Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced a bill to sunset the law that shields social media platforms from being held liable for content moderation, and their users’ posts. Section 230 has long been a target of bipartisan tech critics, but reforming it has proved complicated.

In the middle of threatening funding for hospitals that provide gender-related care to minors and trying to tack his name onto the Kennedy Center, the president also signed another executive order.

Naughty Dog asked staffers to work overtime to complete an internal demo of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier. The game is scheduled to launch in mid-2027, Schreier reports, though Sony hasn’t publicly announced a release window yet.

Riot Games is planning to spruce up League of Legends with a major update codenamed “League Next” that includes a visual overhaul and technical changes, though it’s apparently not due until 2027, Bloomberg reports. Riot later shared a video detailing “bigger updates” coming to League “after 2026.”

Toy company Basic Fun has acquired “select assets” of arcade cabinet maker Arcade1Up, which was rumored to be closing operations, but Arcade1Up has still not confirmed whether it has laid off staff, stopped sales, or ended production. A spokesperson told me Basic Fun and Arcade1Up had “no further info to share.” Read the full story here.

In response to concerns about how teens are interacting with ChatGPT, OpenAI is adding four new points to its Model Spec, which defines how the chatbot should behave:

A group of scientists says their “Collision Realization and Significant Harm (CRASH) Clock” estimates satellites in low Earth orbit have only 5.5 days before colliding or nearly missing another object, as of June 2025, compared to 164 days in January 2018.

During testing, the AI agent also ordered a PlayStation5 and live betta fish, and staffers convinced it to give away almost everything for free, losing a bunch of money. Sounds fun!

A recent investigation by Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union found that Instacart was charging customers different prices for the same products, from the same store, at the same time.

For its 100th anniversary, The New Yorker put its entire magazine archive online. (For paid subscribers, anyway.) You can browse by issue, but the NYer is also using AI to make it easier to search for subjects and topics, and to summarize each article so you know what you’re getting into before you accidentally sign up for a million words about elevators. But honestly, read the elevator story. It rules.

Instead of tossing Gomi’s new Forever Phone Case when you get a new iPhone that doesn’t fit, you can send it back to the company who will melt it down and remold the recycled plastic into a new case that does. You can preorder one now ahead of its January 2026 release for £55 (around $74), but having it remade will cost you £20 (around $27).

I saw someone on Threads the other day say, basically, “I know GChat is technically still a thing, but does anyone actually use it?” Google sure hopes you do — and it’s turning it into something much more like Slack. The new thing is that you can pipe RSS feeds into Chat, where they can appear in real time in whatever group you want. It’s a good idea! We have a bunch of RSS feeds funneling into our Slack. But I’d rather just have Google Reader back.

Amazon’s AI-powered assistant can use visual context from Ring doorbells to identify visitors, interpret why they’re there, and interact “intelligently” using natural language, according to the company. The feature, first announced in September, launches today and will work with the Ring Video Doorbell Pro (3rd Gen) and the Ring Video Doorbell Plus (2nd Gen) and requires a Ring subscription.

Displace’s $5,999 wireless TV with a battery-powered suction mount is only available with a 55-inch 4K OLED panel. But at CES 2026, the company will be introducing a new $1,999 Displace Hub mounting system that works with any 55 to 100-inch TV of your choosing, as long as it weighs less than 150 pounds.