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Microsoft veteran Steven Sinofsky is making the rounds with a timely reminder: we have been here before. As excitement builds around Windows on Arm powered by Nvidia chips, Sinofsky shared footage of the very first time Windows ran on an Nvidia Tegra Arm processor — back in two thousand ten. That experiment eventually became the Surface RT, which most people would rather forget. History, it seems, has a sense of humor.
Shifting to a quieter corner of the internet, a piece making the rounds argues that AI-generated content is not inherently the problem — the deception is. The author's case is straightforward: when readers know something was made by AI, they can calibrate accordingly. It is the cosplay, the pretending to be human, that corrodes trust. Transparency, the argument goes, is the actual product.
And finally, a story that feels like it wandered in from a different era entirely. A writer at The Verge went hunting for a real device called Gudtrip — a vape that supposedly rewards users with Bitcoin for every hit. What started as obvious nonsense turned into a weeks-long investigation that says something genuinely interesting about how far crypto marketing will reach to find a new edge.
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