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    One of the Lego designers I interviewed quit to become a YouTuber.

    I’m still pretty proud of my big story on how Lego builds a new Lego set — but why not hear about the Lego Polaroid directly from its Lego designer? James May, who also recently worked on the BTS Dynamite and Hocus Pocus witches’ cottage sets, has now left the company to start a YouTube channel, design toys for UK schools, and also write for Brickset.

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    The case of the missing $400,000 worth of cute hand-cranked game consoles.

    Did they “fall off a truck”? Kinda! Playdate’s Cabel Sasser says the company lost two entire pallets of the tiny yellow Game Boy alternative in Las Vegas, when they were delivered to a nextdoor gas station instead of Playdate’s warehouse.

    It seems whoever signed for the handhelds may have gotten, ahem, creative: “Seven of them have been registered to people who live in north Las Vegas.” More at Game File and Game Developer.

    A photo of the Playdate.
    Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
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    Sean Hollister
    Bambu’s A1 Mini 3D printer gets a $50 price cut.

    I found its bed too small for the stuff I like to print — and I still need to re-test a few issues from my hands-on — but assuming they’re fixed, $400 is a great price for an auto-feeding four-color printer of any size at all.

    Bambu says the Mini can also detect additional kinds of errors now, like when nothing’s coming out of the nozzle or molten plastic is clumping on its end. And no, this wasn’t the printer that got recalled.

    The Bambu A1 Mini with AMS Lite.
    The Bambu A1 Mini with AMS Lite.
    Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
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    Sean Hollister
    Silicon Valley’s biggest city is training AI to detect homeless encampments.

    A decade ago, San Jose broke up “The Jungle,” reportedly the biggest homeless encampment in the US; the feds estimate San Jose still has the highest proportions of unsheltered homeless and homeless youth. It’s not unusual to see a sidestreet filled with sunbaked RVs, or tents lining a creek or underpass.

    Now, under new pressure to solve the homelessness emergency that’s never gone away, San Jose is quietly training AI to detect lived-in vehicles. More:

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    $10,000 fine shows why you should report ISPs who lie about serving your address.

    When I suggested you should challenge the FCC’s new broadband maps — which still let ISPs lie about coverage — some readers told me it was pointless. Well... a small ISP in Ohio is now getting fined $10,000 after it was caught lying! Here’s hoping we can make bigger lying ISPs feel the heat, too.

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    Sean Hollister
    Three years later, AT&T still won’t say how 70 million customers’ data got leaked.

    TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker has been pushing the company for answers, now that the massive cache of customer data is circulating once again. But although a known hacker claimed responsibility in 2021, AT&T still claims its systems weren’t breached at all — and yet it wouldn’t give Whittaker any other explanation for where the data came from.

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    Google is starting to roll out AI answers in search results — even if you haven’t opted-in.

    this is an experience on a “subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the U.S.,” a Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land.

    Last year, we wrote about the AI takeover of Google Search and how Google wants you to forget the 10 blue links — but back then, it was opt-in. Just this week, Google’s head of AI search became the company’s head of search, period.