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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Chosen family: This number surprised me: About 27% of folks are estranged from their families. So sad. Enter the 11,000-member Facebook group Surrogate Grandparents USA. Donna Skora, a retired paralegal in Florida, started it in 2015. Folks can post ads or respond to others’ requests for surrogate grandparents. It’s helped people like Karen Tautges Malinak, a goat farmer in Minnesota who’s lost touch with her daughters.

Swatting spree: You’re sitting at home when the SWAT team rushes in, convinced someone inside just committed murder and has explosives set up. A 23-year-old in Wisconsin, along with another guy, hacked into the family’s Ring camera and called the cops with that story. Once police arrived, they livestreamed it all. One of them is already serving 17 years in prison. If you have a Ring camera, turn on 2FA.

RadioShack lives: The last store closed in 2017, but the electronics retailer’s back online selling SD cards for dirt cheap. Don’t let nostalgia fool you; that 32GB card for under $6 is as outdated as RadioShack itself and runs at a slow 10MB/s. Faster cards (30MB/s) are $19. Here’s a better option on Amazon for $20.

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Last laugh: Trolls helped Amy Schumer figure out she has Cushing’s syndrome. The condition makes your body produce too much cortisol (the stress hormone), causing facial swelling known as “moon face.” Guess online haters are good for something.

Bet he’s a peach to be around right now: Mark Zuckerberg’s got four “war rooms” going at Meta HQ to figure out DeepSeek’s secrets. Two teams are focused on training and operating costs; the other two are digging into how the data might level up Meta’s next Llama model. Think about this: All the U.S.-based AI companies just got a kick in the butt to do better.

Picture this: DeepSeek says its AI image generator is better than DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion. It used 72 million AI images, along with a crapload of real-world data, to train Janus-Pro-7B. I don’t think it’s that great. Try it here on a phone or computer you don’t use all the time. There’s no telling what the Chinese are doing in the background.

🇨🇳 Did DeepSeek lie? Probably. The Chinese-run AI company sent American tech stocks crashing after reporting it only cost ‘em $5.6 million to chat up to ChatGPT and all the rest. Nvidia lost $600 billion (down 17%) on Monday, the worst drop since March 2020. Turns out that was some creative math. DeepSeek spent that much training its V3 model but has invested $500 million in its tech since 2023. For the record, that’s still pretty low compared to U.S. companies, which spent upwards of $50 billion. ICYMI, here’s more about DeepSeek.

💸 Good news, shoppers: Amazon is now legally required to post recall notices and product alerts on its site. If you purchased a recalled or defective item, whether from Amazon or a third party, you’ll be notified via email, and recall details will be on your orders page or this recalls page.

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Under the radar: A flaw in Microsoft’s Windows BitLocker encryption system could expose your sensitive data, including passwords in unencrypted form. BitLocker is meant to protect your data if your laptop or PC is stolen by encrypting your hard drive. The fix? Update to the latest version of Windows. PSA: I only work with brands I trust to keep you secure. Hit this page to see the five must-have tools I recommend.

💀 Dreadful discovery: A Maryland woman went to get a new driver’s license, only to find she’d been declared legally dead. The culprit? A typo that registered her Social Security number to someone who’d passed away. The mistake led to her health insurance being canceled and her medical bills piling up. What a nightmare.