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Stevie Bonifield

Stevie Bonifield

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    Judge orders Google to make its ad tech work with rivals and share ad data with customers.

    US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema said in her unsealed ruling on Google’s ad tech trial that measures to break it up were “neither realistic nor needed,” the New York Times reports. Brinkema also called for Google to appoint a monitor to make sure it complies with the order.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    iFixit now has guides for repairing your Steam Machine.

    The new guides cover everything from replacing the motherboard to cleaning the heatsink, and offer a neat look at the Steam Machine’s internals.

    A partially disassembled Steam Machine
    A partially disassembled Steam Machine
    A partially disassembled Steam Machine
    1/3Image: iFixit
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    Stevie Bonifield
    Monster Hunter Wilds players won’t have to pay to edit their characters starting next year.

    Capcom’s getting rid of its character edit vouchers with the upcoming Ascendance expansion, so you can change your character’s appearance for free without needing workarounds. Capcom is giving players 10 free character and Palico edit vouchers to tide them over in the meantime.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Cricket Wireless offers home internet now, too.

    Similar to home internet offerings from Mint Mobile and Straight Talk, customers can bundle Cricket’s 5G home internet with a phone plan starting at $75/month for new customers or as a $45/month add-on for existing customers. Both prices factor in an autopay discount.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Memory chip giant SK Hynix is reportedly in talks with Intel about making chips in the US.

    A Reuters report claims SK Hynix is considering leasing part of Intel’s Ohio chip factory or forming a venture with Intel and other companies.

    However, SK Hynix says “nothing has been finalized regarding cooperation with any specific companies mentioned in the article,” while Reuters notes any deal to produce HBM or DRAM chips may face opposition from South Korea’s government.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrates 5,000 days on Mars with a new “postcard.”

    The shot marks 14 years since Curiosity landed on the Martian surface in 2012. NASA created it by merging two black-and-white panoramas from Curiosity’s navigation cameras then added color “for an artistic interpretation of the scene, with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one.”

    A panorama of the Martian surface from NASA’s Curiosity rover from September 2026
    Image: NASA
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    Stevie Bonifield
    Spider-Man: Brand New Day just set a brand-new record at the box office.

    It has officially dethroned Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the highest-grossing domestic release to date, Variety reports. So far, Brand New Day has pulled in over $936 million domestically and $2.45 billion globally, making it the third highest-grossing film of all time, behind Avatar and Avengers: Endgame.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Spotify puts up Taylor Swift’s whole official music video catalog.

    Swifties with a Premium subscription can watch all 58 of Taylor’s videos in Spotify’s “Switch to video” mode, from her first-ever video for 2006’s “Tim McGraw” to “Opalite.”

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    Stevie Bonifield
    UMG is suing DistroKid for alleged deceptive trade practices and “blatant copyright infringement.”

    The lawsuit claims DistroKid has created an “AI-slop pipeline” diverting listeners away from human artists. Universal Music Group, which is launching its own AI music platform, also alleges that DistroKid gives users the “false impression” that the music it distributes is “created and owned by real human artists,” not AI-generated music.