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Bungie is making a last-ditch effort to revive Marathon, its struggling extraction shooter, by launching a limited-time free-to-play trial tied to Season Two. With Destiny Two effectively shut down, Bungie has very little margin for error here, and the trial feels less like a marketing move and more like a lifeline.
Shifting to a question that cuts across the entire AI industry — a new study tested five leading large language models against one thousand real-world fact-check claims, and they disagreed with each other on sixty-seven percent of them. That's not a rounding error. It means the model you happen to use could meaningfully shape what you believe is true, which is a serious problem with no clean solution on the horizon.
And finally, TP-Link has announced a Wi-Fi Eight router — which is remarkable mostly because Wi-Fi Eight doesn't actually exist as a ratified standard yet. The company is getting ahead of the spec, but it's also navigating a potential US sales ban on routers manufactured outside the country, so whether this product ever reaches American shelves is genuinely unclear.
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