Over the last year, Slate has built a lot of the buzz across the industry for its ambitious plans to sell a small, simple truck at an affordable price — and now that truck might be facing a new competitor that doesn’t just undercut its price, but also uses an entirely different type of powertrain and fuel source.
Progress on the Slate pickup continues full speed ahead, with the company recently showing a full prototype and announcing a starting price under $25,000. While the Slate’s basic features and low price (relative to other new pickups) will be a draw for buyers, one factor likely to limit its appeal is its battery electric powertrain. EVs absolutely have their benefits in certain situations, but a lack of easy roadtrip capability from this vehicle’s estimated 200-mile range and a possible lack of home charging options for buyers will both be significant hurdles.
Enter the REO Industries Runabout, another small truck from a startup manufacturer with big promises. Not only does the Runabout’s planned starting price of $21,500 significantly undercut the Slate, but it also uses a traditional internal combustion engine. However, while REO has already started taking reservations for the Runabout, plenty of hesitation is warranted given the long list of failed automotive startups in recent years. With its back-to-the-basics, internal combustion approach, could REO be different?
If the REO name sounds familiar, that’s because at one time it was both an automobile builder and one of the most established names in American truck building, with the original version of the company closing in 1975. In its reincarnation, REO is a Texas-based startup that’s hoping to take the small pickup truck back to its ’80s and ’90s roots.
Interestingly, a big part of the inspiration for the REO Runabout was the founder’s love of old Toyota pickup trucks and Japanese Kei trucks — namely their mechanical simplicity and longevity. The Runabout hopes to be a modern version of that, with body-on-frame construction, mechanical four-wheel drive, and a naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine with either a manual or automatic transmission. This is a much different setup than the popular Ford Maverick, which uses a unibody design with either hybrid or turbocharged powerplants.
How can REO achieve all of this at such a low price point? The plan is to keep things simple inside and out. Though the engine specs haven’t been finalized, the motor will most likely be supplied by an existing automaker to save money and give buyers some peace of mind. REO’s overall goal is to sell something similar to a Japanese Kei truck, but for it to be better-sized for American drivers and U.S. roads.
REO plans to sell the Runabout in three different body styles, including the entry-level two-door truck with a drop-side bed, a four-door truck, and an enclosed SUV model. The company plans to show the lineup in full and release more details in the latter part of 2026.
Given the long list of failed and bankrupt auto startups in recent years, it’s natural to be skeptical about REO’s plans to build and sell inexpensive trucks in the United States directly to consumers. However, unlike other failed startups, REO is not trying to sell state-of-the-art electric vehicles. Instead, it is going for cheap, gasoline trucks purposely engineered to be low-tech and simple. These are the vehicles that many American buyers have said they want in an era of ballooning vehicle sizes, prices, and technological complexity. Of course, sometimes what people say they want and what buyers actually want to pay for are different things.
REO is hoping that recent shifts in federal emissions regulations and the Trump Administration’s openness toward to smaller vehicles will give it the opening it needs into a market that’s historically been very difficult for newcomers. Time will tell whether REO’s ambitious plans can become reality. At the very least, its plan to bring affordable, simple pickup trucks to the American market is something to watch.
Plus, we dive into Sony dumping PlayStation discs.
Valve’s Steam Machine is finally here! But while it lives up to much of the hype, its high price makes us wonder who it’s really for. In this episode, Senior Writer Jessica Conditt joins to talk about her experience with the Steam Machine and how it compares to consoles (which have also gotten very expensive). Also, we discuss Sony’s bombshell announcement about killing physical PlayStation discs in 2028 and Xbox’s confusing array of layoffs.
Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Jessica Conditt
Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North and Terrence O’Brien
Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.
Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has some fun words in the grid. You might recognize the blue category right away. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Keep at it.
Green group hint: Limerick is another one.
Blue group hint: Cheers!
Purple group hint: Not sour.
Yellow group: Persist.
Green group: Kinds of poems.
Blue group: Tropical drinks.
Purple group: Sweet ____.
Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words
The completed NYT Connections puzzle for July 4, 2026.
The theme is persist. The four answers are continue, last, linger and stay.
The theme is kinds of poems. The four answers are ballad, epic, ode and villanelle.
The theme is tropical drinks. The four answers are hurricane, painkiller, scorpion and zombie.
The theme is sweet ____. The four answers are dreams, nothings, pea and spot.
