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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Put a Micro Four Thirds lens on that GoPro.

The Mission 1 Pro ILS camera is coming out later this year, and this time it’s not stuck with the lens GoPro installed at the factory.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Claude Code redesign focuses on managing multiple AI agents.

Anthropic says the changes to the desktop app make it easier to work on multiple tasks at once, with a new sidebar for managing sessions, a drag-and-drop layout for customizing the app’s workspace, and a built-in terminal and file editor.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Google is cracking down on websites that block your browser’s back button.

An update to Google’s spam policies includes a new “malicious practice” that could get websites demoted: “Back button hijacking,” which is when a website stops users from leaving with their browser’s back button.

“Pages that are engaging in back button hijacking may be subject to manual spam actions or automated demotions, which can impact the site’s performance in Google Search results. To give site owners time to make any needed changes, we’re publishing this policy two months in advance of enforcement on June 15, 2026.”

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
BMW kills the iX in the US, but is still bullish on EVs.

The iX is the latest EV to meet an untimely death in America, where policy decisions are propelling us backward rather than forwards. But discontinuing the iX — first reported by BMW Blog (we love it when an enthusiast blog breaks news ) — isn’t the end of BMW’s EV journey in the US. The German automaker is shifting to its next-gen Neue Klasse platform, with the new iX3 set to arrive in just a few months.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
DJI will announce two new drones on April 23rd.

It’s a busy month for DJI. In addition to announcing a new Osmo Pocket model on the 16th and a new portable power solution on the 20th, the company is teasing an April 23rd reveal for a new drone lineup. Not much is known as leaks have been few and far between, but the new drones will be called the DJI Lito and Lito X1.

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel takes shots at the Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

In a podcast with David Senra, Spiegel says, “I think Meta needed to partner with [Essilor]Luxottica because the Meta brand, I think, is not something people want anywhere near their face.” He’s not wrong. I hear that all the time from y’all in my smart glasses coverage — and the facial recognition controversy hasn’t helped.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Recently, someone asked me if Silicon Valley was still into weird sex stuff…

I haven’t been keeping close track of the AI set’s various perversions — maybe they’re into chatbots, idk — but swinging, orgies, and open relationships were a major thing among the Gen X and older Millennial sets out here. Anyway, here’s an anonymous look back at sex in the Valley during the rise of Donald Trump and the #MeToo movement that followed.

I was a Silicon Valley sex pet

[Oakland Review of Books]