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These Immigrants Became Immigration Court Judges. Trump Just Laid Them Off.

THE CITY - All

EchoStar offloads satellite spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion

The Verge - All Posts

Knives Out Wake Up Dead Man trailer arrives on heels of rave reviews

Polygon - All

The best horror movie sequel of 2025 is about to hit Netflix

Polygon - All

AI audio startup ElevenLabs launches a tender offer to let staff sell up to $100M in stock at a $6.6B valuation, up from a $3.3B valuation in January 2025 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

'Flexile Spines' quest walkthrough in Hollow Knight: Silksong

Polygon - All

Current and ex-Meta employees submitted documents and affidavits to Congress alleging that Meta suppressed research on child safety risks in its VR platforms (Washington Post)

Techmeme

Arco is stunning sci-fi with shades of Moebius and Miyazaki

The Verge - All Posts

Sal Khan is hopeful that AI won’t destroy education

The Verge - All Posts

What time does Genshin Impact 'Luna I' release?

Polygon - All

Starfinder: Afterlight is for fans of Baldur's Gate 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy

Polygon - All

Atlanta-based Rainforest, which embeds payment processing into platforms, raised a $29M Series B led by Matrix and Infinity, taking its total funding to $57.5M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Techmeme

Filing: Nasdaq asks the SEC to let investors trade tokenized securities on its exchange, and could roll out the first token-settled trades by the end of Q3 2026 (Anirban Sen/Reuters)

Techmeme

Crypto asset manager CoinShares agrees to go public via SPAC Vine Hill at a $1.2B pre-money valuation, set to close by Q4's end; CoinShares has ~$10B in AUM (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Ticketing platform StubHub plans to sell ~34M shares at $22 to $25 in its IPO, valuing it at up to $9.2B and raising up to $851M, after delaying an IPO in April (Reuters)

Techmeme

RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism

The Onion

House With Cool Turret Thing

The Onion

Drawing Conclusions

The Onion

The iPhone 17’s potential makeover might be just enough

The Verge - All Posts

Congress Plays Keep-Away With Child’s School Lunch

The Onion