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Electric air taxis are finally taking flight — just not with passengers

Do air taxis sound like ‘leaves in the wind’?

Andrew J. Hawkins
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
A whole Galaxy just for France.

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Book 6 Edge, but so far only for France. There’s no price for the slim laptop yet, which will launch in early May with 512GB or 1TB storage, a Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite processor, and a 16-inch 120Hz OLED screen.

Product render of Samsung Galaxy Book 6 Edge
Image: Samsung
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Do not build the Torment Nexus.

Even — especially? — when it’s shaped like a frog.

tomatocactus:

They built the torment nexus from the famous sci fi novel “do not build the torment nexus”

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Robert Hart
Robert Hart
A Japanese toilet maker is flush with AI cash.

Toto’s high-precision ceramics business is set to account for more than half of the company’s operating profit for the first time in the financial year that ended in March. Advanced ceramics, it turns out, are well suited for producing components for semiconductor manufacturing equipment — and demand is booming.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Steam now lets you manage downloads on remote devices.

It’s part of a big update Valve released for Steam. The update also includes gamepad improvements like a “low battery level toast” and a battery indicator in the header while you’re using wireless controllers. The Steam Deck got a big update with many of these improvements, too.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Now that OpenAI’s Microsoft exclusivity is over, it has a new deal with Amazon and AWS.

The day after opening up its relationship with Microsoft and Azure, OpenAI announced an expanded deal with Amazon that brings its latest AI models, Codex, and other tools to AWS.

Ben Thompson interviewed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman and said it seems clear that “OpenAI’s focus is going to be on AWS,” particularly with an eye toward the new Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents setup.

Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared

In his opening testimony against Sam Altman, Musk was unfocused and uncharming.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Denuvo DRM reportedly “fully” bypassed or cracked.

The video game piracy community is claiming Denuvo’s anti-piracy software can now be cracked or bypassed on every title that uses it, as TechSpot and XDA report. Denuvo and 2K Games are reportedly pushing back already with a “14-day mandatory online check” for popular games like NBA 2K25 and 2K26.