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Key Takeaways

1. Apple's latest macOS 27 beta comes with a hidden Siri AI menu.
2. Once engaged, you'll see a Siri AI shortcut whenever you highlight text.
3. You can enable the feature with a Terminal command, but it may be unstable or buggy at this time.

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Siri AI is the biggest feature of Apple's upcoming suite of updates. Whether you're running iOS 27, macOS 27, or even watchOS 27, the thing that you'll likely notice first (assuming you're running a compatible device) is that Siri is much smarter now, and even more capable than it was in previous versions. If the beta previews have been any indication, this really is the biggest upgrade Apple has ever given Siri.

But it seems that the company isn't limiting itself to the upgrades it already announced. As it continues beta testing these new updates, and with them, Siri AI itself, Apple seems to be tinkering with its new AI-powered assistant, quietly planting new features that beta testers need to discover for themselves. One such feature? A new Siri AI menu that appears whenever you highlight text in macOS 27.

As reported by MacRumors, this new menu appears whenever you select text in macOS 27. When you do, you'll see a floating menu in the top left of your highlighted text. If you move your cursor over it, the menu expands to reveal options, such as "Proofread," "Rewrite," "How does this sound?" and "Edit with Siri." You can also ask Siri AI to pull out key points from the text, or summarize it completely. Depending on the text, you might see other options, too: If you highlight a text from a friend, Siri AI might show you contact info; if the text contains a date, Siri AI might prompt you to create a Calendar entry. It plays into Siri AI's contextual awareness, which is part of Apple's mission to make its assistant more useful in specific scenarios.

The thing is, this menu is disabled by default, as least as of macOS 27 developer beta 3 and public beta 1. Apple did not include it in the release notes, either; instead, a Redditor stumbled upon it, and shared instructions for turning it on on r/MacOSBeta.

Keep in mind, this feature, as with macOS 27 as a whole, is in beta testing. MacRumors says that the feature does not always work, so you may run into odd bugs or glitches after turning it on. Still, if you're already running the beta and are curious, this is an interesting feature to explore.

What do you think so far?

To try it out, you'll need to open your Mac's Terminal app. Then, paste and run the following command: sudo mkdir -p /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain && sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/WritingTools LightweightUI_macOS -dict Enabled -bool true

You'll need to restart your Mac for the feature to take effect. But once you do, you should see the menu whenever you highlight text—albeit with some possible hiccups. If the feature is too unstable at this point, or you simply don't like it, you can undo it by pasting the following command into Terminal: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/WritingTools LightweightUI_macOS -dict Enabled -bool false

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What's available to pre-order?

The list includes:

• Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Booster Bundle: six booster packs; price expected to be $26.94
• Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration Mini Tin Display: four different collectible tins, each containing two booster packs, a sticker sheet, and an art card — but this is being sold in a 10-pack. The price is expected to be $99.99.

The wave does not include the highly sought-after Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Boxes (ETBs). However, based on information shared by botting Discords, it is expected that The Pokémon Company will continue releasing more products in waves.

How much can I buy?

The bundle has a limit of three per customer, while the tin has a limit of one. To contextualize this, during the last drop, ETBs — which had a limit of two per customer — sold out after five hours. The rest of the products, which had stricter limits, took nearly seven hours to sell out. That level of availability is unheard of in recent years for Pokémon TCG sets, so it's clear that The Pokémon Company is heavily printing it.

How to prepare for TPC's 30th anniversary drop

The usual advice applies. You should try to connect via PC, on a wired internet connection if possible. Mobile phones tend to refresh webpages when you don't have the tab open and go to sleep quickly. Some phones allow you to turn off auto refresh or tinker with the sleep settings, but generally, people on mobile report way more issues than people on PC.

Whatever you choose, don't connect multiple devices from the same IP address to the site — you could be flagged. You could, however, connect a phone on LTE and a PC on a wired connection at the same time to double your chances of connecting.

Fans also report that trying to purchase multiple orders at the same address sometimes caused those orders to be canceled. Checkouts were plagued with issues, and it sometimes took multiple tries for The Pokémon Center to accept a credit card.

Image: The Pokémon Company

What is Error 17?

