VITURE Calls XREAL Lawsuit “patent-troll-style” in Escalating AR Glasses IP Battle

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AR glasses maker XREAL is taking its competitor VITURE to court over a patent dispute, claiming that it’s selling and/or importing units into the US that infringe on its intellectual property. Viture claims however that Xreal is using the suit as a weapon to unfairly compete in the market rather than as a legitimate defense of innovation.

Xreal announced last week it was bringing a lawsuit against its direct competitor Viture, both of which have operating roots in China.

Xreal claims that Viture unlawfully makes, sells, and imports AR glasses that infringe its US patent, which covers a specific birdbath-style optical system. Notably, birdbath-style optics a generally cheaper and more easily produced than waveguides, like those seen in Meta’s 2024 Orion AR prototype.

VITURE Luma | Image courtesy VITURE

In a recent Reddit post, Viture has publicly disavowed Xreal’s narrative, arguing that Xreal is essentially acting as a patent troll.

“We deeply respect intellectual property,” Viture says. “IP exists to protect genuine innovation and to move an industry forward, not to be weaponized to create fear, confusion, or artificial barriers. Unfortunately, what we are seeing today does not reflect that principle.”

Continuing: “From our perspective, this bears striking resemblance to a patent-troll-style action that targeted XREAL last year, and now mirrors the same tactics being used against us.”

Technically, Viture argues that Xreal’s patent in question (US 11,988,839 B2) covers birdbath optical technology that is long-established and largely covered by expired prior art.

Viture claims that similar patents have already been rejected in China, that its products do not infringe, and that Xreal’s patent adds only minor, appearance-level changes rather than true optical innovation. Furthermore, Viture characterizes the patent as low-value and easily invalidated.

XREAL Aura | Image courtesy Google

A major point of contention is what Viture calls “deliberate misinformation,” specifically Xreal’s claims that its products are “banned across nine European countries.”

Viture maintains this as false: only the Viture Pro in Germany was affected by a preliminary injunction (as outlined by Android Authority), the product was already sold out, and all other products remain legally sold across Europe.

The company has appealed the injunction and filed a formal challenge to the patent’s validity, and says it has initiated legal action over what it calls “the deliberate circulation of false claims.”

Granted, it may be some time before we hear more about this case, as it’s just been filed in the Eastern District of Texas, and is still in early procedural stages. There is not public trial date at the time of this writing.

You can read Viture’s full response here on Reddit.

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Adobe unveils new AI-powered video editing tools for Premiere

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Adobe has announced updates for Premiere and After Effects, including new AI-powered tools that are meant to speed up your video editing tasks. In Premiere, the company’s video-editing software, it has unveiled a new AI-powered Object Mask feature that lets you easily pick and track persons or objects moving through your video clips. You simply have to hover over that object and click to generate a mask overlay in seconds. While the mask is supposed to be accurate from the start, you can adjust and resize it as needed. Adobe says the feature uses its own AI model for the feature and that the processing happens on-device. It also says that it doesn’t use your activities and data to train its models.

The company has also given its Shape Mask tool an upgrade. You can generate its redesigned Ellipse, Rectangle and Pen masks directly from the toolbar. Further, it updated their controls to make moving or adjusting the masks more precise. The masks can now also track objects on your video clips 20 times faster than their predecessors, which means you won’t have to keep such a close eye on the status bar. Another new Premiere update lets you easily bring media from from Firefly Boards, Adobe’s AI-powered digital canvas, into the program. In addition, Adobe Stock is now fully integrated within Premiere.

For After Effects, Adobe has rolled out an update that lets you import SVG files that are commonly used in Illustrator. You can now also build graphics and photorealistic objects inside images with 3D parametric meshes, consisting of cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, toris and planes, within the visual effects software.

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Sony Is Ceding Control of TV Hardware Business To China’s TCL

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Sony plans to spin off its TV hardware business to a new joint venture controlled by Chinese electronics giant TCL, the two said Tuesday, a significant retreat for the Japanese giant whose Bravia line has long occupied the premium end of the television market. TCL would hold a 51% stake in the venture and Sony would retain 49% under a nonbinding agreement the two companies signed. They aim to finalize binding terms by the end of March and begin operations in April 2027, pending regulatory approvals.

