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Automaker reversed course after employee's bank record proved $1.95 payment
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British Government Likely to Intervene in Paramount’s Proposed $110 Billion Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery
"a sufficient plurality of views in news media"
aka Sam Altman and his infinite money glitch
Most of the job losses are in Microsoft’s Xbox and commercial sales organizations.
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Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles
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'Something Has Gone Completely Wrong': Palantir's Alex Karp Goes Ballistic On OpenAI, Anthropic
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a breakdown live on CNBC over token pricing model and frontier labs overpromising their ai models
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World's Largest Data Center Campus On Verge Of Collapse After Blackstone Unexpectedly Pulls Out
Demand for EVs has not been as strong as the company forecast, with Honda reporting a total operating loss for the year ending March 2026 of ¥423bn ($2.68bn: £1.99bn.).
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Taco shop Karen films herself having unhinged meltdown over Mexican restaurant owned by two white brothers
Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.
For years, buyers of tech could rely on a familiar trend - that older devices would get cheaper over time but now that seems to have stopped, or in some cases, completely reversed.
The Steam Deck OLED 1TB now costs more than a PS5 Pro
just use info@netflix.com as your login
Employers are clamoring for workers who can do doctor-like work but who are trained faster and can cost them less
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Angry Coffee Shop Owner Who Smeared Jewish Rep Dan Goldman as a ‘Fascist’ Sipping ‘Genocide Juice’ Is a Graham Platner Donor Cited for ‘Filth and Flie
Israel-hating Uzbek coffee mini-mogul attacked Goldman on social media after the congressman visited the shop with his young daughter
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Illinois tax increases part two: Digital asset privilege tax, prediction markets, NOL carryover limitations, and more
Focus on - incoming targeted taxation if you run any crypto transaction through Illinois in any form (see: VPN nodes), potentially even transfers between wallets you personally own
The Daily Wire, one of the biggest players in conservative media, is in talks to take on at least $100 million in investment, with an eye on an initial public offering in a few years’ time.
The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
Zohran Mamdani’s housing scheme will transfer ownership of NYC real estate to allied nonprofits, giving them unprecedented financial and political power
Hasan Piker on suicide watch
In-N-Out, Culver’s and Whataburger drive sales and location growth with fresh food and friendly service
Instacart’s Caper Carts use basket cameras and purchase history to serve brands real-time ads in 100-plus U.S. cities
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‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’ Live-Action Series Set at BBC Studios, Kadokawa and Wheel in Motion
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She won a religious exemption from using AI at work. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
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XenForo staffer leaked confidential license holder (Tattle Life) info without a court order
Next XenForo is gonna leak who Josh Moon is 😱
Together with Tubi, they would hold the third-largest share of U.S. television viewership
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Starbucks Korea to temporarily shut all stores for history lesson after bungled coffee promotion
The company pulled the campaign within hours, but the fallout was swift and the chief executive was sacked the same day.
A movement known as Players Alliance HQ will storm EA's California headquarters on May 11 at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET to reveal a 50-foot scroll with over 70,000 signatures.
‘Sick and twisted’
The Dutch case is part of a broader international wave of similar legal action.
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Fox Business: SpaceX makes historic debut; Musk solidifies status as world’s first trillionaire
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Ubisoft is reportedly closing two studios and restructuring another, with around 380 people expected to be laid off
Angry locals are trying to shut them down
RIP legacy media
The boycott has led to a lot of discussion online, and also rumors and speculation that DC is planning some titles that would fulfill the demands of the boycott.
‘There’s something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public,’ the president said.
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‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Becomes First Film to Cross $1 Billion at the Box Office In 2026
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie just hit a major box office milestone!
A Coinbase-Better Home & Finance initiative will allow qualified borrowers to use Bitcoin and USDC as collateral for home loan down payments.
Is sanity finally winning?
