Block the bad guys

🧴 Clear eyes, small words: You know that age-related blurry-near-vision thing you’ve either heard about or experienced? It’s called presbyopia, and 128 million Americans deal with it. Well, turns out there’s a potential fix. Vizz eye drops shrink your pupils for sharper close-up vision, like built-in squint mode, and they just got FDA approval. It gives me WD-40 but for your eyeballs vibes. 

🥳 The Promised LAN: Last month, I sat on an 11-hour flight from London with no Wi-Fi. Argh. Those days are coming to an end. Starlink hit 8 million subscribers and inked a shiny new deal with British Airways’ parent company to install satellite Wi-Fi on 500 planes from BA, Iberia and Aer Lingus. I believe Wi can Fi.

🌦️ Farewell, farm classic: This is sad. After 208 years, the Farmers’ Almanac is calling it quits. The 2026 issue will be its last, and the site goes down next month. The Maine-based guide says the money isn’t there anymore. It’s been predicting the weather with “a secret formula” involving sunspots and moon cycles, but it couldn’t foresee this storm.

Baby-making machine: Here’s a wild one. There’s this startup called Gaia that uses AI to predict whether IVF will actually work before you spend the money. That’s right, child by algorithm. And if it doesn’t lead to a baby, you don’t pay a cent. It’s already helped more than 100 families. AI is turning “hope for the best” into “plan for the best.”

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Love at first chat: Elon Musk’s latest side quest? A hyper-sexualized chatbot named Ani, developed by his xAI team, reportedly under his direct supervision. The Wall Street Journal says staff were told to hand over facial and voice data for “AI avatars,” with no real way to opt out. And get this: Ani strips when flirted with. So, another casual Tuesday at xAI.

⚠️ Copy. Paste. Regret: I read about ClickFix again, this malware that uses fake videos to detect your OS, copy malicious commands to your clipboard, then pressure you with a countdown to paste them. If a site tells you to paste something into a command prompt, close your browser. 

Push it to the limit: Infinite Jest, meet infinite work. Microsoft says the 9-to-5 is officially toast. Workers now operate on three “peaks”: morning, afternoon and, wait for it, night. Meetings after 8 p.m. are up 16%. Weekend emails are normal. It feels like it’s not a job anymore, but a live stream of your own to-do list. The remedy? Treat your “Do Not Disturb” like self-care.