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Playing fair won’t save Democrats from the redistricting war

Vox - All

Want to pay down the national debt? The US government will take Venmo

The Verge - All Posts

Pebble is officially Pebble again

The Verge - All Posts

Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it a part of a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents (Morgan Sung/KQED)

Techmeme

Netflix’s push into tie-in games now includes two weird Happy Gilmore titles

The Verge - All Posts

The Wildest Conspiracy Theories in American History

The Root

Lyft’s self-driving shuttle buses are coming soon

The Verge - All Posts

Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating safety app that has topped the US App Store charts; Tea confirms the breach also impacted some DMs (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Techmeme

A look at Tea, a women-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups (Angela Yang/NBC News)

Techmeme

Final Destination: Bloodlines is coming to HBO Max this August

Polygon - All

iPadOS 26 Developer Beta 4

Michael Tsai

The Illusion of Thinking

Michael Tsai

Bluetti’s small, camp-friendly generator is over 30 percent off

The Verge - All Posts

The Villain Origin Story of Stephen Miller, The Architect of Trump’s Harsh Deportation Policy

The Root

Fantastic Four: First Steps still manages to have a Stan Lee cameo

Polygon - All

Microsoft previews Copilot Appearance, a virtual character with real-time expressions, voice, and conversational memory, for some users in the US, UK, Canada (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Techmeme

How to make your iPhone homescreen icons clear using iOS 26

The Verge - All Posts

Elden Ring Nightreign is adding two-player co-op

The Verge - All Posts

Taste testing battery-flavored tortilla chips

The Verge - All Posts

Ubisoft says Outlaws failed because Star Wars is less popular now, but it’s not that simple

Polygon - All