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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Google is adding a feature for sharing your Gemini chats through Drive.

The new Google Workspace feature, rolling out to users starting June 3rd, adds an option to share a snapshot of Gemini conversations using Google Drive’s sharing interface. As Neowin reports, whoever you share Gemini chats with can continue them, but “those new changes do not alter the owner’s original thread.”

A screenshot of the Google Drive sharing window in Gemini
Image: Google
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Please don’t touch the New Glenn rocket fragments.

Blue Origin has warned that “debris from our recent hotfire anomaly may wash ashore in the coming days/weeks,” and says that people shouldn’t touch or approach it “for your safety.” If you do encounter any wreckage, you can report the location here:

Call: 1-321-222-4355
Email: MissionRecovery@blueorigin.com

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Atari’s next mechanical watch collab celebrates Missile Command.

Following an Asteroids-themed watch in early 2025, Atari has once again collaborated with Nubeo on a new mechanical timepiece now featuring the Missile Command battlefield recreated on its face in all its pixelated glory. It’s available now for $500 and limited to 100 pieces for each of its four color variants.

1/3Image: Nubeo
Hundreds of prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike

After the Wikimedia Foundation abruptly dissolved a beloved team of engineers, Wikipedia’s volunteers are angry — and discussing how they can push back.

Mia Sato
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Aqara’s new smart locks work with almost any door.

The Aqara U500 lineup includes three separate models. There’s a “Rim Lock” for standard entrance and interior doors that doesn’t require a mortise, a “Gate Lock” for metal grille-style doors, and even a lock that’s designed for glass doors. They’re only available in Europe for now though.

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Aqara Smart Glass Door Lock U500
The Aqara Smart Glass Door Lock U500 doesn’t require any drilling.
Image: Aqara
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Cherry is the new orange.

According to leaker and journalist Sonny Dickson, that is, who shared photos of iPhone 18 dummy units — though these look like Pro models, due this fall, with the regular 18 likely launching next spring. Dickson got last year’s iPhone 17 colors almost dead-on, meaning this brand new cherry color is probably accurate.

Photo of four iPhone 18 series dummies in blue, black, white, and cherry
Photo of four iPhone 18 series dummies in blue, black, white, and cherry
Photo of four iPhone 18 series dummies in blue, black, white, and cherry
Photo of four iPhone 18 series dummies in blue, black, white, and cherry
1/4Image: Sonny Dickson
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket just blew up during testing in Florida.

Recently grounded after issues with its third mission, the New Glenn rocket intended to launch the NG-4 mission has suffered an “anomaly,” exploding at Cape Canaveral during a hotfire test just after 9PM ET.
Blue Origin said, “All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more.”

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
ABC says FCC’s early review of its broadcast licenses is “a threat to the First Amendment.”

As Deadline reports, ABC filed early renewal applications for its broadcast licenses “under protest” on Thursday, along with a letter condemning the FCC’s demand for the premature license renewal. ABC called it “unlawful, arbitrary, and unconstitutional,” stating:

Simultaneously forcing every station in a media company’s portfolio to file premature license renewal applications is not a regulatory tool. It is an extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion directed at disfavored editorial voices, which sends a clear warning to every broadcaster in America. This is a threat to the First Amendment that this Commission and this proceeding must not be permitted to normalize.

Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Court lets Texas’ app store age verification law take effect, for now.

In a brief order, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Texas to move forward with implementing its App Store Accountability Act while the case seeking to block it plays out. It’s an early test of a method that is being considered across several states, and in Congress.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
“Don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI.”

That’s what Amazon exec Dave Treadwell told employees after the company shuttered an internal leaderboard tracking which staff members use AI the most, the Financial Times reports:

The decision came after the tool led some workers to assign AI agents — autonomous bots that can take actions on behalf of users — to carry out needless tasks in an apparent attempt to climb the rankings.

As computing becomes more expensive, employee “toxenmaxxing” reportedly increased costs at Amazon.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Lots of games to think about.

Today’s Thinky Direct 2026 featured more than 40 trailers and announcements about upcoming games featuring puzzles and problem solving. Not a bad way to kick off the upcoming run of big gaming events.