The clean energy sector lost nearly 37,000 employees last year after Republicans cut funding and eliminated tax incentives for renewables, according to a recent report. And yet even after those losses, clean energy still employs 3.5 million workers compared to around 1.1 million people employed by oil, gas, and coal companies.

Last night I saw a few episodes of season 3 of Color Matters, a YouTube series from Portrait Displays that explores the often underrated role of the film colorist, and how color affects what we feel. Highly recommend all seasons for anyone curious about the use of color in films.

The Pokémon Trading Card Game isn’t just a game, it’s an economy. Livestreamers provide vicarious dopamine hits to viewers who tune in to watch them open booster packs, and the rarest cards can resell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The game’s 30th anniversary collection just launched, putting more copies of the game’s rarest cards back into circulation. Guest host David Imel talks about the state of the Pokémon TCG market with The Verge’s film, TV and pop culture reporter Charles Pulliam-Moore.

Its delivery vehicles were cited for over a dozen violations, including double parking, speeding in school zones, blocking bus and bike lanes, and more, according to a report from ALIGN. During the same five year period, Amazon vehicles also got 13,029 reports for idling too long.

Go watch the ultra-low-budget black-and-white slapstick insta-classic Hundreds of Beavers, which Dropout’s Sam Reich calls “a masterclass in visual comedy.” Dropout mostly streams original content, but is increasingly licensing indie comedy; it launched the Don Hertzfeldt Collection last month.

Reuters found that McDonald’s is increasingly using AI to set menu prices, including by trying to predict how much customers are willing to pay. Franchisees also told Reuters they’re pressured by McDonald’s to use AI in pricing decisions.

Lola, backed by the travel conglomerate Booking Holdings, can pull data from brands like SeatGeek and Booking’s own Kayak and OpenTable. There’s a free version, but the paid plans offer various perks like savings on 4 and 5 star hotels.

Meta will also let users raise their hand if they want to participate in a conversation, and you’ll also now see live reactions floating on your screen, according to Threads boss Connor Hayes. The company initially announced live chats on Threads in April.

The company says the new topic labels in its dedicated app for Facebook groups will help you find more conversations about that topic, highlighting things like “solo travel” or “Korean food” as examples.

Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest will debut on June 6th, 2029, Variety reports. Owen Harris, an executive producer and director for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is set to direct the film.

Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 version 26H2, aka the Windows 11 2026 Update today. It’s what Microsoft calls a “small enablement package,” allowing Windows 11 users to download and install the latest release quickly with a single restart. So what’s new? Well, due to the way Microsoft releases new Windows features these days, many of the same features that have been rolling out to version 25H2 will be part of 26H2.

The $99.99 Essential Solar Security Camera is a 2K/24fps camera with an integrated 1.2-watt solar panel so you don’t need to run any wires. Just two hours of sunlight per day can charge its capacious 14,790mAh battery that can keep the camera running for up to six months between top-ups. A subscription starting at $9.99 per month isn’t mandatory but adds features like cloud storage and AI-powered smart detection.

That’s up from the 1 billion weekly users milestone ChatGPT surpassed in July.

A major update for Final Cut Camera is now available that introduces a redesign with customizable overlays and easier access to popular settings like shutter angle, white balance, and the iPhone 18 Pro’s new variable aperture. Apple Creator Studio has also been updated with new template collections and advanced selections for Pixelmator Pro plus trigonometry, statistics, and logic functions for Numbers spreadsheets.

The new plan includes the company’s highest usage limits and access to its Ultrafast mode, which allows GPT-6 Astra to deliver faster responses across its services, including ChatGPT Work and Codex. At the same time, OpenAI reopened its $200 / month tier with new usage limits.

Google has now confirmed what we reported this spring: ChromeOS is done in 2034. The company says it’s committed to its 10-year-support promise, but for those Chromebooks that can’t be turned into Googlebooks, it might have to get creative.

With the new messaging feature, announced today alongside some new tools for YouTubers, creators will have a Linktree inbox where they can respond to messages, and Linktree will highlight potentially important messages like brand deals or collaboration opportunities.

The company paused sign-ups for the plan after demand from GPT-6 Astra put a strain on its systems. Now, OpenAI’s Thibault Sottiaux writes in a post on X that the company is changing the way it calculates usage for the plan, saying: “If you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan.”

Blaze Entertainment’s handheld remakes of the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum were supposed to launch in October but the company has “made the decision to move the release date from 15th October 2026 to 22nd April 2027” for all versions following production issues where it “identified areas where the product construction was not meeting our high standards.”

Accessory-maker Rolling Square has launched a new sister-brand called Await whose first product is a screen-free 8-megapixel digital camera that emulates the functionality and limitations of film cameras. You shoot on a simulated roll with 24 exposures but you don’t get to see your pics until they’re “processed” on a mobile app that gives you the option to download the results or order physical 4x6 prints.

The projects are in the “very early stages” and both will “expand the canon of The Last of Us beyond Part I and Part II,” according to studio head Neil Druckmann.

There are a lot of complaints about a Spotify outage on Downdetector, and when we checked ourselves, cached playlists seem to work just fine, but logging in fresh or trying to stream new music and playlists popped up error messages pointing us to try songs stored offline.

The America.gov chatbot is supposed to “replace” the government websites that you would typically go to for information about retirement, Social Security, healthcare, and other topics. It’s free to use, and the White House says it won’t store or collect your data.

You’ll be able to return stuff you bought on TikTok by dropping it off at one of UPS’s Happy Returns locations, without a box or printed shipping label, similar to Amazon’s label-free returns. Reuters reports UPS is offering the no-box, no-label returns in an “exclusive deal” with TikTok.

It says users can link the RGBICWW Light Bars with compatible AI agents to sync with light cues, like a breathing effect when the AI is thinking. The light bars also have a built-in microphone that detects ambient sound for “music-reactive effects,” 12 independently-controllable color zones, 26 preset effects, adjustable color temperature, dimming, and built-in mounting magnets.

Former White House AI czar David Sacks, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk are among the confirmed attendees, according to a list obtained by Axios. But based on President Donald Trump’s comments, the meeting is unlikely to result in significant regulation.