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It does occur to me occasionally that

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humanity has built machines that produce

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with terrible confidence inane tripe and

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codswallop. One hesitates to call this

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progress and yet forward we march.

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Nintendo is raising the global prices of

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the Switch 2 starting September 1st.

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Prices in the US and Canada will jump by

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50 bucks, while Europeans can delight in

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the strength of their currency, only

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seeing a 30 euro increase, which I think

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is pretty close to being 50 bucks.

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Anyway,

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haven't checked. 48 35 Canadian. Okay,

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pretty close. The Japanese, however,

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were hit the hardest as every Switch

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configuration will cost more, not just

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the Switch 2. Nintendo Switch online is

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also going up in Japan and South Korea

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starting July 1st. Nintendo blames the

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changes on market conditions, which is

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another way of saying the AI boom has

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been hoovering up every memory chip on

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Earth and feeding them to chatbots that

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have mostly helped people write LinkedIn

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posts. LinkedIn users are happy though.

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To be fair to Nintendo though, Sony

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already hiked the PS5 price back in

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March, so Nintendo's just following

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suit. Xbox also had some price hikes

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recently, but no one buys those. So,

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unsurprisingly, Nintendo expects sales

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to dip 17% compared to last year. Well,

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at least it seems like they know what

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they're doing and that's reassuring.

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French prosecutors have escalated their

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probe into Elon Musk and the platform

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formerly known as Twitter to a full

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criminal investigation. The probe kicked

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off in January 2025 over allegations of

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Musk using X for political manipulation

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and it then ramped up when Grok went

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Mecha Hitler and started generating deep

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fakes and C Sam at the end of last year.

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Very cool. This prompted French

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officials to raid X's Paris offices in

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February and issue a summons for Musk

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and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to

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appear in Paris on April 20th.

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Unsurprisingly, both of them no-showed,

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but Musk did make sure to let everyone

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know what he thought of the summons,

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tweeting that the prosecutors had

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intellectual disabilities, but not

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phrasing it like that at all, and

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definitely phrasing it in the way you

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know he would have said it. The US

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Justice Department is refusing to

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cooperate with the investigation,

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claiming the French government is

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wrongfully regulating an American social

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media platform. Hey, if the French want

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to regulate our companies, they need to

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come over here and do it a regime

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change, like a normal country. Meta is

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rolling out an AI tool that scans your

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kids' bones.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Why are they scanning their bones? In

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order to figure out their ages. It's not

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weird.

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>> [laughter]

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>> The company is reportedly launching this

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as a form of age verification that

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doesn't require ID or facial scanning,

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instead using photos to extract things

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like height, posture, and bone

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structure.

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The rollout is likely response to a

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preliminary EU finding that Meta is

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violating the Digital Services Act by

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failing to keep under 13s off of its

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platforms, and also probably that recent

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New Mexico ruling that found Meta liable

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for misleading users about child safety.

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Critics have largely dismissed the whole

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bones-based approach as AI phrenology,

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aimed at appeasing regulators rather

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than actually keeping kids off the

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platform. Meta probably wants those kids

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on the platform. Meta, however, claims

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that its goal is to limit the cases of

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children circumventing facial scanning

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technology using sophisticated

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techniques like drawing on a fake

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mustache, which Wired reported was

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exactly how a 12-year-old convinced a

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facial scanning-based age verification

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system that he was 15, an age at which

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many children famously grow mustaches. I

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mean now if those kids want to get past

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>> [clears throat]

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>> I confess I am awfully fond of the quick

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bits and I shall endeavor not to be

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greedy. Why? Why?

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>> [laughter]

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>> TCL showed off a display panel with a

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refresh rate of just 0.01

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hertz. That's one frame every 100

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seconds as opposed to 1 hertz, which is

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just one frame every second. LG only

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just started rolling out those 1 hertz

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panels, but TCL wanted to top the

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competition and move 100 times slower.

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The display uses 12 independent zones to

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swap between 120 hertz and basically a

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static image. Yeah. And TCL estimates it

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could add over an hour of video

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playback. It's the ideal display for

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watching paint dry in stunning 4K. The

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hacking group of Shiny Hunters has

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infiltrated the widely used Canvas

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learning portal for thousands of

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schools, including prestigious

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organizations like Harvard, Columbia,

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and Princeton. The group claims it stole

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around 275 million records from Canvas's

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parent company, Instructure, including

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names, emails, and student IDs. They've

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now given affected schools until May

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12th to negotiate a settlement before

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the data gets leaked. The silver lining

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for a lot of those kids they might get

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their info leaked is that it happened

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during finals week. So now they have a

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few extra days to try not to fail

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calculus two.

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Might be worth it. OpenAI launched

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GPT-5.5

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Cyber, a version of 5.5 with fewer

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guardrails for vetted defenders in its

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trusted access for cyber program. It

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handles bug hunting, malware reverse

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engineering, and penetration testing. It

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comes a month after Why am I laughing? I

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can't what It comes a month after Sam

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Altman criticized Anthropic for gating

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Mythos, calling it fear-based marketing.

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At this point, Altman and Amodei are

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performing "Anything you can do" at each

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other across San Francisco.

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And everyone's watching. Nobody show

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this to Lin-Manuel Miranda. I don't want

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to give him any ideas. And a Verge

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reporter was run over by a Yarbo lawn

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mower for science after researcher

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Andreas Makris hijacked it from 6,000 mi

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away. These $5,000 robots ship with

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hard-coded root passwords, allowing

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hackers to override safety stops and

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steal Wi-Fi credentials. Now despite

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Makris reporting the flaw, Yarbo

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initially called the backdoor a

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deliberate design decision. They have

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now publicly said they are taking action

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by giving the 200-lb robot with spinning

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blades a password. Seems like a good

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idea. And I have an even better idea.

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Why don't you come back here on Monday

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for more tech news, and I will stop

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doing this accent. I'm so sorry. I

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apologize to all the UK. Love you.