I suspect there will be some limitations and/or requirements to the 6% rate... kind of like T-Mobile Money has a limit to it's "higher than average" interest rate (it's 4% for the first $3k and 2.5% beyond that). So if you have more than $3k in there, you're actually getting less than a good HYSA will give you. I'm not sure if they still do, but T-Mobile also had other requirements to even qualify for the 4% rate (like a minimum number of debit transactions per month, last I recall).

100%. They will fight tooth and nail to not be considered a bank (and therefore not have to be regulated as one). Though, really, at this point in the game of US politics, even if they do try to regulate it, he can surely just offer a "donation" to kill any potential enforcement - or even kill the regulation itself.

If hating nazis and making choices to not fund their nonsense is "partisan politics" ... then sign me up!

And honestly, that's before you consider all of the lies and delays and missed deadlines and shifted goalposts of his entire "robotaxi" concept that may never actually happen at scale.

Yes... like is specifically called out in the OP already.

I have similar thoughts about this kind of service as I do Tesla's someday "robotaxi" service... who is going to use it but a limited number of diehard fanboys? There's no way it becomes a de-facto anything if such a large portion of the population hates you and refuses to use any of your services or give you money. He might have had a chance 4-5 years ago before he REALLY went off the deep end... but now? No fucking way.

Based on what I was reading in one of the reddit threads yesterday about this, if you message them when you reach the limit, they'll add more. Not sure what the point of a limit is if that's what you're going to do anyway, but that was called out by someone that supposedly formats their computer "often". I think it was in /r/browsers...

This guy submits all of his own stories just spamming his own website and they keep getting posted. So it may not directly be an ad for this Little Snitch, but it's definitely "nerds.xyz" spam.

I was going by this: https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

Also here: https://9to5google.com/2026/02...

Gizmodo is trash anyway.

Faster wired charging, faster wireless charging, bluetooth 6, and a few other bits.

Can't drop something you never had. The 9a definitely did not have Pixelsnap, so I'm not sure why it's even mentioned. It's an easy thing to omit from the "budget" device in the lineup.

The real question would be what the new price point for the 9a would be - if they drop it at all. I'd normally expect the previous gen to see a price drop, but these are overall so close in spec, I'm not sure if they'll bother.

As much as I didn't want whatever questionable source that is to get anymore clicks, I had to dig in a little more on the recall.

From what it says, a safety concern with the batteries prompted the initial "recall". The "fix" for that recall was a software update that then prevented charging below 41 deg and limited charging to 75% - and even that only "decreased the likelihood for fire". It didn't actually solve the problem.

The transit GM guy says a fix for the 41 deg charge barrier is "simply a software update" and it could be resolved "this week". But I can't tell from that particular quote in the article if that is this guy talking out of his ass that "it's just a software update, how long could it take? a week?" or if they've actually been told that by the manufacturer and are actually waiting for an update.

Meanwhile actual replacement batteries won't be installed for another 18-24 months? WTF?

They should be suing the shit out of this manufacturer, IMO. This isn't an "electric bus" problem. This is a manufacturer problem (or potentially also a transit company problem, depending on how they ended up selecting these specific busses). Of course, it isn't framed that way, nor is it meant to be. "EVs are bad! Buy oil!"

That's a goal!

- this guy, probably

Sounds like a bit of a stretch to me.

Assuming this company is around in 9-12 months. If anything this sounds like an ad to drum up reservations, aka, funding.

I think I'm more surprised that 5200 people work for Pinterest. Doing WHAT, I wonder?

I mean, if I was looking for an alternative to Reddit, I sure as fuck wouldn't want it to be co-owned by one of the co-founders of Reddit.

It's not like that's stopped this administration from anything else. Congress is too busy doing ........ you know, I really don't know wtf they're actually doing these days. Sure as hell doesn't feel like they're passing any actual legislation.