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AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco
Remember that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters “systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free”? It was Anthropic’s experiment, with setup handled by a startup named Andon Labs (which also built the hardware and software integration). But for th … ⌘ Read more

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Latin America’s Central Banks Establish Digital Payments Used By Hundreds of Millions
175 million people in Brazil now use its instant-payment system “Pix”, developed by the country’s central bank for real-time payments using QR codes or keys, and American Banker notes that the central banks of Argentina and Costa Rica also have developed their own widely used digital systems for instant pa … ⌘ Read more

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Judge Pauses Arizona’s Prosecution of Kalshi, Bars Arizona from Regulating Prediction Markets
Arizona state prosecutors allege Kalshi is running an illegal gambling operation, charging the prediction market with 20 “wagering” misdemeanors. But Friday a federal judge “temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against predictive market operators,” reports the Associated … ⌘ Read more

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Oxygen Made From Moon Dust For First Time
“Breathable oxygen has been created from Moon dust,” reports the Telegraph, “in a world first that paves the way for a lunar base.”

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin ““announced this week that it had developed a reactor that could successfully release oxygen from lunar soil by using an electric current.”

Almost half of Moon dust — the thin layer of rock that blankets the lunar surface — is oxyge … ⌘ Read more

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Amazon Luna Ends Its Support for Purchased Games and Third-Party Subscriptions
Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service is making some changes, reports Engadget:

It’s no longer possible to buy Ubisoft+ and Jackbox Games subscriptions or standalone games through Luna. Amazon will automatically cancel any active subscriptions bought through Luna at the end of customers’ next billing cycle. If you have … ⌘ Read more

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Researchers Build a Talking Robot Guide Dog to Help Visually Impaired People Navigate
“Only about 2% of visually impaired people in the United States use guide dogs,” notes StudyFinds.com, “partly because breeding and training takes years and fewer than half the dogs in training actually graduate.”

But someday there could be another option:

What if you could ask your guide dog where … ⌘ Read more

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AMD’s GAIA Now Allows Building Custom AI Agents Via Chat, Becomes “True Desktop App”
In addition to their efforts around the Lemonade SDK itself, AMD software engineers working on their AI initiatives continue to be investing quite a bit into the Lemonade-using GAIA, the project that originally stood for “Generative AI Is Awesome”. AMD’s GAIA now allows building your own custom AI agents via chatting with GAIA as well as becoming a “true desktop app” so it’s easier to deploy across Windows, Linux, and macOS envi … ⌘ Read more

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Omissions, Deceptions, Lying. The New Yorker Asks: Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?
A 17,000-word expose in the New Yorker reveals “several executives connected to OpenAI have expressed ongoing reservations about Altman’s leadership.” Reporters Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spoke to “a hundred people with firsthand knowledge of how Altman conducts business,” including current and former OpenAI employees and boa … ⌘ Read more

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First US Newsroom Strike For AI Protections Staged by ProPublica’s Journalists
It’s the first time a major U.S. newsroom has gone on strike partly to demand protections from AI-related layoffs, according to a report from Nieman Lab.

They noted that one of the picketer’s signs read “Thoughts not bots,” :

On Wednesday, roughly 150 members of the Propublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsr … ⌘ Read more

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The AI RAM Shortage is Also Driving Up SSD Prices
In 2024 the Verge’s consumer tech reporter paid $173 for a WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD. But “now that same SSD costs $649…”

“Like with RAM, demand from the AI industry is swallowing up supply from a limited number of manufacturers, leading to a drastic reduction in the inventory that’s available to consumers” — and skyrocketing prices:

The price on my WD Black drive nearl … ⌘ Read more

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Two-Week Social Media ‘Detox’ Erases a Decade Age-Related Decline, Study Finds
Critics say social media is engineered to be as addictive as tobacco or gambling, writes the Washington Post — while adding that “the science has been moving in parallel with the court’s recognition.”

A growing body of research links heavy social media use not only to declines in mental health but to measurable cognitive … ⌘ Read more

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Firefox vs. Chrome: Which Performs Better on a Linux Laptop?
Phoronix staged “a showdown” between Firefox and Chrome, testing them both on an Intel Panther Lake laptop running Ubuntu 26.04.

JetStream 3.0 was announced at the end of March as the latest major web browser benchmark. This updated version of JetStream is focused on intensive portions of modern JavaScript and WebAssembly web applications… Google Chrome … ⌘ Read more

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The End of ‘Star Trek’? Every Single Series Now Cancelled
“Every single Star Trek series has been canceled…” reports ScreenRant. “There is “no Star Trek in production or greenlit for the first time in nearly a decade.”

While there were five active Star Trek series just a few years ago, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds filmed its fifth and final season in the fall of 2025, and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy “wrap … ⌘ Read more

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D7VK 1.7 Brings More Improvements For Legacy Direct3D On Vulkan
D7VK as the open-source project that began as a fork of DXVK in adding support for Direct3D 7 atop Vulkan has with time extended its range to also supporting Direct3D 6, 5, and 3 APIs. Out today is D7VK 1.7 in continuing to better support those vintage versions of Microsoft’s Direct3D API… ⌘ Read more

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RISC-V BeagleV Ahead Single Board Computer To See Working HDMI With Linux 7.1
The BeagleV Ahead is an open-source RISC-V single board computer S(BC) built around the quad-core TH1520 SoC. With the Linux 7.1 mainline kernel there is HDMI display support coming now that the Device Tree bits have been added… ⌘ Read more

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US Demands Reddit Unmask ICE Critic, Summons Firm To Grand Jury
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After failing to obtain information through a summons issued (PDF) to Reddit, the government reportedly issued a subpoena demanding that Reddit provide the informati … ⌘ Read more

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