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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Roblox will pay $10 million to Nevada as part of a settlement.

The company, which is the subject of multiple state lawsuits over alleged child safety issues, will also be required to implement a “default content mode” for users who haven’t had their age verified — which is basically what Roblox announced on Monday.

The settlement was reached after Nevada approached the company ahead of a lawsuit, Reuters reports.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Did Home Assistant take down this robot lawnmower’s cloud?

European Mammotion owners took to Reddit to complain that their expensive machines have been offline for three days. Mammotion says a fix is in the works, but hasn’t said what happened. One Redditor claims the outage stems from a bug in the Mammotion Home Assistant integration he had built. We’ve reached out to the company for the full story.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Our best look yet at the pro version of DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4.

The same day DJI announced the new Osmo Pocket 4, leaker Igor Bogdanov shared two new videos of the rumored pro version on X. The first video appears to be an official leaked teaser from DJI briefly showing the Osmo Pocket 4P’s dual cameras in motion, while in the second the camera is controlled using a wireless touchscreen remote.

A screenshot showing the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P’s screen and dual cameras.
The dual camera pro version of the Osmo Pocket 4 may be called the Osmo Pocket 4P.
Screenshot: X
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Coachella week two kicks off tonight.

The YouTube livestream starts at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. This is your chance to catch anything you missed last weekend (Tomora wasn’t on my radar), and for artists who had some issues to iron them out (sound for Slayyyter’s set was rough). Here’s the schedule for tonight:

Coachella livestream schedule for Friday, April 17th.
Image: Coachella / Goldenvoice
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
EVs are more affordable than gas cars in the UK now.

According to Autotrader data spotted by The Guardian, new EVs now cost on average £785 (about $1,065) less than gas cars. The UK’s EV grant, its zero-emission vehicle mandate, and more competition from brands like BYD have helped drive down prices, reducing a major barrier to EV adoption.

Peloton, stay in your lane

Multiple CEOs have insisted it’s not ‘just a fitness tech company,’ but maybe it should be.

Victoria Song
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
White Lotus, but cheaper.

Google now lets you track price drops of your favorite hotel and receive email alerts if rates drop during your chosen dates:

To get started on desktop, head to Search and look up a specific hotel by name, then tap the new price tracking toggle. On mobile, you’ll find the price tracking option under the Prices tab after you search.

Ghost orchid in the machine

Rachel Youn makes humanlike, kinetic floral sculptures out of used household electronics

Cath Virginia
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
This startup sells dead company data for AI training.

SimpleClosure, a startup that helps struggling companies shut down, launched a new tool for businesses that want to sell off old code, Slack messages, emails, and workspace information to data-hungry AI companies, as reported by Forbes:

The demand for this real-world enterprise data has spurred on a new industry of ‘reinforcement learning gyms,’ which specialize in using defunct company data to build simulated environments where AI agents can practice navigating real workplaces.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day.

As a result, users have been experiencing “intermittent interruptions in service for their feeds, notifications, threads and search,” Bluesky says. The company first got a report of “intermittent app outages” at around 2:40AM ET this morning.

Bluesky says it has not seen “any evidence of unauthorized access to private user data” due to the attack. It will share another update no later than 1PM ET on Friday.