Soundboks Rider Party Speaker Review: Loud and Durable
Across all volume ranges, it sounds great. While it can produce big bass, it isn't overpowering in the mix. The sound profile matches the speaker's understated, PA-style aesthetic—clear, strong, and detailed. The speaker…
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People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit
Courtesy of Fulu The train blasts through right as Louis Rossmann starts to speak. This has happened several times already at the event he’s hosting on a Friday night in San Jose, California. All the speakers before him…
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Japan and the US are discussing a GlobalFoundries chip plant under their $550bn pact, Nikkei reports
The project would be worth between ¥2trn and ¥3trn ($12.9bn and $19.3bn) and will be run by the US chipmaker GlobalFoundries, which makes logic chips. Nikkei didn’t provide any sources, and the report did not include the…
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OpenAI reveals more instances of concerning AI model behaviors during testing
OpenAI has revealed six incidents, wherein the models it was testing acted on their own and behaved in concerning ways it didn't expect, in a post about how it was adopting a new framework for "misalignment reports." In…
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AI is changing discovery. What does that mean for your business?
Search engines, social media and marketplaces like Amazon and Ebay, previously shaped how consumers discovered brands. But now AI-driven Large Language Models (LLMs) form another layer of that ecosystem, with more than…
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Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics
As we write, it's less than three weeks since we wrote about David Heinemeier Hansson's Omarchy Arch-based Linux . Much of Omarchy's success is due to the visibility of Hansson – better known as DHH – the man behind both…
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US and Chinese security experts propose nuclear-style safeguards for military AI
The recommendations, published last week, come from the US-China AI and National Security Dialogue, a track run since 2019 by the Brookings Institution and Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and…
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King Charles to tell AI leaders to keep the technology in the service of humanity
The event is being run by the Ditchley Foundation, the King’s Trust, the King’s Foundation and the Sustainable Markets Initiative. Politico had reported last week that around 30 people from the industry would take part…
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Sony’s new PlayStation Pulse headsets pack planar magnetic sound
Sony first brought this technology to its PlayStation range with the Pulse Elite back in 2024, following its acquisition of premium headphone maker Audeze – known for its planar magnetic headphones. For gamers, Sony…
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After an hour with Android XR glasses, I understand why Google is betting everything on this
Glasses are the perfect solution for me; they're light, they're unobtrusive, and Google has plans to make multiple versions of Android XR for glasses ranging from two screens to one screen with overlays to a simple…
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