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An interview with DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on the company's £2.9B acquisition of Deliveroo, which closed on Oct. 2, to bolster its plans to expand abroad, and more (Financial Times)

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The FBI estimates that North Koreans posing as IT workers, using stolen IDs and AI-fabricated work, funneled up to $1B into the country over the past five years (Amanda Gerut/Fortune)

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Critical Role isn’t playing a West Marches campaign, but you can

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Roland is finally honoring its legacy instead of just cashing in on it

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Miller's Crossing at 35: The Coen Brothers' movie-nerd gangster fantasia

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Another look at Apple's executive succession, as it increases the spotlight on hardware chief John Ternus; sources: Apple weighed hiring a senior Meta AI exec (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Why doesn't Dying Light: The Beast have fast travel?

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I’m still haunted by the creepy Barbie game that knew my name

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How video games are shaping a generation of boys, as a survey says US males aged 15 to 24 now spend ~10 hrs/week on average on games, over 2x the time from 2010 (New York Times)

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To understand Ghost of Yotei's Watanabe Mode, watch Samurai Champloo

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I’ve tested the latest Switch 2 controllers, and this one is the best

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In the GOTY race, localization really matters — which is bad news for Blue Prince

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The developers behind a hit sausage-dueling game hope Steam launch will take it furter

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Version History is live — here’s how to find it

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The AI boom is driving memory and storage shortages that may last a decade; OpenAI's Stargate has deals for 900K DRAM wafers per month, or ~40% of global output (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)

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Before Skinamarink, the director made a scarier horror short that's free online

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Can tap-to-pay save public transportation?

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The best lists to keep — and the best ways to keep them

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Hollow Knight: Silksong's story comes so close to nailing it

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PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the first nine months of 2025, just over half of 2024's total, amid uncertainty due to US tariff policies (Pak Yiu/Nikkei Asia)

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