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Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is now selling chairs. The Crown Collection gaming seat runs thirty-five hundred dollars and brings climate-controlled seating, heating, cooling, and a USB-C port built right into the seatbelt buckle. It is a limited edition product, and whether it is a marketing stunt or a genuine pivot, it raises a real question about where the car ends and the desk begins.
On the chip front, Intel has confirmed something that usually stays behind closed doors. Facing overwhelming demand, the company has been selling processors that would normally be rejected as scrap or low-expectation parts. Customers are apparently willing to accept lesser chips rather than wait, and Intel is booking real revenue from what used to be waste. It is a candid admission about how thin the margins of semiconductor perfection really are.
And a note from computing history worth pausing on. Twenty-seven years ago today, a one kilobyte virus called CIH detonated on hundreds of thousands of Windows nine-x machines, overwriting BIOS firmware in ways that could permanently brick a PC. Modern malware rarely goes that deep. It is a reminder that destructive creativity in software is not a new phenomenon, just a shifting one.
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