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Asus’ slim ROG G14 gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti is $350 off

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Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’

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The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass

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Elden Ring Nightreign’s duos mode is coming next week

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Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a hit, but also being slammed on Steam

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Lyft partners with Austria-based Benteler to deploy autonomous shuttles in the US in late 2026, to be initially deployed in partnership with airports and cities (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Trump’s media war just got a $10 billion twist

Vox - All

Anysphere launches Bugbot, an AI-powered tool that integrates with GitHub to detect coding errors introduced by humans or AI agents, for $40 per month per user (Lauren Goode/Wired)

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Sources: the number of Optimus humanoid robots Tesla has made this year is in the hundreds, well behind the pace needed to meet Musk's goal of producing 5K+ (The Information)

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Most Anticipated Celebrity Memoirs Of 2025

The Onion

Swimsuit Hygienic Liner Slapped Onto Beach Bathroom Stall

The Onion

I tried Gemini on the Pixel Watch. Here’s what it’s like

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John Alford

The Onion

Microsoft's Recall is meeting a lot of resistance from app developers, with Brave and AdGuard joining Signal in blocking the controversial Windows AI tool (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Diving into Apple’s Liquid Glass

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I ‘fooled’ Samsung’s new antioxidant feature with a Cheez-It

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The Spiritfarer team’s next game is all about messed-up families and super cool swords

Polygon - All

Google is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal that lets users create mini web apps using text prompts or remix existing apps, available in the US via Labs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature is now blocked by Brave and AdGuard

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