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Jackbox's Trivia Murder Party gets major standalone upgrade edition in 2027

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Shion is such a demanding Overwatch hero, Blizzard needed brand-new tech

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Overwatch's Shion story owes a lot to John Wick and Kill Bill, says Blizzard

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Ahead of The Witcher’s final season, Geralt’s video game voice has nothing but love for both Netflix Witchers

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Source: Anthropic was given 90 minutes to comply and wasn't provided with detailed concerns before the Commerce Department imposed export controls on its models (Financial Times)

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Google says a Chinese-linked hacking group targeted US and Canadian academic, medical, and military research institutions from September 2023 to November 2025 (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)

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NewCore, which helps companies manage both human and AI agent identities in a single system, emerges from stealth with a $66M seed led by Cyberstarts (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Cybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Idle clicker TBH: Task Bar Hero is probably at the top of Steam's charts because of bots

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Roblox exec says ticking a box for age verification is ‘not enough anymore’

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American Express agrees to acquire restaurant booking platform TheFork from Tripadvisor in an all-cash deal worth $700M; TRIP jumps 6%+ (Reuters)

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A US judge rejects Meta's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Strike 3, which owns porn production companies, that alleges Meta torrented its videos for AI training (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

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Pristine Super Mario Bros. game for NES sells for record-breaking millions

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Canadian payments company Nuvei agrees to acquire NY-based cross-border payments company Payoneer for ~$2.75B in cash; the deal is expected to close in mid-2027 (Reuters)

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Electronic Arts launches EA Advertising, letting brands integrate directly into gameplay through dynamic, real-time placements, including stadium signage (Assiatou Hann/CNBC)

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Madden, College Football, and more EA games are about to get a whole lot more ads in them

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Zhipu's shares closed up 33% on Monday after JPMorgan raised the stock's price target and picked it as a winner against MiniMax; MiniMax closed up 7% (Bloomberg)

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SpaceX IPO raised a total of $85.7B as underwriters exercised their overallotment of shares, after raising an initial $75B on June 11 (CNBC)

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Indian AI startup Sarvam raised $234M in the first close of a $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, with HCLTech acquiring a 10.5% stake for ~$150M in cash (Urvi Dugar/Reuters)

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House of the Dragon season 3 review: HotD finally lives up to Game of Thrones' legacy

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