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Stevie Bonifield

Stevie Bonifield

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    Helldivers 2 has dropped into the PlayStation Plus catalog.

    It’s available to play through PlayStation’s subscription service starting today, but only if you have an Extra or Premium membership. The game’s arriving in the catalog alongside the release of its Devoid of Liberty update and Warhammer 40,000: Castellan’s Creed legendary warbond.

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    How big is your McDonald’s file?

    McDonald’s reportedly responded to a data request from Wired’s Reece Rogers with a 515-page file detailing his loyalty program data, like transactions and loyalty points. The company used that data to algorithmically predict Rogers’s next order, how much he would spend, and how likely he was to keep ordering from McDonald’s.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Linux has a native ChatGPT desktop app now.

    OpenAI announced that the new app is available in preview on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora, and includes ChatGPT along with Work and Codex.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Gundam director says his new post-apocalyptic series was inspired by AI.

    Kamiyama Kenji said in an interview with Variety that Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO, releasing next year, is a metaphor for tech humanity is “already beginning to struggle to handle.”

    Can we truly master a technology we did not create ourselves, or will we end up being used by it? It is a metaphor for technologies that humanity is already beginning to struggle to handle in reality, such as AI.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Voyager 2 gets to do science for another year after “Big Bang” update.

    The probe’s remaining science instruments will keep working for an extra year or more after NASA powered off certain devices in favor of lower-powered ones. NASA also plans to send the “Big Bang” update to the probe’s twin, Voyager 1, in the coming months.

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    The Palma 2 now has a “BOOX-optimized” version of Instapaper.

    The new version of the read-it-later app has “firmware-level integration” that Boox says significantly reduces screen ghosting and offers a faster refresh rate. It’s rolling out now on the Palma 2 and Palma 2 Pro in the V4.2 firmware update.

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    Firefox says its “support for uBlock Origin isn’t going anywhere.”

    Microsoft recently announced its Edge browser is dropping support for Manifest V2 extensions, but uBlock Origin will keep working on other browsers like Firefox.

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    The Microsoft Surface Phone that got away.

    Windows Central shared photos showing what appears to be a prototype of a rumored, unreleased Windows phone “that was expected to ship in 2014 under the Surface moniker.” It even has a design similar to a Surface laptop and reportedly included a Qualcomm chip and a 720p display.