Antonio G. Di Benedetto
🎥 Here’s our video pitting the MacBook Neo against laptops from Asus, Lenovo, and Acer.
Last week I told you how much better the MacBook Neo is compared to similarly priced Windows laptops. Now, let me show you.
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Mia Sato
Madison Square Garden surveillance state.
A new Wired investigation details the lengths Jim Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks and venues like MSG and the Las Vegas Sphere, goes to to spy on perceived enemies, fans, and critics. The vast surveillance apparatus includes dossiers, social media posts, and facial recognition tech.
Last year I wrote about one fan who believes a t-shirt design he had made resulted in a lifetime ban from Dolan’s venues — and that facial recognition picked him out of the crowd.
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
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
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.
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.
Rachel Youn makes humanlike, kinetic floral sculptures out of used household electronics
Cath Virginia
Jess Weatherbed
Thomas Ricker
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.
Bluesky Service Interruption
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Richard Lawler
A new Android 17 beta reveals plans for “Pixel Glow” light animations.
Google just released the fourth beta for Android 17 today, and now, 9to5Google and Android Authority point out that it contains mentions of a new lighting feature that we might see on the next round of Pixel phones.
The Pixel Glow details say it “uses subtle light and color on the back of your device to inform you of important activity when it’s face down,” when interacting with Gemini, or when favorite contacts are calling.
Richard Lawler
Now the White House is reportedly preparing for access to Mythos.
Despite Anthropic’s ongoing battle with the Pentagon, Bloomberg reports that the White House Office of Management and Budget’s CIO told government officials that it is preparing for their agencies to use Anthropic’s cybersecurity-focused AI model.