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Apple AirPods Pro 3 review: a significantly better fit, sound quality, noise cancellation, and battery life, but heart-rate monitoring is buried in fitness apps (David Carnoy/CNET)

Techmeme

Matt Reeves confirms The Penguin season 2 is in discussion

Polygon - All

Lego Voyagers Review – A Creative Co-Op Platformer

Game Informer

Dear RPG devs, please let me back into your character creator

Polygon - All

AirPods Pro 3 review: tripling down on a good thing

The Verge - All Posts

Riyadh-based Hala, which offers payment services to 142K+ small businesses in the Gulf region, raised a $157M Series B, a source says at a ~$900M valuation (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Tel Aviv-based Terra Security, which offers an AI-driven penetration testing platform, raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $38M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Techmeme

Divergent Technologies, which makes automated assembly systems and 3D printers to make missile parts and other equipment, raised $290M at a $2.3B valuation (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Why 2025 has been a banner year for horror movies

Vox - All

Android’s next flagship processor will be the ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’

The Verge - All Posts

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its next flagship mobile chipset, before its 2025 Snapdragon Summit, and Xiaomi says its 17 series will use it (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)

Techmeme

Charlie Kirk was more than a conservative activist

Vox - All

The London Stock Exchange debuts a blockchain-based platform, initially focused on private funds and increasing efficiency, marking its push into digital assets (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

For the first time, more kids are obese than underweight

Vox - All

Microsoft is changing how Xbox controllers work on Windows 11

The Verge - All Posts

An Anthropic report details how Claude usage varies by country and US state, finding 36% use it for coding, 77% of business uses involve automation, and more (Anthropic)

Techmeme

Anime and Piracy

Polygon - All

A self-driving car traffic jam is coming for US cities

Vox - All

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle makes history with record-breaking box office debut

Polygon - All

Indoor Ban Shuts Down Soup Kitchen at Downtown Manhattan Church

THE CITY - All