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Jurassic Park: Survival lets you relive the infamous velociraptor kitchen scene

Polygon - All

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including the EU DSA, UK Online Safety Act, and US Take It Down Act (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Nanoleaf’s smart lights are cheaper than ever in its back-to-school sale

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Sources: chip startup Rivos, which plans to release a GPU for inference as early as 2026, is seeking to raise between $400M and $500M at a $2B+ valuation (The Information)

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Sources: xAI was part of a US government AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but was removed after Grok posted antisemitic content in July (Wired)

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Airbnb now lets you ‘pay later’ on vacation rentals

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The Return of Blood Oxygen for Apple Watch

Michael Tsai

Infinite Canvas

Michael Tsai

Upgrading My Mac’s External SSD

Michael Tsai

Your Mac Game Is Probably Rendering Blurry

Michael Tsai

Google announces Gemma 3 270M, a compact model designed for task-specific fine-tuning with strong capabilities in instruction following and text structuring (Google Developers Blog)

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Steam can't escape the fallout from Visa and Mastercard's censorship

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Consumer safety groups are demanding an FTC investigation into Grok’s ‘Spicy’ mode

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Anthropic expands Claude's Learning Mode, available only to Education users since an April launch, to all users, including two learning variants for Claude Code (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

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Kirk is still learning how to be a captain in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Polygon - All

Meta’s AI policies let chatbots get romantic with minors

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Stop using these ESR power banks that have been recalled for fire and explosion risks

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HyperX’s new gaming headset claims to last 250 hours on a single charge

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Acura’s RSX prototype is a taste of what’s to come with Honda Zero

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Apple’s AirPods Max are $70 off in every color

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