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Amazon Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping events of the year outside of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with this year’s summer installment running from July 16th through the 17th. The two-day shopping affair will likely grant Prime members access to some of the best prices of the year on Amazon devices, as well as products



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  • The immunity decision will delay and diminish Jack Smith's two Trump prosecutions, experts predict.
  • In the documents case, Trump can claim that "declassifying" them,  back in DC, was an official act.
  • In the J6 case, he can seek immunity for allegations involving talking to another federal official.

It's been a pretty bad day for Special Counsel Jack Smith.

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YouTube quietly added a new policy last month that lets you request the removal of AI-generated content featuring your likeness. The new privacy violation policy, first spotted by TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez, allows you to flag videos that “used AI to alter or create synthetic content that looks or sounds like you.”

YouTube says several factors will determine whether it considers a removal, including



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At some point in the future, a new “Multi-Purpose Tap” concept will let payment cards or devices like smartwatches and phones accomplish multiple things at once when using NFC. With this in play, a customer in a store might tap their phone with Apple Wallet or Google Pay on a terminal that simultaneously checks their ID if they



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Intel’s Thunderbolt 5 might be the best USB-C cable ever, with 120Gbps of single-direction bandwidth, 240 watts of power, and enough oomph to drive external SSDs, eGPUs, and high-resolution, high-refresh-rate monitors from a single cable at unheard-of levels. But first, it’d



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Footage purporting to show a Houthi drone boat.
  • The Houthis have stepped up their attacks and intimidation efforts with their drone boats.
  • In their latest messaging, the rebels shared a new video of a previously unseen system in action.
  • The uptick comes as the US Navy lacks an aircraft carrier in the region.

The US Navy is in the middle of changing up its forces in



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A Wing drone carrying a Walmart package.
  • A Florida man admitted to shooting a Walmart drone last week, law enforcement officials said.
  • For the past decade, gun owners have been shooting at UAVs — in violation of Federal regulations.
  • Now, as more retailers use drones, armed Americans may add further complication to delivery by air.

Retailers have had to solve a long list of technological



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Silvergate Bank, once a cornerstone of the crypto financial world until its collapse in early 2023, defrauded its investors by lying about its anti-money laundering controls and misleading investors about how the fallout from the FTX collapse would affect it, the Securities and Exchange Commission says in a lawsuit. Also named in the