmg.gg/OpYce 

Quote about Verge:

https://lmg.gg/rduCB 

QUICKBITS

CLOUD NINE… HUNDRED TWENTY MILLION

Google Agrees to Pay SpaceX $920 Million a Month for AI Compute - https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html 

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-spacex-deal-920-million-month-compute-capacity-gemini-enterprise-2026-6 

Regulatory Filing:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026041150/spacexagreementfwp.htm 

Google owns a bit of SpaceX

https://lmg.gg/0daky 

WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE

New York Passes the First State Moratorium on Large Data Centers - 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/06/new-york-datacenter-temporary-ban https://www.techradar.com/computing/were-really-drawing-a-line-in-the-sand-new-york-could-be-the-first-state-to-put-a-temporary-ban-on-large-data-centers

https://www.theverge.com/policy/944041/new-york-data-center-moratorium 

Senate Bill:

https://lmg.gg/0y1oI 

DUCKDUCKGO-ING SOMEWHERE?

Signal, DuckDuckGo and NordVPN Threaten to Leave Canada Over Its Surveillance Bill https://globalnews.ca/news/11886905/lawful-access-bill-c-22-companies-services-canada/

The Bill:

https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading 

“Lawful Access” 

https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading#:~:text=BILL%20C%2D22-,An%20Act%20respecting%20lawful%20access,-FIRST%20READING%2C 

Google and Meta have been against it too

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/05/metas-position-on-canadas-bill-c-22/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-google-lawful-access-bill-c-22-cybersecurity-risks/ 

https://cybernews.com/privacy/signal-duckduckgo-nordvpn-bill-c22-security-risks/ 

https://www.techspot.com/news/112672-signal-duckduckgo-nordvpn-threaten-exit-canada-if-metadata.html 

Signal quote:

https://lmg.gg/isB6a 

5318008

For those of you who were wondering…is it possible to run Windows 95 on a graphing calculator the answer is YES! - https://www.hackster.io/news/yes-you-can-run-windows-95-on-a-calculator-bf39c5ea2231 

Reddit user Far-Temperature3580 got the OG OS to book on a Texas instruments TI-Nspire by using the Tiny386 x86 emulator - https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-got-windows-95-running-on-a-graphing-calculator-and-yes-it-takes-7-minutes-to-boot/

Unfortunately it took 7 minutes to boot, so clippy won’t be helping you with cover letters written on a calculator any time soon. - https://lmg.gg/0UYyp 

YOUR SSD, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT

TeamGroup Shows an External SSD That Self-Destructs From a Single Text Message - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/teamgroup-shows-off-external-ssd-with-wireless-self-destruct-function-t-create-expert-p35sg-external-ssd-can-be-wiped-with-a-single-text-message

https://www.techspot.com/news/112673-teamgroup-built-external-ssd-destroys-itself-when-you.html

https://zamin.uz/en/technology/205365-teamgroup-unveils-t-create-expert-p35sg-ssd-with-remote-data-wiping.html 

Team Group Computex Summary: 

https://lmg.gg/5uqiM 

Duration: 12:30

Herman Miller is taking another swing at the gaming space with its new COYL standing desk. There are a few fun additions to this model that make it optimal for anyone who spends a lot of time at their desk, like a mini pegboard and a great trough for storing cables.

Buy a Coyl desk here - https://store.hermanmiller.com/gaming-desks/coyl-gaming-desk/2609373.html?lang=en_US

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Duration: 09:27

Thanks to Equinix for sponsoring this video and giving us a tour of their facilities! Check them out below and learn more!

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We traveled to Data Center Alley in Ashburn, VA, and went inside some of the facilities that make up the backbone of the modern internet. Our Sponsor, Equinix, threw open the highly-secure doors (and then closed them right behind us) to show us where the clouds connect!

Duration: 14:34

Razer is stretching out of the gamer zone with a new ergo keyboard. There's a lot more functionality packed into this than you might think making it a solid upgrade for any desk.

Buy the Razer Pro Type Ergo keyboard here - https://www.razer.com/ca-en/gaming-keyboards/razer-pro-type-ergo/RZ03-05440200-R3U1

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Duration: 11:14

Check out ASUS's next gen ASUS AI POD with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72: https://www.asus.com/event/asus-ai-pod-nvidia-vera-rubin-nvl72/

Learn more about NVIDIA DSX: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/products/dsx/

A test bench usually means power, cooling, and tools at your fingertips. But what do you do when the hardware you need to validate pulls over 100,000 watts?