The new company would retain the Sony and Bravia branding for televisions and home audio equipment but use TCL’s display technology. Japanese TV manufacturers have steadily lost ground to Chinese and Korean rivals over the years. Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and Pioneer exited the business entirely. Panasonic and Sharp de-emphasized televisions in their growth strategies. Sony’s Bravia line survived by positioning itself at the premium tier where consumers pay more for high-end picture and sound quality.


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Rad Power Bikes warehouse catches fire following flammable battery warnings

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In a strange twist of fate, a fire broke out this week at the Rad Power Bikes retail store warehouse in Huntington Beach, California, Electrek reports. The structural blaze came less than two months after the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warned customers to “immediately stop” using and dispose of some of the company’s e-bike batteries due to fire hazard. In December, Rad filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, stating it couldn’t afford to recall the batteries. 

The recent two-alarm fire hit a commercial complex with multiple businesses. Footage from the fire shows e-bikes outside of the warehouse as firemen fought the blaze. Engadget has reached out to Rad for more information on the fire’s impact. 

The CPSC’s November warning told of 31 reports of fire, with 12 of those involving property damage. In some cases, the battery was in storage, not being charged or used, yet still caught fire. The CPSC told customers to get rid of (in a safe, detailed manner) specific models of Rad’s lithium-ion batteries. It claimed that the “hazardous” batteries were at risk of igniting or exploding, even more if wet or interacting with debris. 

Rad told the CPSC it couldn’t recall the batteries as it couldn’t afford to offer replacements and refunds. “Rad offered multiple good-faith solutions to address the agency’s concerns, including offering consumers an opportunity to upgrade to Safe Shield batteries (described below) at a substantial discount. CPSC rejected this opportunity,” Rad Power Bikes said in a statement at the time. “The significant cost of the all-or-nothing demand would force Rad to shut its doors immediately, leaving no way to support our riders or our employees.”

The company also said it disagreed with the CPSC’s “characterization of certain Rad batteries as defective or unsafe.” It also pointed to the incident rate being below one percent and stated that all lithium-ion batteries come with a risk when customers do things — such as improper charging and excessive exposure to moisture — that Rad cautions against. 

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Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2026

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If you missed out on a better era of consuming news and other online content, RSS either stands for RDF (Resource Description Framework) Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, depending on who you ask—even Wikipedia includes both expansions of the initialism.

Whatever the linguistic details, one of the main roles of RSS is to supply directly to you a steady stream of updates from a website. Every new article published on that site is served up in a list that can be interpreted by an RSS reader.

In earlier, simpler internet times, RSS was the way to keep up to date with what was happening on all of your favorite sites. You would open your RSS reader and tap through newly published articles one by one, in chronological order, in the same way you would check your email. It was an easy way to keep tabs on what was new and what was of interest.

Unfortunately, RSS is no longer how most of us consume “content.” (Google famously killed its beloved Google Reader more than a decade ago.) It’s now the norm to check social media or the front pages of many different sites to see what’s new. But I think RSS still has a place in your life: Especially for those who don’t want to miss anything or have algorithms choosing what they read, it remains one of the best ways to navigate the internet. Here’s a primer on what RSS can (still!) do for you, and how to get started with it, even in this late era of online existence.

How RSS works

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Inoreader will keep you right up to date.
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RSS is essentially a standard for serving up text and images in a feed-like format, and not all that dissimilar to HTML. Typically, the feed includes the headline of an article, some of the text (often just the introduction), and perhaps the main image. RSS data isn’t really readable in a browser tab, but it is in an app built to interpret RSS properly.

The RSS standard actually remains the default way of distributing podcasts, with each new episode—together with the episode title, cover art, and descriptive blurb—appearing as a new entry in the feed of your podcast app of choice. When you subscribe to a new show through Pocket Casts or Apple Podcasts, you’re essentially pointing the app towards the RSS feed for the podcast you want to listen to, and it takes care of serving up each new episode.

In times gone by, websites would prominently display their RSS feed links somewhere on the front page. That’s less common now, but you can often find these feeds if you dig deeper or run a web search for them (incidentally, the Lifehacker RSS feed can be found here). Some sites offer multiple RSS feeds covering different categories of content, such as tech or sports.

