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New hotness Jonathan Bailey fulfills lifelong band nerd dream for Jurassic World Rebirth

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Porn age-gating is the future of the internet, thanks to the Supreme Court

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SCOTUS upholds a broadband subsidy program for low-income users, schools, and others, rejecting claims that its funding mechanism is unconstitutional (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

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REPO gets first major patch with content-rich Museum Update

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SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law (Josh Gerstein/Politico)

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Capcom tries to explain why Leon isn’t the star of Resident Evil Requiem

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The new adventure series Nautilus had to go deeper and darker than Indiana Jones

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The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision isn’t as devastating as you think

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Low-income broadband fund can keep running, says Supreme Court

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Alibaba unveils text-to-image and image-to-image generation model Qwen VLo, with progressive generation tech, which shows the image creation process (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

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The FTC is sending $126 million in refunds to Fortnite players who were charged for unwanted items

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Sources: Trump is planning EOs on July 23 to help US AI growth, including easing grid access for new power projects and offering federal land for data centers (Reuters)

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The FTC has reopened claims for Fortnite settlement refunds: here’s how you can submit one

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OpenAI hires the team behind Crossing Minds, which raised $13.5M and works with e-commerce companies to improve their personalization and recommendation systems (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Google’s Doppl app took off my socks

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This smart smoke alarm could be a worthy Nest Protect replacement

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Pragmata is a secret Mega Man game claim fans dying for a new Mega Man game

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Florence Pugh is stone cold in exclusive new look at her Thunderbolts* free fall

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Sources: mass production of Microsoft's next AI chip is delayed to 2026 and is expected to underperform Nvidia's Blackwell chip, released in late 2024 (The Information)

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PitchBook: US VC investment in AI startups rose 33% QoQ to $65B in Q1, up 550% from the quarter prior to ChatGPT's 2022 release (Cade Metz/New York Times)

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