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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board of Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform he helped start. In two posts today, Bluesky thanked Dorsey while confirming his departure and adding that it’s searching for a new board member “who shares our commitment to building a social network that puts people in control



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ElevenLabs cofounders Mati Staniszewski (left) and Piotr Dabkowski (right) built a unicorn just a year after launching in beta.
  • AI voice tech company ElevenLabs is grappling with deepfakes.
  • The technology, while innovative, has the potential for misuse, leading to concerns from lawmakers.
  • ElevenLabs CEO said digitally watermarking synthetic voices is a solution.

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Former Colorado Rep. Ken Buck.
  • Onetime Rep. Ken Buck didn't have a very good impression of Capitol Hill upon his arrival in 2015.
  • Buck told The New York Times that he wanted out of Congress "about three weeks" into the role.
  • But the ex-congressman remarked that it took him a while to map out a plan to leave the House.

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A crypto trader lost nearly $70 million in an "address poisoning" scam.
  • A cryptocurrency trader lost nearly $70 million in an 'address poisoning' scam.
  • Scammers made spoof accounts to trick the victim into sending funds to the fake address.
  • Crypto-related scams are on the rise, costing investors almost $4 billion last year, the FBI says.

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Soldiers march during the Victory Day military parade to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War at Red Square on May 9, 2023, in Moscow, Russia.
  • Russian military personnel convicted of murder increased by 900% in 2023.
  • Russian soldiers were found guilty of 116 murders in 2023, the Mediazona website reported.
  • About 15,000 pardoned



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Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota.
  • Gov. Kristi Noem has long been touted as a potential running mate for former President Trump.
  • But Noem's recent admission that she killed her family's dog has attracted a wave of criticism.
  • A GOP senator told The Hill that Noem has essentially tanked her VP chances with Trump.

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The Season 1 finale of House of the Dragon ended with a devastating, dragon-toothed crunch that shook the realm and set in motion the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. But with that epic cliffhanger came the horrifying realization that we'd have to wait for Season 2 to find out what would happen next.

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Stock image of a boy with a dollar bill.
  • A nine-year-old boy mistook a businessman as homeless and gave him his last dollar.
  • The businessman, Matt Busbice, rewarded the boy with a shopping spree.
  • Busbice said he hadn't had "that much faith in humanity in a very long time."

A nine-year-old boy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, mistook a businessman as homeless and gave him his last



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Disney World, Florida.
  • Increasingly more people are choosing to work remotely from Disney theme parks.
  • The trend began in the wake of the pandemic, as remote working became more popular and parks reopened.
  • Writers and social media workers are among those heading down to work in Orlando.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on Friday that the Standard Range rear-wheel drive Model Y the company has been building and selling “over the last several months” actually has more range than the 260 miles they were sold with. Pending “regulatory approval,” he wrote that the company will unlock another 40–60 miles of total range, depending on which battery Model Y