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        My job doesn't need to exist?
            Rands: The Product Engineer
You don’t need Product Managers. There. I said it.
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        The tale of Narcissus
            Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students?
I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are not
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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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
The world
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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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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        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
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        Apple says they will add encryption to RCS
            Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: Apple Will Soon Support Encrypted RCS Messaging With Android Users
“End-to-end encryption is a
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        I’m not used to seeing this
            John Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        Handheld consoles, assemble!
            Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming Handheld Set for
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        NVIDIA finally gets some competition
            Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks
The RX 9070 is around 17
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        So much time and money for a minor vibe shift
            Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger
Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        Is ChatGPT the next Dropbox or the next iPhone?
            Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution
I kept coming back