The Brutalist Report - tech
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
        
    
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
            
            - That Time America Outlawed Pinball [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - RTO doesn't improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Covid is more likely to be of zoonotic origin than a product of engineering [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Undefined Behavior in C and C++ [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Generative Models: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Open Source Motion Capture for Autonomous Drones [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Global biggest industries by revenue in 2024 [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Glass Health (YC W23) is hiring across multiple engineering roles [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Emergence of stone-tool use behavior in a population of common macaques [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Reconductoring: An easy way to expand the grid [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - IKV: embedded key-value store, 100x faster than Redis [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - The Angel, Islington [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Populist Backlash Against Globalization: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - FDA stands against using smartwatches to monitor blood glucose [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Tauri 2.0 tries to make mobile apps crossplatform [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Curl HTTP/3 security audit [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Forum reactions to Satoshi's Bitcoin paper [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Nvidia open source driver to use NVK and Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Show HN: Little Fixes – a spatial forum to improve your city [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Show HN: Refractify – Optical software against myopia [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Beautiful Probability [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - The 'Pro' Paradox and the Allure of Style over Substance [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - AMD ROCm Software Blogs [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - What's Wrong with Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive? More Than You Think [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Deploy Gemma 7B with TensorRT-LLM and achieve > 500 tok/s [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - The Eagle Obsession – Space: 1999 documentary [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - 3D-printable tissue adhesive sets a new standard in biomedical technology [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - US judge says FTX can sell its Anthropic shares; FTX invested $500M in 2021 [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Salient (YC W23) Is Hiring [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning [619d] 
                 
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            - Astronomers observe the Radcliffe Wave oscillating [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Mamba: The Easy Way [619d] 
                 
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            - Leaked Files Show the Secret World of China's Hackers for Hire [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - A Peek Inside a 'Scam Manual' Written to Help Immigrants Not Become Victims [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Hidden GitHub Commits and How to Reveal Them [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - AI Is in the Midst of a Fever Dream and It's Only Getting Worse [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Dog 'Language Geniuses' Are Rare but Apparently Real [619d] 
                 
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            - What Happens to Your Sensitive Data When a Data Broker Goes Bankrupt? [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Handful of Apple Vision Pro Units Develop Identical Crack in Cover Glass [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Fixed-Point Combinator [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - UK Ruling Has Potential to Free Up Public Domain; Museums Might Still Block It [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Nvidia hits $2T valuation as AI frenzy grips Wall Street [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Tinder Owner Signs ChatGPT Deal. Enjoy the AI Dating Tidal Wave [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Privacy Isn't Dead. Far from It [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Tyler Perry halts $800M studio expansion after being shocked by AI [619d] 
                 
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            - After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - High Interest Savings Leaderboard [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011 [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia CUDA, x86 – 'CUDA's a swamp, not a moat, like x86' [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - AI is a 'Glorified Tape Recorder,' Says Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku (2023) [619d] 
                 
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            - FlutterFlow (YC W21) Is Hiring [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Ask HN: Does procrastination advice help you? [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - American drivers even more distracted by phones. Pedestrian deaths are soaring [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Hiroshima fallout debris linked to first solar system condensates [619d] 
                 
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            - Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Shaun Maguire could't be promoted for being white, at Google [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Show HN: GPU Prices on eBay [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - The Windows Ubuntu Operating System [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - 60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Speed of Rust vs. C [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Rye Grows with UV [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Landlords Are Enforcing No-Sex Tenancy Clauses Now [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Resend – Incident report for February 21st, 2024 [619d] 
                 
                 
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            - Facial recognition error message on vending machine sparks concern at University [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - Vice website is shutting down [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - Kagi Smallweb [a directory of small/personal websites] [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - A Distributed File System in Go Cut Average Metadata Memory Usage to 100 Bytes [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - The Fed Is Behind the Capital One/Discover Merger [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora [620d] 
                 
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            - Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - Form to DB [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - Relationships: Start with Several [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - US achieves first moon landing in half century with private spacecraft [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - Apple Vision Pro users reporting cracked outer surfaces [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - NSA Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him Out of Your System [620d] 
                 
                 
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            - As Techstars retools, some former staffers say it lost focus on what made it successful [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Techstars CEO defends changes, says physical presence in a city is not necessary for investment [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Google court filing reveals new business details of DuckDuckGo and Neeva [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - ‘Embarrassing and wrong’: Google admits it lost control of image-generating AI [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Virtual Staging AI helps realtors digitally furnish rooms within seconds [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - A bumpy road for EV manufacturers [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Treating a chatbot nicely might boost its performance — here’s why [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Humane pushes Ai Pin ship date to mid-April [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Arc browser’s new AI-powered ‘pinch-to-summarize’ feature is clever, but often miss the mark [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Reddit downplays risks of developer backlash, decentralized social media in its IPO filing [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Reddit cites r/WallStreetBets as a risk factor in its IPO filing [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Mutale Nkonde’s nonprofit is working to make AI less biased [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Last call — Disrupt 2-for-1 sale ends today [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Spyware leak offers ‘first-of-its-kind’ look inside Chinese government hacking efforts [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Google is sunsetting the Google Pay app in the US later this year [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Match Group’s deal with OpenAI is just business with AI glitter on top [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Winning wireless with American strengths [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Two years since Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s startups soldier on [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Byju’s founder removed by investors in EGM vote [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Hackers are exploiting ConnectWise flaws to deploy LockBit ransomware, security experts warn [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Apple’s India iPhone business outpaces individual EU countries, Morgan Stanley says [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Armenia’s 10web brings AI website-building to WordPress [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Threads starts testing in-app camera shortcut and drafts [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hacked by nation state, as pharmacy outages drag on [620d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Tumblr CEO publicly spars with trans user over account ban, revealing private account names in the process [620d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Crypto users in Nigeria briefly lose access to Binance, Kraken and Coinbase [620d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            
        