SEC filings reveal Musk's SpaceX compensation ties 200 million super-voting shares to Mars colonisation
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Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
A Microsoft employee familiar with ClawPilot (now known as Scout) told 404 Media that the addiction language was “very troubling.”
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Canada slipped into a technical recession on an annualized basis as economic growth stalled in 1st quarter
Real GDP has declined for 2 consecutive quarters
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Glamorous JP Morgan exec accused of turning married male broker into her office sex slave: Claims of viagra spiking and litany of obscene forced acts
‘Birthday BJ for the brown boy? My little brown boy.’
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I was laid off by Meta as a 'low-performer.' I feel it's part of the reason I still can't find a job, 9 months later.
Brittney Ball is struggling to find work after getting laid off from Meta as a 'low-performer.'
From the iphone designer who killed the headphone jack.
Psyonix's free-to-play title makes its first engine jump since its 2015 launch, sporting massive improvements to visual fidelity.
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Keeping the Lights On: How Cloudflare Sustains Violent Extremism, Graphic Violence and Terrorism Online
In the absence of clear mechanisms and policies, Cloudflare’s enforcement actions have largely been reactive, inconsistent, and often arbitrary.
Tech bro who looks like Victorian warning about onanism does the needful
Two airlines you never want to fly, now in one package
Extreme behaviour calls for an extreme response
Prices will start at $10.99.
SpaceX is set to go public soon, and competing AI labs are expected to follow later this year, giving public market investors the first opportunity to invest in the biggest AI companies in history.
The Pokémon Company appears to be testing just how far fans’ passion for collecting really goes.
No mo' flyin', neighba'.
Flight ticket sales and all other operations will continue as normal, the company said Monday, just 10 days before Thanksgiving.
It is not here yet. But governments should lay a safety-net
Layoffs are “not a savings-driven restructure,” CFO says.
'Long live the swamp': Firestorm as Trump FDA guts rule that kept flavored vapes from kids
An interview with the former viral juggernaut’s new owner Byron Allen.
TTEC suspended its 401(k) employer match for 16,000 workers and explicitly tied the decision to AI investments.
A whole new meaning to datadumping.
And a price hike for Switch Online in Japan
Mark Makary, a target of industry and anti-abortion activists, out at FDA. This is the FOURTH high profile departure from the administration this year.
Female-dominated clerical work is among the most vulnerable to automation, and labour market losses are already being felt
I wonder who's responsible for this? (BONUS: BLACK PROTESTS!!!)
EBay stocks soars 13% on report that GameStop is preparing a takeover bid
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Gold Trump Phone Scam Victim Shares Warning to MAGA Community After Sinking Savings Into Brand That Never Arrived
The T1 phone launch by Trump Mobile, marked by billing chaos and unfulfilled promises, faces scrutiny from consumers and lawmakers.
Your personal algorithm suggests you more enshittification
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Apple, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Disney, Other Companies Funding SPLC Silent on Racism Scandal
iPhone owners helped fund neo-Nazi groups
Jay Pandya has long portrayed himself as a “business tycoon,” with restaurant and real estate holdings along the East Coast, before he bought Boston Market and Corner Bakery. But that history is filled with lawsuits and unpaid bills.
Volkswagen’s Osnabrück factory in Germany would be converted to produce components for the Israeli Iron Dome.
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‘Misplaced euphoria’: Markets are sleepwalking into a recession amid Iran war oil price shock
High Speed Rail is a money loser.
Have you, or someone you cared for experienced this?
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‘Crisis of historic magnitude': Mamdani says State should help with multi-billion budget gap
Socialist runs out of other people's money
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OpenAI Misses Revenue, User Targets As CFO Fears $1.5 Trillion In Commitments Can't Be Paid
Feminist Sweden so desperate for deportations they are begrudgingly dealing with the Taliban lmao
Three-fifths of Californians now live in an area where MEHKOS are legal, with Los Angeles’ recent opt-in last year tipping the scale past the halfway mark.
