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News Image MAGA Election Official Sentenced to 9 Years for Giving Trump Goons Access to Voting Data

The former county clerk suggested at her sentencing that God would get revenge against prosecutors because she's a "child of God."

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News Image Scar-Free Healing? A Parasitic Worm Could Be the Key

Damaged mouse skin looked almost as good as new in less than two weeks, thanks to a protein from a parasitic roundworm.

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News Image Microsoft’s Nuclear Power Deal Could Saddle Taxpayers With $1.6 Billion Federal Loan

A new scheme for AI fuel could offload financial risk from Microsoft's business partner onto the American taxpayer.

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News Image The $100 off Samsung Galaxy S24 FE Comes With a $100 Credit You Can Put Toward Anything Under the Sun

Double the Joy! Amazon is including a $100 gift card with the purchase of a new Samsung Galaxy S24 FE, which is currently over 10% off.

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‘Pig butchering’ trading apps found on Google Play, App Store

Fake trading apps on Google Play and Apple's App Store lure victims into "pig butchering" scams that have a global reach....

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Initialized Capital restructures, and lets multiple partners go

Initialized Capital is restructuring its team to “meet the moment” in the venture market, according to a blog post from the firm’s managing partner Brett Gibson. The San Francisco-based venture capital firm, originally founded by Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, and Harjeet Taggar, announced yesterday that it let multiple people go and specifically named Jennifer Wolf, […]

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News Image The big boys want in on crypto, too

A little over a year after the collapse of the crypto banks Silvergate and Signature, financial institutions are very interested in crypto. PayPal has used its proprietary stablecoin to pay auditors Ernst & Young LLP, using a hub provided by SAP. Visa “is helping to bridge existing fiat currencies with blockchains” through its Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP). A lot has happened since those bank collapses, huh? We have a Bitcoin ETF, we have crypto bros meddling in politics, and a mini boom-and-bust cycle on Bitcoin prices. I have to assume PayPal and Visa got started on this stuff a while ago in order to get it popping now, but I do think it’s curious they are focused on stablecoins.

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News Image 10 Years on, Rebels Remains One of Star Wars‘ Greatest Successes

To celebrate a decade of Star Wars Rebels, io9 goes back through its archives for our best articles, interviews, and more.

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News Image The 40 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (October 2024)

The Penguin, Chimp Crazy, and Industry are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on Max this month.

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Dutch Police: ‘State actor’ likely behind recent data breach

The national Dutch police (Politie) says that a state actor was likely behind the data breach it detected last week....

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The 13 biggest take-private PE acquisitions so far this year in tech

A roundup of the year's billion-dollar take-private deals in the technology sector.

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News Image Rings of Power Has Become the Lord of the Rings Prequel You Wanted It to Be

"Shadow and Flame" rounds off the myriad plot threads of Rings of Power season 2 with an episode that works better in parts than it does the whole.

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