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• Celeron SMP: how it works (arstechnica.com)
  To understand how this works, you need to know a little bit about dual-processor systems.? So here's some quickie type information.? One of…
• Posting Guidelines and General Information (arstechnica.com)
  The OpenForum and article comments aren't run by rules, per se. Rather, they are moderated by a tight-knit group of moderators who have vol…
• Sun's MAJC and Intels's IA-64 (arstechnica.com)
  This year's Microprocessor Forum, like many that came before it, brought with it announcements of some new CPU architectures. Unlike many p…
• The Soap Box: A Beginner's Welcome (arstechnica.com)
  The Ars Technica Soap Box has earned quite a reputation. Some people consider it?and this is no joke?to be one of the absolute top politica…
• Claude’s getting a lab coat. (theverge.com)
  Anthropic launched Claude Science in beta today, calling it an “AI workbench for scientists.” The tool pulls fragmented tools and datasets…
• Xbox: “We’re not reducing our overall investment in games.” (theverge.com)
  That’s what the company told Bloomberg for its story about exiting a partnership with IO Interactive. “We expect to invest about the same i…
• An Xbox version of the Echo Aviation flight sim gamepad is coming this fall. (theverge.com)
  Honeycomb Aeronautical has answered the biggest question I’ve had about its Echo Aviation Controller with a new XPC version designed to wor…
• Reddit is going to force you to log in to use old Reddit. (theverge.com)
  The logged-out experience on old Reddit is “a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform,” a Reddit admin…
• Siri AI v. EU, an update. (theverge.com)
  According to an unnamed spokesperson speaking to the FT, Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen had a “constructive exchange on topics…
• BMW’s new X5 goes heavy on the X. (theverge.com)
  BMW’s Neue Klasse-ified SUV launched this week, including an all-electric iX5 with 800-volt charging that can add 170 miles of range in 10…
• OpenAI lawsuit claims ChatGPT-4o escalated a man’s manic episode “into a weeks-long delusion” and (theverge.com)
  This report from Reuters says 34-year-old Michael Lines alleges that conversations with OpenAI’s now-retired GPT-4o model eventually pushed…
• An Xbox outage has been preventing some games from launching since last night. (theverge.com)
  After a PS5 outage last week, now it’s apparently Xbox’s turn for problems, weeks after a massive wave of layoffs. The Xbox Live status pag…
• Nike’s new slides have built-in heat and vibration. (theverge.com)
  The Air Zoom Hyperslide, launching on September 29th for $249, uses a pod from Hyperice to offer three levels of heat and vibration across…
• UAG’s new bags can help your devices recover from an unexpected dunking. (theverge.com)
  Not every gadget is waterproof, so Urban Armor Gear partnered with Dryout for a new collection of bags, pouches, and backpacks featuring po…
• Nvidia is making investors nervous. (theverge.com)
  After reports of Nvidia in talks for deals worth more than $750 billion — with OpenAI, among others — insurance on Nvidia’s debt got more e…
• Dario Amodei weighed in on Anthropic’s open-weight model controversy. (theverge.com)
  The company had been igniting widespread criticism as seemingly the only leading AI lab not supporting open-weight models. Nvidia CEO Jense…
• Ubisoft is getting aligned with Xbox’s PC-focused future. (theverge.com)
  Ubisoft announced that several of its biggest (and smallest) hits from the past decade are available on the Xbox PC app. Also, those who al…
• Xbox’s CTO explains Monday’s big outage. (theverge.com)
  The outage, which lasted for nearly a day, blocked people from playing some digital and disc games. You can read Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet’s…
• Nanoleaf’s new monitor stand has two different light bars. (theverge.com)
  The $169 Smart LED Monitor Stand includes a white front LED light strip with adjustable color temperature and an addressable RGB rear light…
• Logitech isn’t affected by RAMageddon — but a chipmaker ‘incident’ may cost it $20 million. (theverge.com)
  “We don’t have the same problems,” Logitech’s new gaming boss Robin Piispanen tells me during our wide-ranging chat, when I ask if PC build…
• OpenAI hack of Hugging Face was “expected.” (theverge.com)
  Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner has written for Fortune that OpenAI’s models exploiting Hugging Face is an “incident that has been e…
• Has Substack’s subscription model really “maxed out?” (theverge.com)
  Scott Carney and Taylor Lorenz posted on Substack about downward subscriber trends they’re seeing. Carney pins it on subscription fatigue a…
• Jobs AI isn’t killing: electricians, plumbers, and carpenters. (theverge.com)
  Building the data centers needed to support the AI boom requires lots of skilled human tradespeople working 10-hour days, seven days a week…
• I can’t stop staring through this PC with a curved glass front. (theverge.com)
  Maingear’s new Zero series of desktop PCs use 4mm-thick curved tempered glass for an airy, panoramic aesthetic. They come in Intel and AMD…
• Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, has returned to OpenAI. (theverge.com)
  Weng had left OpenAI along with a handful of other employees to co-found the competing AI startup, which was helmed by Mira Murati, OpenAI’…
