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they're trying to retcon the past but because they want to make sure people install the right BIOS now Jay's two cents has released a video announcing he is severing his partnership with the brand because of myriad issues including product quality and customer support and if you want to know where we stand go listen to our boss Linus rant about it on the WAN Show for 30 minutes we're recording this before the show so it's anyone's guessing we know you're watching this after happy Saturday reviews for the ASUS Rog Ally are out and you might not believe this but the handheld with newer Hardware than the steam deck performs better than the steam deck what you may have an even harder time accepting is that in a lot of ways the Ally is worse on paper rog's handheld has a better screen better Apu ASUS even decided to get its speakers Dolby Atmos certified finally you can watch Christopher Nolan films the way the filmmaker intended on a tiny scream sandwich between two Circles of RGB while 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software games by performing the first Elden ring playthrough controlled exclusively by swear words you use spells before die Twitter officially has a new CEO after teasing a new hire yesterday Elon officially announced today that the new CEO is Linda yacharino I think the it's 2C is that Italian I'm Italian so yeah you know formerly NBC Universal's chair of global advertising yakarina officially left that job to accept the Twitter CEO position so that Elon can step back and start being merely the executive chair and CTO of the social platform on a totally unrelated note I recently learned about the glass Cliff a phenomenon where women are more likely to be put in leadership roles under precarious circumstances crazy right anyway best of luck Linda don't at your boss anthropic has updated its chat GPD competitor Claude with the ability to remember more than double the number of words that Chad gbt can within the same interaction this amount is known as the context window which sounds 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