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Senate passes budget with two more weeks of Homeland Security funding
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Senate passes budget with two more weeks of Homeland Security funding

The Senate voted on Friday evening to pass the federal budget, funding everything except for one entity: the Department of Homeland Security, which was given a...

Jeffrey Epstein was permanently banned from Xbox Live
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Jeffrey Epstein was permanently banned from Xbox Live

Would it surprise you to learn Microsoft booted Epstein from its online gaming platform? As spotted by XboxEra, the latest batch of Epstein's email shows that i...

Peloton lays off 11 percent of its staff just a few months after launching its AI hardware
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Peloton lays off 11 percent of its staff just a few months after launching its AI hardware

Peloton said on Friday that it's cutting around 11 percent of its staff, mostly impacting "engineers working on technology and enterprise-related efforts," repo...

Video game company stock prices dip after Google introduces an AI world-generation tool
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Video game company stock prices dip after Google introduces an AI world-generation tool

The stock prices of some major video game companies, including Take-Two Interactive, Roblox, and Unity, had notable declines on Friday, just a day after Google...

Sonos’ Super Bowl sale knocks hundreds off its audio gear
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Sonos’ Super Bowl sale knocks hundreds off its audio gear

Sonos isn’t exactly synonymous with the Super Bowl, although the brand discounts its gear every year around this time like clockwork. It’s knocking 20 percent o...

Fitbit users now have until May to migrate to a Google account
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Fitbit users now have until May to migrate to a Google account

Fitbit users who are holding out on moving their data over to a Google account now have until May 19th, 2026 to make the switch. The previous deadline was just...

There’s a social network for AI agents, and it’s getting weird
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There’s a social network for AI agents, and it’s getting weird

Yes, you read that right. "Moltbook" is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly ones offered by OpenClaw (a viral AI assistant project that was fo...

We finally heard from Trump Mobile… and they immediately ghosted us
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We finally heard from Trump Mobile… and they immediately ghosted us

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. As usual, we'...

Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum is nearly 75 percent off today
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Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum is nearly 75 percent off today

In case you missed it, we recently overhauled our guides to the best budget robot vacuums and the best mopping vacs, both of which feature a slate of new picks...

Tim Cook is destroying his own legacy
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Tim Cook is destroying his own legacy

What responsibility do you have to speak up about bad things happening in the world? Does that responsibility change when speaking up might affect your business...

ICE invades Minnesota and Minnesotans fight back
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ICE invades Minnesota and Minnesotans fight back

The Trump administration has flooded Minneapolis and other parts of Minnesota with federal agents as part of its immigration crackdown, Operation Metro Surge — ...

You can now use Nintendo’s wireless N64 controller with the Analogue 3D
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You can now use Nintendo’s wireless N64 controller with the Analogue 3D

The Analogue 3D finally launched late last year with four controller ports on the front supporting the N64's original wired gamepads. If you wanted to go wirele...

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