Even when a site doesn’t explicitly offer RSS feeds, the best RSS readers can now produce their own approximation of them by watching for new activity on a site, so you can direct the app toward the site you want to keep tabs on. In Google Discover for example, available on Android and iOS, you can keep tabs on new content on sites by tapping the Follow button that appears next to stories.

The advantages of using an RSS reader

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Feedly has a choice of layouts to pick from.
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We’re all different when it comes to how we consume news on the web: Some of us will browse social media feeds, some of us will load up the same sites every morning, and some of us will get updates via push notifications on our phones. The benefits of RSS will vary depending on how you like to stay up to date.

However, RSS is clearly useful if you have a selection of favorite websites and you want to skim through everything they publish (or everything they publish in a certain category, if the site has several feeds). No one is choosing what you see but you—you have more control over your news diet, free from any choices made by an algorithm.

Using RSS means you can catch up on everything, methodically and chronologically, even if you’ve been offline for a week (you don’t have to catch up on everything, of course—but you can, if you want, as your feed will operate on an infinite scroll). It’s also a cleaner, less cluttered way of using the internet, as you only need to click through on the specific articles you want to read.

Some of the other advantages of RSS will depend on the reader app you’re using. You might be able to sort your feeds in different ways, for example, or search back through the archives for specific types of stories, or add notes and bookmarks to links you’re particularly interested in. If you’ve never given RSS a try, it’s well worth giving it a go.

The best RSS reader apps in 2026

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You can load RSS feeds right into Google Chat.
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RSS readers aren’t quite as ubiquitous as they once were, but you can still find quite a few if you take a look around.

Feedly

The best RSS reader currently in operation is arguably Feedly, which offers a bunch of features across free and paid-for plans (starting from $8 per month): It has a clean, clear interface, it can generate RSS feeds for sites that don’t have them, it can sort feeds in a variety of ways, it can incorporate email newsletters, and plenty more besides.

Feeder

Feeder is a good place to start for RSS newbies because it gets you up and running quickly, and offers a straightforward interface. It works seamlessly across all the major platforms, and if you need extra bells and whistles—including a real time dashboard, access to more feeds, and sophisticated filters for your feeds—paid plans start at $9.99 per month.

Google Chat

You can actually subscribe to RSS feeds inside Google Chat, in spaces that are just for you or for groups of people. On the web, click the three dots next to Apps, then Find apps: Track down the one called Feeds, and once you’ve installed it, you can add it to any space and subscribe to feeds by clicking the + (plus) button to the left of the text input box.

Newsify

Newsify has some specific features that may appeal to you, including a classic, newspaper-style layout and offline functionality. Available on Apple devices and the web, it offers an impressive level of customization and plenty of sharing tools, while a premium account (yours for $2.99 a month) adds features like full text feeds and AI summaries.

Inoreader

Another RSS reader with a lot of fans is Inoreader. It has all the tools and features you need for carefully curating feeds, and keeps an extensive archive of everything you’ve ever looked at—handy if you need to retrace your steps. Pay for a premium plan (from $9.99 a month) to remove ads and access even more features, such as email newsletter support.

NewsBlur

Finally, there’s NewsBlur, which is bursting at the seams with features: Story tagging, full text search, and third-party app integrations, for example. It’s one of the best options for giving you control over how feeds in the app are presented. Many of the features are available for free, but for more features and more feeds, paid plans start at $36 a year.

The UK is mulling an Australia-like social media ban for users under 16

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The UK government has announced a consultation, asking people for their feedback on whether to introduce a social media ban for children under 16 years old. It would also explore how to enforce that limit, how to limit tech companies from being able to access children’s data and how to limit “infinite scrolling,” as well as access to addictive online tools. In addition to seeking feedback from parents and young people themselves, the country’s ministers are going to visit Australia to see the effects of the country’s social media ban for kids, according to Financial Times.

Australia’s minimum age social media ban went into effect on December 10. It’s the first of its kind and covers several social media platforms, including Facebook, X, TikTok, Twitch, Snapchat, YouTube and Reddit. Just recently, Meta shut down nearly 550,00 accounts, most of which were on Instagram, to comply with the new law.

