Star Wars Day doesn’t technically kick off until May 4th, but Apple is celebrating the event a bit early with a precision finding-focused iPhone 15 ad spot starring a squad of (cosplayer) Mandalorians.

I’ve held this in for long enough. For the past week, while the internet talks non-stop about the very poorly reviewed AI-powered Rabbit, all I (and probably all women of a certain generation) have been thinking is, Who was in charge of naming this thing? Were there no women in the room? 

News flash: there’s already a gadget named the Rabbit and it is very well reviewed. If there were ever a case for diversifying leadership in the tech world, this is it.

The Leica APO-Telyt-R 1600mm f/5.6 can take portrait photos from far away. Digital Camera World writes that Leica conceived the lens in 2006 at the request of former Qatari Minister of Culture Sheikh Saud Bin Mohammed Al-Thani. It’s so rare that there’s only three in existence.

It’s also so heavy that it takes two people to lift it onto a table.

The auditor of Truth Social is a “sham audit mill,” according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. It has been charged with “massive fraud” for its “deliberate and systemic” failures. Apparently the firm can’t even spell its own name right.

You may not like it, but I’m having a hard time finding issue with how Microsoft-owned GitHub wiped 8,535 forks of Switch emulator Yuzu off the web. It says it warned repo owners, let ‘em make changes, let them submit DMCA counternotices, and publicly posted Nintendo’s takedown request.

That’s a lot more than we can say for Discord and GitLab!

The Google spinoff is expanding its testing of fully autonomous vehicles further down the San Francisco Peninsula as it looks to grow its robotaxi service area. Waymo has for years tested its vehicles around its offices in Mountain View, as well as downtown SF, and now its looking to combine it all into one big map. Only employees will be riding in the vehicles for now, with access to non-employee passengers at a future date.

Welp, since Star Wars Day falls on a Saturday, it makes sense that Fortnite would finally release it’s long-teased Star Wars collaboration today. Star Wars is expanding across the entire Fortnite ecosystem. There are new skins in Battle Royale, new builds in LEGO Fortnite, special decals to unlock in Rocket Racing, and a Mos Eisley cantina stage in Fortnite Festival.

Google Maps is a handy way to view a specific address — but if you’d rather keep your house private, you can request it to be blurred out. CNET explains how: in Street View, click on the tiny “Report a problem” link in the lower right, and follow directions. But make sure this is what you want — apparently, there’s no unblurring.

The WSJ’s Joanna Stern put the Rabbit R1, Humane AI Pin, and the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to the test. Can you guess which one came out on top?

In a press release festooned with enough emoji to confuse it with a X post from a cryptobro, American’s major passenger train company announced it wants to figure out how to get high speed Wi-Fi blanketing its Northeast Corridor.

Companies that want to pitch it on ideas to improve the Wi-Fi can fill out a questionaire that requires Google Chrome but looks like it was designed for Netscape Navigator.

Disney Plus has never hosted “Dad Baby” — likely because it depicts Bluey’s dad Bandit pretending to give birth to his daughter Bingo — but the entire episode is now available to watch online via the official Bluey YouTube channel.

Despite Dad Baby’s cult status, it's actually one of several episodes of the Australian children’s TV show hit with censorship.

It’s exactly what you’d expect after the Fortnite maker said it was entitled to everything and a bag of chips due to its antitrust victory in federal court. Google wants Judge James Donato to think different:

“Epic’s demands would harm the privacy, security, and overall experience of consumers, developers, and device manufacturers. Not only does their proposal go far beyond the scope of the recent U.S. trial verdict – which we will be challenging – it’s also unnecessary due to the settlement we reached last year with State Attorneys General from every state and multiple territories.”

We’ll find out exactly how Android and the Google Play Store will change in a hearing that begins on May 23rd.

As pointed out on Threads by @zebulon.vance, it looks like the problem was an OpenAI outage Thursday evening that was addressed about 45 minutes later.

The only remaining issue is that even after paying $200, your ability to even try to get responses from your Rabbit R1 AI hardware depends on other AI companies keeping things running 24/7.

In an interview with CNBC correlating with Apple’s Q2 earnings, CEO Tim Cook was asked for his thoughts on the Department of Justice’s major antitrust lawsuit against the company.

“I think the case is misguided, and we’re going to fight it,” he said. “It’s my job to make sure it doesn’t become a distraction. And so, you know, if you look at what they’re trying to do, is essentially use the law to define how we design products. And that shouldn’t be like that.”

InsideEVs Editor-in-Chief (and former Verge contributor) Patrick George spoke to two recently laid off employees from Tesla’s Supercharger team about what’s going to happen to the company’s once-vaunted EV charging network now that it’s been gutted. They’re worried that broken chargers will take longer to fix, as the employees that are left race to respond to outages. In short, it’s going to short circuit.