Whatever you do, avoid reloading the website as much as possible. If you're actively in a queue with a timer, the screen can sometimes go completely blank. Let the website do its thing: it will eventually reload at a new time. Reloading can put you at the back of the line and may also get you an error 17. Error 17 appears when The Pokémon Center deems you to be a bot, and you'll be unable to load the website at all.

What is error 43?

It's another connection error, basically. This is the one time you should reload — the site should take you back into the queue. Otherwise, if the tab on your screen shows that your page is loading something, do not refresh even if the screen is blank. TPC will refresh on its own, though it may take a few minutes.

Should I be worried about my timer?

Expect the first hour or so to be particularly rife with issues, including ones where The Pokémon Center's website won't load at all. Once things settle, whatever your timer says won't be exact. It might display seven remaining hours, then fall down to two hours, and then suddenly go back up to three hours. More than once during the first wave, I got under an hour only to be kicked back to a three-hour wait. I did manage to get everything though — except the ETB. If you want to succeed, you have to be ready to spend a lot of time at your computer.

Sometimes, the website will crash randomly, and you'll be sent to the back of the line anyway. While frustrating, get back in the queue. Many people had to restart their wait times on Wednesday and were still able to purchase stock. All of which to say, even if you get into the queue late, don't despair. Chances are very high you'll score something, eventually.

What should I do if I was banned?

You might not be able to do anything, unfortunately — at least on the same connection. If you get banned on your wired PC, you can always try LTE on your phone. Some users report that they were able to fix it by unplugging and resetting their router. Bans can last anywhere between a few hours to multiple months, which is why it's important to refresh the page as little as possible.

Image: The Pokémon Company

Where is my email confirmation?

Once a purchase is made, do not be alarmed if you don't immediately receive an email confirmation. Receipts could take an hour or longer to arrive, so it's a good idea to screenshot your confirmation screen.

Why do people want this set?

This might be the best TCG collection TPC has ever made. The set includes 30 different Pikachu, each drawn by a different artist. It also reprints a variety of beloved old-school cards, like the original Charizard holofoil. The set introduces a new rarity, Future Rare, which gives cards a chromatic look. While the new rarity has proven controversial, the art for the rest of the cards is killer.

The set is themed after day and night cycles, and the art and holofoil decorations reflect that. At least one card is split into two. Beloved artists like Okubo, 0313, Yuu Nishida, Ameliacart, Okachee, and Shinji Kanda all make an appearance. Some of the most iconic monsters are included in the set, like Gengar, Meowth, and Jigglypuff.

The consensus around the set is that it will be more popular — and perhaps scarcer — than Ascended Heroes. Already, pre-orders outside TPC are going for hundreds of times over MSRP.

Godspeed, trainers. While it appears that scalpers with bots ate well last Wednesday, normal people were also more successful than usual. Already, this second drop seems more stable. There are still reports of random crashes, but it didn't take over an hour for the website to actually let anyone in.

If all else fails, hey: the new Pitch Black set came out last Friday. Most retailers are flush with single packs of Pitch Black as of this writing. %!s()

This price action is a classic tell: market expectations are extremely high, and a beat is now viewed merely as the baseline. If exceeding delivery targets fails to spark a rally, meeting or slightly beating bottom-line earnings will likely be greeted glumly by Wall Street.

The broader enthusiasm for pure-play EVs has cooled significantly over the past two years, but competitive pressure in key segments remains fierce. Rivian's rollout of the R2 targets the core mass-market SUV segment ($45,000–$60,000)—the exact price band where Tesla's Model 3 and Model Y have traditionally buttered their bread (>96% of 2025 sales were those two models) As competitors like Rivian with their newly released R2 hone in on this volume sweet spot with improved economics and fresh design appeal, Tesla faces mounting margin pressure in its core automotive business. Admittedly, Rivian does not have the production capacity to supplant Tesla's most popular models, but strong demand will help it raise the capital and capacity needed to do so.

Unsubstantiated valuations and AI distractions

Tesla's elevated valuation relies heavily on non-automotive catalysts like robotics and autonomy. Wall Street continues to price in long-term optionality for humanoid robotics (Optimus) and full self-driving.