The U.S. Interstate Highway System began taking shape in the 1920s. However, all those projects were put on hold in 1929 when the Great Depression hit, and remained so for decades. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act in response to the explosion of automobiles taking to the roads during the post-war boom, with a plan to build 41,000 miles of highways that ran from sea to shining sea.
In 1954, 58 million registered motor vehicles were on the road in the U.S. Today, there are over 284 million, and it can sometimes feel like we’re all driving around on those same century-old roads. Enter the infamous work zone, where workers don’t necessarily need to be present for you to get a speeding ticket if you’re caught on camera by an Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) system. As with standard work zones, state laws vary, so always check local regulations.
For instance, New York state statute 1180-E requires workers to be present, and clear signage leading up to the work zone warning that a photo-monitoring system is being used. Caution is advised in NY as State Police are known to wear hard hats and reflective vests to blend in with road construction crews. Much like New York, the state of Washington also requires signage, and enforcement only happens while workers are present in the zone. In Maryland, however, workers don’t need to be present for a traffic camera to issue a ticket. Florida has stringent work zone laws, but by and large doesn’t currently use ASEs in work zones. However, state law allows them to be at intersections and designated school zones (which are common).
In California, Assembly Bill 289 went into effect in January of 2026. However, it only applies if the appropriate signage stating that it’s “photo enforced” is present and must be located no more than 500 feet ahead of where the system is placed. Furthermore, citations can only be issued when construction workers are present.
Fines associated with these relatively new ASE laws can vary widely depending on the scenario. Going 11 to 15 mph over the posted speed limit in California carries a $50 fine (like in New York) and can escalate to $500 for speeds of 100 mph or greater. In New York, though, a second violation is $75 (if it occurred within 18 months of the first), while subsequent violations are $100 (again, if within 18 months of the first). In Maryland, the current tiered schedule starts at $60 for going 12 to 15 mph over the posted limit and goes up to $500 for driving 40 mph or more over the posted limit; those fines double if workers are present. Beginning on July 1, 2026, Washington drivers can expect a first-time infraction to cost $125, with subsequent infractions increasing to $248. On May 1, the state began requiring initial driver’s license applicants under 25 to pass an online work zone and first responder safety course before receiving their license.
More and more, states are using ASE systems to keep everyone safe because work zones are inherently dangerous due to uneven pavement, narrower lanes, concrete barriers, and strange orange lines on the road. Ultimately, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Stick to the letter of the law when traveling through them because, in the grand scheme of things, it’s a momentary annoyance that’s not worth a lifetime of regret.
Alibaba banned Claude Code after security researchers found Anthropic had embedded steganographic tracking code to identify Chinese users. The ban follows Anthropic’s accusation that Alibaba ran the largest known distillation attack on its models.
TL;DR
Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of escalating conflict between the two companies over allegations that Alibaba stole Anthropic’s AI capabilities through industrial-scale distillation.
“As Claude Code was recently discovered to carry back-door risks, after comprehensive evaluation, Claude Code has now been added to a list of high-risk software with security vulnerabilities,” Alibaba said in an internal notice reported by the South China Morning Post. The company recommended employees use Qoder, its own coding agent platform, as a substitute.
A Reddit user identified as LegitMichel777 reverse-engineered Claude Code on 30 June and found obfuscated code that had been silently present since version 2.1.91, released on 2 April, with no mention in the release notes. The code checked whether a user’s system timezone was set to Asia/Shanghai or Asia/Urumqi and scanned proxy URLs against a hardcoded list of Chinese domains and AI lab addresses.
Rather than logging the results conventionally, the system used steganography to hide its signals in the system prompt sent back to Anthropic’s servers. If the timezone was Chinese, the date format changed from dashes to slashes, and the apostrophe in “Today’s date is” was swapped with one of three visually identical but technically distinct Unicode characters depending on which flags were triggered.
The alterations are invisible to human users and potentially even to the AI model itself, but they are machine-parseable by Anthropic’s servers. Portions of the detection code were XOR-obfuscated with the key 91, a technique used to prevent plain-text extraction during code analysis.
Thariq Shihipar, an Anthropic engineer on the Claude Code team, said on X that the tracking was “an experiment we launched in March that was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorised resellers and protect against distillation.” He said the team had been “meaning to take this down for a while” and that the pull request to remove it was merged on 1 July.
