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Okay, I know reviews are up for the Ryzen 7 9850X 3D today, including Linus Tech Tips

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one. But what do you want us to do? Say the same things Linus said in that video, but with less spittle?

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That all braces. Google's new desktop interface for Android, meant to eventually replace Chrome OS, has

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been spotted by 9 to 5 Google on a Chromium bug report page.

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It includes screen captures, features of an Android 16 build, codamed ALOS, and a bunch

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of numbers, which stands for Aluminum OS.

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Google's project to have Android incubate inside of and burst out of Chrome OS' body

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like an alien. It mostly looks like Android 16's existing desktop mode, but with a slightly modified

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top bar and without, the buttons for back home and multitasking usually available at

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the bottom right. Only because this is running on an HP Elite, Dragonfly Chromebook, not an Android phone

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or tablet. The other obvious thing here is the extensions button to the right of the URL bar in Chrome,

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which is only there on desktop versions of the browser. I'd tell you to go see the bug report yourself, but it's been deactivated, probably to stay

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consistent with what Google does to most of their products. This lines up with what Google executives have been saying openly since last year.

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Chrome OS and Android are being merged into a single platform.

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As Roddy pointed out in his ShortCircuit video on the Samsung Tab S11 Ultra, big Android

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tablets already are laptops in a sense, but their desktop functionality is limited.

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So the obvious thing to do is to combine Android with another very limited OS, and together

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they'll make one full desktop.

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A landmark social media addiction lawsuit will soon head to trial.

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Marking the first time social platforms have had to convince a jury they aren't liable

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for harming kids. A mere 20 years after those platforms probably started harming kids.

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The lawsuit's 19-year-old plaintiff claims that platform features like infinite scroll

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and autoplay triggered depression, anxiety, and self-harm.

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Unlike previous social media lawsuits, this one is not focused on the impact of the content

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itself, which platforms are not liable for, but on how the platforms were engineered to

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be addictive. In a show of confidence about their innocence, both Snapchat and TikTok settled with a plaintiff

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out of court, with TikTok getting their settlement in yesterday, just a few hours before the

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jury selection started. They would have gotten in sooner, but they saw a video of someone making a funnel cake

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and got lost in the scroll for seven hours. That happens to the best of us.

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Meta and YouTube, on the other hand, never afraid to slug it out with the little guy,

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are taking this to trial, despite Meta's prospects for the suit not looking so hot.

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Unsealed internal documents have shown Meta employees messaging one another about the

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addictive nature of Instagram, with one commenting that IG is a drug, and another saying we're

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basically pushers. Those people got bad attitudes and got canned.

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Internal emails also show that Mark Zuckerberg made getting teens locked into Meta's apps

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a top strategic priority right behind buying big chains, with an email from 2016 stating

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that Mark has decided that the top priority for the company in 2017 is teens.

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Very epstein of him. An open source AI assistant called Moltbot, formerly Claudebot, has crossed 80,000 GitHub

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stars, making it one of the fastest growing AI projects of 2026.

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Already? It lets you run a personal AI assistant on your own hardware and control it through messaging

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apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, or Slack.

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People are comparing it to Jarvis from Ironman, using it to manage their calendars, send emails,

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and even write code. That's how dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's working out pretty good

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so far. Except maybe it's not, as security experts have started sounding alarms about Moltbot's

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security vulnerabilities. Heather Atkins, VP of security engineering at Google Cloud, posted a warning not to run

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Moltbot as it appears to be massively vulnerable to prompt injection attacks in which an attacker

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can feed hidden instructions to the victim's AI assistant.

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Also it's not owned by Google, so use Gemini.

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Rachel Toback, CEO of Social Proof Security, explained that if your autonomous AI agent

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is reading all your messages and has admin access to your computer, then someone can

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hijack your computer with a simple DM. But it gets worse, Moltbot is connected to the internet in many different ways, allowing

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security researcher Jameson O'Reilly to find hundreds of exposed Moltbot instances on the

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web, with some allowing unauthenticated access to private messages, credentials, and API

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keys. O'Reilly also demonstrated a supply chain attack through Claude Hub, Moltbot's skills

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library. He uploaded a proof of concept malicious skill, artificially inflated, the download count

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to over 4,000 to look more legit, and watched as developers from seven countries downloaded

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it. The skill was benign, but O'Reilly said he could have exfiltrated SSH keys, AWS credentials,

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and entire code bases. Moltbot's own documentation acknowledges the risk, stating running an AI agent with shell

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access on your machine is...spicy. Really?

