We expect opening arguments today.

We knew Ted Lasso was set to return this summer, and now Apple has released a more specific timeframe: season 4 will start streaming on August 5th. There’s also a new trailer showing that, even though Ted is in charge of a new team, things don’t seem to have changed all that much.

It’s the numbers, too, according to a new Wall Street Journal report, which echoes The Information’s claim earlier this month that CFO Sarah Friar has expressed concern about its IPO plans and CEO Sam Altman’s datacenter spending.

The bipartisan CHATBOT Act, led by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) would require extra safeguards for AI tools used by kids, and parental consent for minors to create their own accounts.

Unlike the grip that Nintendo bundles with its latest console, Dbrand’s $19.95 Joy-Lock Controller Holder lets you adjust the angle of the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons using a ratcheting mechanism. You can also add a pair of beefier grips for an additional $19.95, and enhance the thumbsticks with a pair of stick-on textured caps for $9.95.

Nvidia is launching a 12GB version of its RTX 5070 laptop GPU, to go along with the existing 8GB configuration. Nvidia’s blog post explains how this will actually help supply during the RAM shortage:

Yesterday we got our first good look at the purported design of Samsung’s smart glasses, and today Samsung itself confirmed they’re on the way, though it probably didn’t mean to. SamMobile spotted a mention of support for “Glasses” in an update to Samsung’s Nearby Device Scanning app, mentioning quick pair support too.

Droid Life reports that potential buyers who’d reserved the upcoming BlackBerry-ish Android phone were just told to expect the phone to ship in Q4 this year. First announced at CES, the Communicator is a fully-fledged phone with a physical keyboard, a big step up from Clicks’ current line of keyboard cases.

Is a multicolor smart ceiling light / LED screen a fun way to liven up your living room, or an all-out assault on good taste? Every household has to make that choice for themselves.

Japan Airlines will start trialling Unitree robots for moving luggage and cargo in May, with the experiment running until 2028. The airline is also planning to use the robots for cleaning aircraft cabins and eventually hopes to deploy them permenantly to help cope amid Japan’s labor shortage and rising tourism.

Tiny Delivery is a cozy adventure game by indie developer Sinica that has big Untitled Goose Game vibes. Instead of an evil bird, you play a small robot courier “with a big job and questionable methods,” according to the Steam listing, with a release window set for Q3 - Q4 2026.

Opening statements tomorrow.

Swift’s company filed trademark applications for the sound marks “Hey, it’s Taylor Swift” and “Hey, it’s Taylor,” while another application applies to a photo of Swift “wearing a multi-colored iridescent bodysuit with silver boots.”

That’s the title of a paper that 404 Media reports was recently published by Alexander Lerchner, a Senior Staff Scientist at Google DeepMind. Regardless of grand pronouncements from folks, including DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, about AGI’s potential, the paper states that “phenomenal consciousness” is a physical state, and “not a software artifact that can be accidentally or deliberately created.”

While the lawyers ask questions of prospective jurors, apparently there are Happenings outside the courtroom.

To encourage breaks that focus on carbs instead of doomscrolling and texting, KitKat in Panama created a limited edition Faraday cage wrapper for your phone that blocks cell signals. The wrapper is made from layers of copper, polyester, and polypropylene and is expected to work for about a year at which point you can recycle it.

If you have any burning questions about Valve’s new gamepad after reading our reviews, Cameron Faulkner and I will be responding in the comments of this article starting at 3PM ET.

There’s still no word on when it will be out, though. And with Valve still working on getting the Steam Controller out the door next week and shipping the Steam Frame and Steam Machine sometime this year, we could be waiting a while for a Steam Deck 2.

The NYT has a deep dive into the Google co-founder’s hard turn to the right, which is either because he hates the proposed billionaire tax in California or because he’s super into his hardcore MAGA girlfriend. (Or both.) In any case, he’s having “intimate” dinners with Trump — and bringing Sundar Pichai along for the ride.

Every controller should have this, right? With most pads, you’d be lucky to even vibrate them at a distance — but TIL that official Nintendo Switch 2 pads do this too.

Jack Dorsey’s Block has launched a follow-up to its coaster-like Bitkey wallet, featuring an OLED touchscreen display that crypto holders can use to verify transactions and “authorize every security-critical operation in the wallet,” according to a post on X. The hardware wallet costs $250 and is available to preorder now.

The details of what happened should be taken with a grain of salt since some of its self-reported by the chatbot, which can be tricky. But according to Jer Crane, a Cursor coding agent running Claude Opus 4.6 found a credential mismatch that it fixed by deleting a Railway volume that contained production data and the recent backups, using a token it found that they hadn’t realized would allow that kind of access via Railway’s API for AI agents.