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Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. TikTok backed out of a congressional committee’s “public roundtable” set for this month
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It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its guardrails and refusals to perform harmful tasks. Named after a technique that removes a model’s tendency to refuse harmful requests, startup Abliteration.ai has turned that removal into a
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Lenovo made many announcements at IFA 2026 this year, which include new ThinkCentre, ThinkBook, and ThinkVision desktops, laptops, and monitors targeting a wide array of use cases, front high-end enterprise PCs to AI development. The Lenovo ThinkVision P27UL-40 is a 27-inch UHD Inkjet Printed OLED display with a 4K resolution
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The Swift Blade 14 in Marshmallow Blue and Marshmallow White.Credit: Acer Acer has announced the Swift Blade 14, a 14-inch Windows laptop that weighs just 799 grams (1.76 pounds) and measures 12.9 millimeters (half an inch) at its thinnest point. This makes it nearly a pound lighter
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Most AI tools allow you to opt-out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions. Meta has taken that idea and put a price tag on it. For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, it is offering an explicit discount
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OpenAI announced Thursday the launch of its next generation AI model, GPT-6 Astra, which the company claims is state of the art at navigating computers and web browsers, writing software, and solving difficult math problems. It plans to make GPT-6 Astra available to paid customers in the coming days, starting
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Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon. He’s contributed to sites like Digital Trends, Business Insider, and WIRED. Researching, buying, then finally assembling a sound system for your TV is daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. If you want one
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Magnetic Storage Bubble: The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format was designed back in the 90s as an open-standard alternative to proprietary tape formats. Now, the magnetic storage technology is growing in both relevance and shipment
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