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Bananza is Nintendo’s latest attempt to show you Donkey Kong’s caked-up butt

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The News/Media Alliance says the webhost of 12ft.io, which helped users bypass paywalls, took down the site on July 14 following the trade association's efforts (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: currently exclusive to Aston Martin, enhances center console integration, works smoothly with driver assist systems, and more (Michael Teo Van Runkle/Ars Technica)

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What Big Tech got out of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

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News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline

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Superman continues James Gunn’s horrifying war against characters’ eyes

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Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use, but less customizable than Claude Code (Dan Shipper/Every)

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ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs, and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files (Reece Rogers/Wired)

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Trump: ‘I’m Not In These Nonexistent Files Concocted To Destroy Me’

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OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks, powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you

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Trump Invites Jeffrey Epstein On Stage To Explain There No Conspiracy

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AMD unveils the Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series CPUs, including the flagship $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with 96 cores, set for July 23 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Anthropic will face a class-action lawsuit from US authors

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The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot

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Mortal Kombat II trailer showcases fatalities and a tournament in full effect

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Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

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Meta names long time executive Connor Hayes as head of Threads, starting in mid-September; Hayes joined Meta in 2011 (Sara Fischer/Axios)

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