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March 29, 2025

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Nvidia’s 50-series laptop launch looks bumpy: slipping ship dates, game crashes, and delayed review units

There’s no nice way to say it: Nvidia’s RTX 50-series laptop GPU launch has been messy. For potential buyers, it’s a mix of drivers that aren’t fully baked and what we expect will be very limited amounts of stock. Behind the scenes, laptop manufacturers have seemingly been scrambling to get these things ready, with multiple delays. The first reviews of Nvidia RTX 50-series laptop GPUs have been trickling out this week, with exclusive YouTube videos followed by limited reviews of the GPU as a component, and finally the laptop reviews today, squeezing into the end of a promised March launch

March 29, 2025

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FTX tells a US bankruptcy judge it will make the first payment to its main creditors on May 30 using the $11.4B cash hoard it has collected since shutting down (Steven Church/Bloomberg)

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March 29, 2025

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Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as Critic of Its CEO

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A concert on Monday night at New York’s Radio City Music Hall was a special occasion for Frank Miller: his parents’ wedding anniversary. He didn’t end up seeing the show — and before he could even get past security, he was informed that he was in fact banned for life from the venue and all other properties owned by Madison Square Garden (MSG). After scanning his ticket and promptly being pulled aside by security, Miller was told by staff that he was barred from the MSG properties for an incident at

March 29, 2025

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Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.

Fine-tuning helps mitigate this problem, guiding the model to act as a helpful assistant and to refuse to complete a prompt when its related training data is sparse. That fine-tuning process creates distinct sets of artificial neurons that researchers can see activating when Claude encounters the name of a “known entity” (e.g., “Michael Jordan”) or an “unfamiliar name” (e.g., “Michael Batkin”) in a prompt. A simplified graph showing how various features and circuits interact in prompts about sports stars, real and fake. A simplified graph showing how various features and circuits interact in prompts about sports stars, real and fake.

March 29, 2025

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Woman of Tomorrow Looks Back on Kara’s Legacy, and Her Future

Kara Zor-El has lived many lives across her long, occasionally strange comic book history, but arguably no book has been more important to her modern imagining than Woman of Tomorrow. When the smash-hit miniseries released in 2021 to critical acclaim, it quickly became the jumping-on-point recommendation for people who wanted to get the Supergirl experience, even with its uniquely sci-fi bent. And then everything changed again a few years later, when James Gunn nonchalantly dropped the book as one of the comics his new era of the DC movie universe was going to draw inspiration from. Now, Woman of Tomorrow is consistently

March 29, 2025

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NYT Connections hints and answers for March 29: Tips to solve ‘Connections’ #657.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

March 29, 2025

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Jennifer Salke steps down as head of Amazon MGM Studios

Jennifer Salke is stepping down as the head of Amazon MGM Studios, according to reporting by Deadline. She’s been at the post for over seven years, which is a ripe old age for a studio head. Before Amazon, Salke was president of NBC Entertainment. She will not be replaced. Instead, the head of studio role will be eliminated as part of a new structure for the division. Prime Video honcho Mike Hopkins said in a memo that the company "decided to flatten our leadership structure a bit." The studio will split into two distinct arms, with one focusing on TV

March 29, 2025

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The Fitbit-to-Google account migration deadline moves to 2026

“As we have previously shared, Fitbit is now a part of Google, and Fitbit Account holders will need to transition to Google Accounts to continue using Fitbit,” the email says. “If you want to keep using Fitbit, you must move to a Google Account by February 2, 2026.” In addition to not being able to continue to use the Fitbit service after the new deadline, the email also warns users that “your historical data will not be retained beyond February 2, 2026 (except as needed to comply with laws), and your account and data will be deleted.” Those not wanting

March 29, 2025

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Elon Musk says xAI acquired X

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has acquired his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock deal, he announced in a post on X Friday. “xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction,” Musk said. “The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt).” Musk went on to describe the two companies’ futures as “intertwined.” He added, “Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent.” The acquisition places X — the highly influential social media platform Musk purchased in 2022 under its former

March 29, 2025

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The Pixel 9A Arrives Soon. Should You Buy It?

Google’s latest budget phone, the $499 Pixel 9A, has arrived early this year, fresh off the heels of Apple’s “affordable” offering, the $599 iPhone 16E. Very convenient timing. The Pixel 9A will arrive in stores on April 10, starting in the US and UK.  The Pixel 9A is $300 cheaper than the baseline Pixel 9 and, therefore, scales back a bit when it comes to features like cameras and RAM. However, it maintains other attributes like display size, processor and AI features — and even touts a higher battery capacity than its pricier Pixel counterparts.  So is the Pixel 9A a good