ASUS sponsored us to tour their data center R&D lab, where they develop and torture test their enterprise AI server hardware. We got our first look under the hood of a liquid cooled GB300, stepped inside a 40C server oven, and found out why their chiller is less chill than it should be.

Duration: 2:42:23

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Timestamps (courtesy of NoKi1119):

0:00 TaiWAN Show in the morning

2:06 "Live on Floatplane VOD," bullying Twitch chat

3:58 Mirroring the camera, skin color correction 

8:50 And we're live!

10:09 Intro

10:46 Topic #1: Google's fake call detection feature

13:01 Luke recalls AI scam call, bank calls from another number

20:21 ESP32 AirPods notification spammer

23:13 Topic #2: Paint.NET finally gets the Paint.NET after decades

24:35 Other sites that should have the domain?

29:45 WHAT IF LTT scribedriver pen hits the earth at 99.9% light speed?

36:21 Topic #3: Nvidia's RTX Spark

38:47 DOA? A year late, Windows on ARM, chips, falling stocks

47:50 The old gang, not many tech announcements, AI patch

54:12 9/10 dollars going into AI, stocks, Yvonne & CA$ trading

1:05:18 Topic #4: AMD extends AM5's lifetime to 2029

1:07:01 5800X3D & AM4 boards rerun, LTT's upcoming video

1:16:38 Topic #5: Nvidia's Vera Rubin, AI CPU

1:20:06 AI token cost crisis, cloud VS local AI

1:30:37 Sponsor - Vessi

1:32:03 Sponsor - Squarespace

1:33:38 Sponsor - MSI

1:34:59 Sponsor - Zapier

1:36:10 Floatplane announcements

1:41:37 Coolest things at COMPUTEX? ft. Mineral oil cooling

1:47:43 BOINC Pentathlon 2026, LTT wins silver

1:49:53 Topic #6: Anthropic files for IPO, $965B evaluation

1:56:39 Topic #7: Physicists able to generate truly random numbers

2:00:17 Topic #8: Proton can connect to Gmail now

2:04:30 Topic #9: Intel's Wildcat Lake allows for polished laptops

2:09:15 Topic #10: Noctua's thermosiphon prototype

2:13:53 Topic #11: Blue Origin vowed to launch this year

2:18:33 LTTStore's new super soft essentials collection

2:22:23 Topic #12: UK regulator to let publishers opt out of AI overview

2:24:50 Filming at the tech mall, Linus worked there

2:29:07 Would you manage doing your job with a phone for a week?

2:33:36 Advice for computer service's pricing & values?

2:40:49 Mirrored camera

2:41:29 Outro ft. Dan's technical difficulties background

Duration: 08:18

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:17 Steam Machine and Steam Frame Launch Window

1:32 Anthropic Urges AI Slowdown

3:01 Meta Facial Recognition

4:20 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:32 Nvidia RTX 50 Super Cards Back on Track

5:07 Leaked Microsoft Documents

5:56 YouTube Premium Price Increase

6:46 Bot Web Traffic Surpasses Humans

7:17 Waymo Used as a Getaway Car

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

STEAMY SUMMER PLANS

Steam Machine and Steam Frame are launching this summer, and get their own verified tags

https://www.theverge.com/games/943657/valve-steam-machine-frame-summer-launch-verified

https://www.vice.com/en/article/valve-confirms-steam-machine-release-date-window-as-new-clues-hint-at-imminent-launch/ 

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3157894/valve-says-steam-machine-lands-this-summer-doesnt-say-the-price.html 

Comes from this blog post: 

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/716780409378048028

The actual line that says this summer: https://lmg.gg/sBfQu 

They announced delays back in February

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/02/05/valve-steam-machine-delay/ 

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/716780409378048028 

TIME OUT! TIME OUT!

