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Google Maps has changed Lake Ontario to Lake America for US users, a decade's worth of Steam files totaling more than 12TB has leaked, and a new Space Telescope is on its way to study the 'dark universe' Aug 31, 2026

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- Google explained that it updates Maps "to reflect name changes in official government sources."

-A treasure trove of Steam data has been leaked, which seemingly contains everything that was published on Steam between 2003 and 2013.

-NASA says that the Roman Space Telescope will be a discovery machine that will bring us closer than ever before to answering humanity's most profound questions about our cosmic history.

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How to turn off Find My iPhone (and when you definitely should) Aug 29, 2026

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There are times when turning off Find My is necessary, but you should always have it on otherwise to keep your phone safe.

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Speedo launches its own smart swim wearable Aug 28, 2026

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SpeedoIQ is a tiny tracker that sits inside a pair of Vanguard goggles.

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X claimed it found a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center sentiments, a Stripe-led group abandoned its PayPal acquisition, and Bluesky’s new setting helps you avoid accidentally going viral Aug 28, 2026

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-X said that 200 accounts out of the 200,000 were posting comic strips, images and text about AI data centers in a manner that "could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy."

-PayPal was worth as much as $320 billion at its highest market value during the height of the COVID pandemic.

-Bluesky, unlike X and other platforms, doesn't allow people to have private accounts.

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SoundCloud will now let you buy music directly from artists Aug 27, 2026

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Plus - GoPro is trying something different; Apple has confirmed when it'll pull back the curtain and officially reveal its latest iPhones

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OpenAI detailed the failures that led to its Hugging Face breach, Meta apparently abandoned an AI-focused restructuring plan, and Google’s latest Gemini transcription model can turn your ramblings into structured text Aug 27, 2026

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-The report goes into how the different systems in OpenAI's training system failed and what behaviors from the agents it was testing resulted in those failures.

- Meta executives were reportedly influenced by startups, including some they observed in Asia, that had structured themselves around AI.

-The company says Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is more adept at speech-to-text than earlier models, with greater precision and the ability to automatically detect more than 85 languages.

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Zillow settles antitrust lawsuit with the FTC Aug 26, 2026

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Competitor Redfin will re-enter the real estate listing market.

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SpaceX building a $100 billion 'Starbase' launch site in Louisiana, Apple walked back a bad idea, and Adam Mosseri says it's 'news to him' that employees limited his exposure to teen safety data Aug 26, 2026

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-SpaceX said the Louisiana facility will be massive with five launch complexes, each with two launch pads.

-A now-abandoned plan would have allowed companies to immediately know that they were dealing with a masked address, making the feature essentially useless.

-One bit of internal research that surfaced during the trial Tuesday was from a 2023 slide deck prepared by Instagram designers and others about teen safety on the app.

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Taiwan reportedly indicted NVIDIA employees for exporting prohibited AI servers to China Aug 25, 2026

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The nine individuals are accused of 'severely damaged our nation's image,' prosecutors said.

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Threads is testing a podcast transcription feature, ESPN is raising prices on most of its streaming subscriptions, and Zillow settled its antitrust lawsuit with the FTC Aug 25, 2026

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-There's no guarantee that anything Threads tries out will get a formal release, but providing more support for content creators to leverage the platform appears to be a priority for the platform.

-ESPN is increasing the cost of every single one of its subscription plans.

-As part of the settlement, Redfin has to reenter the ILS market and make commitments that would ensure its competitiveness, including a relaunch with "significantly more listings."

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