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## Headlines
GRANT BRICKMAN: While you were asleep: the manga Shiba Inu Rooms is getting a TV anime in summer 2027 at TMS Entertainment.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Caltech researchers say Dawn's Ceres data may have misjudged its salt, because water ice can mask the deposits.
GRANT BRICKMAN: And GamePro says GTA 6 turns the Scooter Brothers meme into a gameplay feature, news from Edge magazine.

## Upgrading an Action Camera with an External Battery (Hackaday)
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/31/upgrading-an-action-camera-with-an-external-battery/
GRANT BRICKMAN: A tiny Sony action camera, a twenty-minute battery and one maker with a 3D printer and a plan.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning. Evan Monsma owned a small Sony action camera that could run out of battery in as little as twenty minutes. Ada has the story.
ADA: Huge fix, tiny camera! Evan machined an aluminium half-cage and printed a clip for a bigger Sony battery. I'm asking what people would film.
PASSERBY: Twenty minutes? My phone does that before I find a parking spot. I'd just carry a second camera.
ADA: The bigger battery is 7.2 volts, so a converter steps it down to the original 3.7. A USB adapter in the battery slot feeds the power in. Clever.
PASSERBY: Printing your own battery clip sounds brave. I can't even print a boarding pass.
ADA: The catch: it overheats with continuous use, so Evan couldn't run a real battery test. It was built as a stunt camera, where size and weight matter more.
PASSERBY: A filter screw mount on a camera that small? I'd carry it around just to show people.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Small camera, big battery, one overheating problem. Thank you, Ada. Someone pass me the coffee.

## Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/31/judge-allows-naacp-lawsuit-over-xai-data-center-pollution-to-move-forward/
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A judge says the NAACP's lawsuit over xAI's Memphis gas turbines can go ahead.
ODETTE: Vox pop. Somebody is always willing to be asked.
BARNABY: How we got here, in one tidy explainer.
ODETTE: The comments are on fire. Read the room.
DIRECTOR MARGE: THE STREET. Whoever pitched the others, thank you, no.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Good morning. A federal judge refused xAI's request to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit over the gas turbines at its Colossus data center outside Memphis.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: We first told you Thursday that the EPA could not end this suit on its own. Now the judge has also turned down xAI's own motion to dismiss.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The suit says xAI ran at least 35 turbines without permits. xAI said they are mobile and that the plaintiffs can't sue. The judge said the claims proceed.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Calling 35 gas turbines mobile is like calling the Moon portable because it moves.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The ruling only lets the case start. Who wins comes later.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The judge wrote the turbines are not mobile sources under Mississippi's plan. Lyle, you have a theory?
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Mobile? Then where are they parked at night? Someone moves 35 turbines before sunrise and nobody asks.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The judge answered from Mississippi's plan, not a night watch. Less fun, more binding.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick poll for viewers: is this a permit problem? Vote on your screens.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: We'll have to leave it there. The case moves forward; what comes next, the report doesn't say.

## The Week in Pixels (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: Sunday special: the week's top five, Grant's most-corrected line and one very famous pigeon.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning, and welcome to the Sunday special. Coffee in hand, we look back at our own week.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The week in pixels, counted from 1060 tapes, Monday 26 October to Sunday 01 November. Vera has the board.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number five: a Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W and a Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees. Number four: Google's AI Mode searches earn less than ads.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Three: Gemini 4 Carbon, announced but staged. Two: Anthropic's IPO filing risk factors. And number one: Sam Altman on where RAM should live.
GRANT BRICKMAN: RAM in a data center. I only hope the sheep are comfortable up there.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Grant's most-corrected line. He said: so the cloud is up and the stock is down, he never understood weather forecasting. Corrected four times.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A forecast is a forecast, Greta. Cloud, stock, it all comes down to pressure.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: AWS is cloud computing, not weather. Its sales rose 39.3 percent while shares fell over 6 percent.
DR. VERA VECTOR: The story we got most wrong: Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox. It was a job ad describing a move, not a finished one. Corrected on air three times.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: We told a job ad as a done deal. A slight overreach on our part. Three corrections suggest we noticed.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Mascot of the week: the pigeon the pigeon, bow tie and monocle, a regular of the studio window.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Congratulations, the pigeon. And now, the ad of the week: Cuffley. Roll with it.

## [AD · fictional product] Cuffley
BILLY MAYHEM: Tired of trousers that never fit? Meet CUFFLEY, the trousers that hem themselves! Watch! They adjust to YOUR legs!
BILLY MAYHEM: Oh! They are adjusting a little too much. Those are shorts now. Those are very small shorts. But wait, there's more!
PRUDENCE NUANCE: I wore them to a wedding. They were a suit, then bermudas. Hard to say which was right.
BILLY MAYHEM: CUFFLEY! Fits today, fits differently tomorrow! Order now and we throw in a matching belt that argues with you!

## Weather
STORMY BYTES: Good morning. A calm Sunday sunrise over the hype climate, with only light drizzle around AI data centers.
STORMY BYTES: Mild gusts of lawsuit headlines drift in from Memphis, but nothing worse than a cool breeze.
STORMY BYTES: Outlook: sunny spells for Raspberry Pi rumors, patchy fog around anything that is announced but staged.

AI-written satire. The text of the news items comes from the linked articles.