Cricut’s $99 craft cutting machine helped me feel creative again
…cutting machine should onboard users differs from Cricut’s, the Joy 2 is a fun, relatively inexpensive gadget that’s easy to recommend. I’m not about to reopen an Etsy…
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Twitter - X
…These disclosure systems only work if every X user is honest about the images and video content they upload. Which is unlikely. Image: @nima_owji Thomas Ricker Feb 17 More trouble for…
Here is Yarbo’s promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over
…personnel, may only be used after user authorization has been obtained, and will be gradually brought under audit logging.” To be clear, Yarbo already previously claimed that its remote access was only…
Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives
…Anthropic’s user safety team in mid-April, in line with the company’s disclosure policy, it received a form response saying, “It looks like you are writing in about a ban…
Apple wants Europe to blink
…Now millions of iPhone users in Europe are being told they won’t be getting Siri AI anytime soon, if ever — and Apple wants them to blame the EU. Apple says its…
360-degree cameras have a new superpower
…Last January, we wrote about Gaussian splatting, the tech that promises to someday let anyone digitally re-create chunks of the real world in photorealistic 3D. But Splatica is making it surprisingly…
Grok schlock panned by fed flock
There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk’s “truth-seeking” AI chatbot Grok: It’s not very good, and not many people are using it. That’s the takeaway of a…
Marathon battery life makes Keychron’s Ultra 8K keyboards its best yet
…It’s the reason Keychron claims you can get up to 660 hours of use on an Ultra 8K board — about four times longer than its claims for the Max models. If…
Framework announces Laptop 13 Pro, ‘the MacBook Pro for Linux users’
…When I ask what “Pro” means if not the visual designer pros who buy MacBooks, Patel says it’s about building “the ultimate developer laptop,” one that developers will compare to the…
Speech and Moderation
…Emma Roth Apr 16 Terrence O'Brien Apr 11 DHS is trying to force Reddit to expose a user who said mean things about ICE. After failing to get details about a…