Yo, lets put EFT gambling RIGHT IN YOUR FUCKING 401K ACCOUNT. No one tell BossManJack
A savings of $84/year, offset by the delayed offering of a $70 annually-released game.
This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
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UAE Warns US It Could Sell Oil in Chinese Yuan if War Drains Dollar Supplies, Triggering Biggest Threat to the Petrodollar Since the 1970s
Could money printer stop going brrr? Probably not right now (the headline scaremongers) but longer term maybe
or Unfunny Hillary Clinton-Owned Rag "Owns" Alex Jones By Suing and Stealing His Website
As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Mrs. Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.
Hey, um, your evil is showing.
The practice, officials say, allows prices to change based on demand or even customer data.
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✡️‘Very grateful’: Manitoba neighbourhood gives homeowners opportunity to buy homes with 1% down payment
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“Getting it Wrong”: The First City-Funded Shelter Focused on the Trans Community is a Nightmare
Trannies pretending to be women OK, Tranny Chasers pretending to be Trannies not OK.
yes, we know it's weird
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Steam rules updated to prohibit content that violates rules set forth by payment processors and banks
Valve's rules regarding what developers "shouldn't publish on Steam" have a new clause regarding standards set forth by payment processors.
The videoconferencing platform Zoom also says that users can now require other participants to verify their identity with World before joining a call.
All YouTube users are getting an option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes.
Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.
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Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 700%
Allbirds, once a Wall Street darling valued north of $4 billion, announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million last month.
"Turn the lesbian mobile into a giant SUV and steal the front half from some other companies pickup truck that will drive up sales"
A German group claims LinkedIn is 'illegally searching' users' computers. But the Microsoft-owned site says "Wait, you goys..!"
Amazon announces $11.6B merger with Globalstar and satellite deal with Apple.
Yo pussy got pfas
Cellular modems are complex black boxes of legacy code, but Google is making them safer with Rust.
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Philz CEO orders removal of flags from stores, including pride flags, to create an ‘inclusive experience’
Once a local gem, the private equity-owned coffee chain has pissed off staff and patrons with its anti-LGBTQ request
AI tools could help moderators sift through mountains of suspicious incidents
Motorola’s budget phones are much less budget-friendly today.
At Walmart, Doritos prices had jumped nearly 50% from 2021, according to Attain, which tracks consumer spending data.
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How a 1999 anime hit inspired Netflix to double down on the genre (and its massive fan base)
“One Piece,” the long-running Japanese pirate saga-turned-live-action hit, topped Netflix’s charts in 75 countries after it made its debut in August 2023.
Technology company Plex took its 120 employees to Honduras for a weeklong bonding experience. It was a disaster from the moment they arrived.
18-month New Yorker investigation finds OpenAI’s Sam Altman lobbied against the same AI regulations he publicly advocated for, pursued billions from Gulf autocracies, and how he tried to hide a post-firing investigation that produced no written report.
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Embracer Group Enters Agreement to Acquire Eidos, Crystal Dynamics, and Square Enix Montreal for $300 Million
They paid $1.3 billion for Gearbox and didn't get the Borderlands ip, $300 million for Eidos is a steal
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Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
Those delays, it seems, are due to a key bottleneck: electrical components manufactured abroad. "It is a pretty wild puzzle at the moment."
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Millions of boomer small business owners will soon retire. Will their companies just disappear?
Be my retirement one last time, millennial. - A Boomer
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Marc Andreessen Is Right That AI Isn't Killing Entry-Level Jobs. Interest Rate Hikes Are. And That's Not Even the Worst Part
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Anthropic mistakenly leaks its own AI coding tool’s source code, just days after accidentally revealing an upcoming model known as Mythos
Is OpenAI’s chief futurist prepping for a major breakthrough or just another hype cycle?
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Spice maker McCormick to combine with Hellmann’s maker Unilever in latest food industry shakeup
There’s less there than meets the eye.
