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The FCC has revoked authorization for the HoverAir Versa's flight kit, pulling the modular pocket camera drone from U.S. sales just three days after its Indiegogo campaign launched. The agency says certification was granted erroneously, effectively closing a loophole that had allowed the two-hundred-thirty gram drone to sidestep standard foreign UAS regulations.
Shifting to software, OpenAI appears to be building a privacy layer into ChatGPT. Hidden code inside the app suggests users may soon be able to lock sensitive conversations behind a PIN or fingerprint scan, keeping those chats tucked away from casual view. The details around how locked chats would interact with the app's memory features remain unclear.
And finally, a piece of computing archaeology. Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has shed light on why early copies of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack shipped with a sticker slapped over the Tetris promotion on the box. The short answer is that Microsoft had already sent boxes to print before securing the rights to the game, leaving a sticker as the only practical fix.
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