Nintendo Switch 2 Price Increase, Musk Faces Escalated Criminal Probe, Meta’s AI Bone Structure Analysis + more!

Duration: 07:03

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:12 Nintendo Switch 2 Price Increase

1:21 Musk Faces Criminal Probe in France

2:34 Meta’s AI Bone Structure Analysis

4:03 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:13 TCL’s 0.01Hz Display

4:51 ShinyHunters Target Canvas

5:29 OpenAI’s New GPT Model

6:09 Robot Lawnmower Backdoor

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

Wahoo, Inflation!

Nintendo is pulling a Sony and making your wallet cry because starting September 1st, the Switch 2 is getting a global price hike.

https://gizmodo.com/nintendos-switch-2-is-getting-a-price-hike-and-its-all-ais-fault-2000756161

Prices in the US and Canada will jump by fifty bucks while Europeans can delight in the strength of their currency - only seeing a 30 euro increase.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html

Nintendo blames the change in market conditions;

https://lmg.gg/Pricehikesquote

which is a polite way of saying that the global AI data center boom has been hoovering up every memory chip on Earth and feeding them to chatbots that mostly help people write LinkedIn posts. The real downside to all this AI stuff.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-spot-bot-linkedin-comprehensive-guide-evalcommunity-1pdce/

Sony already hiked the PS5 back in March, so Nintendo’s just seemingly following the environment.

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/03/27/new-price-changes-for-ps5-ps5-pro-and-playstation-portal-remote-player/

Unsurprisingly, Nintendo expects sales to dip from 19.8 million to 16.5 million units next year.

https://lmg.gg/nintendosalesdip

TU ES TRES CRIMINAL

French prosecutors escalate Musk and X probe to criminal investigation over algorithm manipulation, Grok deepfakes, Holocaust denial content - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/05/07/french-prosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-elon-musk-and-x_6753227_13.html

Related to the generation of deepfakes and CSAM - https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/05/08/elon-musk-faces-criminal-probe-in-france-as-prosecutors-escalate-xs-ai-investigation

France had summoned Musk and Former CEO Linda Yaccarino to defend themselves april 20th -https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-summoned-to-france-to-face-criminal-charges-589acd6c

Which they total bailed on - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/20/french-prosecutors-summon-elon-musk-over-alleged-child-abuse-images-on-x

Part of a widening rift between EU and american tech - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/world/europe/elon-musk-ignores-french-summons.html

Joke at the end - https://lmg.gg/dvONK

FEE FI FO FUM - GIMME YOUR BONES FOR AGE RECOGNITION

NO BONES ABOUT IT

Meta is using AI bone structure analysis to detect and remove underaged users, scanning photos for height and physical cues - https://www.theverge.com/tech/923564/facebook-instagram-teen-accounts-ai-bone-analysis

Original Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/05/ai-age-assurance-teens/

According to Meta it works better than facial recognition - https://cybernews.com/tech/meta-ai-analyze-bone-structure-age-verification/

According to meta the purpose is to to detect and remove underaged users - https://www.engadget.com/2164981/meta-is-using-ai-bone-structure-analysis-to-detect-and-remove-underaged-users/

So the hope is now that a kid with a fake moustache won’t be able to trick their age detection tools - https://www.wired.com/story/a-kid-with-a-fake-mustache-tricked-an-online-age-verification-tool/

QUICKBITS

REFRESHINGLY UNREFRESHED

TCL CSOT is taking "procrastination" to the screen level with a panel that refreshes at just 0.01Hz - that’s one frame every 100 seconds.

https://ca.pcmag.com/laptops/15482/tcls-001hz-screen-aims-to-squeeze-more-battery-life-out-of-your-laptop

While 1Hz was the old power-saving standard, this display uses 12 independent zones to swap between 120Hz and "basically a static image” to save battery life.

https://sm.pcmag.com/pcmag_ca/photo/t/the-laptop/the-laptop_h1nt.jpg https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2026/05/TCL-CSOT-0.01HZ-LAPTOP-DISPLAY-1200x624.jpg

Dell’s XPS uses LG Display Oxide panels with a 1Hz mode so TCL CSOT’s bet is that they can push efficiency gains even further.

https://lmg.gg/videocardzquote

TELLING TALES OUT OF SCHOOL

ShinyHunters defaces Canvas login pages at thousands of schools during finals https://cybernews.com/security/anvas-lms-breach-universities-data-leak/

SH claims 275M user breach - https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/05/millions-of-students-personal-data-stolen-in-major-education-cyberattack

May 12 ransom deadline -

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/us/canvas-hack-strands-college-students-finals-week

PROMPT AND CIRCUMSTANCE

OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber, a version of GPT-5.5 with fewer guardrails, available only to vetted defenders in its Trusted Access for Cyber program.

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/openai-gpt-55-cybersecurity-model

The model handles bug hunting, malware reverse engineering, and penetration testing.

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-with-trusted-access-for-cyber/

It comes a month after Sam Altman criticized Anthropic for gating its rival cyber model, Mythos, calling it "fear-based marketing."

https://lmg.gg/fearbasedmarketing

MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (GOLF COURSE EDITION)

A Verge reporter was run over by a Yarbo mower for science, after researcher Andreas Makris hijacked it. These $5,000 dollar bots ship with hardcoded root passwords, allowing hackers to override safety stops and steal Wi-Fi credentials.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/925696/yarbo-robot-lawn-mower-hack-remote-control-camera-access-mqtt

Despite Makris reporting the flaw to Yarbo, they initially called these backdoors a deliberate design decision, however they have now publicly said they are taking action.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926989/yarbo-robot-lawn-mower-hack-company-update-security-promise

I guess they never thought a box filled with spinning blades needed root password protection