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Summary Celestial Guardians set focuses on Gen 7 critters, and likely won’t include shiny cards to keep the spotlight on Alola. Shiny cards will likely return to Pokemon TCG Pocket but may not feature in every set to avoid fatigue. Unlikely for shiny cards not to return due to Shining Revelry’s success and universal appeal, future sets may feature more shinies. As much as it proved problematic with the way the set tackled its new rarity and wonder picks, many fans were happy with Pokemon TCG Pocket’s Shining Revelry set due to the signature shiny cards it included. This is…

Reuters  —  A restaurant fire in northeastern China killed 22 people on Tuesday, the official news agency Xinhua said, in the latest in a series of similar deadly incidents around the country. Xinhua did not identify the cause of the fire but said President Xi Jinping called it “a deeply sobering lesson” and urged local officials to quickly treat the injured, determine what triggered the blaze and hold those responsible to account. The fire broke out at 12:25 p.m. (0425 GMT) in a restaurant in a residential area of Liaoning Province’s Liaoyang City, state broadcaster CCTV said. Three people were…

Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading: Starbucks — Shares of the coffee giant slipped 4% after Starbucks missed earnings and revenue estimates for its fiscal second quarter. The company also reported same-store sales figures that reflected a decline for the fifth straight quarter. Starbucks posted adjusted earnings per share of 41 cents on $8.76 billion in revenue, while analysts polled by LSEG expected 49 cents in earnings per share on $8.82 billion in revenue. First Solar — Shares of the solar technology company dropped 10% after First Solar offered weak guidance for the full year. The company…

A court in India has ordered the encrypted email service Proton Mail blocked in the country for refusing to share information with authorities.In an April 29 hearing of the High Court of Karnataka, Justice M Nagaprasanna ordered the government to “block forthwith” domain names associated with Proton Mail, citing authority under the country’s Information Technology Act of 2008. The order stemmed from a complaint filed in January by a New Delhi-based design firm, alleging that some of its employees received offensive emails through the service.  It’s unclear whether the ban will take effect or face other possible challenges in court. The…

Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company says was trained exclusively on commercially licensed, “safe-for-work” images. The model, called F Lite, contains around 10 billion parameters — parameters being the internal components that make up the model. F Lite was developed in partnership with AI startup Fal.ai and trained using 64 Nvidia H100 GPUs over the course of two months, according to Freepik. F Lite joins a small and growing collection of generative AI models trained on licensed data. We’ve been secretly working on this for months! It feels…

A man accused of raping and robbing a corpse in a Manhattan subway car violated the dead body for nearly a half hour — pausing only when the train pulled into stations to let passengers on and off, prosecutors said Tuesday. Victim Jorge Gonzalez, 37, had only been dead for about 30 minutes before Felix Rojas, 44, approached the body and allegedly started rifling through the dead man’s pockets. Rojas then straddled the corpse’s head and orally raped the body as the late-night R train rumbled through Manhattan, taking breaks when the doors opened to accommodate passengers. “After seeing that…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Tuesday the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o, after complaints about strange behavior, in particular extreme sycophancy. “[W]e started rolling back the latest update to GPT-4o last night,” Altman wrote in a post on X. “[I]t’s now 100% rolled back for free [ChatGPT] users and we’ll update again when it’s finished for paid users, hopefully later today. [W]e’re working on additional fixes to model personality and will share more in the coming days.” Over the weekend, users on social media blamed the updated model, which arrived toward the…

Summary German YouTube user Steam Dad compared the Nintendo Switch 2 and Steam Deck OLED, noting the size differences. The Nintendo Switch 2, releasing June 5, is bigger than the original Switch with detachable Joy-Con 2 controllers. While the Switch 2 is overall smaller than Steam Deck OLED, its screen is a little bigger than Valve’s handheld. Someone who managed to get their hands on the Nintendo Switch 2 ahead of time recently compared the new console’s size to the Steam Deck OLED. On June 5, Nintendo will finally release the Switch 2, its next mainline console and successor to…

The United States exchange Nasdaq has asked regulators for permission to list a 21Shares exchange-traded fund (ETF) holding the popular memcoin Dogecoin, regulatory filings show. The move follows 21Shares’ April 10 filing of its initial proposal to launch its Dogecoin ETF, shortly after similar applications from rivals Bitwise and Grayscale. The asset manager has also sought regulators’ permission to list ETFs holding other cryptocurrencies, including Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP), and Polkadot (DOT). Nasdaq must gain approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before it can list and trade the fund. The request amounts to a regulatory review process that could determine…

In mid-March, Meta said that its “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads, up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024. On Tuesday at its inaugural LlamaCon developer conference, Meta revealed that figure has reached 1.2 billion downloads. “We have thousands of developers contributing tens of thousands of derivative models being downloaded hundreds of thousands of times a month,” said Meta chief product officer Chris Cox onstage during a keynote. Meanwhile, Meta AI, Meta’s AI assistant powered by Llama models, has reached around a billion users, Cox added. Meta’s Llama ecosystem is growing at a fast clip…