Ever heard that scratching outside your bedroom window at night and just chalked it up to the wind?
Well, that was actually the tech news. Its goal is to unsettle you.
Apple may finally be planning to release its long-awaited HomePad,
something like a HomePod and an iPad, smashed together.
In fall, 2026, according to the leaker, Kousutami, who says they saw prototypes in person,
if they are a person. It must have been amazing. Kousutami and the original girl boy,
Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, say the HomePad will feature a MagSafe-like snap-to-wall mount
so you can presumably move the seven-inch square-shaped display between different points in your home
if you can't afford it by multiple scrub. Gurman says the device was going to launch sooner,
but it was just recently delayed again to a fall launch
since AI-upgraded Siri still isn't ready,
but it will definitely be ready by then, most because she's powered by Gemini now.
There comes a time in any group project when you throw up your hands and let the smart one finish it.
But Apple isn't finished with product releases this year. According to Gurman and others,
with the MacBook Neo launched, Apple is prepping more Ultra-tier products,
including an M5 Ultra Max Studio, Apple Watch Ultra 4,
the first foldable iPhone, ladies and gentlemen,
a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro and the previously leaked camera-equipped AirPods,
which I'm still not totally sold on, but I'll just buy them anyway. But honestly, they can release whatever they want
as long as they keep pumping out these David Lynchian TikToks
of lemons and limes facetiming each other. They're like us.
We're the citrus. Squeeze me.
The Open Claw hype train has gone international.
A district in Shenzhen, China is drafting public policy
to encourage professional platforms to offer free Open Claw services
with subsidies of up to 2 million yuan for development.
In response, stocks linked to the extremely popular AI assistant
jumped over 9% and tech giants Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu
have all rushed to roll out deployment tools with developers from these companies
holding a public event outside the Tencent building to help people set up Open Claw for free.
Over in New York, more than 700 people packed a Manhattan venue for ClawCon,
where sponsors demoed deployment tools and the lobster-themed buffet put most weddings to shame,
except Indian weddings, their next level. If you're not aware of the hype, Open Claw is an open source AI personal assistant
that started as a weekend project and went viral almost immediately, like Floatplane.
Despite the love, Open Claw might be one of the biggest
security liabilities in open source software right now. Security researchers have flagged prompt injections,
supply chain vulnerabilities, and tens of thousands of publicly exposed instances
with unsafe defaults as the three biggest risks.
Over 300 skills on Open Claw's plug-in marketplace, Claw Hub,
turned out to be straight-up malware, including credential harvesters
and one crypto trading tool that opened a reverse shell to the attacker's server.
But it's not just tech nubes exposing themselves to these risks. Why Combinator leadership recently showed up
to a podcast recording dressed like dickheads in full lobster outfits.
In all honesty, the tool must be genuinely amazing for people to put themselves at so much risk to use it,
which you can see even looking at its GitHub repo. Open Claw has almost 290,000 stars on GitHub,
which is insane when you learn that the Linux kernel, which runs basically everything in the world,
is only 222,000. Cool number though. Not if you use my distro, mine has more.
Nintendo's lawyers went absolutely sick, Omo, this week and filed a lawsuit against the US government,
proving that all those other lawsuits were just Nintendo's lawyers practicing
for their own personal Super Bowl. The company filed a complaint with the court of international trade on March 6th,
demanding a full refund of the tariffs it has paid,
plus interest at an exceptional rate.
Nintendo is trying to reclaim their share of the more than $200 billion the US government collected
thanks to last year's tariffs, which the Supreme Court recently ruled
were illegally imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act,
which surprisingly is a law intended to help solve international emergencies, not create them.
You were the voted one. February's ruling didn't automatically guarantee refunds.
So now Nintendo is going to court to get its money back.
While they're at it, they might have some other legal bones to pick with the Trump administration.
The official White House Twitter account had recently used artwork
from the dystopian farming horror game, Pokopia, in a MAGA meme without permission.
