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        The tale of Narcissus
            Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students?
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        I feel more empowered than ever
            Bryan Irace: Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe
Like it or not, LLMs—both through general chat interfaces and purpose-built
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        OS updates should respect my settings
            Tim Hardwick writing for MacRumors: PSA: iOS 18.3.2 Re-Enables Apple Intelligence if You Turned It Off
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        The Gen Z-powered retro gaming revival
            Eve Upton-Clark writing for Fast Company: ‘It’s Like Their Escape’: Retro Gaming Is Back Thanks to Gen Z
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        Secretary of Defense put war plans in a group chat with a journalist
            Jeffrey Goldberg with an insane story in The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
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        Meta has squandered Threads
            Jon Passantino writing for Status: Hanging by a Thread
Now Threads feels rather lifeless. While users still post there, for
        
        
     
        
                    
    
                
    
            
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        + I’m a season 1 sorta guy
            Yes, this is about Severance, but it's really about more than Severance.
        
        
     
        
                    
    
                
    
            
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        A personal update on Apple TV+
            When Apple TV+ launched just over 5 years ago, it’s fair to say I wasn’t a fan. I
        
        
     
        
                    
    
                
    
            
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        You’re telling me I’m holding it wrong? Really!?!!
            Darth Chris makes an appearance, Niléane has an exclusive first look at…checks notes… the iPhone 16 Pro, Matt insists
        
        
     
        
                    
    
                
    
            
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        What people do with an empty text box
            Update: literally minutes after posting this, Anthropic added web search to Claude. This improves the situation for Claude, but other
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        The base MacBook Air should have an M1 processor
            Why oh why does the base MacBook Air that Apple sells have their latest generation chip, the M4? That'
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        The VR market shrunk yet again in 2024
            Counterpoint Research: Global VR Market Declines 12% YoY in 2024; ‘AR+AI’ Smart Glasses to Take Centre Stage in 2025
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        Ghost gets ActivityPub into beta
            Ghost: Social Web
We've got our social web integration for Ghost to a point where we're
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        The Pebble (which made me fall in love with smart watches) is back
            Introducing Two New PebbleOS Watches!
We’re excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open source PebbleOS and are
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        You don’t need AI to play old games on modern hardware
            Fatima Kardar, Corporate Vice President, Gaming AI, at Microsoft: Empowering Creators and Players With Muse, a Generative AI Model for
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        Politics are personal
            Justin Ferrell: It's Not Politics, It's Just Personal
What happens when no amount of work or