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HP is under pressure tonight after a wave of complaints from owners of its premium laptops, including the pricey ZBook Ultra, who say recent BIOS firmware updates have left their machines stuck in boot loops, throwing blue screens, or spinning fans uncontrollably. The company says it's investigating, but for users who paid top dollar, that's cold comfort.
Shifting to San Francisco, a nonprofit operating in the Tenderloin district is now using robotic meal prep technology to keep feeding some of the city's most vulnerable residents. With human volunteers increasingly hard to come by, the organization turned to automation not as a flashy experiment, but as a practical answer to a real and persistent gap.
And Google is drawing fresh criticism after its Discover feed was caught once again rewriting article headlines without publisher consent. The Verge documented cases where the rewrites changed meaning and context in ways authors never intended. It raises a familiar question about who really controls the words once a story leaves a newsroom.
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