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Welcome to Tech News, National Geographic Edition. Here in the vast

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digital savanna, we observe the tech industry in its natural habitat. Shh,

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don't startle it. Let's watch. Oh, it's

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It's me. I I have to Okay. It really seems like NVIDIA will launch their N1

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and N1X ARM-based SoCs in the first half

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of this year with Dell and Lenovo already on board with laptop designs,

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according to insider sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. As previous

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leaks have indicated, the N1X is essentially expected to be a

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consumer-focused version of the GB10, a

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superchip that powers NVIDIA's DGX Spark

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Enterprise mini PCs with up to 20 ARM cores, a massive 6,144

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CUDA core iGPU, and don't forget that

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sweet, sweet unified memory. But while ARM-powered Windows laptops have come a

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long way, they're still not great for gaming. So, why should gamers care?

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Well, one reason might be that, as much as we rag on NVIDIA for caring more

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about AI than us, they do still put

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resources into gaming. I mean, look, they're hiring software engineers to

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work on native speed x86-64

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gaming on Linux/ARM64 platforms. They're hiring someone to

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make the gaming experience better for a niche within a niche. Maybe Jensen does

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still have a gamer soul hiding beneath all those layers of leather jackets.

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They protect him from the outside, all the hurtful words. However things shake

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out, with a full reveal anticipated at the NVIDIA GTC keynote on March 16th,

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the laptop market is heating up and Qualcomm and AMD are sweating profusely

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through their quarter-zips. Samsung took the wraps off the Galaxy S26 phone

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lineup at an Unpacked event this morning, completely shocking the world

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by unveiling new smartphone tech that isn't just chat GPT with extra steps,

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although that was there, too. Samsung says the new Galaxy S26 Ultra features

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the world's first privacy display on mobile, which makes your phone screen

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completely opaque when viewed from outside of the primary user cone in

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front of the phone the cone of brain rot, maybe we could call it. And it can

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even selectively blackout parts of the screen like sensitive message

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notifications from your landlord that say in all caps, for the last time you

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cannot pay rent in Funko Pops. It is up to you to sell them for money first. It

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is not legal tender. The way the privacy display works is

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kind of cool. Every other pixel in the grid is a narrow pixel with little

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donuts above it that modulate how much light escapes to the sides, and you

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can't eat them. But at least they're in there. The rest

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of the features are fairly standard new phone stuff to Cameras are largely the

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same, but apparently let in more light now with a new super steady mode that

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can keep footage level with the ground. There's a few more AI photo editing

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options to help you construct false memories of things that never happened,

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very fun. But there's a couple cool AI

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features, too. Ask Samsung's Bixby AI

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assistant to change your phone settings and it will present you with a toggle

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for the feature you want, hopefully, right there in the chat interface.

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Finally, an audio eraser can strip background noise from third-party apps

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like Instagram now, not just Samsung ones. The S26 Ultra starts at the same

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price as the S25 Ultra, $1,300 USD,

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while the S26 and S26 Plus have gotten

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$100 price hikes. They start at $900 and

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$1,100 USD, respectively. Although, the

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base model does come with 256 gigs of storage instead of 128 this year, so

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it's not all just storage crisis stuff. But still, for those prices, you could

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pick up a few pairs of the new $250

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Galaxy Buds 4 Pro, which have been redesigned with what Samsung calls a

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real metal blade. >> For your ears? They've got bigger

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woofers and are shaped for all-day comfort, as long as you're careful not

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to accidentally put the metal blade end in first. It's I'm still like picking it

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up. I got to be careful. Feels awesome though.

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Every time I Every time I listen to something, it's like I'm a samurai.

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Department of War is going toe-to-toe with Anthropic over ethical restrictions

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baked into its AI model Claude in the ultimate nerds versus jocks slugfest.

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This is what we've been waiting for. Defense Secretary, or

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war secretary, Pete Hegseth summoned

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the

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Pentagon on Tuesday to deliver an ultimatum. Let the government use Claude

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for mass domestic surveillance of US citizens and/or making targeting

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decisions in physical attacks without human input, or Amodei's going to get a

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hell of a swirly. And I'll make you do my homework. >> Uh no. Hegseth reportedly threatened to

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designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, blocking it from working with the

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government and a wide swath of affiliated companies, or maybe Hegseth

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will invoke the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to adapt its model to

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the military's needs. Or maybe even bolt. I know that doesn't make sense,

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but I'm just so angry right now because you keep saying words I don't

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understand. The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to comply, but

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Anthropic reportedly does not plan on budging. A senior government official

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commented that taking this action against Anthropic would be massively

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disruptive for the Pentagon because Claude is currently the only AI model

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used in classified defense systems. The Pentagon is currently addressing this

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issue by signing a deal to bring xAI's Grok into classified defense networks,

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which has real pouty teenager energy. Oh, you're not letting me use your AI to

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autonomously kill people? Fine, I'll just go hang out with Mecha Hitler. How

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do you like that, Dad? Go to your room. Now, Anthropic has budged on a separate

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safety pledge, the commitment to never train an AI model unless they could

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guarantee it would be safe first, which seems hard to

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to be fair. Why? Well, to paraphrase their chief science officer, other AI

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companies are never going to stop never stopping, so Anthropic is not actually

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contributing any additional risk to the ecosystem, which is basically just them

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saying, "We're committed to safety, but we're also committed to money and

