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Musk’s Starlink Socks Customers With $1500 ‘High Demand’ Surcharge

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Xbox Lays Off 20% Of Staff, Cut Studios, Largely Impacting Acquired Devs It Promised It Wouldn’t Layoff

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Federal Reserve announces the leadership and objectives of its task forces to advance the conduct of monetary policy, The Elder Scrolls 6 Will Suffer Because of Xbox Layoffs, Bethesda Staff Say, Fearing Delays, Crunch, and Generational Talent Being Replaced by Contractors, and more ›

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How Google And AI Nearly Made A Seasoned Reporter Spiral

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How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?, It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests, and more ›

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Sell Me Lies, Sell Me Sweet Meta Lies

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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out, India: Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material, BBC finds, and more ›

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FCC General Counsel Channels Founding Fathers To Falsely Claim First Amendment Allows Banning Porn

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Daily Deal: The All-in-One Adobe Creative Cloud Suite Course Bundle

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Adults Broke The Internet, And They’re Trying To Fix It By Kicking Kids Off

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FTC Strikes Settlement With John Deere On ‘Right To Repair’

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FTC, States Secure Settlement with Deere & Company, Advancing Farmers’ Right to Repair, Joint Motion for Entry of Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunction and Other Relief

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Mom That Blamed Deaths Of 1 Year Old Twins On Vaccines Charged With Their Murder

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Bari Weiss Is Filling CBS News With British Right Wing Propagandists

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World Cup Propels Surveillance To New Heights

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News written by researchers and scientists to help you understand, 25A169 Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo (09/08/2025), and more ›

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The Party That Screams About The Evils Of Socialism Wants To Nationalize AI Companies

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OpenAI proposes 5% stake to Trump administration to ease Washington pressure: report, OpenAI closes record-breaking $122 billion funding round as anticipation builds for IPO, and more ›

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Daily Deal: The Essential MATLAB & LabVIEW Mega Bundle

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ICE Office Of Professional Responsibility Ditches ICE Oversight, Starts Hunting Down ICE Critics

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ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics, Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR)

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MuskCorp Tries To Bribe Memphis With Cheaper Starlink So They’ll Ignore xAI Data Center Pollution

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xAI built an illegal power plant to power its data center, Civil rights group sues xAI for illegal pollution from data center power plant

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Sony Announces An End To PlayStation Discs & Everyone Hates It

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Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation, Sony announces end of PlayStation discs, parts of digital store in the same day, and more ›

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An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted By Trump. Then He Poured Money Into A Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.

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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr., An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr., and more ›

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