However, overall market enthusiasm for the AI narrative has shifted. Investors now favor hardware providers with tangible near-term financial returns over downstream software promises. Another possible area of support is speculation about potential corporate actions or synergies with SpaceX, which continues to circulate.

TSLA year to date

Yet, a merger or restructuring makes little strategic sense for the core operations of either firm. Furthermore, with SpaceX shares trading below their initial public valuation, speculative enthusiasm around cross-entity corporate financial engineering has lost momentum.

Technically, TSLA looks vulnerable. Moving envelope indicators and Bollinger Bands show long positions struggling, while the MACD, RSI, and major long-term moving averages display explicitly bearish momentum profiles.

In recent quarters, Tesla's post-earnings stock moves have been more muted than its multi-year historical average. The options market reflects this compression:

• Implied volatility: The at-the-money straddle expiring July 24 (e.g., the $380 straddle) is priced at roughly 7% of the underlying stock price.
• Historical move: This sits visibly below Tesla's long-term average post-earnings swing of ~9% over comparable two-day periods.

The strategy: Short-term bear put spread

While options premiums are pricing in a lower move than the historical average, implied volatility is slightly higher than last quarter, and put skew remains elevated. Buying options outright can expose traders to an expensive "volatility crush" immediately after the announcement.
For equity holders seeking downside protection or traders looking for a risk-defined alternative to shorting the stock, a short-term Bear Put Spread offers a reasonable risk/reward.

Specifically:

• Buy August 21st (regular expiration) $360 for $15
• Sell August 21st (regular expiration) for $330 Put $6
• Max Loss: $900
• Max Gain $2100
• Skill Level: Intermediate 

This trade:

1. It captures the elevated put skew.
2. It defends against "IV" or "vol crush". The short put reduces net Vega and Theta drag following the earnings announcement.
3. Attractive risk reward: At $9.00 this $30 wide put spread pays more than 2:1 if Tesla falls to $330 by August Expiration. While that's a lot lower than the current stock price, the average move over the month following earnings is just over 15% higher or lower.

Netflix's One Piece live-action show returned for its second season earlier this year, and the Straw Hats pirates' next adventure is right around the corner. However, it's coming in a way you might not expect.

Luffy, Nami, and the rest are being reimagined in Lego form for Lego One Piece, a two-part special that recaps the events of the first two seasons of the live-action show. Except, ya know, everyone's made of Lego bricks this time.

Netflix shared the first full teaser trailer for the special on Monday, giving fans their best look yet at the Lego hijinks. The special is narrated by Usopp, who takes creative liberties with an unreliable retelling of events. "Wow, who's this super cool dude?" Zoro says at one point about Usopp, before remarking, "I never said that!" Usopp also tries to claim he came up with the idea of sailing into the Grand Line for the titular One Piece. Expect several fibs and exaggerations from Usopp over the course of the animated special.

"We wanted to make something that would ease new viewers into the massive world of One Piece while also giving longtime fans a new, fun perspective to see the iconic stories of the first two seasons," showrunner, writer, and executive producer Tom Hyndman said of the special in a news release.

The entire Straw Hat cast will return to voice their Lego-ized characters, including Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp. Lego One Piece will premiere Sept. 29 on Netflix.

But that's not all that One Piece fans have to look forward to. Season 3 of the live-action show recently wrapped filming, and it's set to premiere in 2027. Also coming in 2027 is the One Piece anime remake on Netflix. You can expect that to start streaming in February. %!s()

But there are other, non-rhetorical questions that the internet has about King of the Hill. So when Polygon got a chance to chat with current showrunner Saladin Patterson ahead of the show’s 15th season, we hit him with the internet’s biggest questions about Hank Hill and his fellow citizens of Arlen, Texas.

His answer to why Hank hates charcoal is especially surprising.

Warning: Spoilers for season 15 of King of the Hill below

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Does Dale know about Nancy’s affair with John Redcorn, and that Joseph isn’t his biological son?

When the original run of King of the Hill began, it was immediately established that Nancy Gribble (Ashley Gardner) was having a long-term affair with Indigenous American healer John Redcorn (Victor Aaron/Jonathan Joss). It was also incredibly clear to everyone in the neighborhood, except her oblivious husband Dale (Johnny Hardwick), that Nancy and Dale’s son Joseph (Brittany Murphy/Breckin Meyer) was Redcorn’s biological child.