Anthropic has just made a call to slow down the development of AI - https://www.engadget.com/2188066/anthropic-proposes-global-ai-development-slowdown/

Because AI will soon be able to improve itself posing a significant risk of humanity losing control leading to a skynet type scenario. https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/05/business/anthropic-calls-for-ai-brake-pedal 

The reason for the slow down were outlined in a Blog post that https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement 

Where they highlighted that the frontier models are showing signs of recursive self imprvement - https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-urges-global-pause-in-ai-development-flags-self-improvement-risk-99cefb73 

Anthropic says it plans to convene policy makers to discuss the risks And weigh the cost of advancement against the social implications https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-anthropic-claude-ai-implications-slowdown/ 

Critics, however are skeptical about the warning because Dario has a history of being a hype beast https://cybernews.com/ai-news/anthropic-claude-ai-slowdown-hype/ 

Like when he said Claude mythos was so dangerous he only gave it to a special council of nerds he called “glasswing” - https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing 

Then a couple of months later announced he gave it to like 150 more people https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-anthropic-claude-mythos-project-glasswing-expand/821714/ 

GOT YOUR NOSE...AND EYES AND MOUTH AND FACE

Meta is under fire after wired reporters found facial recognition software in the companion app for the glasses - 

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/ 

The code was confirmed to be dormant and is for an unreleased feature called nametag, https://www.engadget.com/2187824/wired-found-code-for-an-unreleased-facial-recognition-feature-in-meta-s-ai-app/

This was a feature that we mentioned back in february when a leaked memo said they planned to use the distracting nature of the “dynamic political situation” as cover for the release of the feature - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html

Leading over 70 organizations to sign a joint statement saying that the feature will put people at risk from stalkers and predators 

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ray-ban-oakley-smart-glasses-no-face-recognition-civil-society/ 

And a number of senators to ask meta to defend their position - https://www.biometricupdate.com/202603/senators-press-meta-on-facial-recognition-plans-for-smart-glasses 

So I guess they “thoughtfully” and “quietly” moved forward with a feature that will allow meta ray bans users to non consensually collect biometric data on people while they non consensually film them

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/meta-smart-glasses-code-face-recognition-biometric-tracking-privacy/ 

QUICKBITS

SUPERPOSITION

NVIDIA RTX 50 SUPER Graphics Cards Reportedly Back on Track according to leaks

https://www.guru3d.com/story/nvidia-rtx-50-super-graphics-cards-reportedly-back-on-track/ 

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-50-super-is-back-on-track-geforce-rtx-5060-12gb-reportedly-planned

https://hothardware.com/news/nvidias-rtx-5060-may-finally-get-vram-upgrade-gamers-wanted

Leaks come from this twitter user MEGAsizeGPU

https://x.com/Zed__Wang/status/2062772562019692861 

Reply with info about the 5070 and 5080 

https://x.com/326powah/status/2062777406356672883 

CLIPPY GOT CLAWS

Leaked Microsoft docs lay out a plan to "make people addicted" to its new Scout AI, and Nadella denies it - https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/

https://nypost.com/2026/06/04/tech/microsoft-wants-to-you-addicted-to-ai-per-creepy-leaked-doc/

When they asked Microsoft for comment, they got sent a link to this launch page

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/02/introducing-microsoft-scout-your-always-on-personal-agent/?ref=404media.co 

Nadella once compared it to “launching a virus”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/morgan-stanley-tmt-conference 

Quote:

https://lmg.gg/7EXKF 

TIME TO PAY THE PRICE

Youtube’s announced price increases come into effect this month (after june 7th) and viewers are feeling the squeeze - https://www.androidheadlines.com/2026/06/youtube-premium-price-hike-existing-subscribers-june-2026.html 

Leading many to consider whether the service is worth it with many complaining that the longer ads are a tactic to force people to upgrade- https://9to5google.com/2026/06/05/youtube-premium-price-hikes-cancel-poll/

With many considering dropping down to youtube lite - https://lmg.gg/BRumB 

One silver lining is that these increases do come with SOME improved features - https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-hikes-premium-subscription-cost-again-while-adding-advanced-video-features-3371933/

HUMANS LOST THE CAPTCHA

Bots now generate more web traffic than humans, Cloudflare says - https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/its-official-agentic-bots-surf-the-web-more-than-real-people-do/

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/bot-traffic-overtakes-humans-online 

https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2062212701414187452 

The statistic:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human 

GRAND THEFT AUTO-PILOT

A burglar used a Waymo robotaxi as a getaway car in San Francisco and got away with it - https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/04/a-burglar-used-a-waymo-to-steal-yoga-clothes-in-sf-and-got-away-with-it/

https://www.engadget.com/2187705/police-have-yet-to-catch-a-thief-who-used-a-waymo-to-steal-yoga-clothes/

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/waymo-burglary-camera-video-22277358.php

Quote about not being caught: https://lmg.gg/mmdnd 

Congrats to Waymo for creating Delamain: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/cyberpunk/images/2/2c/Delamain_no._21_Database_CP2077.png/revision/latest?cb=20210222093224 

Duration: 35:48

Another year another showfloor walk with Luke! How much AI slop can we find? What about the free food?

