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BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would

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Sounding off: BMW is putting a Spider-Man animation on the center screens of compatible cars as part of a movie promotion, drawing criticism because the campaign clashes with the company's earlier claim that the display is a private space. The campaign effectively turns a car's main screen into a branded advertising surface, which is precisely the kind of use BMW previously said it would not pursue.

The promotionbegan on July 27, 2026, and is scheduled to run through August 10 across more than 70 markets. On supported vehicles, starting the car brings up a banner on the Control Display, and tapping it launches a full-screen Spider-Man animation with music and ambient lighting effects. BMW says the feature is available on suitably equipped cars built after July 2020 and running BMW Operating System...

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AMD Docs Confirm AM5 Upgrade Path To Zen 6 Olympic Ridge And Medusa1

If you follow hardware leaks and rumors, you probably read that headline and said "well yeah?", while if you don't follow hardware leaks and rumors, you probably have no idea what we're talking about. Here's the short version: AMD's technical

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Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too

Meta announced on Wednesday that it has offered to pay about $18 billion to settle the lawsuit against it brought by 52 attorneys general from US states, territories, and the District of Columbia. But part of that payout and some of its concessions are being conditioned on whether YouTube and

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MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case

Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job MNT is launching the Station, a miniature desktop case for motherboards that come from its Reform open-source laptop. If you upgraded the laptop, you can now give your old motherboard a new life. The MNT Station is very pricey for a

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GitHub Actions was down yet again

Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test GitHub Actions stumbled again on Wednesday, days after the code host renewed its promises to improve reliability. Wednesday’s problem, as has so often been the case, hit Actions, GitHub’s CI/CD platform for automating software builds,

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AMD Docs Confirm AM5 Upgrade Path To Zen 6 Olympic Ridge And Medusa1

Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too

MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case

GitHub Actions was down yet again