Nancy ended the affair in season 4 of the show’s original 13-season run, but when the series returned in 2025, the affair between Nancy and John Redcorn had already resumed sometime during the eight-year gap between the series finale and the revival. In season 15, Nancy once again ends her affair, looking to better her marriage with Dale. But with so much evidence of Nancy’s affair — from Joseph’s appearance to Dale catching John Redcorn climbing out of Nancy’s window — does Dale, on any level, know about any of it?

Image: Hulu/Disney

“My answer is going to be an answer that existed in the previous version, too,” Patterson tells Polygon. “There's an episode in the previous version where Dale's given some pretty strong evidence that Joseph is not his son, but the cognitive dissonance of it all is that he wraps his head around the idea that [aliens stole Dale's DNA to make Joseph].”

The showrunner riffs on something series co-creator Greg Daniels once said to explain Dale’s refusal to accept reality.

“The way Greg Daniels explained it in the original episode, which I think still applies now, is that Dale's characteristic of being a conspiracy theorist means he's going to look at evidence and create a reality that is bonkers to most people,” Patterson says. “For conspiracy theorists, it's their way of navigating little bits of truth here and there. Dale sees the evidence we all see — he saw John Redcorn climbing out of his window — but his conspiracy theory mind is able to create a reality that makes sense based on the truth that he believes.”

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Where is Luanne?

Image: Hulu/Disney

When King of the Hill returned for its 14th season, only two major supporting characters were absent: Luanne and her husband Lucky. Played by Brittany Murphy, Luanne was a part of the show from the very first season, as the biological niece of Peggy (Kathy Najimy) who moves in with Hank and Peggy. In season 8 of the original run, Luanne meets Lucky, voiced by Tom Petty, and they eventually get married and have a daughter named Gracie.

The original run of King of the Hill concluded in 2009, and later that year, Murphy died at age 32. Then in 2017, Tom Petty passed away at age 66. As such, when King of the Hill returned, neither character was brought back, nor were they mentioned. All we see of them in season 14 is a photo on the wall of the Hill house.

In season 15, we learn a little bit more about them. In the finale, which flashes back to years earlier, when Hank and Peggy are discussing Hank taking a job in Saudi Arabia, it's established that, for his final year of high school, Bobby went to live with Luanne. The acknowledgment is a brief but beautiful tribute to the character, establishing that she helped Hank and Peggy the same way they helped her years earlier.

Still, we don’t know where she is currently in the show, which is why “Where is Luanne?” remains a persistent question online.

“My honest answer is, a few things may have happened,” says Patterson. “It's something that we talk about — ‘we,’ meaning me, Greg [Daniels] and Mike [Judge]. We have not landed on that yet in terms of what happened to them. Right now, it still feels right not to close a door, but also not to lock ourselves in too much. As of right now, they are not a part of the storytelling world. They still exist in the world, obviously, but we're waiting for inspiration, because that's something that has to be handled in the most respectful and creatively interesting way, especially if we're going to be talking about recasting and things like that. We don't take that lightly. It's going to have to really, really be worth it.”

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Why does Hank hate charcoal?

Image: Hulu/Disney

Hank is an incredibly loyal man, and as a seller of propane and propane accessories, he’s unwaveringly dedicated to the clean-burning fuel. Still, his enthusiasm for propane and his often-stated hatred for charcoal seems downright personal, which is why so many people still wonder, “Why does Hank Hill hate charcoal so much?”

Patterson is convinced he has the answer.

“Hank was a jeans salesman at Dress Barn or something like that, when Buck Strickland found him and wanted to make him a propane salesman,” Patterson explains, “So in my mind, prior to that, Hank did not necessarily have the love of propane. It was something that he was introduced to when he became a propane and propane accessories salesman. So there's a reality where Hank may have used charcoal as a kid. Cotton probably cooked with charcoal. But I think Hank became a proselytizer of propane when he discovered the benefits of it.”

Adds Patterson: “I think Hank is a true convert, and just like any other true convert, he became a zealot. So he really does believe in the superiority of propane.”

King of the Hill season 15 is streaming now on Hulu and Disney Plus. %!s()