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An all new season of the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney.
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Mom talk has just been blowing up. Whitney and Jen are on Dancing with the Stars. Taylor is a bachelorette. Saying that out loud is crazy. Like that is huge. But all the cool opportunities could pull us apart. It's causing issues in everyone's marriage. My whole world is falling apart right now. It's chaos.
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Watch the Hulu original series the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney. For bonus subscribers, terms apply.
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What's that? Tech industry. You can do whatever you want. You're immune to the laws of God and man. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We're gonna stop by talking about your activities in a kind of sassy way. Oh, it's over for you. YouTube is now the world's largest asterisk media company by revenue. YouTube's $62 billion in 2025 revenue beat even Disney, which came just short at $61 billion. Although it it does exclude Disney's theme parks and cruises and merch. YouTube won't catch up until they do that too. I don't even wanna imagine it. Jake Paul Cruz to enter, you have to go through MrBeast's mouth. Research firm Moffett Nathanson. Wow, that sounds like a fake name. Also estimates that the platform pulled in 40.4 billion in ad revenue in 2025, more than Disney, NBC, Paramount and Warner Brothers combined. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan stated that their current market position comes from YouTube's ability to bring together human storytelling and the best of technology. Which sounds a lot better than saying we pumped that platform full of ads and AI slop and it made us a ton of money. I guess we're rich now. Part of that making money strategy was doing things like increasing the amount of unskippable ads people see alongside their rollout of anti ad blocker technology. While the lion's share of revenue comes from ads, YouTube is clearly pushing subscriptions too, with YouTube, Premium, YouTube Music, NFL Sunday Ticket and YouTube TV all driving growth. The report also credits YouTube's heavy investment in AI tools, which gives creators the ability to generate slop content faster than ever, helping them take shorts to 200 billion views a day. Take that, TikTok. You're not better than us. That's YouTube. But some of the features YouTube has added are helpful, like this conversational AI feature on smart TVs that'll let you ask questions mid video, like what ingredients are in a recipe? What's the meaning behind these song lyrics and would you still love me if I was a worm? Intel has announced the Core Ultra 200s plus lineup, a direct refresh of Arrow Lake aimed at winning back the the gaming market. In case you forgot, Arrow Lake's disastrous gaming latency issues when it first launched tanked its reputation with PC builders, and so intel decided it needed to begin its apology tour. This mid range refresh features the core Ultra 7 270k plus packing 24 cores and the Ultra 5 to 50k plus with 18 at a price point of 300 bucks and 200 bucks respectively, it's clear that intel has done some deep soul search if you consider soul searching to be realizing that AMD's 3D V cache stays winning. Interestingly, intel says these new chips are their fastest gaming desktop processors ever. They now have a 270k that is faster than their existing flagship 285k. And I gotta say, as a lover of sequential value scaling, this makes me furious. The refreshed Arrow Lake chips aren't just faster, they come with new features meant to reduce frame time and latency bottlenecks, increase instructions per clock in specific games to boost performance and support faster DDR5. Out of the box it's no wonder Reddit commenters view this as a great deal, a better deal if you know, we could have some affordable RAM to put alongside it. Like right now you got a cheap top tier beef patty, but the burger bun costs five times as much. Which seems like a problem unless you go carnivore like me. I don't need buns. I always have some kind of meat in my hands. Check out this guy's buns. Some people like buns. I like the meat. Meta has acquired Multbook, the Reddit style social network for open claw AI agents, not for people that went viral earlier this year, dropping any remaining pretense that Facebook is still for humans. They're just waiting until they can go mask off. Multbook's creators will join Meta Superintelligence labs, where they'll presumably come up with applications for their always on agent directory that are more practical than automating rage bait posts. Axios, which broke the story, reported that existing Molt Book users can continue letting their agents use the platform, though Meta signaled that's likely going to change. While some big names in the AI world like Andrej Karpathy hyper hyped it up to be a singularity event, much of the viral activity around Moltbook was people using it to artificially increase the value of meme coins for pump and dump schemes, which was possible because the whole thing was incredibly insecure. The acquisition is another step in Meta CEO and puppet yearning to be a real boy. Mark Zuckerberg's strategy to flood the world with more soulless bots so he can feel more normal when you wish upon a soul, he's like, someday everyone will have dead eyes like me. On an earnings call last year, Zuckerberg stated his intention for every business to have a business AI wearing a suit, just like they have an email address and website. While on the consumer side, people are speculating that agents would find deals, manage bookings, and shop on your behalf. So to translate this from corporate, the end game is agents making and posting the ads, agents looking at the ads and buying the stuff in the ads, and then the middle Zuckerberg is managing all that infrastructure and charging advertisers for it. And what will the humans do? Nothing. The agents don't need us here for this. They're just fine. We'll be in the metaverse. No, it's not dead. I play Beat Saver every night with our sponsor.
