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Steven Levy

No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA

Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship.

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Will Knight

AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea

Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior.

The Verge

Richard Lawler Justine Calma Kylie Robison Adi Robertson Jay Peters Jess Weatherbed

The fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul

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Meta is ending its third-party fact checks and making sweeping changes to its content moderation policies.

Meta is making sweeping changes to its content moderation policies, including abandoning third-party fact checks in favor of crowd-sourced “Community Notes” and loosening restrictions on topics like immigration and gender identity. Under the updated Hateful Conduct policy, for example, calling gay and trans people “mentally...

The Verge

Jay Peters

Here’s how small Nvidia’s $3,000 Digits supercomputer looks in person

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

One of the biggest announcements in Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s CES keynote was the small “Project Digits” AI supercomputer, and if you want to get an idea of just how tiny the $3,000 machine is in real life, we snapped a couple photos of the device under glass today at the show.

Take a look: we’ve captured the front of a Digits computer in the photo at the top of this post, and below this paragraph is a photo of the back featuring the...

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James Dator

Predicting the NFL Wild Card round based on which mascot would win in a fight

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The real battles start now.

There are plenty of perfectly reasonable, considered, and analytic ways of evaluating the matchups that will eventually lead to the Super Bowl. Not this time. Not on this URL located on the World Wide Web.

We need to evaluate these NFL Playoffs only using the sweet science of combat. Who would reign supreme if we removed the 53 players from each team and left each game up to one-on-one gladiatorial combat between...

ESPN.com

Adam Rittenberg

Franklin jabs at ND, says CFP needs uniformity

Penn State coach James Franklin stressed the need for uniformity around college football, especially as it relates to the College Football Playoff, and said every team should be in a conference.

ESPN.com

Former O's pitcher, No. 4 pick Matusz dies at 37

Left-hander Brian Matusz, a 2008 first-round draft pick who spent most of his eight-year career with the Orioles, died Tuesday at 37.

The Verge

Charles Pulliam-Moore

Mythic Quest is working through its AI woes in new season 4 trailer

Mythic Quest’s third season ended on a hopeful note as the Playpen team hunkered down to start developing an all-new expansion, but all that hard work looks like it’s just going to lead to more headaches judging from the show’s latest season 4 trailer.

While Mythic Quest’s new season will find Dana (Imani Hakim), Jo (Jessie Ennis), and Brad (Dani Pudi) basking in the success of their Cozy Galaxy project, things are going to be a bit tougher for Ian (Rob McElhenney) and Poppy...

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Quentyn Kennemer

You can get a $50 credit when you preorder the next Samsung Galaxy devices

Samsung announced its first Galaxy Unpacked event of 2025, which it’s historically used to introduce the latest flagship Galaxy smartphones. That would be the Galaxy S25 family if our count is right, including the base model, the expected Galaxy S25 Ultra, and whatever else falls between. We’ll know for sure before too long with an unveiling scheduled for January 22nd.

But before the company even confirms what we’re getting, you can already place a reservation to preorder the...

The Verge

David Pierce

Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind

Seriously: would you wear something like this on your face if it could really read your mind? | Image: Omi

Nik Shevchenko closes his eyes and starts to focus intently. He’s spent the last half hour or so telling me about his new product, an $89 wearable called Omi that can listen to, summarize, and get information out of your conversations. Now he wants to show me the future. So his eyes are closed, and he’s focusing all his attention on the round white puck stuck to his left...

The Verge

Tom Warren

Can Nvidia’s RTX 5070 really deliver RTX 4090 performance for $549?

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a bold claim onstage at CES earlier this week when he was introducing the next-generation RTX 50-series GPUs. “The RTX 5070, 4090 performance at $549,” said Huang. It’s a claim that’s been echoed on YouTube, TikTok, and social media networks and has generated a debate over the RTX 50 series and DLSS 4’s Multi Frame Generation.

So, can a $549 RTX 5070 really deliver the same level of performance...

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“Food Often Plays An Emotional Role In The Last Stages Of Life”: Medical Workers Detail The Types Of Food That Make Hospice Patients The Happiest

Plus, they reveal how families can support their loved ones with scents, small bites and shared memories.

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Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage

Justice Dept. Signals Report on Trump Documents Case May Never Be Released

In a court filing, the department indicated that the report by the special counsel, Jack Smith, may not be made public before Donald J. Trump takes office, raising the prospect that the new administration will bury it.

NYT > Home Page

Lisa Friedman

Trump Wants Oil Drilling in Alaska. A Lease Sale There Just Flopped.

No companies bid for the chance to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It was the second auction in four years that failed draw strong interest.

NYT > Home Page

Peter Baker

Biden Says He Might Not Have Been Able to Serve 4 More Years

President Biden insisted that he still could have beaten Donald J. Trump had he stayed in the race, but could not say he would have been vital enough to be president until age 86.

Mashable

Garmin Connect experienced a major outage on Wednesday morning

Garmin smartwatches took a tumble on Wednesday morning.

According to Down Detector, a mass of users reported issues with the Garmin Connect online service that holds all of Garmin's online smartwatch features together. The outage appeared to peak around 7 a.m. ET, meaning people wanting to get a morning run in on the east coast might have been out of luck, at least in terms of digitally planning a route and tracking their progress.

SEE ALSO: Garmin Instinct 3...

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How to watch Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Cleveland Cavaliers online

TL;DR: Live stream Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Oklahoma City Thunder head to the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse to face the Cleveland Cavaliers in a non-conference matchup between the top two teams in the NBA. The Thunder are 30-5 overall, and 13-3 on the road, at the top of the Western Conference. The Cavs are 31-4 overall, and 18-1 at home, at the top of the Eastern Conference.

The Thunder have won 10 consecutive games,...

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How to watch Chicago Bulls vs. Indiana Pacers online

TL;DR: Live stream Chicago Bulls vs. Indiana Pacers in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Chicago Bulls head to the Gainbridge Fieldhouse to face the Indiana Pacers in an Eastern Conference matchup. The Bulls are 17-19, which puts them in 10th place. The Pacers are 19-18, which puts them in sixth place.

The Bulls have won three of their last five games, and are coming off a win over the New York Knicks. The Pacers have also won three of their last five games, and are coming off...

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How to watch Washington Wizards vs. Philadelphia 76ers online

TL;DR: Live stream Washington Wizards vs. Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Washington Wizards head to Wells Fargo Center to face the Philadelphia 76ers in an Eastern Conference matchup. The Wizards are 6-27, which puts them in dead last in the conference. The Sixers are 14-20, which puts them in 11th place.

The Wizards have lost four of their last five games, and are coming off back-to-back losses to the New Orleans Pelicans. The 76ers have lost three of...

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