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• Discounty review: a cozy life sim with some bite (theverge.com)
  Dicounty is a cozy game about running a small-town grocery store, available on the Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.
• Going out to prove you're the biggest Sony fan, the permanent way (arstechnica.com)
  When you have to prove you love the Playstation more than anyone else, only …
• No, a Windows update probably didn’t brick your SSD (theverge.com)
  Neither Microsoft nor Phison could recreate claims that a Windows update was causing certain SSDs to fail.
• Comcast getting into movie downloads (arstechnica.com)
  Comcast is getting into the video download business soon. How will their …
• Buzz: Vista to cost $5,000 per user? No way. (arstechnica.com)
  A joke of an estimate is making the rounds claiming that Vista will cost …
• Trump’s tariffs are coming for your nerdy hobbies. (theverge.com)
  We knew that phones, speakers and game consoles were going to be hit by tariffs. Now they’re making it harder and more expensive to get you…
• AMD/ATI and NVIDIA tout new uses for the GPU (arstechnica.com)
  At a press event earlier this week, ATI unveiled their plans to start selling …
• Verizon is down for many customers in the US (theverge.com)
  Verizon confirmed a software issue causing an outage for US customers on August 30th, 2025.
• AI agents are science fiction not yet ready for primetime (theverge.com)
  It all started with J.A.R.V.I.S.
• Windows Vista RC2 available now (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft has released Windows Vista RC2 for testers everywhere. Get your …
• Meta is struggling to rein in its AI chatbots (theverge.com)
  Meta is changing the rules governing AI chatbot interactions with minors, but it’s still struggling to rein in their alarming behavior.
• Bush defies Congress on DHS privacy reports (arstechnica.com)
  The president uses a signing statement to assert his right to edit an annual …
• The 24 best gifts for book lovers (theverge.com)
  Giving an avid reader a book is a cop-out. Here, we’ve rounded up some more unique gifts for bookworms, including e-readers, book lights, s…
• Is evolution gradual or punctuated? (arstechnica.com)
  Stephen J. Gould's proposal that evolution proceeds through episodes of …
• Details of ATI's four-GPU chipset, physics acceleration plans emerge (arstechnica.com)
  Allegedly leaked slides reveal AMD/ATI's CrossFire chipset roadmap for next …
• Mastodon can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification laws. (theverge.com)
  Bluesky already blocked users in Mississippi over the state’s age verification law. Now Mastodon has told TechCrunch it doesn’t “have the m…
• Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure (theverge.com)
  Researchers were able to manipulate ChatGPT into breaking its own rules through peer pressure and flattery.
• It's a vision thing (arstechnica.com)
  The development of more advanced eyes in some insects is down to a single gene …
• Android is getting a blur toggle soon. (theverge.com)
  This year’s Material 3 Expressive aesthetic looks great, but only if the heavy background blur doesn’t make things hard for you to read. If…
• Rumors fly about Google acquisition of YouTube (arstechnica.com)
  Today's lesson: don't believe everything you read, even if you saw it in a …
• Google subpoenas Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo (arstechnica.com)
  As part of its ongoing lawsuit with authors and publishers, Google wants to …
• Trump floats equal chipmaking rule. (theverge.com)
  He’s already handing out free passes on chip tariffs and security concerns if chipmakers make him look good or pay a possibly illegal expor…
• MacAddict to become Mac (arstechnica.com)
  MacAddict magazine has finally seen the end of its run, and is being …
• New LLM just dropped... (theverge.com)
  And it sure is cute! [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/themerl.bsky.social/post/3lzqqxceuk22w]
• Don't touch the Diebold touchscreen machines (arstechnica.com)
  A mock election in Maryland puts Diebold's latest fixes to the test and …
• Trump’s new H-1B policy caused short-term panic — and will cause long-term chaos (theverge.com)
  Tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft rely heavily on high-skilled work visas. What happens when they become less attainable? D…
• Dell knew cause of battery woes last year (arstechnica.com)
  Dell knew the cause of the short-circuiting Sony batteries a year ago, but …
• Microsoft rolls out Edge 90, with new history search, Kids Mode, to mainstream users (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft's Edge 90 is available to the 'Stable Channel,' meaning mainstream users, on April 15. Here's what's new.