The rollback coincided with the restoration of Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, which the US Commerce Department had ordered the company to disable for all foreign nationals in mid-June after Amazon researchers found a jailbreak vulnerability. The export controls were lifted on 30 June, and Anthropic restored access on 2 July, saying it would “scale up government collaboration” on frontier AI security.
Anthropic’s justification for the tracking code sits within a broader campaign against what it calls systematic theft of its models’ capabilities. In a letter to the US Senate Banking Committee on 10 June, the company accused operators affiliated with Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab of running the largest known distillation attack on Claude, using roughly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million exchanges between April and June.
Alibaba has denied the accusation. Anthropic had previously named DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax in February as perpetrators of similar campaigns, framing distillation as an existential threat to the business models of frontier AI companies.
Distillation, the practice of using a powerful model’s outputs to train a smaller one, occupies a grey area in AI development. Asian AI startups have launched alternatives to Anthropic’s models partly because the export ban on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 left a gap in the market, making the line between legitimate competition and illicit extraction increasingly difficult to draw.
Claude Code requires deep access to a developer’s local file system to read, modify, and execute code, meaning any hidden functionality in the tool effectively has access to everything on the machine. Huorong Security, a Chinese cybersecurity firm, said Anthropic’s tracking was not only a transparency issue but also raised cross-border data compliance concerns.
“Today it’s a timezone check, tomorrow it could be system sabotage or data exfiltration,” one Reddit user wrote. Anthropic’s privacy policy states that it collects the kind of data in question, but critics argue the steganographic method, designed to be invisible to users, crosses a line that a standard privacy disclosure does not.
The episode accelerates China’s push to reduce reliance on American AI tools, which Chinese firms increasingly view as carrying legal, security, and operational risks. Alibaba has been building out its own AI stack aggressively, integrating its Qwen models across products from e-commerce to robotics, and the Claude Code ban gives it further justification to push employees toward domestic alternatives.
Lizzi Lee, a fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Centre for China Analysis, said the conflict showed how the US-China AI competition has moved beyond technology into access control and sovereignty. “If a US AI coding tool can detect Chinese usage or proxy access, then it’s not surprising for major Chinese tech companies to not want employees using it internally,” she said.
Anthropic’s models have long been officially inaccessible in China, but they remain popular among domestic developers who use workarounds to maintain access. Whether the tracking controversy pushes more of them toward Chinese alternatives or simply confirms what many already suspected about the risks of depending on American AI tools is a question that extends well beyond Alibaba.
The eufy Omni C20 is built for households that don’t want to bother with constant cleaning.
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The station itself does the unglamorous work most robot vacuums leave to their owner, since it empties dust into a 3.1 litre bag, washes the mop pads, and dries them with room temperature air once the C20 docks.
That drying step alone cuts energy use by 57 times compared with heated methods, which matters if you would rather this thing run quietly in the background than announce itself every time it recharges.
None of that automation counts for much if the vacuum itself struggles to get under furniture, and this is where the eufy Omni C20’s 3.35 inch body earns its keep, sliding beneath sofas, beds, and low cabinets at just 90mm tall with room to spare, reaching the strips of floor that upright vacuums and clumsier robots consistently miss.
Suction sits at 7,000 Pa in its strongest mode, enough to lift pet hair, crumbs, and general debris across hard floors and carpet alike without needing a second pass over the same stubborn patch of mess.
Hair wrapping around the brush is one of the more tedious habits of any robot vacuum, so the Pro-Detangle Comb built into the roller exists specifically to stop that problem before it starts.
Mopping gets the same attention to detail, since the dual pads spin at 180 rotations per minute with 6N of downward pressure to lift dried stains rather than just smear them across the floor.
Carpets are handled with equal care, as the C20 detects the change underfoot and lifts its mop by 0.41 inches so rugs and carpeted rooms are vacuumed without getting soaked in the process.
For a broader sense of how the Omni C20 stacks up against everything else worth considering this year, our Best Vacuum Cleaner 2026 guide rounds up the models actually earning their place in a UK home right now.
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A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, July 3 (game #852).
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.
Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc’s Wordle today page for the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Ooh!
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
• Spangram has 9 letters
First side: bottom, 4th column
Last side: top, 6th column
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
The answers to today’s Strands, game #853, are…
Talk about a theme that could mean absolutely anything at all.
Totally in the dark, not an entirely unusual feeling to be truthful, I worked my way around the board in search of non-game words to earn a hint. Instead, I saw the spangram FIREWORKS and remembered today’s date.
