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Sources: US prosecutors are exploring whether some prediction market bets, including on the capture of Nicolás Maduro, violated insider trading and other laws (Kara Scannell/CNN)

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How to get the Snowwhite Deer legendary mount in Crimson Desert

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Arc Raiders update makes crafting easier and adds a new flying enemy

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Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

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Fermi shares drop 12%+ after the data center real estate company reported a $486M YTD net loss, amid concerns over a lack of a tenant for its Texas data center (Financial Times)

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Jack Black should play this Yakuza icon in a live-action adaptation

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Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Jujutsu Kaisen season 4 may finally bring back Satoru Gojo

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Beats’ gym-friendly Powerbeats Fit are $30 off for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

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A new RCS update could connect iPhone and Android video calls, someday

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Valinor, which aims to use smart contracts to replace manual lending processes in the private credit industry, raised a $25M seed led by Castle Island Ventures (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Pokémon Pokopia and more Nintendo Switch games are on sale at Target

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‘The Brand Age’

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Sources: E*Trade is in talks to lead SpaceX IPO share sale to retail investors; Robinhood and SoFi have pitched for roles but SpaceX is mulling cutting them out (Reuters)

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New GTA 4 beta leak is a bombshell for hardcore fans

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State of AI safety: as capabilities grow and models can monitor other models, issues like adversarial robustness persist and society is still not ready for AI (Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory)

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Dyson’s ultra-thin PencilVac Fluffycones is tougher to resist at $150 off

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Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014 (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Macs of Unusual Size

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