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• A growing list of wealthy Democrats are using their checkbooks to pressure Biden to drop out.
• Others, such as Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings, simply no longer support Biden.
• The donor uprising adds further obstacles to Biden hanging on after his disastrous

Microsoft quietly rolled out spellcheck and autocorrect features to Windows 11 Notepad over the last few days, per The Verge.

These additions went into limited preview testing back in March, but now they're available for all. This is pretty wild because Notepad has been around in some form or another since 1983 and only got spellcheck now.

• Paramount's three CEOs told staff it was "business as usual" until its merger closed, Deadline said.
• They reminded employees that layoffs loomed, following a plan unveiled in June.
• Paramount will also explore divesting assets, its CEOs said.

Paramount's CEO trio told employees it was "business as usual" until the formal close of its megamerger with Skydance, while

• A $1.9 million beach house sold for $200,000 after parts of the land were swallowed by the sea.
• Owner Jane Carlin sold the Nantucket property to a neighbor who knows it's on borrowed time.
• Offering homes at risk for free has become common practice due to the removal cost.

A Nantucket beach house

It has finally happened. Microsoft’s text editor Notepad just got a spellcheck feature, more than 40 years after the software launched in 1983. For the history buffs, Ronald Reagan was still president in 1983 and Ghostbusters, then called Ghost Smashers, was an unmade script set to star Eddie Murphy. It was a long time ago.

Microsoft just rolled out the new spellcheck tool to the Notepad app in

GET $50 OFF: As of July 8, Target Circle members can get a Bose SoundLink Flex portable speaker for just $99.99, down from $149.99. That's $50 off the listing price.

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A law protecting child influencers in Illinois has officially gone into effect.

The state passed a bill into law in August 2023, after it was introduced by Democratic Sen. David Koehler. It has now been implemented since July 1, 2024, as a part of Illinois' existing Child Labor Law, stating that children under the age of 16 "perform[ing] in an artistic or creative service" are entitled to

• Online platform Fanvue sponsored a "Miss AI" pageant, and a winner has been crowned.
• Fanvue is the only platform of its kind to allow AI-generated content from creators.
• The top three Fanvue World AI Creator Awards prizes are worth a combined $20,000.

Fanvue held its first "Miss AI" contest, where its finalists aren

A new college year is right around the corner, which means it’s time for a new batch of freshmen to live independently for the first time. If you’re among that group, it’s a good idea to stock up on a few essentials that’ll make your dorm room feel more like a (tiny) second home. We’ve rounded up a few dorm-friendly items we can safely recommend; this is Engadget, so expect a bunch of tech gear