Check out last years showfloor walk: https://www.floatplane.com/post/rMJ7YcPRgy

Duration: 06:58

The Unicode Consortium isn’t elected, isn’t a company, and you’ve probably never heard of them. But they decide which characters exist on every keyboard on Earth, including yours. We dig into how they got that power, why eight corporations pay fifty thousand dollars a year for voting rights, and how new characters get created.

Special thanks to Toral Cowieson - Unicode CEO - https://aac.unicode.org/ 

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Duration: 07:12

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:10 Sony State of Play Announcements

1:21 Even More State of Play

2:42 Valve Antitrust Lawsuit Update

4:08 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:17 Factorio Concludes Development

4:46 Helldivers 2 Updates

5:20 RuneScape Spinoff is Heading to Consoles

5:54 Marathon Server Issues

6:30 John Blanche Passes Away

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

WOLVERINE’S FROM THE STATE OF PLAY

Sony State of Play

https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/state-of-play/ 

https://www.eurogamer.net/everything-announced-sonys-playstation-state-of-play-june-2026 

God of War Laufey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMX2w3cwuE&rco=1 

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/06/02/first-look-at-god-of-war-laufey/ 

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/god-of-war/new-god-of-war-game-starring-kratos-wife-faye-announced-with-20-minutes-of-footage/ 

Fight through the afterlife of the gods quote

https://lmg.gg/JuVL2 

How to pronounce Laufey

https://www.ign.com/videos/god-of-war-laufey-1-name-4-pronunciations

It’s Deborah Ann Woll from Disney’s Daredevil

https://collider.com/playstation-new-god-of-war-game-fae-spin-off-deborah-ann-woll/  

Gelatinous cube!

https://kotaku.com/new-god-of-war-talking-cube-phranque-laufey-faye-2000701723 

Cube is played by a beloved nepo baby:

https://lmg.gg/MouAr 

Marvel’s Wolverine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBo_NgYI5Q&rco=1 

“Unapologetically violent”

https://www.ign.com/articles/marvels-wolverine-the-big-interview-with-insomniac-on-sonys-unapologetically-violent-ps5-exclusive 

“Trailer Reveals Jean Grey Team-Up”

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/wolverine-gameplay-trailer-reveals-jean-grey-team-up-and-more-marvel-characters/ 

Apparently it’s got North Vancouver in it

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/wolverine-playstation-north-vancouver-sulphur-pile#google_vignette 

MOST IMPORTANTLY, we get a hairy Wolverine

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/will-insomniac-s-hairy-wolverine-unseat-leon-kennedy-as-2026-s-biggest-gaming-hottie/ar-AA24MZ5e 

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA24MpOc.img?w=768&h=416&m=6&x=434&y=6&s=248&d=248 

The one above all

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/One_Above_All_(Multiverse) 

I’VE GOT A LOT ON MY PLATE OF PLAY

Lists and lists of games!

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/06/02/state-of-play-june-2026-all-announcements-trailers/ 

https://www.eurogamer.net/everything-announced-sonys-playstation-state-of-play-june-2026 

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/940913/playstation-state-of-play-june-2026-news-trailers 

Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wEjbSYNUM8 

It’s a remake:

https://gameinformer.com/the-game-awards-2025/2025/12/11/tomb-raider-legacy-of-atlantis-is-a-remake-of-the-first-game-in-the 

apparently GenAI was used in development 

https://kotaku.com/uh-oh-genai-was-used-in-the-development-of-the-beautiful-new-tomb-raider-remake-2000701988

Onimusha: Way of the Sword out September 25 on PS5, demo released June 2nd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNq35HHUtNc&rco=1 

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/06/02/onimusha-way-of-the-sword-out-september-25-on-ps5-demo-out-today/

