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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

Polygon - All

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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Q&A with OpenAI VP and Head of ChatGPT Nick Turley on ChatGPT's future, showing ads in chatbots, hallucinations, GPT-5 blowback, 4o, subscriptions, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)

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Is Weapons a misogynist movie? The "hagsploitation" accusations, explained

Polygon - All

The Verge’s 2025 back-to-school shopping guide

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How bending works in the Magic: the Gathering Avatar set

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Google Flights can help you book a trip when you don’t know where to go

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How to beat the Libra Everdark boss fight in Elden Ring Nightreign

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Microsoft is getting ready to return to the office

The Verge - All Posts

Google launches Flight Deals, an AI tool within Google Flights to let users find fares using natural language queries, in beta in the US, Canada, and India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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