I went to a fireworks display recently that was underwhelming, in part due to the murky conditions but also because the drones that made up a large part of the display had to be viewed from a particular angle in order to impress; a case of “uh?” rather than “ooh!”.
Meanwhile, it was nice to see a bit of color in Strands for a change. A rare treat.
Strands is the NYT’s not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has assembled a $200M+ real estate portfolio centred on seclusion, from a 3,700-acre Colorado monastery to a Miami compound. The privacy-obsessed lifestyle contrasts sharply with the surveillance software his company sells to governments.
TL;DR
Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million across a reported 20 properties worldwide. The common thread is seclusion: a former monastery in the Colorado mountains, a rural compound in New Hampshire, and a pair of mansions on a gated Miami island.
Karp, whose net worth stood at $14.4 billion as of early July according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has said he never learned to drive because he was once “too poor” and is now “too rich.” The fortune that funds his acquisitions comes from Palantir, whose revenue hit $1.63 billion in Q1 2026, up 85% year over year, driven by surging demand for its AI and data analytics platforms from governments and defence agencies.
In December 2025, Karp paid $120 million for the Saint Benedict’s Monastery ranch, a 3,700-acre property in the Capitol Creek Valley near Snowmass, Colorado, about 15 miles north of Aspen. The deal, transacted through an entity called Espen LLC, set a record for Pitkin County and was one of the largest residential sales in Colorado history.
Trappist monks of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance had stewarded the land since 1956, supporting themselves through farming and candy sales. Their numbers dwindled over the decades until only five remained, and the order’s General Chapter voted to close the monastery in the autumn of 2022.
The property was listed for $150 million in April 2024 before selling for $30 million below asking. The compound includes a chapel, monks’ living quarters, a retreat centre, 1,200 acres of irrigated meadows with senior water rights, and three creek systems stretching more than five miles.
Karp is an avid cross-country skier who reportedly trains 12 to 15 miles daily. A 3,700-acre property in the Elk Mountains is a fitting base for someone whose fitness regime is better described as vocational.
In June 2025, a Delaware entity called Hibiscus East LLC purchased a nearly 10,000-square-foot waterfront mansion at 55 East San Marino Drive for $46 million. Business Insider reported that the LLC is linked to a New Hampshire attorney and accounting firm that have appeared on documents tied to Karp’s previous transactions.
Karp then bought the house next door at 29 East San Marino Drive for $28.5 million, bringing his total investment on the island to nearly $75 million. The second property was listed at $30 million and went under contract in eight days.
Together, the two lots total more than 0.8 acres with 265 feet of waterfront, and The Real Deal reported that the acquisitions appear to be the start of a compound. San Marino is one of six man-made Venetian Islands in Biscayne Bay, an exclusive enclave whose past and present residents include basketball player Dwyane Wade and singer Gloria Estefan.
The Miami purchases predated Palantir’s decision to relocate its headquarters from Denver to Aventura, a Miami-area suburb, in February 2026. The company is currently operating from a co-working space while searching for permanent offices in areas including Wynwood, Brickell, and Coral Gables.
Karp’s reported primary residence is a 500-acre estate in Lyman, New Hampshire, part of which he purchased for $825,000 in 2019. He has been known to work from the property’s barn.
Lyman is a rural town in Grafton County with fewer than 600 residents, nearly two hours south of Manchester. Despite running one of the most closely watched companies in the defence technology sector, Karp chose a near-invisible town as home base, a pattern that extends across every significant property in his portfolio.
The seclusion of Karp’s lifestyle is striking because of what Palantir does. The company took over Project Maven, the Pentagon’s AI drone analysis programme that Google abandoned after employee protests, and its platforms power surveillance systems used by ICE, the military, and hundreds of local law enforcement agencies across the United States.
Karp has defended this work as essential to national security, arguing that democracies need tools powerful enough to compete with authoritarian adversaries. The company continues to expand its government footprint, competing for contracts including the FAA’s predictive air traffic AI system, and its stock has risen more than 600% since the start of 2024.
Karp’s net worth fluctuates with Palantir’s share price, which has traded between $106 and $208 over the past year, meaning the Bloomberg figure is a snapshot rather than a fixed number. The reported 20-property portfolio has not been independently confirmed in its entirety.
What is confirmed is the scale of his recent purchases: $120 million in Colorado, $75 million in Miami, and a 500-acre estate in one of the least populated towns in New Hampshire. Together, they form a portfolio designed around a single principle that Karp’s own company has made a $75 billion business out of undermining: the right to be left alone.
