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Ever heard that scratching outside your bedroom window at night and just chalked it up to the wind? Well, that was actually the tech news. Its goal is to unsettle you. Apple may finally be planning to release its long awaited HomePad something like a HomePod and an iPad smashed together in fall 2026, according to leaker Kotami, who says they saw prototypes in person. If they are a person, it must have been amazing. Kosutami and the original Germ Boy Mark Gurman at Bloomberg say say that HomePad will feature a magsafe like snap to wall mount so you can presumably move the 7 inch square shaped display between different points in your home if you can't afford to buy multiple scrub. Gurman says the device was going to launch sooner, but it was just recently delayed again to a fall launch since AI upgraded, Siri still isn't ready, but it will definitely be ready by then, mostly because she's powered by Gemini now. There comes a time in any group project when you throw up your hands and let the smart one finish it. But Apple isn't finished with product releases. This according to Gurman and others with the MacBook Neo launched Apple's prepping more Ultra tier products including an M5 Ultra Max Studio, Apple Watch Ultra 4, the first foldable iPhone, ladies and gentlemen, a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro and the previously leaked camera equipped AirPods, which I'm still not totally sold on, but I'll just buy them anyway. But honestly, they can release whatever they want as long as they keep pumping out these David Lynchian tiktoks of lemons and limes facetiming each other like they're like us. We're the citrus squeeze me. The Open Claw hype train has gone international. A district in Shenzhen, China is drafting public policy to encourage professional platforms to offer free open claw services with subsidies of up to 2 million yuan for development. In response, stocks linked to the extremely popular AI assistant jumped over 9% and tech giants Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu have have all rushed to roll out deployment tools with developers from these companies holding a public event outside the 10 Cent Building to help people set up OpenClaw for free. Over in New York, more than 700 people packed a Manhattan venue for Clawcon, where sponsors demoed deployment tools and the lobster themed buffet put most weddings to shame. Except Indian weddings. They're next level if you're not aware of the hype, OpenClaw is an open source AI personal assistant that started as a weekend project and went viral almost immediately. Like Floatplane. Despite the love, openclaw might be one of the biggest security liabilities in open source software right now. Security researchers have flagged prompt injections, supply chain vulnerabilities, and tens of thousands of publicly exposed instances with unsafe defaults as the three biggest risks. Over 300 skills on OpenClaw's plugin marketplace, Clawhub turned out to be straight up malware, including Credential Harvesters and one crypto trading tool that opened a reverse shell to the attacker's server. But it's not just tech noobs exposing themselves to these risks. Y Combinator leadership recently showed up to a podcast recording dressed like dickheads in full lobster outfits. In all honesty, the tool must be genuinely amazing for people to put themselves at so much risk to use it, which you could see even looking at its GitHub repo. OpenClaw has almost 290,000 stars on GitHub, which is insane when you learn that the Linux kernel, which runs basically everything in the world, is only 222,000. Cool number, though.
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Not if you use my distro.
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Mine has more Nintendo's lawyers went absolutely sicko mode this week and filed a lawsuit against the US Government, proving that all those other lawsuits were just Nintendo's lawyers practicing for their own personal Super Bowl. The company filed a complaint with the Court of international trade on March 6, demanding a full refund of the tariffs it has paid, plus interest at an exceptional rate. Nintendo's trying to reclaim their share of the more than $200 billion the US government collected thanks to last year's tariffs, which the Supreme Court recently ruled were illegally imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers act, which surprisingly, is a law intended to help solve international emergencies, not create them. You were the voted one. February's ruling didn't automatically guarantee refunds, so now Nintendo is going to court to get its money back. While they're at it, they might have some other legal bones to pick with the Trump administration. The official White House Twitter account had recently used artwork from the dystopian farming horror game Pocopia in a Maga meme without permission and back in September, the DHS posted a video that set Ice Raids to the famous Smosh original song Gotta Catch em All. Also f Cking. Also without permission. I think they might wanna start training their legal Pokemon roster because Nintendo's already got a legendary Phoenix Wright. Use filibuster. That's enough. Come back now. James. Use sponsor Segway. I'm a Pokemon now. Oh.