     
    
    
        
        
            
            
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            -  You can now try out Samsung's Galaxy AI on any smartphone – here's how  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  World's smallest external GPU gets welcome upgrade for creative pros - higher TDP, better Thunderbolt connection but still running on RX 7600M XT  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Gemini bias fiasco reminds us that AI is no smarter than we make it  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Nothing Phone 2a renders appear to reveal the promising mid-ranger in full  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Google Pay will officially reach the end of its life in June - it's finally time to switch over to Google Wallet  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Could this be the lightest Core Ultra i7 laptop right now? Dynabook R9 weighs 1Kg and even comes with a LAN port — shame it is only on sale in Japan  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  One of Apple's best iOS productivity tools had a pretty concerning security flaw, so patch now  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is getting tons of free content with the first arriving soon  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Microsoft's top new security tools wants to help keep your shiny new generative AI systems safe for good  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Dark Souls creator isn’t sure ‘how or if the series would have continued the way it did without Dark Souls 2’  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Samsung's 2024 OLED and QLED TVs get their first price listings, and it's good and bad news  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Microsoft report claims US opponents are gearing up for an AI war  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Millions of Toshiba laptop chargers are being recalled after multiple reports of fire and overheating  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  MWC 2024: All the top B2B news from this year's Mobile World Congress  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Massive leak reveals extent of China’s foreign hacking activities  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  What are eSignatures and how do they work?  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Nightingale studio admits that online-only play ‘can be frustrating’ and is already prioritizing an offline mode  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  It could soon be trivially easy to quickly take notes on your Android tablet  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  LockBit ransomware still poses a major threat — ScreenConnect under attack from new malware  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Are remote workers at greater risk of cybersecurity threats?  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Apple wanted to call the AirPods Pro ‘Extreme’ and I’m extremely glad they didn’t  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  7 new movies and TV shows to stream on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, and more this weekend (February 23)  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Walmart's massive weekend sale starts now - and I've found the 17 best deals  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Google CEO says that AI tips the scales in favor of defenders “disproportionately”  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Got an HDR monitor? Grab the new Nvidia App already – it turns SDR games into HDR, and aims to beat Windows 11's similar feature  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Google Gemini could be about to help create the next generation of ads  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Kanto Audio’s first HDMI ARC active speakers are here to replace your soundbar  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  HBO Max renews True Detective for season 5 after streaming success  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  No, Google is not closing down Gmail — it's a hoax  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Watch out, Apple Vision Pros are reportedly cracking all on their own  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  SMBs are being targeted by this new phishing scam — make sure you don't fall victim  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Gemini AI turns up in Chrome browser to help you write, as Google plays catch-up with Microsoft Edge  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Samsung's new anti-reflection OLED TV screen is a modified version of The Frame TV's wild matte display, and it may come to more TVs if it's successful  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Nvidia finally catches up to AMD and drops a new app that promises better gaming and creator experiences  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  FTC bans Avast from selling user data to ad agencies — antivirus giant hit with major fine  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  EVs hit traffic as Mercedes backs away from plan to go electric-only by 2030  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Are you a Reddit user? Google's about to feed all your posts to a hungry AI, and there’s nothing you can do about it  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  After years of silence, Little Devil Inside gets a new trailer as dev promises ‘we’re still here’  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Samsung Galaxy Fit 3 price has been revealed in certain regions – and it's cheaper than a Fitbit  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Iran outlaws "unauthorized" VPN usage  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  AT&T reveals the reason for its massive outage – and it wasn’t a cyberattack  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  These are the skills most desired for engineers today  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Many mobile users are unaware their device might already have been hacked  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Resurrected MOBA Paragon is shutting down... again  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Baldur's Gate 3 devs are working on a 'cross-platform plan for mod support' for release later this year  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Latest Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix addresses kisses that 'weren't aligning properly' for Minthara and Lae'zel  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  As Sons of the Forest launches into 1.0, the devs recommend players wanting to fully experience the new features make a fresh save  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Mortal Kombat 1 is getting a patch next week, and one of the main features will be crossplay  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Helldivers 2 concurrent player cap increased to 700,000 as CEO says wait times will now be 'much more bearable'  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Tiny 'Hurricane-like' magnetic swirls could hold key to next AI breakthrough — material found in rust could help power energy efficient, brain-like processors capable of running at hundreds of Gigahertz  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The Galaxy Book4 is open for pre-orders; here are 5 features I'm excited about  [619d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Quordle today – hints and answers for Friday, February 23 (game #760)  [620d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            
        
     
    
    
    
    
    
 
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