Steam Deck Price Increase, NVIDIA Retires Control Panel, YouTube AI Labels + more!

Duration: 06:49

Timestamps:

0:00 Steam Deck Price Increase

1:24 NVIDIA Retires Control Panel

2:38 YouTube AI Labels

3:38 QUICK BITS INTRO

3:52 Foldable iPhone Production Problems

4:19 BusPatrol AI Cameras

4:55 DuckDuckGo Installs Surge

5:27 GTA 6 Fake Beta Phishing Pages

5:58 Robinhood’s Agentic Trading and Credit Card

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

A HARD DECK TO SWALLOW / Alts: THE GREAT HANDHELD BETRAYAL

Valve has dramatically jacked up the price of the Steam Deck OLED by a soul-crushing 40%. The 512GB model now commands a painful $789, while the 1TB variant has vaulted to $949. That is a brutal $240 and $300 hike, respectively, for a handheld that is physically identical to the one you couldn't buy yesterday.

https://www.theverge.com/games/938340/valve-steam-deck-price-increase

The only microscopic sliver of good news, if you can call it that, is that the Deck’s are back in stock with three-to-five day shipping! Yay? You can buy one, but your bank account will hate you for it..

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

Valve quietly blamed the ongoing global memory and storage shortage for the price hike, the very same crisis that already punted the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame out of their early 2026 launch windows to a vague "sometime this year, we promise."

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steam_hardware/announcements/detail/672869045073085539

This follows the ongoing memory shortage resulting in the delay of a price announcement for theBack in February, Valve blamed the ongoing memory and storage shortage that’s already pushed the Steam Machine and Steam Frame out of their early 2026 launch windows to “sometime this year, we promise.”

https://lmg.gg/bloggaben

DEARLY DEPARTED DASHBOARD

Nvidia retires the classic control panel in Game Ready and Studio GeForce drivers

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/the-nvidia-control-panel-is-no-more-an-ex-control-panel-kicked-the-bucket-run-down-the-curtain-and-joined-the-choir-invisib-okay-its-being-retired/

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-is-finally-ditching-its-iconic-control-panel-after-20-years-new-driver-updates-only-ship-in-the-nvidia-app

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-control-panel-is-officially-dead-after-two-decades/

Show this image in reference to what it used to look like: https://store-images.s-microsoft.com/image/apps.46512.13599037783181022.b05b7adf-6b7a-44ae-9a70-9dc9370ea7e6.5dd2870d-bddc-49d7-b561-ae2a9462f72b

Everyone’s favorite floating logo: https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-10.10.38.png

Blog post: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/586393/geforce-grd-61047-feedback-thread-released-52626

The new control panel:

https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/NVIDIA-App-1-728x398.jpg

https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/NVIDIA-App-2-728x397.jpg

YOUR HONOR, IT’S AI

YouTube is starting to automatically slap an AI label on videos it detects as significantly photorealistic AI-generated content, even if the creator’s account is “definitely a human, why are you asking?”

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-ai-video-labels-automatic-detection-1236758865/

YouTube has technically required creators to self-disclose AI use for a while now, which has apparently worked about as well as you’d expect on a platform full of people whose job is to chase engagement.

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/disclosing-ai-generated-content/

The label is also moving to a harder-to-miss spot: above the description and directly beneath the video player on long form videos, and as an overlay on top of shorts.

https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/YouTube-New-AI-Labels.png

Creators can dispute incorrect flags through YouTube Studio, but the disclosure becomes permanent in two cases: content made with YouTube's own AI tools like Veo or Dream Screen, and any video carrying C2PA metadata that already admits it's fully synthetic.

https://lmg.gg/youtubeautomaticaidetection

QUICKBITS

APPLE’S UNFOLDING SITUATION

Apple's foldable iPhone is reportedly hitting production problems…again,

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/26/foldable-iphone-facing-production-issues/

with one Chinese leaker claiming on Weibo that a manufacturing issue is keeping working parts from getting out the door,

https://weibo.com/5821279480/5302789162664265

while last week another said the hinge keeps failing quality control under repeated opening and closing.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/18/foldable-iphone-production-stalls/

MAGIC SCHOOL BUST

‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access (to read the license plates of every vehicle that drives by) *Outside of bus https://www.404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-cameras-in-tens-of-thousands-of-school-buses-now-they-want-to-give-cops-access/

They say they have cameras in 40k busses

https://storage.ghost.io/c/0f/76/0f76b548-bc58-4f25-abc3-3f5ebca07da4/content/images/size/w1000/2026/05/buspatrol-website.png

leaked documents were viewed about how they are aware of the controversy around ALPR cameras

https://lmg.gg/qENis

DUCK SEASON

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, is seeing US app installs surge 30% as users flee Google's AI overhaul.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/

CEO Gabriel Weinberg summed up the modern zeitgeist by crediting the uptick to "Google force-feeding AI with no way to opt out," along with diminishing search quality

https://lmg.gg/Weinbergquote

And pointed users to their AI-free search page.

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

GRAND THEFT YOUR DATA

GTA 6 Pre-Order hype causes malware concern as NordVPN’s Threat Intelligence team uncovers a vast uprising in malware, scam campaigns, and phishing sites, all geared towards Grand Theft Auto 6 in one way or another.

https://mashable.com/tech/gta-6-beta-release-pre-order-scams-malware-report

https://www.pcmag.com/news/hackers-exploit-gta-6-vi-hype-to-spread-malware-via-fake-beta-tests

https://insider-gaming.com/gta-6-pre-order-hype-malware-concern/

Statement: https://lmg.gg/t1c8N

Screenshots: https://i.pcmag.com/imagery/articles/05hno8HS8HhI7yIiP8Xh5ct-2.fit_lim.size_768x.png

https://i.pcmag.com/imagery/articles/05hno8HS8HhI7yIiP8Xh5ct-3.fit_lim.size_768x.png

WALL STREET BOTS

Robinhood launches agentic trading, announces credit card for AI agents with 3% cash back

https://fortune.com/2026/05/27/robinhood-ai-agents/?utm_source=reddit/

Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI to Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/robinhood-lets-customers-use-ai-to-trade-stocks-make-credit-card-purchases-f28467ed?st=hSM5Yq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Credit card site: https://robinhood.com/us/en/agentic-credit-card/

Press release: https://robinhood.com/us/en/newsroom/robinhood-is-now-open-to-agents/

Images: https://images.ctfassets.net/1hpl803w8xsv/7xAyZevsUscqX56mejgil3/ea0b567e45ec8d9f97bb6234453439b9/Agentic_Trading.png