AI will disrupt Google’s search monopoly even without a breakup, the Apple exec says.
The president announced on Truth Social that he’s nominating Dr. Casey Means, who The New York Times says “frequently casts doubt on the American medical system,” for the position.
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, who had been the previous nominee, will work in “another capacity” at the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump said.
Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’
Mobius Digital, the developers of Outer Wilds, are working on a new game, the studio said in Outer Wilds patch notes released yesterday spotted by Rock Paper Shotgun. Here’s hoping it has the same magic.
[rockpapershotgun.com]
For Rian Johnson, the fun of Poker Face season 2 was figuring out how to give its lie-detecting lead new relationships.
Microsoft has dropped the $999 variants of the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7, Windows Central reports, meaning those devices start at $1,199 at the Microsoft Store. The slightly higher price creates more space between the $799 12-inch Surface Pro and $899 13-inch Surface Laptop.
Nintendo’s first round of Switch 2 preorder invites go out on May 8th, 2025, so sign in now to register your interest. To qualify, you must have logged at least 50 hours of gameplay on the original Switch and have purchased at least a 12-month Switch Online membership as of April 2nd. If you get an invite, you’ll have 72 hours to place an order.
On Monday, a report from 404Media found that a hacker obtained direct messages and CBP contact information from TeleMessage after Mike Waltz was spotted using the company’s modified version of Signal.
Customs and Border Protection spokesperson Rhonda Lawson told Wired that the agency “immediately disabled” TeleMessage in response to the attack and that its “investigation into the scope of the breach is ongoing.”
0The FDA met with OpenAI to discuss how the agency could use AI tools for a project called cderGPT, which may stand for the Center for Drug Evaluation, according to a report from Wired. This week, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary brought up goals to eventually shorten the drug approval process with AI.
The US Patent and Trademark Office rejected Tesla’s request to trademark the term for being “merely descriptive” and describing “similar goods and services by other companies,” reports TechCrunch:
Tesla needs to give the agency specific plans for how and why it deserves the “Robotaxi” trademark.
The examiner also wrote that Tesla will need to tell the USPTO if “competitors” use the terms “ROBO, ROBOT, or ROBOTIC to advertise similar goods and/or services.”
Tesla has three months to respond before the application is abandoned.
The “AI Diffusion Act,” which the Biden administration announced in January, would control how advanced AI chips are exported to other countries based on national security risk. Sources tell Bloomberg that the Trump administration is planning to rescind the act before it goes into effect on May 15th, and is “actively working toward a new rule that would strengthen the control of chips abroad.”
[bloomberg.com]
New Hampshire just passed a law establishing its own “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve,” paving the way for the state to start investing in digital assets such as Bitcoin. It’s the first state in the country to do so, beating several other states to the punch.
We’re mostly DMing each other to say that the younger generation is cooked. At New York, James D. Walsh surveys the zoomers who are using AI to do all of their college homework — a trend that is obvious and no less alarming. Take the story of Wendy, for example: she used ChatGPT to write an essay arguing that the use of technology is hampering students’ ability to think. The irony is lost on her.
Later, I asked Wendy if she recognized the irony in using AI to write not just a paper on critical pedagogy but one that argues learning is what “makes us truly human.” She wasn’t sure what to make of the question. “I use AI a lot. Like, every day,” she said. “And I do believe it could take away that critical-thinking part. But it’s just — now that we rely on it, we can’t really imagine living without it.”
[New York Magazine]
YouTuber Geekerwan has obtained what appears to be a Switch 2 motherboard component for about $150 on Xianyu, which he describes as a Chinese eBay equivalent.
Even without being able to power it up, microscopic evaluation suggests that the “T239” chip was taped out in 2021 with Nvidia’s Ampere tech. Combined with leaked clockspeed specs, they were able to demonstrate some performance estimates on current games, but maybe we’ll get even more hardware details soon.
You can turn on your Steam Deck LCD from across the room with a Bluetooth controller (only the OLED model did that at launch!) and I’m personally excited to finally use my Bluetooth headset’s microphone for chat while I game (sadly just in Desktop mode for now). Plus much more!
All these changes already arrived in the Preview branch back in March and in April, but there be dragons that way. Much more accessible now.
[store.steampowered.com]
The first trailer for The Long Walk, the latest Stephen King adaptation, starts out pretty cheerful and wholesome before fully revealing its much darker premise. It’s being directed by Francis Lawrence, best-known for his work on The Hunger Games series, and hits theaters on September 12th. It’s also not the only dystopic King film in the works, as Edgar Wright is making a new version of The Running Man due out in November.
Of the roughly 2 million crypto wallets that have bought Trump’s meme coin, a very lucky 58 of them have managed to make more than $10 million a piece off it. Everyone else hasn’t been as fortunate. In fact, 764,000 wallets have lost money on the coin.
Clearly, $TRUMP has been a resounding success. Expect to see more crypto grifting from the president and his buddies. That, my friends, is the art of the deal.
The company is teasing its next launch, presumably the Xperia 1 VII, which it will reveal on May 13th (well, in Japan — it’ll be the evening of May 12th in the US). The teaser shows off a familiar design and some Alpha camera features.
Last’s year’s Xperia 1 VI never launched in the US, and with no US time zones mentioned, a repeat of that looks likely too.
The Wanted Man will see Laurie play Felix Carmichael, the “elusive and powerful head of notorious British crime syndicate ‘The Capital,” according to Apple’s press release. After going to prison, Carmichael learns he’s been betrayed, and so decides to try to escape to exact revenge.
The show comes from George Kay, who also created the Idris Elba-starring Hijack. The Wanted Man’s other stars include Thandiwe Newton, Fionn Whitehead, and Gina McKee.
The company announced a new agreement with project developer Elementl Power to prepare three different sites for next-generation nuclear power plants. Google and other tech giants are putting their faith — and capital— in new nuclear technologies they hope can provide enough electricity for AI data centers.
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