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Nothing’s noise-canceling CMF Buds 2A are down to $19.99 for the rest of today

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★ OpenAI Announces $122 Billion Additional ‘Committed Capital’, and Announces Their ‘Superapp’ Plan for the Future

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Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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A group of US agencies including the FBI and the NSA warns that Iran-linked hackers have targeted industrial control devices used in US critical infrastructure (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Amazon is ending support for older Kindles and Kindle Fires

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Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)

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Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)

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Disney Lorcana's starter set remains fantastic — and now it's a little cheaper, too

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Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, versus 53.4% for Opus 4.6 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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Talking Link could ruin the 'Zelda magic' for live-action movie, says Majora's Mask creator

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Q&A with OpenAI President Greg Brockman about OpenAI's research direction, how far it can push Codex, closing Sora, betting on text vs. world models, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

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Spotify’s Prompted Playlists can help you find new podcasts to listen to

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KuloNiku Bowl Up review: The life-sim cooking game is a combination I didn't know I needed

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Why doesn't Jack Black sing in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie?

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The Witcher 3 Online is starting to get freaky in latest mod update

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Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser (Anthropic)

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Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen layout in reading mode (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)

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Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity "reckoning", it is not releasing it publicly over misuse concerns, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

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You can now turn 2D apps into 3D while using the Galaxy XR headset

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American Horror Story season 13 is finally bringing back Jessica Lange for a new Coven story

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