Trump extends TikTok sale deadline in the US yet again, leaving the whole situation feeling 'less like a ticking clock and more like a looped ringtone… political Groundhog Day'

Trump extends TikTok sale deadline in the US yet again, leaving the whole situation feeling ‘less like a ticking clock and more like a looped ringtone… political Groundhog Day’

US President Donald Trump has once again pushed back a deadline requiring TikTok to be sold by its Chinese owner, Bytedance. Last year the US passed a law requiring either a sale or that the app be banned. This marks the third time that Trump has extended the deadline. Trump signed the executive order yesterday,…

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Meta to pay $375 million for ‘thousands’ of children’s safety violations, a whole 0.19% of its 2025 revenue

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has suffered a legal defeat over children’s safety on its platforms⁠.d. Last week, a New Mexico jury decided against the company in a lawsuit brought by state prosecutors after an undercover investigation by the state. As reported by the Associated Press, the trial went on for seven weeks, with…

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Dungeon Clawler’s early access is quickly becoming one of my favourite roguelikes, even as I get dunked on repeatedly by the cruel claw of fate

‘You can’t always get what you want’ is great life advice—it is also what I have been repeating to myself, through gritted teeth, while playing Dungeon Clawler this afternoon. Objectively, the concept of “what if Slay the Spire, but you barely control the hand you play” shouldn’t be working as well as it is for…

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The future is here whether you want it or not as AI briefly makes Nvidia the 4th most valuable corporation on Earth with a $1.83 trillion market cap

If AI’s good for anything, it’s for allowing tech companies to summit new, Mansa Musa-like heights in their various market caps. Last month, Microsoft rode the AI boom to a $2.9 trillion valuation, pipping Apple to the post as the most valuable corporation on Earth. And now Nvidia’s getting in on the fun, too. Bloomberg…

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Microsoft says sure, it’ll hand over your encrypted data to the FBI: ‘The lesson here is that if you have access to keys, eventually law enforcement is going to come’

Microsoft has said it will provide the authorities with encryption keys for any Windows PC data protected by Bitlocker, where it has received a warrant to do so. The admission comes after the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant in early 2025 (thanks, Forbes) compelling it to provide the keys for data held and…

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