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Toy Story 5's real screen lesson every parent needs to take seriously

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California strikes a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across state agencies and local governments at a 50% discount (Christine Mui/Politico)

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Very Safe Dino Park is essentially friendslop Jurassic Park

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Companion Cube Steam Machine canceled after Dbrand angers Valve

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Madoka Magica's long-awaited 4th film finally has a release date

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Star Wars Reylo fanfiction turned hit rom-com gets Prime Video premiere

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36 years later, Akira's manga still has one of cyberpunk's best endings

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In Q2, there were thirteen $1B+ US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 gets first full trailer and it's gnarly

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The best July 4th sales we found so far

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Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200M led by Summit Partners (Laura Kreutzer/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Amazon is weighing using OpenAI's and its own Nova models to cut costs after Anthropic raised prices for using its models in Amazon products (Catherine Perloff/The Information)

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Backrooms Everything Must Go Edition arrives in theaters this weekend with 15 minutes of new footage

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Forget Backrooms, A24's low-budget horror hit Undertone hits #1 after a weekend on HBO Max

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SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of "geofence" warrants, saying people have "a reasonable expectation of privacy" in their cell-phone location data (TechCrunch)

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WhatsApp rolls out username reservations globally, allowing users to claim a unique name before the privacy-focused feature launches later this year (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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A fringe attack on voting rights just got four votes on the Supreme Court

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Changpeng Zhao says Binance's MiCA application in Greece was fully compliant and close to approval by at least one EU regulator, but "other forces" opposed it (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

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Batman's new butler has a surprising connection to Alfred Pennyworth

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Sliders was 30 years ahead of its time

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