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Sony Is Quietly Stripping Features From Bravia TVs That Millions Already Own

Sony Is Quietly Stripping Features From Bravia TVs That Millions Already Own

Sony is disabling features on Bravia TVs as young as one year old, and the real story is what it reveals about who actually owns your smart TV.

Microsoft Kills the Surface Hub, and the Dream of the Smart Office Goes With It

Microsoft Kills the Surface Hub, and the Dream of the Smart Office Goes With It

Google's Gemini 'Skills' Turn Chrome Into a Personalized AI Command Layer

Google's Gemini 'Skills' Turn Chrome Into a Personalized AI Command Layer

Inertia Signs Livermore Deals to Commercialize Laser Fusion's Most Ambitious Reactor

Inertia Signs Livermore Deals to Commercialize Laser Fusion's Most Ambitious Reactor

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Measles Finds a Foothold in Idaho, Where Vaccination Rates Have Never Been Lower

Measles Finds a Foothold in Idaho, Where Vaccination Rates Have Never Been Lower

Idaho's kindergarten vaccination rate has fallen to 78.5%, the lowest in the U.S., and measles just arrived by plane to test what that number really means.

A Man Traveled Cross-Country to Kill Sam Altman. The Charges Reveal Something Darker.

A Man Traveled Cross-Country to Kill Sam Altman. The Charges Reveal Something Darker.

A man drove from Texas to California to kill Sam Altman. The federal charges tell one story. The forces behind them tell another.

The Neuroscience of Choice: Why Free Will May Be the Wrong Question to Ask

The Neuroscience of Choice: Why Free Will May Be the Wrong Question to Ask

If the brain commits to a decision before you're consciously aware of it, what does that mean for free will, AI systems, and human accountability?

Designing the agentic AI enterprise for measurable performance

Designing the agentic AI enterprise for measurable performance

A Hands-On Coding Tutorial for Microsoft VibeVoice Covering Speaker-Aware ASR, Real-Time TTS, and Speech-to-Speech Pipelines

A Hands-On Coding Tutorial for Microsoft VibeVoice Covering Speaker-Aware ASR, Real-Time TTS, and Speech-to-Speech Pipelines

Stanford's AI Index Reveals a Public Deeply Split on Technology's Promise

Stanford's AI Index Reveals a Public Deeply Split on Technology's Promise

Microsoft's Xbox Chief Admits Game Pass Is Too Expensive — and the Fallout Could Reshape Game Subscriptions

Microsoft's Xbox Chief Admits Game Pass Is Too Expensive — and the Fallout Could Reshape Game Subscriptions

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The Fossil That Fooled Paleontologists for Decades Wasn't an Octopus After All

A fossil celebrated as the oldest octopus ever found has been reclassified, and the ripple effects reach far deeper than one misidentified specimen.

Neuralink's Hype Gap: Why Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Harder Than Mars

Neuralink has a human patient moving a cursor with his mind — and a trail of dead animals, retracting electrodes, and broken timelines behind it.

The Wildlife First Responder: What Grizzly Bears Returning to Montana's Prairie Reveals

Montana hired its first prairie grizzly manager in 2017. What that job reveals about conservation success creating its own dangerous second-order pressures.

The Physics of Oobleck Just Got Stranger, and the Implications Run Deep

Oobleck was supposed to be well understood. New research on dense drops suggests the familiar fluid has been keeping a secret about how it stiffens.

X Moves to Defund Clickbait Farms, but the Incentives That Built Them Remain

X is cutting payments to clickbait farms, but the incentive architecture that built them is still largely intact.

MiniMax Just Open Sourced MiniMax M2.7: A Self-Evolving Agent Model that Scores 56.22% on SWE-Pro and 57.0% on Terminal Bench 2

I'll evaluate this article. It's about an AI model release with benchmark scores, which is a product/technology announcement. While it mentions "open sourcing,"

Flipkart and Amazon Are Rewriting India's Quick Commerce Rules

Walmart and Amazon are flooding India's quick commerce market with capital and discounts, and the startups that built it may not survive the squeeze.

The Government Wants Reddit to Unmask an ICE Critic. That Should Alarm Everyone.

A federal grand jury subpoena demanding Reddit unmask an ICE critic is a stress test for anonymous speech that could reshape online dissent.

Kalshi's Legal Win Over Arizona Exposes a Deeper War Over Who Regulates Prediction Markets

Arizona's criminal pursuit of Kalshi has drawn the CFTC into a battle that could define who controls prediction markets across the U.S.

TriAttention Cuts AI's Memory Bottleneck Without Sacrificing Reasoning Quality

A new KV cache compression method from MIT, NVIDIA, and Zhejiang University hits 2.5x throughput gains, and the ripple effects go well beyond speed.

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