First Out This Morning (PXL)

GRANT BRICKMAN: The first things out this morning: an ancient blue, a delayed game, big AI bills and a very early voice.

GRANT BRICKMAN: These are the first things out this morning, from outlets that were up before the rest of us. Mug first, news second. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: A German science site says Egyptian blue, made some 5,000 years ago, can now work in medicine as a fluorescent dye. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: A colour that stays on walls and statues for millennia. My shirts fade by Thursday. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: ComputerBase says the next From Software game, The Duskbloods, is Switch 2 exclusive and now comes in 2027. A short post on X says final adjustments. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: A delay on a Friday morning. Gentle. Even the game wants a second coffee. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Heise reports Alphabet shares fell further in a day than ever, with heavy AI spending behind it. Amazon is growing, helped by AWS. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: The cloud is expensive these days. Somebody has to pay for all that weather. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Mildly: it's servers, Grant. Next, MarkTechPost: Edge0 released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight voice cloning model, Apache 2.0, 23 languages. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Twenty-three languages. I can barely get the 1987 weather map in one. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Hackaday asks if one instrument could replace the pile of logic analysers and oscilloscopes that crowd a bench. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: One gadget instead of a pile. My desk is mostly mugs, but I respect the dream. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Paul Anthony Kelly about the American Horror Story season 13 finale. Their reaction: flabbergasted. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Flabbergasted before eight o'clock. That's commitment. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: That's the first batch. Finish your mug, there's more PXL Breakfast coming up. ▶