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winning, which is super self-aware and honestly super wise." I believe it was

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Marcus Aurelius who said, "Never regard something as doing you good if it makes

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you betray a trust, unless you're about to lose an AI arms race to Elon Musk,

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then it." That's almost as good as his meditation on integrity. If it is

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not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it. And if it's a

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sponsor spot, watch it. Here we go. Odoo, running a kingdom is no small

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affair. One must manage alliances, dungeons, and alliances to get one's

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cousin out of a dungeon. He's always getting in there. Fortunately, Odoo

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brings together all aspects of business management into one platform with a full

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suite of integrated apps, and you only use the app you apps your kingdom

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requires. Odoo CRM app lets me send

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quotes to neighboring kingdoms in just a few clicks, whatever those are, schedule

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meetings with visiting dignitaries, and Odoo even automatically plans the

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next activity based on my pipeline. And since any king worth his salt must

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collect tithes, Odoo auto creates and

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sends invoices, tracks open payments with clear statuses and due dates, and

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sends reminders for those who have forgotten their contribution. It even

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converts currencies automatically, which is essential when trading with the

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French. And for managing one's court, the employees app, one can sort the

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entire royal staff into an org chart from the hand of the king all the way

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down to your one cousin who was banished and lives in the Bella Tower. It's for

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the best. Use our link for a free 15-day trial with no credit card required.

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Again, I don't know what it is. I'm sure it's helpful, though. And here we see

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the quick bits in the wild, often moving in packs of five. Scientists believe

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they communicate through a series of rapid-fire headlines. Fascinating

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creatures. Remarkably savage. Discord is

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delaying its global age verification rollout to the second half of 2026. CTO

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Stanislav Vishnevsky, coming at the

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problem with the energy of a beleaguered substitute teacher, posted that many of

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you walked away thinking we're requiring face scans and ID uploads from everyone

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just to use Discord. That's not That's not what's happening. He went on to

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clarify that over 90% of users will never need to verify their age to keep

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using Discord exactly as they do today. That said, Discord stressed they'll

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still meet any legal obligations for age verification, which currently means

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using third-party vendors like KID in the UK and Australia, with Brazil soon

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to follow. The company will use the delay to learn how to write a blog post

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properly, I guess. I Product listings for budget HP laptops have been spotted

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advertising 1.2 terabytes of storage,

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the catch being that 1 terabyte of that is just a 1-year free trial of Microsoft

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OneDrive cloud storage. Uh Reddit user BMR99 posted several

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links to blatant cases of spec padding in the LTT subreddit showing that with

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NAND prices spiking, I guess the new industry standard is just download more

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storage, bro. It's a you problem. Thankfully, Canadians get to avoid this

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specific trap. We have a different one. Some amazon.ca listings advertise 1 TB

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drives as 1,024 GB SSDs, which actually

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makes the listing even more deceitful because 1 TB drives usually have less

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than 1,000 gigs of usable space. But I don't know. That still sounds like a

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heck of a deal there, but I think you should freaking send it. Tech giants are

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hunting for cheap farmland for their power-hungry AI data centers and have

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offered million-dollar payouts that many US farmers are nonetheless flat-out

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refusing, according to a report from The Guardian. But these companies want that

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land. Some utility companies have threatened to invoke eminent domain, the

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government's power to seize private property for public use. But for the

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farmers, it ain't about the money. It's about protecting their family legacies.

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They got tegrity. And unlike them Silicon Valley boys, farmers recognize

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that God didn't intend for us to eat servers or become romantically entwined

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with AI waifus. It ain't right. Panasonic, the former plasma TV king,

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will no longer make its own television. All Panasonic-branded TVs will now be

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manufactured, marketed, and sold by Skyworth, a Chinese company with the

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same name as my high school World of Warcraft character. Skyworth. Skyworth.

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It is I, Skyworth. Skyworth CEO pitched

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it as a meeting of minds, but the real trade is pretty obvious. Skyworth gets

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to use a legendary brand name to sell TVs in western markets, and Panasonic

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gets to stop spending money making TVs. If it seems familiar, that's because

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it's a very similar deal to the Sony and TCL one that just happened recently.

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This is a bummer for Panasonic, though. They controlled over 40% of the global

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plasma market until price sensitivity caused by the 2008 financial crisis

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ended up destroying their margins. After that, Panasonic never really recovered.

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Don't worry, Panasonic, none of us did. And Spotify and Liquid Death have

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released the Eternal Playlist Urn, a limited edition Bluetooth speaker shaped

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like a cremation urn. It asks you questions about your eternal vibe and

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your go-to ghost noise, all right? Then

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generates a playlist that syncs to the urn and plays you into the afterlife. Is

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it a real urn, like for ashes? >> Yeah, you can put ashes in there.

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It might screw it up, but the Bluetooth speaker. So, for me, that'll be an

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infinite loop of Monster Mash and Fall Out Boy's Sugar, We're Going Down

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Swinging. But given Spotify's history of launching

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then bricking physical devices like the car thing, eternity might be more like 2

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years. And I guess you'll have to keep paying for Spotify Premium, otherwise

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you'll be hearing ads for the rest of eternity, which again, according to

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Spotify, is just 2 years. So, it's not that bad. And that concludes today's

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episode of Planet Tech. Oh, okay. Join us on Friday when we will watch as the

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AI hype beast performs its mating display for potential investors. It is

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truly so cringe.