The ending was not that great.’ Ubisoft reveals why it's remaking Rayman's most recent game instead of an older one

https://www.polygon.com/rayman-legends-retold-interview/ 

New Stuntman Game Coming With Real Movies Including Fast And Furious And Back To The Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7NZpeAmdxk 

https://kotaku.com/new-stuntman-game-coming-with-real-movies-including-fast-and-furious-and-back-to-the-future-2000701686

For the Riley Murdocks of the world, we got a new trailer and release date for Control Resonant!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAzxTMaA6j4&rco=1 

https://www.engadget.com/2186215/control-resonant-will-bend-your-reality-on-september-24-2026/ 

Control Resonant Early Access Is Exclusive To PS5

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/06/control-resonant-early-access-is-exclusive-to-ps5-but-at-least-we-get-play-anywhere-on-xbox 

Big games cluster release dates in September to avoid clashing with GTA 6 release in November 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/ZUjrREOIt6 

https://www.polygon.com/september-2026-new-video-games/ 

PARITY POOPER

Valve is spending its fifth year in court fighting US and UK antitrust suits over accusations that it uses Steam's massive monopoly to bully the PC gaming market and protect its 30% platform cut. 

https://www.techspot.com/news/112616-gabe-newell-steam-doesnt-pressure-developers-pricing-emails.html 

The suits focus on Valve's "Platform Most Favored Nation" clause, which stops devs and publishers from selling their games cheaper or offering better features on competing stores. 

https://lmg.gg/UX5wq 

Uncovered emails show Valve employees threatening to pull Rainbow Six Siege after Ubisoft launched a cheaper Uplay starter pack, plus one employee's email to Warner Bros over Shadow of War pre-order discounts. 

https://lmg.gg/HsQTn 

Valve and Newell deny the rule exists, despite another email where one employee jokes about getting the policy tattooed on his back “like it’s the Declaration of Independence."

https://lmg.gg/BRgbr  

Gabe Newell told lawyers customers have “enormous choice” between Steam, Epic, Xbox, and buying direct.

 https://lmg.gg/x54CW 

A take Timothy Sweeney of course saw as a perfect opportunity to dunk on Gabe, because what else is new, get a room you two.

https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/2061828182945259566 

QUICK BITS

BITTERSWEET SPAGHETTI

Factorio, the chemically addictive factory sim, is getting its last major gameplay update after a decade. https://www.gamesradar.com/games/simulation/10-years-after-launch-steam-icon-factorio-gets-its-last-major-update-as-devs-reveal-plan-to-conclude-the-active-gameplay-development/  

 Wube Software says patch 2.1 brings some quality-of-life tweaks but the team is planning to "conclude active gameplay development," shifting to long-term support and a few unnamed new projects. 

https://lmg.gg/6Cn1e 

The factory will, at last, stop growing, your ruined sleep schedule may take a bit longer to recover.

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1tr14zd/friday_facts_440_21_plan/  

GALACTIC WAR GETS REAL

Arrowhead is overhauling Helldivers 2's progression, and the game director's pitch is refreshingly honest, 

https://www.ign.com/articles/helldivers-2-dev-confirms-roguelite-systems-called-planet-warfronts-as-part-of-big-changes-coming-to-the-game  

admitting that for players it’s never really been clear whether the community's actions changed the Galactic War or whether it was "all just smoke and mirrors." 

https://lmg.gg/prtGC  

In the steam blog director Mikael Eriksson outlined this month’s addition of the Galactic War Campaigns, the "next evolution" of Major Orders that run one to three weeks and will guarantee at least one reward. 

https://lmg.gg/nG2d4 

Plus an anticipated roguelite mode called Planet Warfronts to come shortly after.  

https://lmg.gg/ct1tl 

CONSOLES REALLY RUNED A GOOD THING

RuneScape: Dragonwilds Launches on Consoles Later in 2026 – the first time the RuneScape IP has made the jump from PC to consoles in its 25-year history

https://www.polygon.com/runescape-dragonwilds-console-game-ps5/ 

https://www.ign.com/articles/runescape-dragonwilds-launches-on-consoles-later-in-2026-sony-picks-up-spinoff-for-ps-plus 

https://gameinformer.com/state-of-play/2026/06/02/runescape-dragonwilds-the-open-world-survival-game-will-launch-on-ps5-as-a 

Falador Massacre

https://runescape.fandom.com/wiki/Falador_Massacre 

RUNNING ON EMPTY

Marathon's big comeback hit a familiar Bungie speed bump as server issues kneecapped the extraction shooter's second-season launch and free play week.