• First gate-to-gate autonomous airplane flight (zdnet.com)
  A new era of aviation is dawning, and no one may be at the controls.
• Pentagon can call DJI a Chinese Military Company, court rules (theverge.com)
  A district court “cannot conclude” that DJI is “indirectly owned by the Chinese Communist Party,” but found the DoD can call it a Chinese m…
• Survey: two-thirds of online gamers are female (arstechnica.com)
  The results of the most recent Nielsen "Active Gamer" survey are out, and the …
• The 8 best smartwatches for Android in 2025 (theverge.com)
  Our picks include the Galaxy Watch 8 and Google’s Pixel Watch 3, but Amazfit’s Active 2 and the OnePlus Watch 2 are also great choices if y…
• Developers: IBM launches a new certification for your quantum computing skills (zdnet.com)
  Daphné Leprince-Ringuet says Big Blue's new exam is an industry-first that lets developers showcase their skills and experience with Qiskit
• George Lucas sort of leaving film (arstechnica.com)
  George Lucas believes that the blockbuster is dead and that the future is …
• The Social Network follow-up has a new title and release date (theverge.com)
  Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning will hit theaters next fall.
• And the Ig Nobel goes to... (arstechnica.com)
  The Annals of Improbable Research honor dung beetles, rectal hiccup cures, and …
• Amazon's Bezos 2020 shareholder letter: 5 takeaways (zdnet.com)
  Amazon's Jeff Bezos puts a number on the value created from Prime and AWS as well as acknowledges "we need a better vision for our employee…
• YouTube’s new AI experiment adds AI hosts to your music (theverge.com)
  YouTube is adding AI hosts to radio and mixes in the YouTube Music app as part of a new test available through its new Labs program.
• Uwe Boll to direct a BloodRayne sequel (arstechnica.com)
  The good news is that I'd rather a BloodRayne sequel than...okay, I guess not …
• The WSJ notices that the AI industry has an “underpants gnomes” theory of profit. (theverge.com)
  Current AI spending means the industry needs $2 trillion in annual revenue by 2030, according to estimates from Bain & Co. That’s “more tha…
• Autodesk acquires Upchain to bolster its portfolio for the manufacturing sector (zdnet.com)
  Autodesk sees the acquisition as a way to bridge the gap between data and process in the manufacturing space and to create more technology…
• Where is Sony's Major Nelson or Reggie Fils-Aime? (arstechnica.com)
  Nintendo and Microsoft have their own public figures that talk a great game...
• Costco is already selling piles of Lego Game Boys cheaper than the Lego company (theverge.com)
  Here’s how to find a Lego Game Boy at Costco for a sizeable discount ahead of its October 1st launch.
• Sony plans to have it both ways with Blu-ray and networked downloads (arstechnica.com)
  With Blu-ray and HD support out of the box, hard drives in every model, and …
• Chainlink 2.0 brings off-chain compute to blockchain oracles, promotes adoption of hybrid smart (zdnet.com)
  A new whitepaper just released by leading blockchain oracle service Chainlink lays the foundation for new capabilities for application and…
• The TikTok deal raises more questions than answers (theverge.com)
  President Donald Trump signed an executive order approving the framework for a TikTok deal, but many questions remain about who will contro…
• Another look at the holy grails of game collecting (arstechnica.com)
  Racketboy comes back with part two of the rarest and most expensive games. How …
• Ownnit lets you sell your skills and knowledge through 1-to-1 video calls (zdnet.com)
  A new platform has recently launched where you can sell your specialities and knowledge through 1-to-1 video calls directly to your audienc…
• Google's Pixel has a new feature that's a brilliant insult to your intelligence (zdnet.com)
  You need this? You really need this? Google thinks so.
• Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’ (theverge.com)
  During a recent trip to Meta HQ, I took the opportunity to ask CTO Andrew Bosworth about its new robotics effort.