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Sonic 3 is a speedrun through the franchise scrapyard, yet it works

Polygon - All

Social networks in 2024: bless this mess

The Verge - All Posts

Q&A with Microsoft Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI Sarah Bird on generative AI, its impact on work, Copilots, OpenAI, AGI, AI agents, bias, and more (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Techmeme

Bureau, which offers tools to prevent user identity fraud, raised a $30M Series B led by Sorenson Capital, a source says at a ~$150M valuation (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Techmeme

The drone hysteria is a glimpse of the future

Vox - All

US targets TP-Link with a potential ban on the Chinese routers

The Verge - All Posts

Ban on Off-Brand E-Bike Battery Sales Lands in Congress Budget Deal, Spurred by New York Tragedies

THE CITY - All

CEO Motivates Self By Keeping Own Photo On Desk

The Onion

The quickly disappearing web

The Verge - All Posts

Mysterious Drones Spotted Over New Jersey

The Onion

Military Recruiter Enlists Ragtag Bunch Of Teen Misfits To Die In Overseas Conflict

The Onion

Grandmother Accused Of Shaking 11-Month-Old Baby To Death Receives Shocking Sentence

The Root

eMarketer expects Instagram to hit $32B in US ad revenue in 2025, or 50% of Meta's ad sales; filings: Instagram was ~30% of Meta's global business in early 2022 (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Sources: US officials are investigating Chinese router maker TP-Link, which has an estimated 65% US market share, and could ban the sale of its routers in 2025 (Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Tiktok Made You Buy These 10 Everyday Amazon Items

The Root

Why conservatives condemn Luigi Mangione and celebrate Daniel Penny

Vox - All

Omdia estimates Microsoft bought 485K of Nvidia's Hopper GPUs in 2024, ByteDance and Tencent bought ~230K each, Meta bought 225K, and Tesla/xAI bought ~200K (Financial Times)

Techmeme

The Root 100: Exclusive Afterparty, Red Carpet Gala and Slideshow

The Root

SandboxAQ, which aims to apply quantum tech and techniques to AI, raised $300M from Alger, Yann LeCun, and others at a $5.6B valuation to recruit more engineers (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

13 Black Psychological Thrillers That Will Mess With Your Head

The Root