OpenAI has rolled out an upgrade for the free model you interact with the most on ChatGPT.

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Farday Future hasn’t quite given up on EVs, but it’s now also pitching a lineup of robots, including humanoids and a quadruped with an optional canine heads.

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It’s not the $80 physical edition we deserve, and it’s also not the one we need right now.

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Just days after a gunman killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk, it became clear that President Donald Trump would use the assassination to fuel a crackdown on free speech. To avenge Kirk’s death, the administration vowed to go after so-called “antifa” (otherwise known as antifascist) terrorists. Now that promise is bearing fruit. This week, eight Texas activists were sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in prison – one for attempted murder, but most for supposedly belonging to an insurrectionary “Antifa cell,” including one sentenced to 30 years in part for moving a box of zines.

These unusually harsh sentences are a major victory for …

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Microsoft just added a cheaper 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop to its lineup. Both models come equipped with 8GB of RAM instead of 16GB, costing $849 for the specced-down Surface Pro and $949 for the Surface Laptop, as spotted earlier by Windows Central.

When the 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop launched in 2025, the base configurations offered 16GB of RAM and 256GB of USF storage, for $799 and $899, respectively. But in April 2026, Microsoft hiked the prices to $1,049 and $1,199. The memory crunch has also resulted in a higher base price for Microsoft’s newest Surface models.

Other than slashing device memory …

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NASA will begin mapping the galactic bulge with a mission later this summer.

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