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• The House has passed legislation that could ban TikTok in the US unless ByteDance sells it to a US-based entity.
• It now heads to the Senate for a vote. If it passes there, it'd reach President Biden's desk.
• Here's a look at some people and companies that could buy the app.

Buyers are beginning to

• Justin Peterson moved to Alaska to pursue mining a little over 20 years ago.
• The industry has similarities to Australia's FIFO work, but the conditions can be rough.
• The hours are long, but the money is good, and some projects will partially compensate you in gold. 

This as-told-to essay is based on a

Something spooky is afoot in the latest trailer for The Watchers, another new summer movie from M. Night Shyamalan, who debuted his Trap trailer just last week.

The Watchers stars Dakota Fanning as Mina, a 28-year-old whose journey to a remote Irish forest goes disastrously awry. One moment, she's driving through gorgeous, untouched nature. The next, she's running for her life from an unseen

• Donald Trump has a Boeing 757 private jet outfitted with gold-plated seatbelts and a bedroom.
• The ex-president has used the $100 million plane to fly to rallies and criminal indictments.
• Trump has owned the jet since 2011 and has held

• Russia's economy could begin to see major challenges in the next year-and-a-half, think tank researchers write. 
• Putin is facing a policy "trilemma" as the nation wades through the third year of war in Ukraine. 
• "Ru

Finally, you can bury a friend as Billie Eilish. Fortnite has revealed its next major musical collaboration, and it will see Eilish become a playable character starting on April 23rd. You should see her in a Victory Crown.

There aren’t many details just yet, but the singer will be the featured artist for the next season of Fortnite Festival, the Rock Band-

Open platforms keep gaining support out there — newsletter platform Ghost just published what amounts to a manifesto in support of the ActivityPub protocol with plans to ship ActivityPub integration “in 2024.”

That’s a big shot of support for the fediverse — the network of open and interoperable social services that have all been gaining

A new report from Stanford’s Internet Observatory said the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline needs to improve its technology if it wants to meet the influx of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

The report said CyberTipline, the first defense against CSAM on the

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A military court in Russia sentenced a spokesperson for Meta to six years in prison on Monday, according to a new report from the English-language Moscow Times. Andy Stone was convicted in absentia for the “justification” of terrorism after the Facebook parent company changed its rules about what’s considered violent…

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Apple’s Vision Pro debuted just two months ago, drawing crowds of people to sign up for demos and almost immediately selling out. Since then, interest in Apple’s premiere mixed reality headset has plummeted and sales are grinding to a halt at some retail stores, Bloomberg reports on Monday. So, what happened to…

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