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Amazon Prime Day stretches to four days of deals this year

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TheMinerMag: the median cost of mining bitcoin is set to rise 9.4% QoQ in Q2 2025 to $70K, up from $52K in Q4 2024, shrinking margins for less efficient miners (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)

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The 25 best PlayStation 5 games

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Can Solosis be shiny in Pokémon Go?

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Tinder now lets you go on double dates

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Sources: OpenAI wants Microsoft to take a ~33% stake in exchange for foregoing future profit rights, and seeks to modify its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft (The Information)

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Memo: Intel's manufacturing VP says Intel plans to cut 15%-20% of factory staff from July "to meet our affordability challenges and current financial position" (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)

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WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App

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Trump Mobile — The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone

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[Sponsor] Drata

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Reuters 2025 Digital News Report: social media overtakes TV as the top US news source, with 54% accessing news via social media and video apps, vs. 50% for TV (Nieman Lab)

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Bluesky Likes Web Components

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The US Senate's draft tax bill would raise the CHIPS Act's tax credit for semiconductor factories from 25% to 30% until the tax break expires at the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)

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LISTEN: ‘New York Times, You’ve Gone Rogue’

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Justin Sun takes crypto company public — reportedly with help from Eric Trump

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The US Defense Department awards a one-year $200M contract to OpenAI to develop AI tools for addressing challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains" (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now

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Nintendo Switch 2 hackers say they’re already getting banned

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The Meta AI app now shows a warning prompt before users share content to the public feed, after reports of users accidentally sharing chats with personal info (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider)

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Summer Game Fest And Mario Kart World Reactions (Feat. Rogersbase) | GI Show

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