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Damiane is easily the best Crimson Desert playable character

Polygon - All

30 years ago, The Simpsons introduced a Planet of the Apes to a new generation of fans

Polygon - All

The Lego Game Boy makes for a great gift, and it’s $10 off today

The Verge - All Posts

Energy Vault acquires 175 MW battery project in Texas as it bets on AI-driven power demand

The Next Web

How to solve the Bluemont Manor strongbox puzzles in Crimson Desert

Polygon - All

Anthropic announces an "auto mode" that enables Claude Code to make permission-level decisions while preventing destructive actions like mass file deletion (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Techmeme

OpenAI revamps ChatGPT's shopping experience by letting users upload images or describe items and include criteria like their budget (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Techmeme

Shangri-La Frontier season 3 finally gets a release date... in 2027

Polygon - All

GameStop price increases for Pokémon cards are out of control

Polygon - All

Pokédex and available Pokémon in Pokémon Pokopia

Polygon - All

Doss, which provides an AI-native inventory management layer that integrates with existing accounting systems, raised a $55M Series B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Trembling Woods puzzle walkthrough in Crimson Desert

Polygon - All

Apple releases iOS 26.4, with Playlist Playground, which generates an Apple Music playlist from a prompt, 8 new emojis, improved keyboard accuracy, and more (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Techmeme

Pokémon Pokopia Habitat Dex list and all requirements

Polygon - All

Why Michael B. Jordan’s Oscar Win Isn’t Feeling the Love From Judge Joe Brown

The Root

The Apple Watch SE 3 is even easier to recommend at $50 off

The Verge - All Posts

ChatGPT and Gemini are fighting to be the AI bot that sells you stuff

The Verge - All Posts

Arm unveils its own AI chip called the AGI CPU, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI will be early customers (Financial Times)

Techmeme

An oral history of Conan O’Brien’s Walker, Texas Ranger Lever: the Late Night gag that made Chuck Norris a meme

Polygon - All

Circle shares fell as much as 18%, and Coinbase dropped about 8%, after a draft of the US Clarity Act raised the prospect of strict limits on stablecoin yield (CoinDesk)

Techmeme