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Court reporting shows AI's limits in replacing human skill, as reporters remain crucial for capturing gestures and working through noise, amid a worker shortage (Allison Pohle/Wall Street Journal)

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Fox says it is acquiring Roku in its largest deal yet, valued at ~$22B including debt, giving it access to 100M+ streaming households globally; FOX drops 10%+ (Joseph De Avila/Wall Street Journal)

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All the gear a 20-year gadget blogging veteran packs when traveling

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Prime Video's Ghost in the Shell reboot officially releases in 3 weeks

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Honor’s Magic V6 sets three foldable firsts

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's lost Captain Blood would've been '90s Pirates of the Caribbean

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Tencent-backed Enflame receives approval for a Shanghai IPO and plans to raise ~$888M; Enflame is the last of China's four leading AI chipmakers to go to market (April Ma/Bloomberg)

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The FBI dismantles Outsider Enterprise, an AI-powered Chinese phishing operation, and seizes ~$100K in Tether in a joint effort with Google and Black Lotus Labs (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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The UK's social media ban will cover Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, and more, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming (Liv McMahon/BBC)

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Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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Keir Starmer says the UK will ban social media for under-16s in an "Australia-plus model" to "give kids their childhood back", set to take effect in spring 2027 (Reuters)

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President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagnes and wines (James Franey/New York Post)

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Under-16 social media ban announced by UK government

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This Magic: The Gathering card from Marvel Super Heroes creates an infinite combo on turn two

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As AI "nudify" tools proliferate, unleashing a new form of bullying among kids, parents and schools struggle to protect young victims from explicit deepfakes (Wall Street Journal)

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A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20+ years, who says he is now struggling to identify deepfakes (New York Times)

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Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)

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Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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Inside the Signal group chat where Sergey Brin, Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and other tech elites toss out strategies to oppose a proposed California wealth tax (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco ...)

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Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI inference GPUs, and is also considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips (Reuters)

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