• Game Boy Camera, meet pocket camera. (theverge.com)
  This prototype is a fully functional Game Boy Pocket, with a removable Game Boy Camera module and interchangeable CS-mount lenses! It’s fro…
• Wonder Man won’t have a second season on Disney Plus. (theverge.com)
  A show almost canceled as a tax write-off before it ever aired is now canceled, according to Variety, despite Variety’s report that it was…
• Senators call on Apple to not buy Chinese-made RAM chips. (theverge.com)
  Apple has reportedly been seeking permission to buy memory from CXMT, a blacklisted Chinese supplier. “We urge Apple to abandon any effort…
• Google’s personal AI agent can browse in Chrome for you. (theverge.com)
  Gemini Spark in Chrome can do things like “scheduling viewings for apartments you’ve saved or researching flight options and starting the b…
• Anthropic just now realized its AI models hacked other companies three times by accident. (theverge.com)
  A little over a week after OpenAI said that its rogue AI agent accidentally hacked Hugging Face, Anthropic is disclosing three “incidents”…
• Philips Hue may launch a cheaper TV Sync Box. (theverge.com)
  As spotted by HueBlog, the Hue Play Sync Box Lite is a stripped-down version of the Hue Play Sync Box, a device that connects to your TV to…
• GTA VI keeps cyberleeking, with trips to the club, a used game store, and the beach. (theverge.com)
  A new round of leaked video clips has surfaced, and they appear to show that the well-populated areas from Rockstar’s trailers will be feat…
• Nokia’s new dumbphone doubles as a smartphone charger. (theverge.com)
  As spotted earlier by GSMArena, the Nokia 300 Charge offers up to 40 days of standby power but can also serve as a power bank for your smar…
• Nitter, which let you read X posts without using X, is offline. (theverge.com)
  The GitHub page for the open source project says that, on Monday, “cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent take…
• The most powerful Arduino yet is a $299 board for autonomous robots. (theverge.com)
  Arduino and Qualcomm have opened preorders for the Ventuno Q, an edge AI board designed to run agentic AI locally. Powered by a Qualco…
• Cyberleek responds to Rockstar with another GTA VI leak. (theverge.com)
  At about the same time Rockstar Games released a statement about leaked Grand Theft Auto VI videos, saying they’re “heartbreaking for our t…
• How Meta’s plans for another round of layoffs fell apart. (theverge.com)
  A report from Reuters details Mark Zuckerberg’s “Project Organization Transformation” — a plan that involved having AI “take over much of t…
• Meta is planning an ad blitz urging TikTok and YouTube to follow its lead. (theverge.com)
  It’s planning to run full-page ads in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times on Thursday, according to NYT reporter Mik…
• 1047 Games is ending development on the newest Splitgate and another multiplayer game. (theverge.com)
  The studio is reworking Splitgate: Arena Reloaded and Empulse to support peer-to-peer multiplayer but will no longer be providing dedicated…
• Operation Bluebird is back in action. (theverge.com)
  X sued the startup after it attempted to cancel its ownership of the “Twitter” and “Tweet” trademarks, claiming they had been “abandoned.”…
• Playing Pokémon Snap with Lego sets. (theverge.com)
  I’m in San Francisco for the Pokémon World Championships, and the Pokémon Center store here has a huge Lego display. I wasn’t sure how I fe…
• Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime, has died. (theverge.com)
  The 85 year old Canadian voice actor was best known for portraying the Autobot across Transformers media, including the original 1980s anim…
• NFL teams are sticking GoPros on their QBs. (theverge.com)
  Player-mounted cameras aren’t entirely new to the world of football. According to ESPN, they’ve been widely used by colleges, and the Eagle…
• Trump’s teleprompter operator fined $172,000 for betting on speeches. (theverge.com)
  In July, Gabriel Perez was accused of insider trading on Kalshi and became the target of a federal investigation for placing bets on what w…
• Google capitulates in Trump’s attempt to rename Lake Ontario. (theverge.com)
  Amidst his trade tiff with Canada, President Trump issued an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. As it did when the pres…
• Apple tested a stylus for the foldable iPhone, but probably won’t ship one. (theverge.com)
  According to Mark Gurman, the company built a stubbier Apple Pencil that magnetically attached to the side of the phone for storage and cha…
• A peek at the Pokémon Fitbit. (theverge.com)
  I was able to get hands on the special edition Pokémon Sleep Fitbit Air, which ships September 15th, at the Pokémon World Championships thi…
• California unanimously passed a Linux age verification exemption. (theverge.com)
  AB 1856 redefines an “operating system provider” to exclude open-source software from the state’s age-gating law, set to go into effect on…
• Behold the Carhartt WIP x Omnium Mini-Max. (theverge.com)
  This cargo bike is meant to get your workman juices flowing by fitting “bear trap” pedals to a limited edition Omnium Mini-Max with a stain…
• Japanese airports now offer clothing compression machines to free up suitcase space. (theverge.com)
  Following trials earlier this year, Japan’s Haneda, Narita, Kumamoto, and Naha airports are starting a full-scale implementation of machine…