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They actually wrote that? That's verbatim? And who can argue with that?

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Handing rude access to an hallucinating robot prone to being compromised by simple text

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messages is my fourth favorite spice, right after Perry Perry, Montreal Steak, and our

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sponsor. And you know what else? How about a quick bit before the quick bit?

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Samsung revealed their Galaxy Z tri-fold phone is going to cost 2900 US dollars.

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Do you want me to sit here and cry about it? Or do you want some real quick bits?

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You want them. Intel just switched on XES S3 multi-frame generation in new drivers, letting ARC GPUs

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and Core Ultra IGPUs generate 2X, 3X, or 4X the frames across any game that already

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supports XES S2. The best part?

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If a game already supports the second generation tech, developers, developers, developers

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don't need to release updates for the new one to work.

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You just got to turn it on in the Intel control panel. I know what you're thinking.

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XES S spelled backwards is SSEX, and now you can do it three times with your IGPU.

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It's time to boogie down boys. Did you know Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model Y, you know, SEXY, Elon did it first.

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NVIDIA finally did it, folks. China has reportedly approved initial purchases of NVIDIA's HU under AI chips by ByteDance,

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Alibaba, and Tencent, covering more than 400,000 chips.

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After a year of Uncle Sam saying, no, China saying, please?

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And Uncle Sam saying, well, okay, since he asked nicely. And then China saying, no, once they actually got permission, apparently all it took was

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a visit from the great one Jensen Huang himself.

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Sorry, Gretzky. Maybe he gave Xi Jinping the skinny on where to get those sick leather jackets.

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I guess we'll find out at the next press conference. Xi Jinping's press conference comes out of her liturgy.

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Actually, leather-assless chaps. Sparks fly.

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Stone cold Steve Austin beer. This is how you get social credit.

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Iran is planning to permanently cut itself off from the global internet, sending a virtual

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fist bump to North Korea. After 20 days of near total blackout during widespread protests and by all accounts a

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hideously violent response by authorities, the government is now implementing what Digital

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Rights Group FilterWatch calls absolute digital isolation.

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Instead of lifting the shutdown, they're building a whitelisting system where 90 million Iranians

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can only access approved domestic sites while security vetted elites get access to the outside

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world. Our porn, our awesome sunglasses.

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Even worse, VPNs won't help because new deep packet inspection updates are specifically

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designed to fingerprint VPN and Starlink traffic.

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A government spokesperson, who's probably evil, confirmed international access will

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never return to its previous form, except of course in the offices of Supreme Leader

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Ali Khamenei. Reports say when he's not hurrying to the little Ayatollah's room, he's compulsively

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doom-scolling. There's trap posts on Tumblr.

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Amazon accidentally tipped its hand on planned layoffs after an internal AWS email went out

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way too early. The message, sent by Senior VP Colleen Aubrey, scheduled a Wednesday meeting titled Project

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Dawn, which then promptly got cancelled. The email claimed impacted colleagues in the US candidate Costa Rica had already been notified

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and referenced a follow-up note from HR Chief Beth Galetti that, awkwardly, never appeared.

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Aubrey wrote, changes like this are hard on everyone.

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Still, considering Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says that the real risk of losing a job comes

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from someone who's very good at using AI, maybe this was AI's way of proving that it

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can do stuff on its own. Just get it over with. Fire them already!

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And figure, just drop new footage of its Helix 2 humanoid robot calmly putting away dishes

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and somehow that is way more unsettling than it should be.

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The video shows some serious fine motor control, hip-bumping a drawer closed and using its

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foot to close the dishwasher, showing it's got the dexterity to complete chores with

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style and to murder you.

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I mean, at least it's actually useful, unlike those other robots who can't stop doing Karate

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and Air Flips. Meanwhile, Fauna Robotics went the opposite direction with Sprout, a small, wildly little

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guy who's actually designed to be cute and emotionally disarming.

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Why can't we give that one the knife? That one seems like a much safer option, or at least I could be like, you too, Brutus!

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But the best option would obviously be for you guys to come back tomorrow for more get-

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I mean, back on Friday for more tech news. I think that's right.