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Stella Parton took to Instagram to condemn a wave of AI-generated content and misinformation circulating online following her sister Dolly Parton's death on 25 August at age 80. While thanking fans for genuine expressions of support, she said the volume of fabricated posts had been difficult for her family to cope with during their grief.
A massive iceberg that calved from one of Greenland's largest glaciers has drifted for months before colliding with Joe Island off the coast. Despite the impact, the enormous ice slab did not break apart and continues its journey through Arctic waters.
Unico has unveiled the Traveller ULW10, a 10-inch 4:3 CRT-style monitor built for retro gaming consoles, featuring a hidden rear compartment to stash hardware out of sight. The display supports RGB SCART, VGA, and HDMI inputs but notably omits composite video due to internal space constraints, and it can digitally emulate CRT and pixel-art visual effects despite not being a true CRT. It will launch via Kickstarter in three colorways, with pricing still unannounced.
Stephanie Mehta's Modern CEO newsletter highlights three chief executives who studied fields outside traditional business tracks, arguing those choices shaped their leadership approaches. Among them, Lyft's CEO says his major helps guard against becoming professionally obsolete.
Elegoo is offering discounts of up to 35% on its Neptune 3 Pro and Neptune 4 Plus 3D printers as part of a limited-time Labor Day sale. The Neptune 3 Pro drops to $169, while the larger Neptune 4 Plus is priced at $309, both cheaper than listings on major retailers like Amazon. Both printers have previously earned strong reviews for build quality, auto-leveling, and ease of use.
The RPCS3 development team announced that its open-source PlayStation 3 emulator can now run games straight from physical Blu-ray discs, provided users have a compatible internal or external drive from an extensive supported-hardware list. The update also brings faster installation times for package installs from disc and extends support beyond Windows to Linux, FreeBSD and macOS, including PS4 and PS5 consoles running Linux.
A shopper known as @whateversunnyfinds bought a $30 Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 expansion card at Kuwait City's Souq-al-Juma flea market and discovered three 2TB Samsung 980 Pro SSDs concealed beneath its heatsink. Each drive currently retails for roughly $400-$500, meaning the find could be worth $1,300-$1,500 despite one of the card's four M.2 slots being empty.
Startup Voicebox, led by CEO Karan Gupta, lets customers give feedback by speaking into their phones after scanning a QR code or tapping an NFC chip, with voice automatically transcribed and analyzed for sentiment on a company dashboard. The company has partnered with airport terminals and was used at a Lena Dunham book event, where attendees left spoken reactions instead of typed reviews.
Newegg is selling the ABS Kaze II Aqua gaming PC, which pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an Nvidia RTX 5080, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD, for $2,999.99 using a coupon code. That's $500 off list price and actually cheaper than the same bundle cost when it was featured back in April, despite rising component prices industry-wide.
Elon Musk argued on X that chess has only a small number of meaningful moves and predicted the game would eventually be fully solved by computers, similar to checkers. Chess.com's official account pushed back with a blunt 'skill issue' reply, prompting a back-and-forth in which Musk doubled down and speculated that a future superintelligence could compress and solve the game in ways humans can't grasp.
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT told investors it is expanding its foothold in premium memory-chip segments, pointing to progress in smartphone and AI-related chip technologies as evidence. The company framed these advances as proof it is closing the gap with established global memory manufacturers.
A HardOCP forum user reported that their MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC suffered a melted 16-pin power connector after testing Nvidia's new DLSS 5 feature in NBA 2K27, currently the only game with official support. The user's monitoring software showed sustained power draw above 610W, more than 150W higher than the card's typical 450W gaming load, before the connector overheated and several pins were visibly scorched.