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All the Fly Fashions Fans Are Popping Out With to See New Michael Jackson Movie

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Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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Critical Role's Legend of Vox Machina teases season 4's tragic story

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How to heal in Vampire Crawlers

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WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Crimson Desert patch notes add difficulty settings, extra storage, and more

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DJI’s new Lito Series beginner drones start at less than $400

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Epic's free PC game this week is a must-play Metroidvania

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Pokémon TCG Pocket's Pulsing Aura update is all about Mega Lucario ex

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Netflix can’t seem to follow up its biggest shows

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Memo: White House says it has info indicating "foreign entities, principally based in China" are engaged in "industrial scale distillation" of American AI tech (Financial Times)

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Apple's For All Mankind spinoff Star City gets a exhilarating trailer

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How Strixhaven, Magic's answer to Harry Potter, happened

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THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

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Deed Theft in New York: People Are Stealing Black Families’ Homes They’ve Owned for Generations

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The Gut-Wrenching Crisis of Deed Theft in New York, Snatching Black Families from the Homes They’ve Owned for Generations

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New Lego Shrek sets confirmed for 25th anniversary: Price, piece number, and characters relevealed

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You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze

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Anthropic's valuation has hit $1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of $880B (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

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Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised $60M, including a $40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~$90M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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