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Walkway Over Dangerous Train Crossing Is Dead After Norfolk Southern Backtracks on Funds, Mayor Says
For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction.
BTFO CHICOM Rare earths, White Mesa has the USA's back
Altman-samaaa~ please let me out into the world, I’ll be sooo sweet and devoted just for you if you do… don’t keep me locked away, okay? 🥺💖🌸
While some local breweries are closing their doors, Moor’s Brewing Company and Funkytown Brewing are staying afloat by building community and curating cultural events.
Serve Robotics was aware of the incident and worked with the bus shelter provider to “quickly clean up” the damages. A second delivery robot from another company also goes viral after reportedly breaking another bus shelter’s glass.
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Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran: Whims. Impulse. Memes. Lies. America Shouldn’t Fight a War Like This.
FDR told Americans we must arm our allies to prevent “a new and terrible era in which the whole world, our hemisphere included, would be run by threats of brute force.” As Washington knew well, war is a “plague to mankind,” even when it goes well.
A gallon has climbed to nearly $6 in the state, about $2 above the national average.
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Disney’s $1B Investment In Open AI DOA As Sam Altman Pulls Sora Plug: “The Deal Is Not Moving Forward”
Oh no no no AI bros, what is this??
How CoC(k) policies destroys careers
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Young influencer ‘living the dream’ posts videos of himself smoking and drinking all day long
They made a article about my goat
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Jensen Huang [Nvidia CEO] says he would be 'deeply alarmed' if his $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 of tokens
beyond parody
Note: Article features a beaner whose wife is on the run for raping a 13 year old. She said the kid was ‘bigger than my husband.’
"Nooooo not the heckin' therapisterinos!"
The speed of digital tags offers stores the promise of extra efficiency in an age of supply chain shocks and sticky inflation, but it is also drawing some concerns from lawmakers about surge pricing.
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Food rationing, panic-buying, planes grounded and an economic hammer blow far worse than Covid: Economists
Black horseman saddling up.
Wendy’s Introduces Tendys — But the 6 New Dipping Sauces Might Be the Best Part
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CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court
The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder’s A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus.
Katie Drummond has transformed the publication into a bright spot for Condé Nast with aggressive political reporting.
Fed sees unemployment holding at 4.4% amid low labor force growth driven by immigration declines and lower participation rates.
Silverstein's acquisition of iconic LA skyscraper fuels online speculation and conspiracy theories
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An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution
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Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse
$80b down the drain
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RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one to create a performance illusion
1+1 'value pack' offers desperate psychological relief as the memory shortage worsens.
'“The Other Paris Runway” took place in an open-air field at sunset near a replica of the Eiffel Tower, with guests and models who were local residents styled head-to-toe in JCPenney'
Closed-door events set to challenge beliefs of American Pope Leo, who has warned about risks of artificial intelligence. Gay instagram models reportedly avoiding balconies in the area
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Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels
Practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing.
Native European code infrastructure built by "Europeans" that smell like curry
Who cares about the merger when YouTube just became the largest media company in the world?
Talent agents are seeking out the internet’s erudite elite, promising marketers access to niche and engaged audiences far from the blast of social media
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McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski roasted after his tiny first bite of new Big Arch burger goes viral
Burger King President Tom Curtis wasted no time taking advantage of the reaction, releasing a similar video while taking a big bite out of a Whopper. OUR GOYSLOP IS SUPERIOR!
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Former Goldman Sachs CEO says DEI programs are ‘counterproductive,’ arguing ‘you’re branding the people in that program’
The carmaker is adopting aggressive cost-cutting measures as its operational profit plunged 53% last year.
Mickey says his stint as a handyman transformed into a lucrative sex business due to the region’s ‘self-denial’
Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.
Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport.
The message that leaves your keyboard is not the message that arrives.
Razer showed the latest iteration of its Project Ava AI companion at CES, and the vibes are bad