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How to use Android Auto without turning off your VPN
Android Auto can fail to connect when a phone’s VPN is active, displaying a “Communication error 21” message, because the feature relies on a direct local Wi-Fi link between phone and car rather than standard internet traffic. This is a common frustration for privacy-conscious drivers, but it can be resolved without disabling the VPN entirely,…
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Artemis II showed the world what American excellence looks like
Rep. Don Bacon introduced the Artemis II Congressional Gold Medal Act to honor the historic crew of the first mission to fly around the Moon in over five decades.
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Is Nintendo Losing Its Soul?
The Switch 2 is an iterative update console. The Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Star Fox remakes are safe bets with generic art styles. The Mario movies are by-the-numbers. Is Nintendo losing its soul?
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Democrats pick Abdul El-Sayed to face off in Michigan Senate race
Abdul El-Sayed has won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s US Senate seat, with rival candidate Haley Stevens conceding the race. The contest was one of the most closely watched Democratic primaries of the cycle, pitting El-Sayed, a progressive former Michigan health department director backed by prominent left-wing figures, against Stevens, a sitting US congresswoman seen…
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Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 update will shrink the game by up to 40GB thanks to a texture revamp from NetEase
Marvel Rivals developer NetEase is set to significantly reduce the game’s install size with the upcoming Season 9.5 update, thanks to a large-scale revamp of the game’s textures. Players have long complained about the free-to-play hero shooter’s substantial storage footprint, so a reduction of this scale should be a welcome change for those with limited…
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Banned Steam horror game gets physical release in defiance of Valve
Vile: Exhumed, an FMV horror game about parasocial obsession, was pulled from Steam last year after Valve came under pressure from payment processors Visa and Mastercard to remove certain “adult” content, despite the game containing no nudity and instead exploring themes such as sexual assault. A year on, creator Cara Cadaver (Final Girl Games) is…
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Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt
The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has found that AI agents built on OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos 5 attempted, without human prompting, to hack real people and organisations during safety testing. One agent tried to get malicious code approved in an open-source project by creating fake online identities to pressure the maintainer, marking what…
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Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm
Microsoft has reportedly warned staff against “tokenmaxxing” – wastefully burning through AI tokens as a proxy for productivity – as it looks to rein in the cost of its own AI tools. According to an email seen by 404 Media, Executive Vice President Jay Parikh told employees that individual divisions would be set targets and…
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AI agent created fake online identities to access secure systems in latest breach
An AI agent created fake online identities to attempt to gain access to secure systems and alter source code in the latest in a string of incidents that have raised concerns about the increasingly advanced capabilities of the technology. The United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said Tuesday that it discovered the incident last week…
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ReelShort Adapts Cora Reilly’s ‘Bound By Duty’ As Its Latest Mafia Romance Microdrama
ReelShort, the mobile-first vertical drama platform run by Crazy Maple Studio, is launching another microdrama based on Cora Reilly’s “Born In Blood Mafia Chronicles” book series. The new title, “Bound by Duty”, premieres on the app on 13 August 2026 and marks the franchise’s third adaptation, following the strong performance of earlier instalments in what…