Dan Crenshaw was supposed to be the future of the GOP. Instead, he proved politicians really can be too online.
Astronauts aboard the ISS are getting new custom HP laptops, an upgrade to an orbital compute setup that already includes HP workstations and printers. But is the company getting a little ahead of itself?
Nathan Friend:
“along with HP printers designed to work in microgravity”
I’d love it if HP designed printers to work in regular gravity first, thank you
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Dreame plans to build everything from hypercars and hair dryers to China’s Elon Musk. It’ll either win big or go down in flames.
The rechargeable Loop and Card trackers were rated to last six months before topping up, based on controlled tests. But after over a year of real-world testing, Chipolo “can now confidently say that the battery lasts up to one year on a single full charge, and in some cases even more.”
Fairphone reports its smartphone shipments grew by 42 percent in 2025, no mean feat when the rest of the industry has been fairly flat. I thought last year’s Fairphone 6 was a huge step forward in quality, and it’s a good time for its efforts to expand into the US.
Anthropic’s cybersecurity-focused AI model found 271 bugs in Firefox 150, Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley said, calling Claude Mythos Preview “every bit as capable” as top security researchers. Reassuringly, Mozilla hasn’t “seen any bugs that couldn’t have been found by an elite human researcher,” either.
Once championed by the Trump family after heavily bankrolling their crypto ambitions, Justin Sun is now unhappy with his chosen bedfellows. Suing Trump-linked World Liberty Financial, Sun alleges in a federal lawsuit that his former allies maliciously froze his $75 million investment, denouncing the platform as “World Tyranny.”
If I didn’t already have a perfectly good laptop, I’d be saving up my money for this one. (Saving, not preordering, because I always wait for the reviews.)
Also, we’ve got photos and impressions of Framework’s couch keyboard now.
Following Nevada’s settlement on Friday, West Virginia and Alabama have settled with company to address alleged child safety issues, as reported by Bloomberg. Last week, Roblox announced a bunch of new safety updates, including dedicated Kids accounts with increased restrictions.
Governor JB Pritzker signed an executive order today dealing specifically with prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. State employees were already barred from using insider information for personal gain, but this executive order specifically bans them from using it to make bets on prediction markets.
I wrote about that — and other Catholic concerns — at my friend Rusty’s newsletter while he took the day off.
[Today in Tabs]
