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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Muse is coming to Windows.

Meta’s new AI agent will be getting a native app on Windows, Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri announced at today’s event. No timeline on when, though. Meta launched a Mac Muse app in September.

The scariest thing about gray-market peptides is how little we know

Researchers found that BPC-157 users tend to wait two months before disclosing usage to doctors — if they disclose at all.

Victoria Song
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Cable lobby groups plan to sue the FCC to try and stop the end of the national ownership cap rule.

Brendan Carr’s FCC voted to end the rule, which prevents a broadcast station from reaching more that 39 percent of US TV households, in August. The lobby groups say that the order “arbitrarily and capriciously ignores the harms that will surely follow from allowing broadcast station groups to exceed the National Cap,” Ars Technica reports.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Somebody made a native PC port of the Silent Hills P.T. demo.

You’ll need to bring your own PS4 game files, according to the GitHub page, but it looks like a great way to play Hideo Kojima’s infamous, delisted horror demo.

“I made this on my own, in my spare time, because P.T. deserved to keep existing somewhere other than on consoles that still have it installed,” the developer says on GitHub.

Windows and Surface live blog: On the ground at Microsoft’s event

It’s RTX Spark time.

Tom Warren and Sean Hollister
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Garmin claims up to 320 hours of activity tracking with its new solar smartwatch.

The Apple Watch Ultra 4 can run for up to 84 hours between charges, but Garmin’s new $899.99 Enduro 4 can track your activities for up to 320 hours or function as a basic smartwatch for up to 90 days. Instead of squeezing in a massive battery, the Enduro 4’s sapphire-protected touchscreen has an integrated solar panel so extending its battery life requires daily sun exposure.

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<em>The Enduro doesn’t feature a bright OLED display like the Apple Watch Ultra 4, but its display integrates a solar panel to extend battery life while you’re outdoors.</em>
<em>It’s still a full color screen making it easy to discern landmarks and legends on maps.</em>
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The Enduro doesn’t feature a bright OLED display like the Apple Watch Ultra 4, but its display integrates a solar panel to extend battery life while you’re outdoors.
Image: Garmin
A free mod for Titanfall 2 makes it one of the best VR games ever

I thought VR Titanfall would make me sick — instead, I’m having a blast.

Sean Hollister
The vigilante doxxing campaign against Cornell’s Jane Doe happened in plain sight

X and Substack aren’t doing anything to stop users from harassing women they believe are connected to the rape case — and the women who aren’t.

Gaby Del Valle
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Skydance is merging Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery’s games teams.

The change means that Paramount Games Studio, which was established this year, will be combined with WBD teams like Rocksteady Studios and Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche Software, Variety reports.

Muse launches on the iPadMuse launches on the iPad
Andrew Liszewski