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I know what you're probably thinking right now. Hey, that's the tech news

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guy. What's he doing in my house? Well, by clicking the thumbnail, you invited

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me in. And it's nice in here, so I'm not

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leaving. Sorry. You can now lease a PlayStation 5 in the UK starting at £10

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per month because owning things is a quaint little tradition our ancestors

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enjoyed. This is much better. The program is called PlayStation Flex and

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is essentially just a partnership with Raylo, a gadget leasing business that

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has been doing PS5 leases since March of last year. The big change here is that

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it's now being advertised directly through the PlayStation Direct

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storefront, which basically just sends you to a PlayStation-branded section of

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the Raylo website. There's no clear buyout path. You either keep paying or

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eventually hand the console back when your term is up unless you contact them

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to negotiate. There's no rent-to-own or

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financing options are being offered either, like what you might see with

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something like Affirm on other digital stores. And this isn't even exclusive to

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PlayStation. Raylo will lease you the Nintendo Switch, too, Meta Quest, Xbox

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consoles, and even the Lenovo Legion Go. Interestingly, Microsoft offered a

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console rent-to-own program called Xbox

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All Access before shelving it last year,

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presumably because it actually allowed people to save about 20 bucks overall on

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the cost of the console and Game Pass combined. [music] That's helping

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consumers. We're We're past that. No,

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society has progressed to a new, advanced stage where a company take

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hardware that people used to be able to purchase and make it a subscription like

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HP's laptop program that Linus recently covered on LTT. The problem is hardware

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keeps getting more expensive, so cheaper payment plans look okay by comparison,

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but these companies don't even have the decency to easily let you buy out the

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device at the end. I mean, even car leasing companies at least entertain the

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option of a buyout, even if it's usually probably not the

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best idea. Hey, I'll tell you what, Sony, I'll charge you 10 pounds a month

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for me to give you some better ideas for

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what to do with those IP rights to Spider-Man that you somehow still have.

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You know what? Let's talk Morbius sequels.

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Morbius 2, Morbius.

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Amazon security camera subsidiary Ring announced yesterday that it has canceled

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its partnership with Flock Safety, the incompetent mass surveillance company

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that's recently been under fire for potential misuses of its automated

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license plate reader network and the leaking of 2.3 million license plate

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searches from its database. That one. The announcement comes after

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Ring aired a Super Bowl ad on Sunday for its new AI-powered Search Party feature,

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showing dozens of cameras scanning a neighborhood to find a lost dog. Aw,

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that's That would be good. But, as pointed out by Senator Ed Markey, this

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is kind of clearly a mass surveillance program, prompting people to take a more

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critical look at what it might mean for Flock to be able to access Ring's camera

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network at will. And what they found was not reassuring. The partnership, which

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was announced in October 2025 as part of Ring's community requests program,

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allows law enforcement agencies to request video footage from Ring doorbell

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owners during active investigations. Under the Flock integration, police

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departments using Flock software would have been able to submit those requests

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directly through Ring's system. And combined with Ring's recently launched

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familiar faces, a facial recognition feature that scans every person who

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walks past a camera, and the Search Party feature's ability to track living

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things across an entire neighborhood, the whole package starts looking less

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like find my lost puppy and more

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neighborhood surveillance state.

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In its press release, Ring says it's canceling the integration because it

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would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated. Sure, it

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is and the breakup was totally mutual.

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Flock was one of two companies approved for the community requests feature. The

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other is Axon, the world's largest manufacturer of tasers and body cameras.

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So, the only remaining approved handler for your Ring doorbell footage is the

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taser guys. If that makes you feel safe, I've got a

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very nice bridge to sell you. The China Manned Space Agency on Tuesday

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successfully tested its Mengju crew capsule and Long March 10 rocket, which

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nailed a propulsive landing on a recovery barge. China is targeting a

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manned landing on the moon by 2030, which is also where Jeff Bezos wants to

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go. Hours after the test, Bezos, with the energy of the weird kid who ate glue

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in elementary school, tweeted a black and white photo of a turtle.

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I like turtles. What What can I say?

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Bold move when you already look like the turtle club guy from Dana Carvey's 2002

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film Master of Disguise. Yes, the cryptic tweet was evidently a reference

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to Bezos's own space company Blue Origin, which has a code of arms

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featuring two turtles in an apparent attempt to troll Elon Musk. The two have

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taken little pot shots at each other since 2015 when Jeff made his infamous

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welcome to the club tweet. SpaceX had just landed a Falcon booster and Bezos

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pointed out that Blue Origin's New Shepherd had done a suborbital landing

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weeks earlier. So, yeah, you're just as cool as us now. You

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got to love watching these two weirdos being a decade-long pissing contest over

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who gets to colonize space first. Feels like they Feels like they'd drown the

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world in piss before either of them won.

