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Supreme Court opens door to social media age-gating in US

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SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks (New York Times)

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You Have 24 Hours to Comply

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Sources: Lambda is in talks for a funding round that could value the cloud services company between $4B and $5B ahead of a potential IPO by the end of 2025 (Bloomberg)

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The best Xbox controller to buy right now

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Ghost in the Shell director's anime Angel's Egg is finally getting a 4K theatrical release

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More games are adopting the aesthetics of Tim Burton, creating a new genre

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Sources: the Trump administration is in talks with Intel to have the US government potentially take a stake in the company; INTC closes up 7.4% (Bloomberg)

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China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card

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Jurassic Park: Survival lets you relive the infamous velociraptor kitchen scene

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Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including the EU DSA, UK Online Safety Act, and US Take It Down Act (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Nanoleaf’s smart lights are cheaper than ever in its back-to-school sale

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Sources: chip startup Rivos, which plans to release a GPU for inference as early as 2026, is seeking to raise between $400M and $500M at a $2B+ valuation (The Information)

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Sources: xAI was part of a US government AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but was removed after Grok posted antisemitic content in July (Wired)

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Airbnb now lets you ‘pay later’ on vacation rentals

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The Return of Blood Oxygen for Apple Watch

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Infinite Canvas

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Upgrading My Mac’s External SSD

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Your Mac Game Is Probably Rendering Blurry

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Google announces Gemma 3 270M, a compact model designed for task-specific fine-tuning with strong capabilities in instruction following and text structuring (Google Developers Blog)

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