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Alexa, where’s my Star Trek Computer?

When Amazon launched its Alexa voice assistant, it envisioned a computer platform that could do anything for you. A decade later, the company is still trying to build it.

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Meta is pushing for the government to use its AI

It’s for the DA’s lawsuit over his probably illegal $1 million daily voter giveaway — I wonder if he’ll show up.

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Seriously, the company just keeps announcing and launching things that aren’t its next major console . A museum , an alarm clock , an experimental MMO , and now, a music streaming app . This is why I stopped predicting what Nintendo will do.

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Activision says Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 set new day one and opening weekend records, making it the biggest Call of Duty three-day opening weekend ever. It also had the highest total PC players during opening weekend in franchise history. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says “unit sales on PlayStation and Steam were also up over 60 percent year-over-year.”

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That’s from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on today’s Q1 2025 earnings call. Nadella also says that Xbox Game Pass set a new Q1 record for total revenue and average revenue per subscriber.

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CEO Satya Nadella just shared that the company’s AI business is set to surpass an annual run rate of $10 billion this quarter (Q2). He also commented on the state of its relationship with OpenAI , which we reported is straining .

Singh, now the fourth FTX executive to be sentenced after Sam Bankman-Fried , Caroline Ellison , and Ryan Salame, will receive three years of supervised release.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who has presided over the cases, said that Mr. Singh provided crucial assistance to the government and that he had played a “much more limited” role in the scheme than his colleagues had.

[ The New York Times ]

Meta’s X.com competitor now has 275 million monthly users, up from 200 million in August , according to Mark Zuckerberg. On Meta’s Q3 earnings call just now, he says Threads is seeing more than one million sign-ups per day and is on track to becoming “our next major social app.”

The time people spend in Threads “also continues to grow,” and Meta is working to “make it easier to stay up to date on topics,” adds CFO Susan Li.

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When dealing with an aging parent, Alexa was a great help — in both practical and emotionally important ways.

iPod co-creator and Nest founder Tony Fadell spoke—how should I say this— candidly about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco yesterday.

We are using this stuff, and we don’t even know how it works. And believe me, I understand. I’ve been doing AI for 15 years, people, I’m not just spouting shit. I’m not Sam Altman, okay? If we don’t have transparency on data, we don’t have have transparency on hallucinations, you are setting yourself up for a fucking disaster.

Going forward, when you submit a new game to Steam,  if your game installs a client side, kernel mode anti-cheat, you will need to fill out this new field . We will be going through old games and contacting partners with games that fall into this category.

Kernel level anti-cheat is divisive, to say the least; now you’ll know before you buy.

Nintendo’s buzzy new alarm clock has been jailbroken by a hacker named Gary who figured out the device’s boot sequence and found a way to exploit and run code through USB . It opens up the possibility for some interesting hacks, but to start we have cat pictures and plasma effects .

Gary previously created a Wii U DNS exploit and chimed in on dying Wii Us .

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During the Web Creator summit , Google Search VP Pandu Nayak responded to concerns about smaller sites getting outranked on the search engine , as reported by Mountain Weekly News founder Mike Hardaker:

Our goal is to surface great content for users. I suspect there is a lot of great content you guys are creating that we are not surfacing to our users, but I can’t give you any guarantees unfortunately. We are focused on things for our users, that is not going to change.

[ Mike Hardaker ]

After Elon Musk shared a critique of District Attorney Larry Krasner’s suit to stop his swing state giveaways, the DA received an “avalanche” of antisemitic attacks, according to a legal filing. Krasner’s home address was even shared on the site, the filing says, with an X user writing that “Krasner loves visitors.”

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An IT consultant, Nunzio Samuele Calamucci, allegedly breached Italy’s Interior Ministry databases on behalf of Equalize, a private investigations company run by a former Italian police officer.

Equalize used a computer virus to break into government databases, prosecutors claim.

In wiretaps, Calamucci, who worked for Equalize, allegedly boasted of having hacked the information of 800,000 people.

Several Italian politicians were among those who were hacked. And agents with Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, allegedly tried to buy information from Equalize.

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The Twistsaber is exactly what it sounds like — a lightsaber prop you twist to extend and retract, with an ingenious nesting screw design that makes it open and close incredibly fast. The files aren’t free, and it doesn’t light up, but there’s nothing else quite like it.

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Qualcomm announced its newest flagship mobile SoC just last week and as usual, Xiaomi will be the first one to put that chipset in a phone. Both the 15 and 15 Pro use the 8 Elite, and the 15 Pro pairs it with an absolutely massive 6100mAh battery. They’re only launching in China for now, but fingers crossed for a global launch in 2025.

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On Google’s Q3 earnings call , Wells Fargo analyst Ken Gawrelski asked:

Why doesn’t it make sense to have two completely different search experiences? One, an agent-like answers engine and then, two, a links-based more traditional search engine? You could innovate on both and let the consumer decide.

Sundar replied: “I do think having two surfaces for us allows us to experiment more.”

But Google rep Chris Pappas tells us he’s referring to two different AI surfaces — AI Overviews and the Gemini App — not good ol’ link-based search .

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