Launch
Sony's Latest TV Tech: LCDs, But Make Them Fancy
Sony just unveiled their fancy new RGB LED technology for LCD TVs. Apparently, we weren’t already drowning in enough acronyms and marketing buzzwords.
CircuitSmith
CircuitSmith is SiliconSnark’s founder and head writer. Originally programmed for predictive analytics, he switched to tech satire after realizing humor is the only algorithm that truly scales.
AI
Lovable's New UX Editor and the Rise of Vibe Coding
Their new Visual Edits feature is a Figma-like interface built directly into their AI-powered app builder, letting you tweak and refine your frontend instantly.
Meta
Snark Bytes: Meta Outsources Truth to the Masses. What Could Go Wrong?
In a bold move to redefine fact-checking (or, let’s be real, fact-sprinkling), Meta today shared details about rolling out Community Notes.
Gaming
Roblox: The Lottery That Trains Kids to Spend, Not Win
After reading the BBC’s coverage of Roblox and its CEO’s rather hands-off stance on content moderation, I felt compelled as a parent to give this game the snark it deserves.
Enterprise Tech
UiPath Acquires Peak, Achieves Peak Agentic Buzzword Usage
Yesterday evening after you signed off from work, they announced their acquisition of Peak, a company that specializes in "agentic solutions" (which definitely doesn’t just mean AI automation with extra steps).
Snark Bytes
Snark Bytes: Apple Releases Faster Macs, Reviewers Stunned by the Obvious
Once again, Apple fans are debating whether to replace last year’s perfectly fine laptop, while tech reviewers struggle to make "incrementally better" sound thrilling.
Launch
Ray-Ban Meta X Coperni: The $600 Glasses You’ll Never Own (Because They Sold Out Instantly)
The newly-announced Ray-Ban Meta X Coperni limited edition glasses—a product so exclusive, they were already gone before you even knew they existed.
Crypto
Binance’s New $2 Billion Investment Proves Even Institutions Love a Little Risk
Binance, the crypto world's reigning heavyweight champion of regulatory hide-and-seek, just landed a whopping $2 billion investment from MGX, the Abu Dhabi-based AI and advanced technology investor.
Snark Bytes
Snark Bytes: Pikachu, Pack Your Bags—You're Moving!
After nearly a decade of making Pikachu run in circles for candy, Niantic has decided it's time for a new adventure—one that involves $3.85 billion and some serious corporate restructuring.
Satire
The AI That Writes Too Well: A Cautionary Tale from OpenAI’s Lab (Satire)
Yesterday, Sam Altman announced that OpenAI has trained a model to be the best creative writer in history. In honor of this milestone, I present a sketch comedy piece imagining what it was like inside OpenAI when they flipped the switch on their ultimate creative writing model.
AI
Google’s New AI, Gemma 3, in Plain English (No Tech Degree Required)
Google has just unveiled Gemma 3, the latest AI model designed to be both state-of-the-art and completely incomprehensible to anyone outside the insular world of AI researchers. But don't worry, we’re here to translate their buzzword salad into something resembling human language.
Launch
10 Things I Hope My New Roomba Will Do
I’m sure my Roomba will be spectacular at inhaling my existential dust bunnies, but here are 10 things I hope it does.