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    Site Stuff GLITCHFEED • Gaming • Culture • Tech • Is Now Open

    Glitchfeed Is Live. Let’s Mess With the Signal. We’ve launched Glitchfeed - your new home for gaming, culture, tech, and digital mischief. It’s a community built for the people who’ve had enough of algorithm-choked timelines and content designed to keep you scrolling instead of thinking. No...
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    Spec Talk That One Gadget You Regret Buying

    What's the one gadget you thought was going to revolutionise your life but turned out to be a wet turd? Something which was either marketed to hell, or had everyone talking about it, but when you took the plunge reality was no where near expectation. A couple of years ago I bought a projector...
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    Site Stuff Get Glitched on Social Media

    Get the greatest Glitch content on the move. We're on social media! Glitchfeed is everywhere you can scroll, swipe, or regret your life choices. Check out our growing collection of movie and game trailers and other visual nonsense on YouTube: @Glitchfeednet or watch us argue about pointless...
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    News OpenAI Might Be Building a Social Network

    Just when you thought the AI hype train couldn’t take another sharp turn, here comes the next wild rumour: OpenAI is apparently working on a social network. Because clearly what the internet needs is more algorithmically generated nonsense pretending to be meaningful interaction. According to...
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    News 4Chan reportedly hacked—full database dump?

    Big outage this morning on 4Chan. Over 1,200 users logged reports to Downdetector after the site went dark around 4am ET. It’s still not back for many. Naturally, the internet has theories. Some users claim the site was hacked and the entire database has been leaked including admin and janitor...
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    Discussion Social media is now less social, more media.

    I hate social media. Okay, that’s not 100% true. I hate our reliance on social media, the addictive nature of the medium, that it is so front and centre in our lives. I also get mighty pissed at the damage it has done to good old fashioned internet forums. Everything on social media is...
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    Discussion Which app do you open first every morning and why?

    It’s not a productivity thing. We’re talking habit, instinct, muscle memory. Is it messages? Email? Reddit? TikTok? Something else? Your first tap says a lot. Let’s see what everyone’s running on reflex. I check my emails first, then usually Discord as there’s inevitably one or two messages...
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    Discussion DeepSeek - China Chimes in on the AI Revolution

    Let’s talk about DeepSeek. If you haven’t been following, it’s a Chinese AI startup that just launched a model called R1. It’s fast, smart, and cheap. Trained for $6 million. That’s lunch money compared to what OpenAI reportedly spends. This thing shot to the top of the App Store, tanked...
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    News Trump Exempts Phones, Computers, and Chips from New Tariffs

    In case you've been living under a rock, you'll be aware of the current major 'trade war' which is enveloping global trade and decimating markets across the planet. President Trump has imposed tariffs - reciprocal tariffs - on every nation on earth and the impact has been... significant. I do...
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    News A Tech Arms Race Is Happening on Your Wrist and No One’s Talking About It

    Smartwatches are quietly becoming medical devices. This week, Google, Samsung, and Apple all made moves that push wearables from fitness trackers into full-on health monitors. Samsung is now working with Stanford to turn sleep apnoea detection into sleep apnoea management using AI. Not just...
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    News Instagram’s Future Is on the Line

    The FTC vs Meta trial started yesterday, and they’re going after the company’s ownership of Instagram and WhatsApp. If this goes badly for Zuckerberg, Meta could be forced to split them off entirely. The FTC’s argument is that Facebook’s buyouts were “killer acquisitions” meant to kill...
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    News Sony Just Raised PS5 Prices (Again)

    Sony has confirmed new PS5 price hikes starting today across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. This is the second price increase since launch, with Sony blaming the usual suspects: inflation, exchange rates, economic “challenges.” Here’s what’s changing: PS5 Digital Edition Europe: now...
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    Security Are Smart Speakers Spying On Us?

    Everyone jokes about Alexa listening in, but how much of that is real concern vs. conspiracy-theory noise? Have you ever had a sneaky suspicion that your Alexa is spying on you? It's weird, really, that we have these devices in our house which are always listening to what's being said. On the...
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    Spec Talk What’s in Your Current PC Build and What Needs an Upgrade?

    The ultimate giga-chad-flex. Post your PC build so we can either be seriously jealous or feel sorry for your potato PC. I downloaded Speccy to find mine. Don't feel like you gotta download and install programs if you don't wanna: What should I upgrade?
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    Intro Hello, I'm Al.

    If you’ve stumbled across this post… uh, welcome, I guess. Here I am, some guy talking to himself on an empty forum. But it felt right to drop a quick intro just in case someone else wanders in and wonders who lit the first match. Glitchfeed is a forum for Gaming • Culture • Tech. I know this...
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