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Oh no.
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Spring break forever.
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The quick bits like the boogeyman wait for you to fall asleep to come out and steal your left sock. Just the left one. It's not the sock stealing that's meant to bother you. It's the wondering why?
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Why didn't he want my other sock?
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Security researcher Andy Nguyen got Linux running on a PS5, effectively turning Sony's console into a Steam machine. And to prove it works, he ran GTA 5 Enhanced Edition at a solid 60 FPS with ray tracing. There is a small catch though. The exploit only works on very early firmware versions. So if your PS5 has ever been updated past version 2.0, you're out of luck. The UN says a full public release is coming before GTA 6, which gives us a possible release window between tomorrow and literally anytime after that. Because GTA 6 isn't ever happening. Get it through your skull.
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The whole trailer was cgi.
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Don't you get it? Samsung is restarting production of Nvidia's RTX 3060, a card discontinued back in 2024 on its 8 nanometer node, according to Korean news outlet Hankyunk. Hank Yunk Nvidia's newer cards run on TSMC's 4 nanometer node, which is maxed out making AI chips, so dusting off the old Samsung production line shouldn't eat into Blackwell production at all. This is great news for budget gamers, probably, but it's like being stuck on a space station and hearing you'll get a fresh delivery of food paste too. I need to get home. My children are probably finding a new dad by now because I'm grandpa's age. Relativity no X has added a new toggle that lets users block Grok from modifying their uploaded photos. That's good. This comes after the chatbot was infamously used to generate a mountain of deepfake nudes earlier this year. X's initial move was to try and restrict the use of Grok's non consensual deepfake image generation features on only to paying users, which managed to both miss the point and not work. After three months of S tier level software engineering, they finally released their ultimate solution, the toggle. Unfortunately, the Verge tested it and found they could still edit protected images by simply opening them in the Grok app. I guess after firing huge swaths of Twitter software engineers, X still hasn't managed to hire any that know how to turn something off.
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It's lost knowledge the Mayans knew how to do it.
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Qualcomm, which bought Arduino last year, just announced the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single board computer aimed at AI robotics. It's packing a Dragon Wing IQ8 processor with a dedicated NPU, 16 gigs of RAM, and it's compatible with both Arduino Uno shields and Raspberry PI hats. The idea is that your robot brain and motor control can live on one board instead of a mess of devices talking to each other. It's slated for our Q2 2026 release and at a price of just under $300. Which seems okay. Arduino, are you okay? Say a funny Italian thing if they're hurting you.
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Ballerina Cappuccino oh God.
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And the London clinic has performed the UK's first remote telesurgery. A surgeon in London removed a prostate cancer patient's prostate while the patient was 1500 miles away in Gibraltar with just 60 milliseconds of lag in what medical analysts are calling an epic gamer moment. If you can do that with 60 milliseconds of lag, you should be getting ahead of. You can shut up about Call of Duty, the patient said it was a no brainer to be the guinea pig and said he felt great just a few days after the operation. This isn't the first time remote surgery has been done globally, but it does show the tech is maturing to the point where specialists treating patients in remote areas could become less of a proof of concept and more of a just normal thing you can do if you're rich, the patient said. They've gone from being in the championship to to the Champions League as far as surgeons are concerned, which I'm assuming means something to British people.
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Happy for him. That must be good, I guess.
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G', day, mate. You know, it would mean everything to me, you coming back on Wednesday for more tech news. Bear in mind that if you don't, it may haunt you and by extension, your family. This may sound like I'm threatening you into watching TechLink, but that's because the tech news threatened to haunt me and my family if I didn't.
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We're all in a position.
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We're all victims.