Sean Hollister

It self-IDs as a “Valve Steambox,” fires up a Steam screen, makes Steam hardware sounds, and natively pairs with Steam Controllers! Intriguing components inside, like a presence-sensing front panel that fires up its iconic ring light. It appears to have a VirtualLink USB-C port, so it probably helped Valve designers test wired VR headsets before that standard failed.

Skip to 8:11 if you don’t want the preamble.

If Nintendo is seriously going to lock the new Chat button behind a recurring fee in 2026, even turn it into a glorified ad for Nintendo’s subscription (yes, that’s a thing), I will happily pay to make the button disappear. Dbrand, you listening?

Or just let players remap the thing!

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Am I surprised that a company which pivoted from consumer and still assembles products in pricy Silicon Valley isn’t making more? No — but it shows that Skydio’s still small. The global drone market was already measured in millions back in 2017; DJI has sold over 300,000 agricultural drones alone.

Today, as Intel adds its newer XeSS 2 to GitHub, it still contains the line:

“We don’t have an update on open source,” Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford tells The Verge.