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Sean Hollister

Intel says its Raptor Lake crashing chip nightmare is over

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Intel may have one less worry on its very full plate: it believes it has now fully addressed its desktop CPU instability woes with 13th and 14th Gen “Raptor Lake” chips.

While the company says there’s still no fix for processors that are already damaged, it confirms to me that the “Vmin Shift Instability” is the root cause of the unusual instability and crashes that these desktop CPUs have been demonstrating for many months.

And, Intel says,...

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Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica

I Own a Chevy Bolt, and Superchargers Are a Total Game Changer

The anxiety of longer trips in my EV has eased considerably now that I can use Tesla Supercharger stations.

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Brian Windhorst

Man found guilty of cheating ex-NBAers of $8M

A Georgia businessman was convicted Friday of cheating former NBA players Dwight Howard and Chandler Parsons out of $8 million after a trial in Manhattan federal court.

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Jeff Passan

In surprise, Mets' Senga given G1 nod vs. Phillies

Kodai Senga, who threw just 5 1/3 innings during the regular season due to multiple injuries, will start Game 1 for the Mets in Philly. "I'm ready for whatever. If they say 10 pitches, I'm all-in for 10 pitches. If they say 200, I'm in for 200."

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Alden Gonzalez

Musgrove needs TJ surgery, won't pitch for Padres

Joe Musgrove needs Tommy John surgery and won't pitch for the Padres in the NL Division Series against the Dodgers.

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Michael Voepel

'I feel like I already won': How Aces' Plum has persevered through tough season

Las Vegas trails 2-0 in the WNBA semifinals. But whatever the outcome of this season, the Aces guard said she is glad she has battled through it.

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Emma Roth Jess Weatherbed

The latest on the WordPress fight over trademarks and open source

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WordPress and its cofounder Matt Mullenweg are embroiled in a public battle against the third-party hosting provider WP Engine.

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The cast of Critical Role choose their ultimate 'The Legend of Vox Machina' squads

Critical Role's Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, and Travis Willingham go head-to-head-to-head in Choose Your Squad: 'The Legend of Vox Machina' edition.

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No one can actually use Meta's newest AI tool, Movie Gen

Meta just announced a new generative AI model to help users turn simple text into images, videos, and audio clips.

Meta Movie Gen allows users to input text and automatically generate new videos, personalize videos, do video editing, and generate audio, all of which is trained on a "combination of licensed and publicly available datasets."

If that seems a lot like OpenAI's Sora, that's because it is quite similar. But Movie Gen builds upon Meta's previous work with AI — you might remember,...

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Ephrat Livni and Ismaeel Naar

US Conducts Strikes Against Houthis in Yemen

The Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea in solidarity with Hamas, and the U.S. attacks were aimed at securing international waterways.

Fast Company

Jessica Bursztynsky

Elon Musk will attend Trump’s Pennsylvania rally at site of first assassination attempt

The former president has said that if reelected, he would appoint Musk to lead a government efficiency commission.

Elon Musk is set to attend Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, marking an even deeper show of the billionaire’s support for the former president and his shift to the right.

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Reuters

Meta unveils Movie Gen, an AI model that can generate video with sound

Videos created by Movie Gen can be up to 16 seconds long, while audio can be up to 45 seconds long, Meta said.

Facebook owner Meta announced on Friday it had built a new AI model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to user prompts, claiming it can rival tools from leading media generation startups like OpenAI and ElevenLabs.

Fast Company

Eve Upton-Clark

‘Discover the rabbit hole’: Conspiracy theories about Hurricane Helene are all over TikTok

One prominent theory plays off the idea that the path of destruction is hitting Republican areas hardest.

Conspiracy theories have a habit of spiking following natural disasters, and Hurricane Helene is no exception. As the death toll topped 200 on Friday morning, the conspiracy theorists are out in full force spreading misinformation about everything from voter manipulation to a geoengineered industrial land grab.

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Aarian Marshall

Waymo’s New Agreement With Hyundai Raises Questions About China

Robotaxi firm Waymo will build its self-driving tech into the Ioniq 5. But what about its relationship with Chinese automaker Zeekr?

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Mark Schofield

Davante Adams forces NFL fans to recall their poetry

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Las Vegas Raiders receiver Davante Adams has NFL fans and media members alike reaching for old poetry textbooks this Friday afternoon

The Davante Adams drama in the NFL has taken a poetic turn.

Literally.

When reports emerged that the star wide receiver had requested a trade from the Las Vegas Raiders, every media outlet under the sun kicked speculation over potential landing spots into overdrive. We here at SB Nation were absolutely not immune, posting a story...

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Emma Roth

MKBHD’s wallpaper app updated with fewer ads

Image: MKBHD via YouTube

MKBHD’s new wallpaper app has received its first big update after users criticized the app over pricing and the advertising setup for free accounts. On Friday, the Panels account announced on X that people using the app for free can now download high-resolution images — not just standard-definition ones — by watching a single ad.

The app previously required users to sign up for a $11.99 per month (or $49.99 per year) subscription to access images in full...

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IRS expands free Direct File program to 12 new states

The Internal Revenue Service's free tax filing program, Direct File, will be open to residents of 12 new states for the 2025 tax return season.

Those states are Alaska, Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to an IRS announcement. They join 12 states — Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington State and Wyoming — that...

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Why Pharrell Williams made his biopic ‘Piece by Piece’ a Lego movie

Pharrell Williams details his decision to go full Lego in his biopic 'Piece by Piece'

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