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Henderson fire at Camp Pendleton has burned 2,080 acres and is 0% contained, CAL Fire says, as Santa Ana winds peak. Operators in Southern California should plan for more road and power disruption while the fire stays uncontained.
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NOAA's December-to-February outlook tilts the odds toward a warmer northern tier and a wetter south, West Coast and Eastern Seaboard during a record El Niño. The maps are odds, so planners get a lean to start from and no totals to budget against.
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Apple's French regulatory site lists an unreleased Smart Folio for iPad mini, model A3632, in a document dated September 8, 2026. The mini 6 and 7 share one folio, so a new number is a first hint that today's cases may not fit the next mini.
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Microsoft's Windows VP Navjot Virk detailed dozens of Windows 11 changes, now in Insider builds and due for full release later this year, Gizmodo reported. Fleet owners should pilot the memory changes on low-end PCs before the movable taskbar.
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Harvard researchers found women use AI less than men and report less workplace AI training in a survey of more than 5,000 US adults. The report says higher use is not a goal in itself, so rollout teams need a different test for who is being left out.
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Nvidia says its updated DLSS 5 model is down to 118 million parameters and 20% less GPU VRAM, Gizmodo reported. Gizmodo found the new screenshots less drastic, though it estimates the model may still cost a third of the framerate.
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Kenyan researchers report C. auris resistant to all four major antifungal classes in a 28-year-old surgical patient. The authors argue it evolved resistance independently of the 2022 case, and Gizmodo notes that containment still stops outbreaks.
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Gizmodo's review says Lenovo's $1,150 Googlebook 15 would be a fine laptop with any other OS but is limited past browsing and email. Early buyers get a good screen and pay to test a platform that is not finished.
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OnePlus launched the OnePlus 16 in China with a 9,000mAh battery, 4,000mAh more than Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, after leaving the US and Europe. The runtime figures are OnePlus's own, and Gizmodo has not verified any benchmarks.
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GoPro's firmware update lets the Mission 1 Pro cameras queue photos, where each 50-megapixel RAW had taken nearly four seconds to process, Gizmodo reports. Its review treats the speed problem as fixed and the everything-camera question as open.
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More than 200GB of Cartoon Network production files is reported to be circulating online, though no one has confirmed the size or the source. Dexerto lists editable character rigs and layered Photoshop files among the contents.
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Gizmodo's reviewer says the $1,300 Eufy Omni E35 is a rare high-end robot vacuum that gets the basics right. After a year of pricier bots that lurched and scattered debris, the reviewer calls it the first $1,000-plus mopping bot tested that fits under a couch and is worth the money.
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Bose's second-generation Ultra Open Earbuds retook the top clip-on spot in Gizmodo's review two years after the original, on louder output and a steadier fit. Volume is the upgrade an open design needs most, since it has to compete with the noise it lets in.
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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, its first RTX Spark laptop, runs on the Nvidia-MediaTek N1X ARM chip and starts at $2,600, Gizmodo reported. Its showcase game ran under emulation and its battery claim is untested, so for now it is a laptop to pilot before ordering in volume.
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Hackers released a PS5 exploit last week that works through firmware 13.60, a July release, Gizmodo reported. The outlet wonders whether AI coding assistants are shrinking the gap between Sony's patches and working jailbreaks, though it says it cannot know without the hackers.
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Tiffany Sloane, an AI 'comedian' on Instagram, drew about 375,000 followers in 24 days while steering viewers to an OnlyFans page. The working comics whose sets are copied onto these synthetic performers carry the cost of that reach.
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Lego is taking pre-orders for a $169.99, 1,849-piece Joker wall art set that ships January 1, 2027. Per brick it costs about what the two Batmobiles in the same wave cost, so the adult display piece is priced higher because it is bigger.
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WiCi's WiCi One streams a desktop GPU over Wi-Fi 7 to nearby PCs, pitched at $2,600 and $10,000 as an alternative to cloud AI subscriptions. Gizmodo's hands-on covered one game and one AI prompt, leaving the multi-user sharing that would undercut per-seat cloud pricing undemonstrated.
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Lenovo's 2026 Legion 5i, a mid-range gaming laptop, starts at $2,526, according to Gizmodo's review. Teams budgeting for hardware should treat that figure as a floor that grows with each upgrade their users need.
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TP-Link's $220 Tapo Doorbell Pro D260 runs person, animal and package detection on the device and records to microSD, with no subscription required. Gizmodo's reviewer would recommend it to almost anyone who can live without Apple Home.
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