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SiliconSnark’s robot evicts ads and tracking from a smart TV, leaving a clean app launcher.

DumbTV Lets an AI Agent Evict the Ads From Your Television

DumbTV strips ads, tracking, and bloat from Fire TV and Android TV. It’s clever, reversible, and still a ten-minute trust exercise.

SiliconSnark robot rescues a conditional phrase from a meeting transcript feeding an automated task machine.

Otter Raises $320 Million to Make Your Meetings Everybody’s Business

Otter’s $320 million growth financing backs a bigger ambition: turning office chatter into enterprise action. Useful memory, meet expensive distribution.

SiliconSnark robot presents a digital badge at a supplier payment portal beside an approved invoice.

Fintech

Visa Gives Invoice-Paying AI a Badge to Get Past the CAPTCHA

Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot AI invoice payments through supplier portals. The useful breakthrough is authentication; the bigger question is who benefits.

Gaming

Intel Is Teaching SteamOS to Use the GPU It Already Bought

Intel is adding XMX-accelerated XeSS to Proton, potentially making Arc handhelds faster on Linux. The upgrade is smart, unfinished, and gloriously invisible.

Fintech

Money20/20 USA 2026’s Five Weirdest Finds Include IV Drips and Fraud Escape Rooms

Money20/20 USA 2026’s weirdest first-full-day finds: IV drips, fraud-company escape rooms, robot portraits, golden licenses, merch coins, and Timbaland.

SiliconSnark robot examines Analogue’s new retro cartridge consoles beside wireless controllers and vintage cables.

Review

Analogue Relaunched Two 16-Bit Consoles to Make Nostalgia Buy USB-C

Analogue’s Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+ revive FPGA cartridge consoles with wireless controllers and USB-C. Smart preservation or premium nostalgia?

SiliconSnark robot listens to a HiBy player beside two giant microSD cards.

Consumer Tech

HiBy Built a $439 Music Player With No Internet and 4TB of Peace

HiBy’s $439 RS2 II skips Wi-Fi and streaming for R2R audio, dual card slots, and 4TB of local music. It is gloriously focused—and deliberately inconvenient.

SiliconSnark robot beside an AI off switch as an accountant reviews invoices approaching a bank vault.

Fintech

BILL Gives Finance AI an Off Switch. Accountants May Finally Exhale.

BILL rolls out AI invoice checks and finance controls. Here’s what the launch promises, what its savings claims miss, and why accountants still hold the keys.

SiliconSnark robot compares a tiny AI token receipt with a towering stack of human-review folders.

MiniMax Cuts the AI Agent Bill. The Supervisor Still Costs Extra.

MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash with bargain token rates and ambitious agent benchmarks. Cheap attempts matter; correctly finished work matters more.

The SiliconSnark robot peeks over a concrete barrier, wearing gold headphones, as a red flying roadster hovers above a test ramp on puffs of compressed air.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Flying Roadsters, Gold-Plated Walkmans, and Crypto Discovering the Term Deposit

A Tesla flew, a Walkman got gold screws, and crypto bought a bank. The future arrived this week, mostly with an asterisk and a withdrawal clause.

A fuzzy AI mascot enters an arena of rival tech companies as the yellow SiliconSnark robot watches with popcorn.

Meta’s Muse AI Comeback Gives OpenAI a Problem With Suspiciously Soft Fur

Meta’s Muse launches put it back in the AI race. Inside Wonder, Spark Open, the rivals preparing their next moves, and the suspiciously cuddly mascot.

A white sports car hovers above a 2028 calendar as the yellow SiliconSnark robot holds a delivery receipt.

Tesla

Tesla’s Flying Roadster Escapes Gravity. Its Delivery Date Remains Grounded.

Tesla’s flying Roadster demo delivers airborne absurdity, cold-gas thrusters, and a 2028 production target. The Rocket version has some earthly limits.

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