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The Morning After: Pokémon hack exposes future games, beta designs and more
The biggest news stories this morning: Hackers made robot vacuums randomly yell racial slurs, Do you want a giant Redbox machine? Steam tells gamers they’re buying a license, not a game.
Casio (of watch and calculator fame) is taking pre-orders in Japan for Moflin, the adorable robotic plushie with AI “emotional capabilities,” which debuted during CES 2021. Last week, robot vacuums across the country were hacked, allowing attackers to not only control the robovacs, but use their speakers to hurl racial slurs and abusive comments at anyone nearby. TikTok's executives and employees are well aware that it's addictive and that it has bad effects on teen users' mental health, according to unredacted documents from Kentucky's lawsuit against the app.
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