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I am not a member of a cult, but I have my rituals. So, I was playing CS 1.6 with my homies the other night. We like them classics. Every Friday from dusk till dawn. We have smoke and beer breaks. We’re locked in when playing. Old school.
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facepalm: GLM-5.3, the large language model from Chinese AI company Z.ai, recently helped uncover more than 1,000 critical vulnerabilities across major open-source projects, including the Linux kernel, adding to the thousands
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Every phone in Apple’s iPhone 17 series easily earned a spot on CNET’s list of the best phones for 2026. They include powerful hardware, a gorgeous design, speedy performance and fantastic cameras. However, Apple’s well-known high quality comes at a price. Still, there’s no reason to
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Just a couple of weeks after Anthropic announced it would roll out digital watermarks for text generated with its Claude AI tools, the company has introduced a page where you can check files to see if Claude helped make them. The page, at claude.com/check-content, lets you upload files
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I just attended my third BTS concert this year in Chicago for the K-pop band’s Arirang tour. I had previously seen them in Tampa, Florida, and Stanford, California, and while I was sad when I inevitably had to shuffle out of those stadiums, I always had the relief of
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The Justice Department has spent years attempting to break up Google’s gargantuan advertising business across two separate antitrust lawsuits: one filed in 2020 focused on Google’s dominance in search, and a second filed in 2023 that specifically targeted Google’s ad-technology business. Both cases argued that the search
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The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) has announced the opening of product certification for Suzi, the sub-gigahertz (sub-GHz) extension to the Zigbee wireless Internet of Things (IoT) communications standard. "This milestone marks a significant step forward in enabling the industry to bring standardized long-range, low-power, and interoperable IoT products to
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Australian teams working with OpenAI models can now access the latest OpenAI models through Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna with global cross-Region inferencefrom both Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Regions in Australia. Your application calls the Amazon Bedrock Runtime endpoint
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Usually, Apple unveils the latest and greatest iPhone model at its early September event, but that could change this time. We’re anticipating Apple’s long-awaited first foldable iPhone (the iPhone Ultra or iPhone Fold) and premium models of the iPhone 18 this month. But we may not see the
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Sonosjust announced two new big pieces of hardware to its lineup: a Sonos Beam Ultra soundbar and some Sonos Ace Ultra headphones. And while they both sound like solid upgrades to the manufacturer's top-tier audio tech, you'll have to pay a premium for both products. Luckily,
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Here in the US, we're dealing with a President who capriciously tears down historic buildings, paves over rose gardens, insults allies, and regularly renames map landmarks, locations, and even gulfs and lakes like he's picking out names for his often poorly used golf clubs. It would
