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Christopher Walken gives his creepiest performance in ’90s thriller The Comfort of Strangers

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The $100,000 fee for H-1Bs is causing all sorts of problems

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The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage (Helen Vogelsong-Donahue/Wired)

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Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered customer support software, for an undisclosed sum; Forethought has raised $115M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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San Francisco's housing market is seeing a big rebound, driven by the AI boom; Apartment List says rents rose 14% YoY in February, the fastest growth in the US (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

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Takeaways from the 2026 Game Developers Conference: a high volume of job seekers amid layoffs, AI was the hot buzzword, more outsourcing than ever, and more (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

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Matt Mullenweg Documents a Dastardly Clever Apple Account Phishing Scam

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A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16, where the company is expected to unveil new agentic-optimized CPUs, a CPU-only rack, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

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iFixit’s MacBook Neo Teardown

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Trump administration is allegedly collecting $10 billion on the TikTok deal

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Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to shutter; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says the closed hub makes up ~33% of global Helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)

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PC Makers Are Not Ready for the MacBook Neo

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Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff

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Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyperliquid's perpetual oil futures surged to ~$7.3B on March 12 from $339M on February 28 amid the Iran war (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Ars Technica Fires Reporter Benj Edwards After He Published Story With AI-Fabricated Quotes

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze is still the most fun to be had in a TMNT movie

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Lil Finder Guy

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Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)

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The RAM crisis could completely change the way developers make games

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Hulu, Disney Plus, and the Pixel Watch 4 are among this week’s best deals

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