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GTA Online role-play server launches new phase with wild custom options

Polygon - All

The Real Background Of The Alleged New Orleans Killer, A Group of New Jersey Cops Sent N-Word-Filled Text Messages, Black New York Inmate Dies After Being Beaten By Corrections Officers, What Happened After North Carolina Woman Mistook Nail Glue For Eye Drops And More

The Root

What to expect at CES 2025

The Verge - All Posts

Wait...Did Drake Just Drag the Kendrick Lamar Beef Into 2025 By Taking Shots at LeBron James??

The Root

Climate group that called for Gaza ceasefire risks losing federal funding

The Verge - All Posts

Labor Board Classifies ‘Love Is Blind’ Contestants As Employees

The Onion

The best movies new to streaming this January

Polygon - All

Religious leaders are experimenting with AI, spurring an industry of faith-based tech companies that offer AI tools to do theological research and write sermons (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Techmeme

Trump and Musk actually made a good point on immigration

Vox - All

An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on rolling out AI tools without upsetting creators, and more; YouTube has paid $70B to partners in the past three years (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

Techmeme

The Controversy Over Black Family’s Christmas Picture, 7 Memes And Trends From 2024 Every Black Parent Should Know, Brooklyn Couple Wins NYC Housing Lottery, Best And Worst Moments Of 2024 And More

The Root

Mother Accused of the Brutal Murder of Her 5-Month-Old Daughter, and the Details are Sickening

The Root

The GMCI Meme index, which tracks leading memecoins by market cap, delivered 320% returns in 2024, outpacing AI at 91% and the top 30 cryptocurrencies at 88% (The Block)

Techmeme

Alibaba Cloud partners with 01.AI, the Beijing-based AI unicorn founded by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee, to set up an "industrial large model laboratory" (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

Techmeme

India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments (Aroon Deep/The Hindu)

Techmeme

The Great American Tradition

Daring Fireball

Black Twitter Reacts To Eve’s Very Rich And White Christmas Dinner Pics, Diddy Party Attendee Makes Creepy Claim, The Worst Movies Of 2024, The One Person Katt Williams Regrets Joking About And More

The Root

Pokémon Go ‘Fidough Fetch’ event guide

Polygon - All

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Accidental Tech Podcast

Belgium-based Swave Photonics, which is developing its Holographic eXtended Reality platform for smart glasses and heads-up displays, raised a $28.27M Series A (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Techmeme