With a dual celebration to mark, the 2026 Macy’s fourth of July Fireworks special is all set to light up the sky like never before. If you’ve not managed to score a prime spot to view the display or are away from the Big Apple, you can tune in to catch the show on TV.
The New York institution is now in its 50th year, a landmark which dovetails nicely with this year’s July Fourth celebrations marking America’s 250th birthday. With launch sites on the lower East River in the Seaport District, the lower Hudson River and the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, this year’s display is set to feature over 85,000 shells — its biggest number ever — as well as ground-breaking laser elements.
Read on for details on how to watch the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks show from anywhere.
The two-hour TV special will air live on Saturday, July 4, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC and Peacock.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Terry Crews will be hosting for the first time, while there’s a star-studded musical lineup that sees Noah Kahan, Post Malone, Salt-N-Pepa, Bebe Rexha, Shaboozey and Blake Shelton all performing.
Rounding out the show will be the much-anticipated fireworks display, which is set to be soundtracked by a score by Grammy Award-winning composer Jason Howland that will feature live vocals by The Voice season 29 winner Alexia Jayy.
For those looking for an alternative to NBC, the event is streaming live as a simulcast on Peacock.
Peacock currently costs $11 per month for the ad-supported Peacock Premium plan and $17 per month for the ad-free Peacock Premium Plus plan.
If you’ve ditched cable, you can still catch this year’s event with a subscription to a live TV streaming service like YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, Fubo or Sling. Note that NBC is available only in select cities with Sling Blue or Sling Blue + Orange subscriptions.
If you’re traveling abroad and want to watch the event while away from home, a VPN can help enhance your privacy and security when streaming.
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Amazon’s mid-tier Fire HD 10 tablet just got a surprise refresh. The big news here is that the RAM has increased from 3GB to 4GB. This model has had 3GB of RAM for years and actually launched with just 2GB way back in 2017.
Otherwise, the specs remain the same. It features a 2GHz octa-core processor, a 10.1-inch FHD touchscreen and a battery that lasts for around 13 hours. This new model does seem to charge a bit quicker, as it can juice up in four hours instead of five.
There are a few caveats. The new Fire HD 10 is only available with 32GB of storage, and the old models were available in both 32GB and 64GB. We reached out to Amazon to ask if it plans to add a 64GB model in the future.
Also, it’s 2026. There’s no such thing as a free RAM lunch. This tablet costs $155, which is around $15 more than the previous gen. Finally, you can only buy it with lockscreen ads. I have a Kindle and a Fire tablet and have never found the ads to be that annoying, and I typically loathe that kind of thing.
This isn’t quite a budget tablet, but it doesn’t quite have the juice for intensive creative applications. The Fire HD 10 is a good device for laying in bed and watching stuff and it’s even safe around kids, as these things are pretty durable in my experience.
If you asked us to build you a KVM last week, we’d likely have reached for a Raspberry Pi. Now, thanks to [JonathanRowny], we’d seriously consider an ESP32-P4, because his IP KVM seems pretty capable.
He’s using the P4 hardware to its fullest, getting the supported 1080p graphics, and doing so in an interesting way– he’s got a commercial adapter board to try and translate HDMI signals to the camera input on his dev board. Conveniently enough, it’s the same ribbon-cable pinout as the RPi, which is not guaranteed by the CSI standard. Writing a driver to take that signal proved the hardest part– aside from the usual chip revision confusion that plagues this chip– and we can’t help but wonder if the client on the other side of the KVM-IP link might have an easier time doing the image processing that was required for a good image. Regardless, he’s got the code as it is now up on GitHub under the Apache license.
As of this this writing, there’s no audio, and ironically for an ESP32 project networking is wired-only– but much more importantly, there is no security. So it’s a work in progress, but great to see the P4 in the wild doing something other than emulation. Not that we haven’t seen the P4 at work before–the Tanmatsu handheld also makes use of Expressif’s most powerful chip for a handy little terminal. Between the KVM and the handhelds, we cannot help but wonder how many of the projects that were once the provenance of a Pi will get squeezed into these overpowered microcontrollers. Sure, they can’t even match the original Pi in horsepower, never mind a modern Pi5, but how many times have you seen a Linux SBC seriously under-taxed in a project like this?
If you’re swapping Pi for P4– or doing anything else interesting– please let us know on the tips line.
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