TC Sottek

I just got an emergency alert in Manhattan for something happening 8 miles away at an ICE detention center in New Jersey, where state police and federal agents have been facing off against the public. Newark, NJ has “declared a curfew within a 1/2-mile radius” of Delaney Hall, with the apparent exception of media with “verified credentials.” Trump recently bragged about NJ police cooperating with the feds here.

It’s also one of the better intros to any James Bond film. The opening sequence in 007 First Light feels like it belongs in the official Bond catalog, with an original song written and composed by Lana Del Rey and David Arnold. Hell, I’d even place it as a top-10 Bond theme song. The game is out May 27th.

Trump has already dug such a deep hole with his conduct that he’s invented new bolgias even Dante couldn’t have imagined. His latest posting crime is this AI-generated video which shows him throwing Stephen Colbert in a dumpster. The First Amendment is hanging on by a thread thanks to this administration, and, yes, Brendan Carr remains a dummy.

The National Transportation Safety Board disabled its public docket today after realizing an image it released in connection with a 2025 UPS airline crash could be used to reconstruct audio from a cockpit voice recorder — something it’s prohibited by law from doing. The agency cites “advances in image recognition and computational methods” as the enabling factor. (h/t to Scott Manley for pointing this out.)

Wired reports that the Zuckerberg empire is prepared to hire a “Beach water person” who will serve as a lifeguard, among other things. We found the relevant job listing here, but are relying on Wired for the Zuckerberg family connection. In any event, this is certainly a job title that now exists — probably for the first time. The whole job listing smells AI-generated. Please let us know if you get a callback after applying for this position.

Yes, The Verge has been talking about the Trump phone every week, but we’re not surprised that we’re off the Mar-a-Lago VIP list. There’s still a lot more to find out when we finally get our hands on the thing — but for now, here’s basically what NBC has to report from its experience:

Last week we saw clips of a Cybertruck being rescued on a California beach by a minivan. It’s a funny situation that begs for immediate coverage — like this, from The Drive. But both The Drive and the cited YouTube video hedged that it could be fake. So we also became skeptical and looked for potential AI shenanigans, after examining the license plate on the Cybertruck in the video. I asked the California DMV for comment, and it just got back to us confirming that “the vehicle plate and registration are valid for the plate number you provided.” So, at least it seems like it’s a real car.

There are leaderboards for burning AI tokens, but now there are literal receipts. Sascha Corti, an engineer at Microsoft, just shared the implementation — from code designed by Chris Hutchinson (of course, with the help of Claude). Is it cute? Yes. Is it cursed? Also yes.