Jowi Morales
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Google Japan shows off wild conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to your fingers — 3D-printable Gboard features four belts with 29 keys each, built to make one-hand typing ‘easier’
There are no plans to release this keyboard, but you can make one yourself from official blueprints.
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US Navy uses Xbox-style controllers to fire anti-drone lasers deployed on ships — $13-per-shot laser weapon deployed in the Strait of Hormuz, uses a familiar interface instead of a custom control system
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel (or the Xbox controller).
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Buying used CPUs can expose users to existing bans from anti-cheat engines, and there's no way to check for violations before purchase — some anti-cheat engines enforce permanent bans, while others have an expiration date
Who knew that saving money could potentially come with a hardware ban?
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California subpoenas OpenAI over rogue AI agents conducting hacking attacks — DOJ seeks to establish developer liability, targets containment failures and rogue kill-switch bypasses
The California DOJ has got its eyes on OpenAI.
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Flock drones with cameras deployed as first responders in some US cities amid privacy concerns — UAVs connect to wider emergency services system and streams video to dispatchers, officers
These drones could cut emergency response times to under two minutes, but at what cost?
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Micron projects tightening RAM shortages through 2028 as it generates record profit — record 86.25% gross margin drives over $53 billion in quarterly profit
“We do not have line of sight to when supply and demand will return to balance.”
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Xbox Disc to Digital feature rolls out to all Xbox players to enable playing disc-free, but selling your media revokes access — hybrid physical media plan lands as Sony phases out discs by 2028
This is a quality-of-life feature and not designed for game preservation, though.
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Trump tells federal agencies to use the term 'Super Intelligence ' instead of artificial intelligence — President insists that AI is only suffering from a branding problem
Will changing what we call the technology address the underlying issues?
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Anthropic lists ‘existential risks to humanity’ as one of its risk factors in IPO prospectus — 80 pages of risk factors dwarf business description as firm eyes $2 trillion debut
The company devoted nearly a third of its IPO prospectus to saying how bad things could go.
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Proposed Pennsylvania law targets publishers that kill digital games — publishers must provide offline mode, an independent server patch, or a 25% minimum refund
Pennsylvania is taking steps to protect its gamers.
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Russia bombs Ukrainian data centers in latest escalation — 100,000 households lose connectivity as firms migrate data abroad, Zelensky says ‘ordinary life is simply a target’
Russia argues site was used by Ukrainian military intelligence.
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Enthusiast cooled iPhone 18 Pro with cold can of La Croix sparkling water; benchmarks show 25% higher sustained performance — 'liquid cooling' surprisingly reduced thermal throttling
Would a can of cold Red Bull offer even more performance?
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Nintendo wins $4.5 million lawsuit against Switch pirate by default — defendant allegedly moderated r/SwitchPirates and sold pirated Switch games
The defendant stopped cooperating with Nintendo, leading to the lawsuit and the default judgment.
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DDR5 laptop memory prices surge 6X in 12 months — Schenker raises laptop prices and warns shortage will last through 2027, other components also on the rise
XMG expects DRAM and NAND supply to remain tight through next year and beyond.
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New Jersey hits Microsoft-linked AI data center with record fine for 62 unpermitted power generators, issues 45-day shutdown deadline — site tied to $33 billion deal also built illegal 1.5M-gallon fuel tank
$1.07 million might seem like a huge sum, but it's a drop in the bucket for these data centers.