https://kotaku.com/server-issues-plague-marathons-big-comeback-moment-2000701778  

Probably the worst timing as players just came off of seeing the marathon ad in Sony’s state of play, and turned what was meant to be a strong first impression for newcomers into error screens. 

https://x.com/MarathonDevTeam/status/2061974808976609524  

Bungie has since apologized and started handing out free loot to make amends. 

https://x.com/MarathonDevTeam/status/2061913169375920220  

ONLY IN DEATH DOES DUTY END

John Blanche, the Legendary Illustrator Who Defined the Look of Warhammer 40,000, Has Died

https://www.wargamer.com/warhammer-40k/john-blanche-obituary 

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/legendary-warhammer-artist-john-blanche-has-died/ 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/956mm03t/john-blanche/ 

Duration: 16:48

What does an average day of Linus look like in Taiwan? I followed him so you get a sense of his day to day!

Linked video: https://www.floatplane.com/post/GRY0LTitul

Duration: 09:16

We're here at Computex 2026 checking out some new Noctua goodies, one of which seems to be a very interesting alternative to thermal paste. Alongside that they're also showing off an AIO which looks pretty nifty

Labs article: https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/05/26/carbice-ice-pads

Link to the video called out in the outro: https://www.floatplane.com/post/n3N9i2Y9qh

Duration: 07:40

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:12 Microsoft Build 2026 Announcements

2:41 UK Ruling On Google AI Search

3:50 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:00 Google Fake Call Detection

4:37 Major Takedown of Scam Accounts

5:12 Meta Lets Employees Pause Surveillance

5:53 Florida Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman

6:39 Researchers Demonstrate AI Worm

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

MICROSOFT IS DRINKING THE KOOL AI-D

Microsoft Build is capping off in San Francisco today and has been an opportunity for microsoft to take a break from their focus on improving windows through listening to user feedback in favor of a series of AI announcements that have the frantic desperation of Balmers “DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS” speech with none of his sweaty charm

https://ca.pcmag.com/windows/16025/the-future-microsoft-showed-at-build-2026-barely-looks-like-windows 

They will be rolling out a "Copilot super app” comprised of OpenClaw-esque always on agents called “autopilots” that will manage your life - https://letsdatascience.com/news/microsoft-teases-copilot-super-app-but-no-demo-1659bca7 

They announced the first of these, which is an AI assistant that’s thankfully NOT also fucking named Copilot: “Scout”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/02/introducing-microsoft-scout-your-always-on-personal-agent/ 

Which is running open claw under the hood - https://www.computerworld.com/article/4180103/microsoft-unveils-scout-an-autonomous-ai-agent-built-on-openclaw.html 

The highlight of the presentation was a demo in which Microsoft proudly showed off one of these agents trying and failing to delete a bunch of user files thanks to stricter guardrails - https://lmg.gg/agf1E 

Not to be outdone by google and OpenAI’s “agentic OS” push they also announced: Also this stupid fucking Agentic OS called Project Solara, an Android-based OS for devices that run AI agents instead of apps - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/microsofts-project-solara-is-an-android-os-designed-for-agents-instead-of-apps/

They also announced that they would be rolling out their own frontier models, indicating that they’re moving away from their association with OpenAI - ​​https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/942242/microsoft-build-ai-agents-openai-competition 

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1 as well as a handful of other agents for image den, transcription, voice generation, and coding - https://www.theverge.com/tech/941664/microsoft-ai-model-reasoning-mai-thinking-1-build-2026

And finally they announced a surface version of the RTX spark desktop and laptop for windows AI developers - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/microsoft-plans-linux-tools-and-an-rtx-spark-desktop-for-windows-developers/ 

Prompting Huang to drop into the chat and say how excited he is for ai because now he can text his computer - https://www.techradar.com/pro/ai-is-now-useful-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-thinks-a-new-era-for-ai-is-here-and-its-partnership-with-microsoft-could-be-key-for-achieving-it 

NOT MY CUPPA’ TEA

In a win for the Open internet UK’s competition regulator has ordered Google to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews in a world first - https://www.theverge.com/tech/942302/google-search-ai-overviews-uk-cma-publisher-opt-out

Following their recent announcement at Google IO a couple of weeks ago that they were pushing AI into search - https://time.com/article/2026/05/20/google-search-ai-internet/ 

