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Meta’s Muse Spark AI answers questions based on what it’s learned from the social network. by Stevie Bonifield Jun 15, 2026, 9:15 PM UTC Image: Meta Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews
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TL;DR AMD silently disabled TSME memory encryption on consumer Ryzen CPUs via firmware. The silicon still supports it, but AMD says it’s now PRO-only. AMD has silently disabled a security feature on its consumer Ryzen processors that protected users against physical attacks on their computer’s memory. The
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TL;DR Huawei’s semiconductor chief He Tingbo returned to public life after seven years to unveil the Tau Scaling Law and LogicFolding architecture. The company claims it can reach 1.4nm-equivalent chip density by 2031 without EUV lithography, but faces steep hurdles in heat dissipation, EDA tooling, and yield
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TL;DR Samsung’s Galaxy Book6 Edge is the first Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop, but its $2,100 US model ships with just 16GB of soldered RAM. Samsung has launched the Galaxy Book6 Edge, the first laptop to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite processor. The chip delivers 80
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Three days after the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, roughly 100 of the world’s most prominent cybersecurity professionals have published an open letter demanding the ban be reversed. Their argument is blunt: pulling the best AI tools from defenders while adversaries keep
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TL;DR Polymarket’s $345M Iran peace deal market is in dispute because the interim agreement may not meet the contract’s “permanent” peace requirement. Polymarket, the largest prediction market exchange, has more than $345 million in trading volume stuck in limbo over a question of semantics. Traders bet on
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TL;DR Roberto ‘Pico’ Lopes, a Dublin-born Shamrock Rovers defender, was scouted for Cape Verde’s national team via a LinkedIn message he initially dismissed as a prank. He started in Cape Verde’s first ever World Cup match on 15 June 2026, a 0-0 draw with Spain in Atlanta.
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TL;DR Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, using Meta AI to surface answers from public posts across Groups, Reels, and Marketplace listings. Meta has launched AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience that uses Meta AI to pull answers from public posts across the platform. The feature surfaces
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Classes have just ended, but it's not too early to start looking at laptops for the next school year. Summers have a way of starting slowly, but that leisurely pace is misleading because before you know it, Labor Day is almost here, bringing summer vacation to an abrupt
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Although most Americans have eschewed seasonal COVID-19 vaccines, the updated shots continue to show significant protection against cardiovascular disease, especially for those over age 75 and those with underlying medical conditions. That’s according to a new study that pulled data from more than 1 million patients in a US
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Gettyimages.com / Jason Marz ByRoss Wilkers, Senior Staff Reporter June 15, 2026 04:50 PM ET The Homeland Security Department is working on contracts with the other three major hyperscalers and a separate, multiple-award competition for support services. * Contracts * DHS The Homeland Security Department has finalized the first out of
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June is National Safety Month, and we are embarking on a blog series looking at how to heighten safety in the construction industry. We have already examined the importance of the underlying foundational culture, top construction hazards to prevent, and the cost of ignoring safety, particularly in small businesses. Today,
