24 hours after the Late Show’s finale and 11 years after his first guest-hosting appearance on Monroe, Michigan’s public access television station, Colbert took over the show for a second time. He brought along Jack White as his musical director and conducted a delightful interview with the show’s regular hosts, Michelle Baumann and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson.
His advice: Deep breaths, keep it simple, and maybe play a little VR mini golf.
Omni sent my kid’s stuffie rafting and deepfaked me in front of the Eiffel Tower. But it’s not quite the singularity.
Trump has already dug such a deep hole with his conduct that he’s invented new bolgias even Dante couldn’t have imagined. His latest posting crime is this AI-generated video which shows him throwing Stephen Colbert in a dumpster. The First Amendment is hanging on by a thread thanks to this administration, and, yes, Brendan Carr remains a dummy.
The Department of Homeland Security announced the new policy in a post on X. Per the Daily Caller, people applying for permanent residency will soon be required to leave the US and apply for immigrant visas through the Department of State, rather than applying for a change of status from inside the country.
While the administration’s announcement focused on asylum seekers, this change will likely also affect H-1B holders who apply for permanent residency.
After a scrubbed launch on Thursday, SpaceX’s first V3 Starship left Pad 2 at Starbase on Friday evening.
SpaceX is now preparing to go public, and a lot of its big promises hinge on the development of vehicles like the next-generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicle launched today. The booster will not attempt a return this time, while the Flight 12 Starship is attempting to deploy 20 Starlink simulators and two “modified” Starlink satellites.
Upon request, “qualifying” customers can use things like skills, a Claude harness, and a threat model builder, Anthropic says as part of a bigger update about Project Glasswing.
Anthropic also plans to expand Project Glassing to “additional partners” and has published a dashboard of open source vulnerabilities disclosed by Mythos Preview.
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A new Ghost in the Shell anime is coming soon, and Iqunix is making a mechanical keyboard inspired by the famed franchise. TechPowerUp indicates there will be two colorful boards based on the Iqunix EV63, each with some translucent cyberpunk-y flair.
It looks fitting for a special kind of hacker.
9to5Google reported Friday morning that a Nest support page had been updated to say that nearly all Chromecast devices except for the most recent one that was released in 2022 were no longer receiving critical security updates. Later, the page changed back and once again shows all Chromecasts except the 1st gen version are still getting critical updates.
Now, Google Home senior product manager Sahana Mysore tells The Verge that “A support article update incorrectly indicated deprecation of software support for legacy Chromecast devices,” and the current version is accurate.
Update: Added response from Google.