And the resulting backlash https://www.businessinsider.com/google-new-ai-search-will-ruin-internet-web-2026-5 

This will both give publishers the ability to block google’s AI overview from pulling content from their websites through a toggle in Google Search console - https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/06/03/citation-please-uk-regulator-slaps-google-with-new-publishing-rules-for-search/5250544 

With a guarantee that this won’t affect their search listings - https://www.gadgetreview.com/publishers-can-now-opt-out-of-ai-search-thanks-to-new-u-k-regulation 

It also guarantees proper attribution if you do allow your content to be accessed, as well as the ability to stop google from using your content to fine tune it’s models - https://www.digit.fyi/uk-publishers-can-opt-out-of-google-ai-overviews/ 

The CMA plans to assess this legislation’s impact on publisher web traffic before considering whether google should be paying publishers directly - https://lmg.gg/xdEQB 

QUICKBITS

MOM? PROVE IT! 

Google is adding fake call detection to its Phone app to stop those annoying contact-spoofing scammers

https://www.theverge.com/tech/941517/google-phone-scammer-ai-impersonation

citing INTERPOL’s findings that impersonation fraud drives $400B in global losses.

https://lmg.gg/Fe4GS 

 Since AI fraud is 4.5x more profitable than boring old normal fraud,

https://lmg.gg/aifraudworks 

However, the feature only works if both you and the person calling you are using the app because it uses silent, RCS-encrypted signals to verify that the caller isn't a scammer. If they are, your phone won't get that hidden signal, and it’ll trigger a warning telling you to hang up.

https://blog.google/security/android-fake-call-detection/ 

The feature is rolling out globally on Android 12+ starting with PIxel phones.

https://lmg.gg/7HPsq 

EVEN A BROKEN CLOCK

Meta teamed up with the DOJ, Microsoft, Coinbase, and Starlink to crush 1.4 million Southeast Asian scam accounts. 

https://www.engadget.com/2186397/meta-took-down-over-a-million-scam-accounts-in-joint-operation-with-microsoft-spacex-and-doj/

Thai police arrested 63 people, Coinbase froze $3 million in crypto, Microsoft nuked 20,000 accounts, and Starlink even blacklisted thousands of satellite dishes.

https://lmg.gg/tQ9Bd 

WOW, SO KIND OF YOU META

Meta is compromising on its AI keystroke spyware after a 1,500 signature petition and employees branded the company as an “employee data extraction factory.” 

https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-scales-back-ai-mouse-clicks-tool-citing-employee-concerns-2026-06-02/  

The Zuckinator compromised and metas staff can now pause the spyware for, wait for it - 30 minutes at a time! Perfect for a quick, unmonitored existential dread session.

https://www.engadget.com/2186261/meta-will-reportedly-let-employees-take-30-minute-breaks-from-its-tracking-program/

They obviously aren't removing it; Zuck says you’re all just too talented not to harvest. Have you considered that you’re being selfish by wanting privacy? Think of the shareholder value!

https://lmg.gg/93X4U 

SUE-PERINTELLIGENCE 

Florida just became the first state to sue OpenAI, and Sam Altman personally, over ChatGPT’s safety records.

https://abcnews.com/Technology/wireStory/florida-sues-openai-ceo-sam-altman-claiming-company-133490995

An 83-page complaint by Florida’s Attorney General accuses them of marketing the AI as kid-safe while ignoring internal warnings that it pushed users toward self-harm and helped plan deadly attacks. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28179898-florida-v-openai-filed-stamped-complaint/ 

The state wants $10,000 per violation, which could total billions. If Florida wins, they plan to spend the money on the state's most pressing issue: more sunscreen for the elderly.

https://lmg.gg/B3BXx 

WORLD WIDE WORM

Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a proof-of-concept worm that uses free, open-weight AI models to adapt its attack as it spreads across laptops, printers, and even … the power grid? https://www.engadget.com/2186363/researchers-show-how-ai-powered-worms-could-wreak-havoc-on-the-internet/

Oh, this is fun, it also even steals processing power from infected devices to fuel its next move. That's…fine, what could go wrong with a self-replicating, self-improving, Ai worm that grows stronger the more devices it infects. 

https://lmg.gg/HvECE 

Here’s a fun suggestion: let's not do that. I know I let it slide with Oppenheimer that one time, but I regret it deeply.

https://lmg.gg/xDV94