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Intel unveils Panther Lake, or Intel Core Ultra Series 3, the first chip built on its 18A process, coming to laptops and handhelds in late 2025 and early 2026 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Absolum review: the retro beat-'em-up formula gets a few neat tricks

Polygon - All

Netflix’s first TV party games include Lego, Boggle, and Tetris

The Verge - All Posts

Elgato is launching a bigger teleprompter for presenters, podcasters, and businesses

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Carlie Beams and Drew Jones

The Onion

Here is Panther Lake, Intel’s 2026 laptop chip with next-gen graphics

The Verge - All Posts

Sydney Sweeney Desperately Fishing For Pet Names To Avoid Calling Grown Man ‘Scooter’

The Onion

The best October Prime Day deals you can still shop

The Verge - All Posts

Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise, designed to help employees automate tasks and generate content across departments, priced at $30 per user per month (Bloomberg)

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NYC-based Reflection AI, which is developing open-source models to rival top closed-source models, like DeepSeek, raised $2B led by Nvidia at an $8B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

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The Browser Company says AI browser Dia is "now open to everyone on macOS" without an invite, Dia's first time being widely available since its June launch (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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Skip the third Omen movie — the prequel movie is a much better possession story

Polygon - All

Don’t get too excited about AI’s downfall

Vox - All

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

The Verge - All Posts

Sources: Disney has opted out of having its IP appear in OpenAI's Sora app; CAA says OpenAI is exposing artists to "significant risk" with Sora (Mrinmay Dey/Reuters)

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How everything became left or right “coded”

Vox - All

Toronto-based Spellbook, whose AI helps with legal contracts, raised $50M led by Khosla Ventures at a $350M valuation and says it has ~4,000 customers (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

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Ghost of Yōtei nails the art of open-world exploration

Polygon - All

Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the thin-enough foldable

The Verge - All Posts

An analysis of nearly 50 Amazon purchases over six months in 2025: during the October 7-8 Prime Day sales, average savings were only 0.6% and some items went up (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

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