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Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world (pcgamer.com)

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Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act (techcrunch.com)

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Y Combinator scored a surprise win when Larry Page came to speak (techcrunch.com)

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OpenAI launches its Google challenger, ChatGPT Search (techcrunch.com)

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Google Chrome's uBlock Origin phaseout has begun (theverge.com)

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Xbox will sell games directly in the Android app next month (theverge.com)

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Ask HN: Is Gmail Down?

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Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsApp and Messenger users (techcrunch.com)

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The Rise and Fall of OpenSea (theverge.com)

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Apple relents and approves Spotify app with EU pricing (theverge.com)

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Scalpers Work with Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's 'Non-Transferable' Tickets (404media.co)

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FBI puts a $5M bounty on the missing Cryptoqueen (pcgamer.com)

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Ask HN: Best alternative to Chrome for power-user?

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YouTube is testing another way to combat ad blockers (techcrunch.com)

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Wisconsin man arrested for creating AI-generated child sexual abuse material (theverge.com)

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'Vote Trump' spam that hit Bluesky in May came from decentralized rival Nostr (techcrunch.com)

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Infinite Craft's creator wrangles with AI "alchemy" (eurogamer.net)

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Google adds Web search filter for showing old-school text links as AI rolls out (techcrunch.com)

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Demis Hassabis is the man tasked with turning Google's AI research into profits (cnbc.com)

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TikTok sues the US government over law that could ban the app (techcrunch.com)

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Green search engine Ecosia launches a cross-platform browser (techcrunch.com)

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Apple changes App Store rules to allow retro game emulators globally (techcrunch.com)

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Apple will make it easier to move to Android by fall 2025 (techcrunch.com)

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Reddit says it's made $203M so far licensing its data (techcrunch.com)

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Substack's Moderation Battle (theverge.com)

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OpenAI claims NY Times copyright lawsuit is without merit (techcrunch.com)

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Google working on an 'advanced' version of Bard that you have to pay for (theverge.com)

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Meta to offer ad-free subscription in Europe in bid to keep tracking other users (techcrunch.com)

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Tell HN: This is how you can bypass YouTube's Anti-Adblock mechanism

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2023 been such a year for PC gaming that the major games don't fit on a 1TB SSD (pcgamer.com)

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Microsoft and Sony Sign Deal to Keep Activision’s Call of Duty on Playstation (cnbc.com)

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A.I. poses human extinction risk on par with nuclear war, Sam Altman warns (cnbc.com)

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Samsung bans use of A.I. like ChatGPT for employees (cnbc.com)

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Ignore Microsoft’s whines about the Activision takeover. The CMA did its job (theguardian.com)

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Activision shares jump as UK's CMA drops key concern on Microsoft takeover (cnbc.com)

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All travelers to the UK will need pre-authorization by 2025 (cnbc.com)

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Tech’s reality check: How the industry lost $7.4T in one year (cnbc.com)

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says layoffs will continue into next year (cnbc.com)

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FTX and FTT Whitepaper(Summary) (docs.google.com)

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From Binance to Voyager, crypto firms' exposure to FTX is coming to light (reuters.com)

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Elon Musk will reportedly take the CEO role after exec exodus (techcrunch.com)

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Miniclip, home of childhood nostalgia, is finally dead (pcgamer.com)

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SurveyMonkey parent Momentive Global lays off 11% of workforce (techcrunch.com)

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Google Search now queries Reddit and Quora in response to open-ended questions (techcrunch.com)

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Microsoft loves Figma, it’s cozy relationship with Adobe put to test [Aug 25]

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Amazon acquires warehouse machinery and robotics maker Cloostermans

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Crypto CEO behind $2.5B 'rug pull' arrested

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Facebook shuts down its game streaming app after struggling to challenge Twitch

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Tornado Cash Co-Founder Says the Mixer Protocol Is Unstoppable [Jan 25, 2022]

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Teens have abandoned Facebook, Pew study says

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Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B

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Biden administration will declare monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency