It looks like Android Auto will soon be just a little less fun. GameSnacks, a Google-made app that contains a handful of simple games optimized for in-car displays, is seemingly being deprecated in the Android Auto beta release track, a sign that it could be shut down altogether soon.

9to5Google has shared a handful of user reports that GameSnacks is missing from the in-car app list. It’s not clear which version of the software users running into this issue have installed.

Has the Google of 2025 lost some of the spark that made the company seem like such a fun place to work in decades past? That’s probably a fair criticism, and while it may have been an inevitability for a tech firm of this size, we’re still just pleased as punch when some of that old, weird Google manages to shine through. That’s exactly why we’re as happy as we are to see the crew over at Google Japan so gleefully coming back year after year with a preposterous new keyboard design — and this year, they cooked up something just fantastically bizarre.

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Apple made waves with 2020’s iPhone 12, the first major smartphone to ship without an included charging brick. Apple’s public rationale was that USB chargers had become ubiquitous by then, and so no longer including them with every new device could conserve resources and reduce e-waste without causing much inconvenience for consumers. Since then, other major OEMs have done the same — smartphones that do include chargers have become the exception.

Now, it looks like we may be in for a similar shift with bundled USB cables. As shared on the Linus Tech Tips subreddit, user Brick_Fish‘s recently purchased Sony Xperia 10 VII came without a charger or a charging cable. In a photo included with the post, you can see iconography on the back of the phone’s box that spells out these omissions. Sony’s not really a major player in the smartphone space these days, but this seems like the type of trend we should expect to see gain traction over the next couple of years.

It’s not nice to be a bully. At least, not to people. But for a certain segment of AI “fans,” there’s nothing more fun than ganging up on an AI chatbot and trying to get it to do basically anything other than what’s intended. That can include hallucinating wildly incorrect answers, or even convincing the bot to ignore restrictions that its creators have tried to enforce. And now if you’re good enough at breaking AI bots in epic fashion, Google might just be willing to pay you for it.

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One of the best parts of One UI is how well it works on big screens. Samsung adds a lot of features to its tablets and foldables that make them more productive, and One UI 8, which is rolling out to several tablets, including our Galaxy Tab S10 Plus, brings some nice changes to Samsung’s apps that make using them on a large screen more pleasant.

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