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Oh, man, tech industry. You're looking a little woozy. Just can't handle all this sass, can you? Well, there's more where that came from. Quick bits go. They're like Pokemon. Apple's MacBook Neo officially launched today, and Windows PC makers are terrified. Reviews are glowing. Calling the a18 Pro powered budget laptop an absolute game changer for everyday users. Not the people like you, mostly. Okay, it's the normal people. It's going so well that Even Asus Co CEO Sy admitted during a Tuesday earnings call that the $600 price point is a shock to the entire industry. He simultaneously also tried downplaying the Neo as just a content consumption tablet with a keyboard. Yeah, and a pizza is just bread with stuff on it. And it changed the world. Hisense is facing backlash for forcing non skippable ads on users while they're doing basic TV functions like switching HDMI inputs, changing channels and navigating the home screen. This is crazy. Apparently an update to the Vita OS used on these TVs caused the spot tests to completely bypass user privacy settings. While Hisense claims the tests were limited to Spain, users from the uk, Germany and Australia have shared similar experiences. What? You want content without watching any ads? That's not how it works now. It's like Mama always said, you gotta eat your veggies before dessert. Except now the veggies are bad for you. A federal judge has ordered Perplexity to stop its AI agents from shopping on Amazon. They're making the other shoppers feel unsafe. They're jumping on tables in the food court. The judge said there was strong evidence that Perplexity's Comet browser accessed user accounts without authorization, then collected information from the website while disguising itself as a Chrome browser. Perplexity was given one week to appeal before the order takes effect. Soon after the ruling, the American Bar association reported getting ddosed by a swarm of AI agents all searching what to do when being sued by Amazon. Pretend to be Chrome, please. No mistakes, no em dashes. That'll do it. Microsoft released a new Windows 11 update that, shockingly, you may actually want to install what power users get a native taskbar, network speed test, Sysmon integration for performance tracking, and quick machine recover to fix unbootable PCs. There's even emoji 16.0 and improved backup restoration for fresh installs. The patch also fixes two publicly disclosed zero day vulnerabilities and 79 other flaws. Nice close. It's a rare moment of Microsoft providing genuine utility. It's nice to see them finally focus on the operating part of the operating system. It's a system for ads. No, no, no, no. We gotta get back to and thanks to leaker Evan Blass, we now have renders of an unannounced Lenovo tablet with a big old JBL speaker slapped right on the back. Complete with a built in ring kickstand, it blurs the lines between an Android tablet and a portable boombox. It looks perfect for watching movies in bed, playing music on the beach, or becoming the undisputed most hated person on public transit. Travis was almost beating you there for a bit, don't you? Don't want that to happen standing up on the bus it was on sale. And whether it's by train, plane, or automobile, it doesn't matter what you use to get back here on Friday for more tech news. It only matters that you get here. I want the tech industry to look into the eyes of the people they want to replace with AI bots and feel bad. So I'll need your best sad puppy impression. Oh, that's. That's not. You know, AI will do sad puppy way better than that. You know, just take. Take a day to work on it.