1. Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI mischief, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Hacking the first generation of AI chatbots was a lau
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2. Best Buy just discounted top gaming monitors for Memorial Day
Memorial Day is almost here, but you can already find great discounts on gaming monitors from Samsung, LG, and more at Best Buy.
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3. Samsung is giving away free 32-inch Odyssey monitors - seriously
Samsung's BOGO monitor deal is back, back, back again. Here's what you need to know to snag yours.
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4. NVIDIA AI Releases Gated DeltaNet-2: A Linear Attention Layer That Decouples Erase and Write in the Delta Rule
Linear attention squeezes the unbounded KV cache into a fixed-size recurrent state, but editing that memory without scrambling existing associations is hard. Prior delta-rule models like Gated DeltaNet and KDA use one scalar gate to control both erasing old content and writing new content. NVIDIA's
5. Microsoft Research Releases Webwright: A Terminal-Native Web Agent Framework That Scores 60.1% on Odysseys, Up from Base GPT-5.4’s 33.5%
Microsoft Research introduces Webwright, a terminal-native browser agent framework that replaces click-trace web automation with reusable Playwright scripts. Using a single agent loop across three modules and roughly 1,000 lines of code, Webwright powered by GPT-5.4 reaches 60.1% on the long-horizon
6. My favorite early Memorial Day deals: Save big on laptops, tablets, and more
Memorial Day is here. These are the best deals we found so far, including price drops from Apple, Samsung, Hisense, Ninja, and more.
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7. I found the 11 best early Memorial Day Apple deals: Save hundreds on iPad, Apple Watch, and more
Summer is almost here, and you can already find deals on all things Apple with these early Memorial Day weekend sales.
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8. I found the best early Memorial Day outdoor deals: Lawn mowers, power banks, and more
You can already find great Memorial Day deals on everything you need to upgrade your outdoor space.
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9. Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild
Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. […]
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10. Best Buy and Amazon has dropped major SSDs prices - I found the best storage deals
Retailers like Amazon and Best Buy are offering steep discounts on high-capacity SSDs ahead of Memorial Day.
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