And back in September, the DHS posted a video that set ice raids
to the famous Smosh original song, Gotta Catch Them All.
Also fucked and also without permission. I think they might wanna start training their legal Pokemon roster
because Nintendo's already got a legendary. Phoenix Wright, use filibuster.
That's enough, come back. Now James, you sponsor Segway.
I'm a Pokemon now. The quick bits, like the boogie man, wait for you to fall asleep,
to come out and steal your left sock. Just the left one.
It's not the sock stealing that's meant to bother you. It's the wondering why.
Why didn't he want my other sock? Security researcher Andy Newn got Linux running on a PS5,
effectively turning Sony's console into a steam machine. And to prove it works, he ran GTA V enhanced edition
at a solid 60 FPS with ray tracing. There is a small catch though.
The exploit only works on very early firmware versions.
So if your PS5 has ever been updated past version 2.0,
you're out of luck. The UN says a full public release is coming before GTA 6,
which gives us a possible release window between tomorrow and literally any time after that
because GTA 6 isn't ever happening. Get it through your skull.
The whole trailer was CGI. Don't you get it? Samsung is restarting production of NVIDIA's RTX 3060,
a card discontinued back in 2024. On its eight nanometer node,
according to Korean news outlet, Hankyunk. Hankyunk.
NVIDIA's newer cards run on TSMC's four nanometer node,
which is maxed out making AI chips. So dusting off the old Samsung production line
shouldn't eat into Blackwell production at all. This is great news for budget gamers probably,
but it's like being stuck on a space station and hearing you'll get a fresh delivery of food paste tubes.
I need to get home. My children are probably finding a new dad bite now
because I'm grandpa's age. Relativity.
Relativity, no. X has added a new toggle that lets users block GROC
for modifying their uploaded photos. That's good.
This comes after the chatbot was infamously used to generate a mountain of deep fake nudes earlier this year.
X's initial move was to try and restrict the use of GROC's non-consensual deep fake image generation features
only to paying users, which managed to both miss the point and not work.
After three months of S tier level software engineering, they finally released their ultimate solution, the toggle.
Unfortunately, the Verge tested it and found they could still edit protected images
by simply opening them in the GROC app. I guess after firing huge swaths of Twitter software engineers,
X still hasn't managed to hire any that know how to turn something off.
It's lost knowledge. The Mayans knew how to do it.
Qualcomm, which bought Arduino last year, just announced the Arduino Ventuno Q,
a single board computer aimed at AI robotics.
It's packing a dragon wing IQ8 processor
with a dedicated NPU, 16 gigs of RAM, and it's compatible with both Arduino UNO shields
and Raspberry Pi hats. The idea is that your robot brain and motor control
can live on one board instead of a mess of devices talking to each other.
It's slated for our Q2 2026 release at a price of just under $300, which seems okay.
Arduino, are you okay? Say a funny Italian thing if they're hurting you.
Ballerina cappuccina. Oh God. The London Clinic has performed
the UK's first remote tele-surgery. A surgeon in London removed a prostate cancer patient's
prostate while the patient was 1500 miles away
in Gibraltar with just 60 milliseconds of lag
in what the medical analysts are calling an epic gamer moment.
If you can do that with 60 milliseconds of lag,
you can shut up about Call of Duty.
The patient said it was a no-brainer to be the guinea pig and said he felt great just a few days after the operation.
This isn't the first time remote surgery has been done globally, but it does show the tech
is maturing to the point where specialists treating patients in remote areas could become less of a proof of concept
and more of a just normal thing you can do if you're rich. The patient said they've gone from being in the championship
to the champions league as far as surgeons are concerned,
which I'm assuming means something to British people. Happy for them.
That must be good, I guess. Good day, mate. If you know what would mean everything to me,
you coming back on Wednesday for more tech news. Bear in mind that if you don't,
it may haunt you and, by extension, your family.
This may sound like I'm threatening you into watching tech things, but that's because
the tech news threatened to haunt me and my family if I didn't.
We're all in a position. We're all victims.