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Jay Peters

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    A Threads post on Mastodon!

    I’m seeing Adam Mosseri’s new Threads video when I look at his Threads account via mastodon.social on the web. It even showed up in my regular Mastodon feed! I can’t believe this actually works. Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko is pretty excited, too.

    A screenshot of a Threads post from Adam Mosseri on Mastodon.
    Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
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    Threads really is joining the Fediverse.

    A Threads user, Kevin Beaumont, shared screenshots of Adam Mosseri’s account on the Mastodon client Ivory, and on Mastodon, Beaumont shared screenshots of following Mosseri’s Threads account from his Mastodon account. It’s happening!

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    Jay Peters
    Ford’s CEO is happy to tell you that its cars have CarPlay and Android Auto.

    If you don’t like GM’s choice to drop Apple and Google’s infotainment systems — a choice that has been in the news lately — Jim Farley would like you to know that Ford is “committed to keeping” them.

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    AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 7000 chips have a fuse that will blow if you overclock them.

    Blowing the hidden fuse doesn’t necessarily void their warranty; while damage caused by overclocking won’t be covered, “other unrelated issues could still qualify for warranty repair / replacement,” the company says in a statement confirming the fuse to Tom’s Hardware.

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    Jay Peters
    Tech helped save these adorable orphaned mountain lion cubs.

    A search party used data from the mother’s GPS collar to help locate the cubs. They’ll now live at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

    Happy these cubs got rescued! You can read more about it in a press release. And yes, I did write about this in part to post cat pics.

    A photo of three rescued mountain lion cubs.
    Image: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
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    Jay Peters
    Spider-Man 2 will be getting some new features next year.

    The game’s next update will arrive in “early 2024” and will add things like the ability to replay missions and change the time of day, Insomniac Games said on Wednesday. Insomniac also said it’s working on features like New Game Plus and audio descriptions, but didn’t give a timeline for those.

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    Jay Peters
    Instagram now lets you make AI-generated backdrops for your Stories.

    It’s a fun tool, though the backgrounds I’ve tested definitely have an “AI art” vibe to them.