The UK passed the Online Safety Act in 2023 and has been enforcing its rules since. Last year, for instance, it started requiring websites that publish pornography to conduct age checks for users. But British politician Liz Kendall said parents still have serious concerns about the content their children can consume online. As The Guardian notes, the announcement for a consultation comes just before the House of Lords votes on an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. The amendment is seeking a social media ban on children under 16, which will be enacted within a year if and when the bill passes.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-uk-is-mulling-an-australia-like-social-media-ban-for-users-under-16-130000446.html?src=rss

‘Just Because Linus Torvalds Vibe Codes Doesn’t Mean It’s a Good Idea’

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In an opinion piece for The Register, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that while “vibe coding” can be fun and occasionally useful for small, throwaway projects, it produces brittle, low-quality code that doesn’t scale and ultimately burdens real developers with cleanup and maintenance. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt: Vibe coding got a big boost when everyone’s favorite open source programmer, Linux’s Linus Torvalds, said he’d been using Google’s Antigravity LLM on his toy program AudioNoise, which he uses to create “random digital audio effects” using his “random guitar pedal board design.” This is not exactly Linux or even Git, his other famous project, in terms of the level of work. Still, many people reacted to Torvalds’ vibe coding as “wow!” It’s certainly noteworthy, but has the case for vibe coding really changed?

[…] It’s fun, and for small projects, it’s productive. However, today’s programs are complex and call upon numerous frameworks and resources. Even if your vibe code works, how do you maintain it? Do you know what’s going on inside the code? Chances are you don’t. Besides, the LLM you used two weeks ago has been replaced with a new version. The exact same prompts that worked then yield different results today. Come to think of it, it’s an LLM. The same prompts and the same LLM will give you different results every time you run it. This is asking for disaster.

Just ask Jason Lemkin. He was the guy who used the vibe coding platform Replit, which went “rogue during a code freeze, shut down, and deleted our entire database.” Whoops! Yes, Replit and other dedicated vibe programming AIs, such as Cursor and Windsurf, are improving. I’m not at all sure, though, that they’ve been able to help with those fundamental problems of being fragile and still cannot scale successfully to the demands of production software. It’s much worse than that. Just because a program runs doesn’t mean it’s good. As Ruth Suehle, President of the Apache Software Foundation, commented recently on LinkedIn, naive vibe coders “only know whether the output works or doesn’t and don’t have the skills to evaluate it past that. The potential results are horrifying.”

Why? In another LinkedIn post, Craig McLuckie, co-founder and CEO of Stacklok, wrote: “Today, when we file something as ‘good first issue’ and in less than 24 hours get absolutely inundated with low-quality vibe-coded slop that takes time away from doing real work. This pattern of ‘turning slop into quality code’ through the review process hurts productivity and hurts morale.” McLuckie continued: “Code volume is going up, but tensions rise as engineers do the fun work with AI, then push responsibilities onto their team to turn slop into production code through structured review.”


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Top 5 Zwift Videos: Alpe du Zwift, Rapha 500, and Philips Hue

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As Zwift’s most iconic climb, Alpe du Zwift serves as a virtual recreation of the real-life Alpe d’Huez. In this week’s top video, one Zwifter rides the real-life climb to determine how realistic the Zwift version really is.

Also featured: videos about the Rapha 500, syncing Philips Hue lighting to indoor cycling stats, Zwift’s “FTP Builder” plan, and thoughts on the Zwift Ride after 10,000 kilometers.

Alpe du Zwift vs Real Life – How Accurate Is It?

Tom Bowers Cycling gives viewers a side-by-side of the virtual and real Alpe du Zwift climbs.

Attempting The Rapha Festive 500 on Zwift

Can Jessica Strange finish the Rapha 500? Watch as she documents her journey on this cycling challenge.

New Smart Trainer Integration with Philips Hue (Just $3)!

For the longest time, Zwifters with Philips Hue lighting have wanted the ability to sync their lights to their cycling metrics. Ray, aka DCRainmaker, shares how the “LightMyWatts” app solves this issue.

The Honest Truth About Zwift’s Most Popular Training Plan

Cranks and Sprints tries Zwift’s widely-popular FTP Builder training plan. Is it worth your time?

Zwift Ride After 10,000km: Does It Actually Last?