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Blue Origin recently shared plans for an accelerated moon architecture that could

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land astronauts before 2030, which may have had something to do with Elon

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announcing on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted focus to building a self-growing

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city on the moon instead of Mars, claiming that this could be achieved in

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less than 10 years. Now, this is the same Elon Musk who in January 2025

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tweeted that the moon is a distraction and called NASA's Artemis moon mission a

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jobs program. All of this might be moot

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though because apparently SpaceX is a train company now. Sort of. We're

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referencing a letter written by the National Labor Relations Board to eight

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former SpaceX employees who were fired after they wrote an open letter

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criticizing Musk as a frequent source of embarrassment. The NLRB under the Biden

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administration had filed a complaint seeking those employees reinstatement

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and back pay. But, in an effort to get out of it, SpaceX argued it should be

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regulated like an airline or railroad

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instead, which coincidentally exempts it from the National Labor Relations Act

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entirely. When you're a train, they let you do it. The fired employees attorney

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called the NLRB's decision to treat SpaceX as a common carrier contrary to

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law and public policy. Choo choo, all aboard the space train. You get no

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benefits and you'd have to work in Elon Musk's moon colony. Just so you know.

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links to drop straight into DMs with the goal of making peer-to-peer payments

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feel less formal. The new feature comes after Cash App conducted a Money Matters

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report, which found that Gen Z'ers already coordinate transactions over

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text a lot of the time, anyways. Convenient? Sure. I mean, here in

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Canada, Interac has had similar request money links for years, and that

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definitely didn't lead to a tidal wave of fake Canada Revenue Agency e-transfer

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scams. What could possibly go wrong? It'll probably work. You guys do it.

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It's fine. Spotify co-CEO Gustav

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Söderström, it's probably wrong, sorry, bragged

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during this week's earnings call that the company's best developers have not

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written a single line of code since December thanks to an internal AI coding

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system called Honk. The company shipped

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more than 50 new features throughout 2025, including AI-powered prompted

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playlists and page match for audiobooks.

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Given the speed of this development and AI's propensity for creating security

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vulnerabilities, we feel it is our responsibility to tell people to not try

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and hack Spotify right now, no matter how trivially easy it might be,

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especially given that they just hit record profits of 2.2 billion euros for

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2025, nearly double the year before, driven largely by subscription price

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hikes. Come on. Let's not Just let them enjoy

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this. Meta is reportedly working on facial

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recognition for its smart glasses, again

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potentially letting wearers identify people in real time. They were holding

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off on adding this feature after receiving backlash over potential

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privacy concerns, but an internal memo showed to the New York Times noted that

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we are now in a quote dynamic political

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environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us

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would have their resources focused on other concerns. In other words, mods are

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asleep post-AI slop. Anyway, if someone wearing smart glasses whispers your name

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before you introduce yourself, just assume the pre-crime division is hiring.

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And just to get ahead of it, no, I am not the Riley who is going to steal your

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car later today. Apple's latest iPhone update, iOS 26.3, now includes a

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built-in transfer to Android tool that lets you move apps, photos, and even

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your phone number over to an Android device just by placing the two phones

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next to each other. We actually saw hints of this back in December when code

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found in an Android Canary build suggested that Google was working

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towards a similar feature in the opposite direction. The good news

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doesn't end there. iPhone users in the EU can also now turn on notification

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forwarding for third-party smartwatches, meaning that you don't need to wear a

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square watch just because you decided to buy an iPhone.

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I mean, it's a rounded rounded corner squares. Circles are cool, too, and so

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are interoperability rules. Thanks to you. Thanks so much.

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And the new robot from WeRobotics, Isaac Zero, won about $10,000 up front or

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roughly $450 a month to fold some of your laundry.

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It's mostly autonomous. Uh the system runs off a stationary pole you set in

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front of a table and plug it into the wall. Uh the robot uses onboard sensors

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to identify, grab, and fold common garments on its own, but for more

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complex or confusing items, a remote

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teller operator can step in and assist.

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So, it's not fully human controlled, but it's also not quite Rosie the Robot just

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yet. WeRobotics says it's been stress testing Isaac Zero in commercial

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laundromats with promising results. Still, I cannot unsee that this is just

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Nintendo's ROB with a glow up.

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Maybe we should have treated ROB better. He did help us beat Gyromite after all.

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I did not play whatever [music] game this is referring to. But, ROB won't be

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able to help you predict when I I'll come back next week. I'll give you a

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hint. It's Wednesday the 18th, because this Monday is Family Day here in

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British Columbia. It's a little problematic because we have one Olive

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Garden and it gets real crowded with everyone in there.