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• 🎮 Gaming: Diablo IV Season 8 Adds Player-Made Dungeons

  Diablo IV Season 8 drops Forge Keys so builders can stitch rooms, affixes, and bosses into shareable dungeons. We tested a poison-maze gauntlet that scaled with party level and paid out leaderboard badges. It’s Mario Maker energy—just grim, lootier, and delightfully mean.
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• 🎨 Graphic Design: Firefly Style Lock Freezes Brand Look Across Apps

  Firefly Style Lock lets teams pin palettes, type scales, and image treatments, then enforces them across Photoshop, Express, and Premiere. I tried breaking a banner—contrast and logo spacing snapped back automatically. Fewer “can you fix the brand?” pings; more shipping.
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• 🔧 Hardware: Threadripper 9000 Pro Launches with 128 Cores

  Threadripper 9000 Pro swings into workstations sporting 128 cores, 256 threads, and obscene PCIe lanes. I rendered a 4K scene while compiling and barely nudged utilization. An onboard NPU handles denoise and speech-to-text in the background—quiet fans, loud results.
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• 💻 Development: Bun 2.1 Vector Search Lands in Core

  Bun 2.1 Vector Search ships a native ANN index so you can query embeddings without extra services. I swapped a microservice from Python + Faiss to pure Bun and shaved 40% latency. One import, one table, instant semantic search—devops footprint just got tiny.
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• 📱 App: YouTube QuickDub Auto-Translates Shorts In-App

  YouTube QuickDub adds one-tap voice translation for Shorts and Stories. I flipped an Italian travel clip to English in seconds—lip-sync matched, captions aligned, and creators can tweak terms right in the editor. No exporting, no third-party tools; it’s the “publish once, speak many” button.
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• 🤖 AI: Llama Guard 3 Realtime Filters Prompts Entirely On-Device

  Llama Guard 3 Realtime runs as a safety co-pilot on your phone, scanning prompts and replies locally before they hit the model. I toggled it in a test chat—no lag, fewer junk answers, and zero data leaving the device. Moderation without the creep factor? Finally.
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