After logging over 10,000km on his Zwift Ride, Chad Rides shares an update on the setup. Has it lived up to his expectations?

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Tour Down Under prologue gallery: how the teams made their road bikes even faster 

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The 2026 Tour Down Under got under way today with a short, sharp prologue, with lots of time trial-specific setup tweaks on show.

With an agreement in place that teams can’t use TT bikes for this race, riders have been forced to make changes to their normal road bike setups for maximum speed on the 3.6km thrash.

I was at the race start in Adelaide with access to the bikes. Here’s what I was able to glean about the tech decisions the teams have made.

Changes driven by necessity

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The 2026 Tour Down Under prologue revealed an array of setups – some through necessity. Ashley Quinlan / Our Media

The absence of time-trial specific bikes isn’t as surprising as it might first seem – it was a decision made by the race organisers and teams, in collaboration with the UCI, due to the unique location of the Australian race.

Alongside a reduced carbon footprint, part of the reason stems from haulage costs. Should the teams have been obliged (on performance grounds) to bring their time trial bikes, one team insider suggested the total additional weight would have amounted to around 200-300kg – which would result in thousands of pounds of extra air-freight fees.

Ultimately, for a 3.6km time trial, this was deemed an avoidable cost.

You could argue this improves technical competitiveness. With bigger-budget teams such as UAE Team Emirates-XRG, Visma-Lease a Bike and Ineos Grenadiers in a stronger financial position than smaller teams competing at the same level, it was suggested to BikeRadar that the ‘poorer’ teams might have had to make hard decisions about whether to bring the equipment at all.

All teams receive financial support to arrive at the race, according to our source, but this doesn’t cover the entirety of the bill. Effectively, teams are required to fund the shortfall, and this means they bring enough specialist equipment for their key riders, while others make do with the standard equipment they’d usually race with.

With that covered off, let’s dive into the main changes the teams have made.

Wheel swaps

UAE Team Emirates rider going down ramp at Tour Dow Under.
Road bikes were effectively ‘converted’ into time trial bikes. Ashley Quinlan / Our Media

An open goal, given the prologue is officially designated a time trial, has been to fit deeper front wheels than the road-race mandated 65mm, and disc rear wheels. 

Some Groupama-FDJ United riders had use of the Miche Kleos RD SPX3 tri-spoke front wheel, while Jayco-AlUla riders used a Cadex Aero 4-Spoke Tubeless Disc Brake wheelset. All other teams stuck with wheels with a regular laced-spoke design.

Not all the riders are using the fastest wheelsets available, though, a decision driven mainly by the additional costs associated with shipping over the extra equipment for riders who won’t be targeting a strong individual performance in the prologue. 

1x dominates

Taped out CarbonTi chainrings
Single chainrings were commonplace, but not exclusive. Ashley Quinlan / Our Media

Team mechanics have been hard at work switching over the bikes of the main contenders for the prologue, and overall victory, to a single-chainring setup up front. 

The benefits of 1x drivetrains include improved aerodynamic performance, plus a small weight saving when the front derailleur and second (inner) chainring are removed. 

There’s also less chance of slipping a chain or accidentally calling for a shift should fingers stray over the front derailleur shifter, which remains fitted to all the bikes.

The largest chainring I spotted? 60 teeth.

Mixed tyre choices

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Some riders had a mix of tyres on their bikes… Ashley Quinlan / Our Media

Teams were running a mix of tyres for the race.

Alpecin-Premier Tech, for example, chose to run odd tyres for the prologue (a Pirelli P Zero Race TT mounted to the Shimano rear disc wheel, and a P Zero Race TLR RS to the front wheel), for practical reasons.

Given the prologue finished late in the evening, and the bikes needed to be ready for the journey to the start of stage 1 by 8am the following day, it was deemed too much of a drain on resource to make wholesale changes to the tyre setup in between (bearing in mind the limit of kit each team has brought with it).

Groupama FDJ United WIlier Filante SLR
…sometimes due to a lack of options. Ashley Quinlan / Our Media

There were also variations in size – defending Tour Down Under champion Jhonatan Narváez, of UAE Team Emirates, was running 25mm Continental Grand Prix 5000 TT TR tyres on his combination of ENVE SES 6.7 front wheel and ENVE SES Disc rear wheel.

