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Call of Duty won’t release Modern Warfare or Black Ops back to back anymore

Future Call of Duty releases will no longer include back-to-back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, Activision announced on Tuesday. The past four releases in the series have been Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Black Ops 6 (2024), and Black Ops 7 (2025), but moving forward, Activision wants to offer […]

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Somehow, this AI-generated McDonald’s ad about hating Christmas was a flop

If you’re having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald’s – at least, that’s what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested. Set to a song calling holiday season “the most terrible time of the year,” the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family dinners, shopping, caroling, baking cookies, […]

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Google is powering a new US military AI platform

The Department of Defense is announcing its own “bespoke” AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Google Cloud’s Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it, according to a press release. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who has dubbed himself Secretary of War, though the name has not been legally changed by Congress) promised that the […]

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Google Confirms Smaller Core Updates Happen Continuously via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google updated its core updates documentation to say smaller core updates happen on an ongoing basis, so sites can improve without waiting for named updates.

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YouTube AI Enforcement Questioned As Channels Get Restored via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

YouTube creators report sudden channel bans for spam policies, with some restored after public outcry. YouTube claims the vast majority of terminations are correct.

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Nothing’s community-designed Phone 3A adds some color and matching dice

The Nothing Phone 3A Community Edition revamps Nothing’s usual monochrome look with a 90s-inspired design infused by pops of color. It’s updating the basic 3A’s transparent backplate with a teal tint, plus yellow and magenta buttons. They’re also throwing in an accessory too, for the first time, adding a limited edition set of six-sided dice […]

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Facebook’s redesign is making it more like Instagram

Continuing CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to make Facebook “way more culturally influential than it is today,” Meta is announcing a bunch of new updates to help you “cut through the clutter” and make content in the app. The changes include tweaks to how you see and interact with photos in your feed that could make […]

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RAM price hikes: the latest on the global memory shortage

Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are using to power the servers in their massive data centers. Now, the world’s biggest memory makers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — are taking […]

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Google Photos’ new video editor makes it more like Capcut

The Google Photos app on Android and iOS is getting a video editing overhaul with a redesigned editor, templates for highlight reels, and options for adding custom text overlays and music to individual videos. Highlight reels, which automatically cut together a video featuring selected photos and videos, were already part of Google Photos, but now […]

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