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Apple sues YouTuber Jon Prosser and an Apple staffer's friend over iOS 26 leaks, for allegedly accessing the staffer's iPhone; Prosser denies the claim (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

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Sources: the US State Department has effectively dismantled its three-year-old Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, firing between nine and 11 staffers (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 review: looks like a regular phone with an exquisitely thin design, has top-tier performance, but is very pricey and lacks S Pen support (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)

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Neuralink filed on April 24 as a "small disadvantaged business" that could give it preferential access to federal opportunities, before being valued at $9B (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

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Claude Code users, many on the $200-a-month Max plan, are unexpectedly facing restrictive usage limits; Anthropic says it's "working to resolve these issues" (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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Tech execs and others detail the behind-the-scenes relationship between President Trump and Sam Altman, including how Altman quietly maneuvered around Elon Musk (Wall Street Journal)

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The Gates Foundation, Ballmer Group, and others form NextLadder to spend $1B over 15 years to develop AI tools for public defenders, parole officers, and more (Thalia Beaty/Associated Press)

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Network Pinheads at CBS Are Ending ‘The Late Show’

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Sources: Meta hired AI researchers Mark Lee, from Apple's Foundation Models team, and Tom Gunter, who left Apple in June, for its superintelligence lab (Bloomberg)

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How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype

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Nintendo wants you to join its next mysterious Switch Online playtest

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Sources: the White House is preparing an EO requiring AI companies with federal contracts to be neutral and unbiased, to combat what officials see as "woke AI" (Wall Street Journal)

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Subaru’s new Uncharted EV looks like an undercover Toyota C-HR

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An advisory board convened by OpenAI recommends that the company remain a nonprofit because AI is "too consequential" to be governed by a corporation alone (Thalia Beaty/Associated Press)

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No Sleep for Kaname Date cements the Somnium Files as gaming’s truest sitcom

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The US House passes the GENIUS Act, sending the stablecoin bill to Trump for his signature, and advances two other crypto bills to the Senate for consideration (Reuters)

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A federal judge reinstates FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, months after President Trump sought to fire her and Democratic colleague Alvaro Bedoya (Bloomberg Law)

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DOJ seeks a single-day prison sentence for an officer convicted in the Breonna Taylor raid

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The crypto industry got what it paid for

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Netflix says it's on track to double its advertising revenue this year and that it will roll out interactive ads in the second half of 2025 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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