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Nintendo Switch 2 Price Increase, Musk Faces Escalated Criminal Probe, Meta’s AI Bone Structure Analysis + more!
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does occur to me occasionally that humanity has built machines that produce with terrible confidence, inane tripe and cod swallup one hesitates to call this progress. And yet forward we march. Nintendo is raising the global prices of the Switch 2. Starting September 1, prices in the US and Canada will jump by 50 bucks, while Europeans can delight in the strength of their currency, only seeing a €30 increase, which I think is pretty close to being 50 bucks anyway. Haven't checked. 48.35 Canadian? Okay, pretty close. The Japanese, however, were hit the hardest, as every Switch configuration will cost more, not just the Switch too. Nintendo Switch Online is also going up in Japan and South Korea starting July 1. Nintendo blames the changes on market conditions, which is another way of saying the AI boom has been hoovering up every memory chip on earth and feeding them to chatbots that have mostly helped. People will write LinkedIn posts. LinkedIn users are happy though. To be fair to Nintendo, though, Sony already hiked the PS5 price back in March, so Nintendo's just following suit. Xbox also had some price hikes recently, but no one buys those, so unsurprisingly, Nintendo expects sales to dip 17% compared to last year. Well, at least it seems like they know what they're doing, and that's reassuring. French prosecutors have escalated their probe into Elon Musk and the platform formerly known as Twitter to to a full criminal investigation. The probe kicked off in January 2025 over allegations of Musk using X for political manipulation, and it then ramped up when Grok went Mecha Hitler and started generating deepfakes and CSAM at the end of last year. Very cool. This prompted French officials to raid X's Paris offices in February and issue a summons for for Musk and former ex CEO Linda Yaccarino to appear in Paris on April 20. Unsurprisingly, both of them no showed. But Musk did make sure to let everyone know what he thought of the summons, tweeting that the prosecutors had intellectual disabilities, but not phrasing it like that at all. And definitely phrasing it in the way you know he would have said it. The U.S. justice Department is refusing to cooperate with the investigation, claiming the French government is wrongfully regulating an American social media platform. Hey, if the French want to regulate our companies, they need to come over here and do a regime change like a normal country. Meta is rolling out an AI tool that scans your kids bones why are they scanning their bones? In order to figure out their ages? It's not weird. The company is reportedly launching this as a form of age verification that doesn't require ID or or facial scanning, instead using photos to extract things like height, posture and bone structure. The rollout is likely response to a preliminary EU finding that Meta is violating the Digital Services act by failing to keep under 13s off of its platforms, and also probably that recent New Mexico ruling that found Meta liable for misleading users about child safety. Critics have largely dismissed the whole bones based approach as AI phrenology aimed at appeasing regulators rather than actually keeping kids off the platform. Meta probably wants those kids on the platform. Meta, however, claims that its goal is to limit the cases of children circumventing facial scanning technology using sophisticated techniques like drawing on a fake mustache, which Wired reported was exactly how a 12 year old convinced a facial scanning based age verification system that he was 50, an age at which many children famously grow mustaches. I mean, now if those kids want to get past age verification, they'll need at least two other kids and a trench coat. 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All right, I confess I am awfully fond of the quick bits, and I shall endeavor not to be greedy. Why? Why? TCL showed off a display panel with a refresh rate of just 0.01 Hz. That's one frame every 100 seconds, as opposed to 1 Hz, which is just one frame every second. LG only just started rolling out those 1 Hz panels, but TCL wanted to top the competition and move 100 times slower. The display uses 12 independent zones to swap between 120Hz and basically a static image. Yeah, and TCL estimates it could add over an hour of video playback. It's the ideal display for watching paint dry in stunning 4K. The hacking group Shiny Hunters has infiltrated the widely used Canvas learning portal for thousands of schools, including prestigious organizations like Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton. The group claims it stole around 275 million records from Canvas's parent company, Instructure, including names, emails, and student IDs. They've now given affected schools until May 12 to negotiate a settlement before the data gets leaked. The silver lining for a lot of those kids, they might get their info leaked, is that it happened during finals week. So now they have a few extra days to try not to fail. Calculus 2, eh? Might be worth it. OpenAI launched GPT 5.5 Cyber, a version of 5.5 with fewer guardrails for vetted defenders. In its Trusted Access for Cyber program, it handles bug hunting, malware, reverse engineering, and penetration testing. It comes a month after Sam. Why am I laughing? I can't. What? It comes a month after Sam Altman criticized Anthropic for gating Mythos, calling it fear based marketing. At this point, Altman and Amaday are performing anything you can do at each other across San Francisco. And everyone's watching. Nobody show this to Lin Manuel Miranda. I don't want to give him any ideas. An average reporter was run over by a Yarbo lawnmower for science after researcher Andreas Makris hijacked it from 6,000 miles away. These $5,000 robots ship with hard coded root passwords, allowing hackers to override safety stops and steal wi fi credentials. Now, despite Macris reporting the flaw, Yarbo initially called the back door a deliberate design decision. They have now publicly said they are taking action by giving the 200 pound robot with spinning blades a password. Seems like a good idea. And I have an even better idea. Why don't you come back here on Monday for more tech news and I will stop doing this. Accent. I'm so sorry. I apologize to all the uk Love ya.
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