Your Roku has secret menus and screens – here’s how to unlock them
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Your Roku has secret menus and screens – here’s how to unlock them

Your Roku displays granular performance data like CPU temperature and voltage, memory usage, connected remotes and battery levels, and your SSID in the Platform menu.  Even better, this screen is a hub for additional submenus: RF remote diagnostics, IPv6 settings, and a log of every remote button press since your last power cycle. Intense, right? […]

Sounding Distinct from LLMs — LessWrong
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Sounding Distinct from LLMs — LessWrong

TL;DR: Humans are developing new linguistic patterns to distinguish themselves from AI-generated content, and the rate of change will accelerate. How Dialects Form Dialects often emerge through geographical isolation (think Australian English vs British English). But there’s another powerful driver of dialect formation: the conscious or unconscious need to signal group affiliation and social identity.

Best Wireless Earbuds of 2025
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Best Wireless Earbuds of 2025

Anker Soundcore Liberty 4 NC: Anker released the new Liberty 5 earbuds in 2025, but this 2023 model remains a decent value at around $90. It offers decent noise canceling and a similar level of sound quality as the Liberty 5 (it’s quite good but not great). However, the Liberty 5 has improved noise canceling

Best Wireless Earbuds of 2025
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Best Wireless Earbuds of 2025

Anker Soundcore Liberty 4 NC: Anker released the new Liberty 5 earbuds in 2025, but this 2023 model remains a decent value at around $90. It offers decent noise canceling and a similar level of sound quality as the Liberty 5 (it’s quite good but not great). However, the Liberty 5 has improved noise canceling

OpenAI condemns Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens’
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OpenAI condemns Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens’

OpenAI wants to make clear that Robinhood’s sale of “OpenAI tokens” will not give everyday consumers equity — or stock — in OpenAI, the company said in a post from its official newsroom account on X. OpenAI says it does not endorse Robinhood’s effort, nor was it involved in facilitating the token sale. “These ‘OpenAI

Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI
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Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI

A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk’s xAI data center an air permit to continue operating the gas turbines that power the company’s Grok chatbot. The permit comes amid widespread community opposition and a looming lawsuit alleging the company violated the Clean Air Act. The Shelby County Health Department released its air

American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history
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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. From World War II until 2024, the US stood unchallenged as the scientific leader of the free world. Across practically every discipline — physics, materials science, astronomy, chemistry, biology, medicine, geology,

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