An obituary topped the day: Bob Cringely, who told the personal-computer story to a general audience, has died. The rest of the issue splits AI’s two faces — running large models on a home PC and reining in runaway bills — alongside resurrected old hardware, a war-time energy case, and arguments about trades work.

Valve’s $1,059 Steam Frame tries to make VR both streamed and standalone, Apple rebuilds Siri as a system-wide AI, and a day of supply-chain probes and legal takedowns shows how capability and accountability now move together.