Jacob Kastrenakes

Improve your workflow by getting distracted and bouncing a virtual ball around your screen instead of doing whatever it was you were supposed to be doing.

BuzzFeed sold off Complex earlier this year, and now it’s shopping around First We Feast, the network behind the hit hot wings show. Its initial ask was for over $70 million, according to Bloomberg. “After months of talks,” there’s still no buyer — and BuzzFeed urgently needs the cash.

Lots of folks on X seem to think Sydney Sweeney is using a piracy service called Flixtor, as NME reported. I’m not immediately seeing that interface there — or anywhere else. Any ideas?

NPR looked into how digital tags are changing the supermarket — and making it easier to change prices:

“If it’s hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there’s something that’s close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that’s the good news,” said Phil Lempert, a grocery industry analyst.

It’s reportedly developing a sequel to Spaceballs, Mel Brooks’ Star Wars parody, with Brooks and Josh Gad producing. The project is in “early stages,” per Variety.

A new setting in Android 15 called “adaptive timeout” suggests that phones will be able to turn off the screen faster if they detect you’re not around. Right now, the system is more worried about keeping it turned on when you are nearby.

Albania’s Jasir Asani brought out Mario-themed cleats for the team’s match against Croatia today.

Wired and Robb Knight, a developer at MacStories, found that the AI search engine seems to ignore requests not to scrape their websites. They both blocked Perplexity in their robots.txt file — a standard instruction document for web crawlers — and found that Perplexity still managed to access their content. They’re not the only ones annoyed.

The feature has been limited to Apple’s Camera app since launch, but third-party apps will be able to record in the format starting later this year.