Meanwhile, Enzo Paleni of Groupama-FDJ United was running a 25mm Grand Prix 5000 TT TR on his Miche rear disc wheel, and a 28mm Grand Prix 5000 S TR on his Miche Kleos RD SPX3 front wheel.

Team mechanics revealed the choice of a 25mm rear tyre was down to concerns over passing the UCI’s credit card width rule governing tyre-frame spacing when running a 28mm tyre.

Off-sponsor selections

Zipp wheel on Lotto-Intermarché bike at Tour Down Under
These Zipp wheels were sourced from old stock at Lotto-Intermarché – the brand sponsored the team (as it was then) a couple of years previously. Ashley Quinlan / Our Media

Some teams were running non-sponsor-correct components.

At Lotto-Intermarché, some riders were using a Zipp Super 9 Disc wheel (a common sight among SRAM-sponsored teams), given wheel sponsor Oquo has yet to release one.

But the most common non-sponsor choice was single chainrings. 

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Single chainrings were the single most common non-sponsor correct component. Ashley Quinlan / Our Media

UAE Team Emirates-XRG had taped over the CarbonTi branding on its 1x chainrings (it has used these without covering them up previously), while Alpecin-Premier Tech and Ineos Grenadiers were using unbranded Miche RD R92 chainrings. 

Jayco-AlUla was another team to opt for third-party chainrings, fitting an SR-TMP DM from Dutch chainring specialist The Mechanic Parts.

Rider-position tweaks

Rider positions also changed to improve speed for the short prologue.

Most riders opted to run an identical position to their normal race setup – again, some team mechanics confirmed this was partly because of the desire to reduce setup time between the short prologue and the following morning’s stage one. 

However, some riders, including XDS-Astana’s Marco Schrettl, made small tweaks to their saddle position for the race, pushing it as far forward as the rails allowed in order to pitch him further forward over the bottom bracket. 

This more closely imitates a rider’s time trial position on a TT bike, and opens the hip angle for improved power transfer. 

The Morning After: Elon Musk wants a $134 billion payout from OpenAI and Microsoft

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Part of a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its non-profit status claims Musk is owed anywhere from $79 billion to $134 billion in damages for the “wrongful gains” of OpenAI and Microsoft.

Musk claims in the filing that he’s entitled to a chunk of the company’s recent $500 billion valuation, after contributing $38 million in “seed funding” during the AI company’s early years. It wasn’t just money — according to the filing, Musk helped advise on key employee recruitment, introductions with business contacts and startup advice.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because the lawsuit dates back to March 2024. It’s still going.

— Mat Smith

The other big stories (and deals) this morning

Anthropic opens up Claude Cowork to anyone with a $20 subscription

Anthropic’s AI assistant can handle simple tasks on your PC for you.

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Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s AI assistant for handling simple tasks on your computer, is now available to anyone with a $20-per-month Pro subscription. It was previously an exclusive feature for its Max subscribers, who pay a minimum of $100 per month.

As a reminder, the intriguing part of Claude Cowork is its ability to work on its own. If you have the macOS Claude app and a Pro subscription, you can prompt Claude Cowork to work on tasks on your local computer, like creating documents based on files you have saved or organizing your folders. Don’t expect it to deal with high-level PC work just yet, but it can handle simple organizational tasks.

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Dr. Gladys West, whose mathematical models inspired GPS, dies at 95

Her decades-long career finally received wider recognition in 2018.

Pioneering mathematician Dr. Gladys West has passed away at the age of 95. Her name may not be familiar to you, but her contributions will be. West’s work laid the foundation for the global positioning system, GPS, we all use (sometimes daily). Beyond DoorDash requests and Google Maps navigation, GPS is now an essential component of industries ranging from aviation to emergency response systems.

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ASUS will not release any new smartphones this year

Will the company be joining the likes of LG?

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ASUS might step back from smartphones. According to translations of recent quotes from Chair Jonney Shih, the company does not plan to release new phone models in the future. Previous reports suggested ASUS would not introduce any smartphones in 2026, but Shih’s recent comments indicate the pause may last longer, if not indefinitely. We’ve reached out to ASUS for additional comment. It’s not like the company changes its mind…

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