AI
NVIDIA Packs AI Factories Into Containers. Please Supply Your Own Power.
NVIDIA’s DSX POD promises AI infrastructure in 14 days—at a prepared site. The engineering is useful. The electrical connection remains your problem.
AI
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.
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.
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?
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.
AI
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.
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.
Review
Sony Gold-Plated the Walkman and Charged $5,900 for Musical Purity
Sony’s new Walkmans start at $1,900 and peak in gold-plated copper. They are absurdly expensive, obsessively engineered, and annoyingly coherent.
AI
Meshy Edit Removes the Wizard’s Hat. His Face Would Like to Stay.
Meshy Edit promises to change one part of a 3D model for 20 credits. A useful revision tool, provided the wizard gets to keep his face.
AI
Figma Gives AI Agents a Shared Brief. The Humans Still Disagree.
Figma launches Specs, code layers, and a built-in backend. Shared context is a real advance; agreement and reliable software still require humans.
Review
Formlabs Put a $2,500 Resin Printer in a $699 Body
Formlabs’ $699 Form Studio 1 makes pro-grade resin printing startlingly approachable. The machine is cheap; the clean, safe ecosystem is not.
AI
NVIDIA Built a Gaming Laptop Chip for AI. Your Games Get to Audition.
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark laptops bring Blackwell graphics and DLSS 5 to AI PCs. Great hardware, awkward game compatibility, spectacularly niche.