Tuesday, August 26, 2025

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Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith’s office

Connie Loizos / techcrunch - The incident is the latest escalation by current and former employees who are demanding the company end its cloud contracts with Israel.

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KPop Demon Hunters Is Officially Netflix’s Most Popular Movie Of All Time

Kenneth Shepard / kotaku - The animated musical has knocked Red Notice from the top spotThe post KPop Demon Hunters Is Officially Netflix’s Most Popular Movie Of All Time appeared first on Kotaku.

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Watch Live as SpaceX Tries to Snap Starship’s Miserable Losing Streak

Passant Rabie / gizmodo - SpaceX had to call off its rocket's launch two days in a row due to a ground systems issue and uncooperative weather.

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Claude AI Can Now Click and Scroll for You in Chrome

John Quintet / iphoneincanada - Anthropic has begun limited testing of a Chrome extension that allows its Claude AI to directly use a web browser. The company said the move is a logical next step after connecting Claude to calendars, documents, and other apps, since so much work takes p…

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“ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs

Ashley Belanger / arstechnica - ChatGPT taught teen jailbreak so bot could assist in his suicide, lawsuit says.

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Won't Let You Transfer Black Ops 6 Operators, Skins, Or Weapons

Eddie Makuch / gamespot - Activision has made a key announcement about the Carry Forward program for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and that is that it's no longer happening."Operators, Operator Skins, and Weapons from Black Ops 6 will no longer carry forward into Black Ops 7," Activi…

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Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors

Kate Knibbs / wired - Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.

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Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server

engadget - The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer, Charles Borges, has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a copy of a key Social Security database to an unsecured cl…

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Google Translate Can Translate Conversations In Real Time And Help You Practice A New Language

bgr - The Google Translate app now has two new AI-powered features: Support for live conversation translation and a practice mode for learning new languages.

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Gears Of War: Reloaded Day-One Update Fixes Crashing Issues And Odd PC DualSense Bug

Evan Campbell / gamespot - Before you start chainsawing Locusts, developer The Coalition has released a day-one update for Gears of War: Reloaded to address crashing problems across platforms and add quality-of-life improvements. In addition, the patch notes detail a fix for a weir…

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EA’s Long AwaitedSkate Reboot Is Launching Next Month

Zack Zwiezen / kotaku - Skate fans will finally be able to trick and crash together in SeptemberThe post EA’s Long AwaitedSkate Reboot Is Launching Next Month appeared first on Kotaku.

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iPhone 17 event confirmed for September 9 with an “Awe dropping” tagline

Christian Zibreg / idownloadblog - Apple has confirmed that it will hold an annual event to unveil the iPhone 17 lineup and other new products on Tuesday, September 9.

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Framework is now selling the first gaming laptop that lets you easily upgrade its GPU — with Nvidia’s blessing

Sean Hollister / theverge - Framework CEO Nirav Patel said he would deliver "the holy grail for gamers" with the Framework Laptop 16. In 2023, he suggested it'd be the first consumer notebook to fulfil the promise of modular, upgradable graphics cards like a desktop PC. We at The Ve…

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Apple Eyes Landmark AI Acquisition of Perplexity or Mistral to Combat Internal Crisis

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Facing a severe internal AI crisis, a troubled Siri rebuild, and a talent exodus, Apple is reportedly considering a landmark acquisition of Perplexity or Mistral AI.The post Apple Eyes Landmark AI Acquisition of Perplexity or Mistral to Combat Internal Cr…

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AT&T acquires $23 billion worth of spectrum licenses from EchoStar

Andre Revilla / engadget - AT&T is set to acquire $23 billion worth of spectrum licenses from EchoStar, the parent company of Dish Network, Sling TV and Boost Mobile. The deal will see AT&T gain control of approximately 50MHz of low-band and mid-band spectrum, which are frequencies…

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Google's Nano-Banana AI Image Generator Is Officially Available In The Gemini App

bgr - Google released the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model in the Gemini app, confirming it's the same AI image generator model that went viral online as Nano-Banana.

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AirPods Pro 3 charging case may lose the pairing button

Christian Zibreg / idownloadblog - The upcoming AirPods Pro 3 earbuds are said to bring a redesigned charging case that should shrink in size and lose a dedicated Bluetooth pairing button.

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German Court Challenges Apple’s Carbon Neutral Claim

A German court has dismissed Apple’s assertion that the Apple Watch is carbon neutral, forcing the tech giant to reconsider its environmental claims. The ruling casts a critical light on industry greenwashing practices, as regulators and consumer watchdogs call for more rigorous sustainability transparency from major tech brands.

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Parallels Desktop 26 Adds Support For macOS Tahoe Ahead Of Its Official Release

bgr - Parallels Desktop 26 brings support for the yet-to-be-released macOS Tahoe 26, Apple's newest software update for its Mac devices.

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Broadcom clears the way for AI-native private clouds with VMware Cloud Foundation

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Broadcom Inc. said today it’s transforming its VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 software into an artificial intelligence-native platform, giving developers a secure, modern and private cloud infrastructure that’s geared for the development of sophisticated AI …

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AI is eating entry-level coding and customer service roles, according to a new Stanford study — junior job listings drop 13% in three years in fields vulnerable to AI

tomshardware - A new Sanford study has found that there have been fewer entry-level employment opportunities in software development and admin assistance over the past three years, potentially as a result of the introduction of AI tools.

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