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A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers

They should be fixed now. Hopefully.

Sean Hollister
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Jury is here. We are now finishing a video deposition from Friday about the OAI deal with MSFT.

Michael Wetter, the VP of corporate development at Microsoft, “We’ve recognized $9.5B of total revenue life to date” as of 9/8/2025. He notes there’s context: a $13B investment with OpenAI and Azure compute.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Anbernic’s rotating screen Android handheld is now available.

It may seem gimmicky, but according to Retro Dodo and Russ Crandall, Anbernic’s RG Rotate is an excellent handheld emulator with a unique design and more processing power than it needs. It’s now available through Anbernic’s online store for $87.99 for the black plastic version and $107.99 for the metal silver one, but both are temporarily discounted to $82.99 and $99.99, respectively.

Cameron Faulkner
Cameron Faulkner
I like my split ergo Joy-Con.

Dbrand’s new $20 Joy-Lock is simple, but great. I typically don’t ever want to use my Switch 2 Joy-Con, but that’s changed a bit since this holder lets them spread out for added comfort. The Joy-Lock looks and feels best when used with the company’s $20 grips (also included with the Killswitch), but they aren’t required.

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<em>The mechanism spaces the Joy-Con apart about as much as Nintendo’s stock Joy-Con grip.</em>
<em>Putting the Joy-Lock into Batarang mode requires pulling on the Joy-Con with a fair bit of force</em>.
<em>The Joy-Lock shells aren’t required, but they add some much-needed ergonomics to the Joy-Con controllers.</em>
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The mechanism spaces the Joy-Con apart about as much as Nintendo’s stock Joy-Con grip.
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The social web, now in Wordpress.com’s reader.

The reader, which already lets you track things like RSS feeds and podcasts, can now serve as a hub to track your Bluesky/AT Proto and Mastodon feeds, too. Over the second half of this month, the team is working on adding features like a shared composer to make posts across networks.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
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“I can’t get my head around why [Musk lawyer] Mr. Molo told me this was not a focus of the trial,” YGR says. “That’s what my ruling is based on.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
We are having an arugment about evidence.

Last week, an expert witness testified about the 2025 recapitalization of OpenAI. OpenAI has said they’d like to include the AG’s conclusions, since the removal of the profit cap was mentioned. YGR is annoyed; she told Musk’s team not to go into detail, and OpenAI didn’t object at the time. “We’re in mud,” she just said. The problem is that Musk’s team is treating it as the crux of the “breach” Musk is alleging.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The Ghost in the Shell has a premiere date.

Bandai has given its new Science Saru-produced The Ghost in the Shell reimagining a July 7th premiere date on Amazon Prime Video.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Commencement x AI, Carnegie Mellon edition.

While Gloria Caulfield’s invocation of AI at a commencement fell flat, over the weekend, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang received an honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree and a few ovations while delivering a nearly 20-minute speech about AI and robotics.

After joking that, “CMU students, like robots, take instruction one at a time,” he exhorted them to “help create a future more abundant, more capable, and more hopeful than the world you inherited.”

Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
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The journalist and author of I Am Not a Robot on her year living with AI and starting a new media company.

Nilay Patel