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A few minutes ago, I opened the new Arc Search app and typed, “What happened in the Chiefs game?” That game, the AFC Championship, had just wrapped up. Normally, I’d Google it, click on a few links, and read about the game that

• Charles Littlejohn confessed to leaking Donald Trump's tax returns. 
• Federal investigators were not aware he was the leaker

• Snoop Dogg told the Sunday Times in London that he has "love and respect" for Donald Trump.
• The rapper cited Trump's decision to pardon Michael Harris, the cofounder of Death Row Records.
• Snoop Dogg has harshly criticized Trump several times in recent years.

Snoop Dogg has nothing but kind things to say about Donald Trump these days.

The "Gin and Juice" rapper seems to

• Trump said he'd take the blame for the potential collapse of a bipartisan border deal.
• "There is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal," he said on Saturday.
• Trump and conservatives in Congress have instead called on Biden to enforce existing laws.

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was willing to take

Star Wars: Ahsoka didn’t just pick up on threads from Star Wars Rebels, it also developed some new plotlines for its returning cast. Chief among them, Rebels character Sabine Wren ended up being Ahsoka’s apprentice and discovered she had Force powers, making her a Jedi Mandalorian—and the first of her kind, in the…

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• Reddit is eyeing an initial public offering as early as the first quarter of 2024.
• Potential investors are advising it to target at least a $5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported.
• Investors are hoping for a more active IPO market in 2024.

Excitement is growing

Suzanne Collins’ first Hunger Games novel released in 2008, and went onto become a massive franchise. In the wake of last year’s successful prequel film, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Scholastic is building upon that momentum by bringing the first book to life again with an illustrated edition.

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X, formerly known at Twitter, is building its content moderation team back up, but not completely.

According to Bloomberg, the company is hiring 100 employees for a "Trust and Safety center of excellence" in Austin, TX. After Elon Musk took over the platform in 2022, he laid off around 80 percent of the company and gutted the content moderation team. The new team will focus on enforcing the

• Instacart is using generative AI to create photography for its recipes.
• The recipes themselves are written by AI, as publicly disclosed by Instacart.
• Many of the photos have quirks making the food look disturbing or absurd, or a mixture of the two.

Instacart, the grocery-delivery app, is now using generative AI

I'm not gonna pretend I've figured you, the Engadget reader, out. Trying to predict what is gonna get your little nerd hearts all a flutter is kind of a crapshoot. But, I'm pretty confident that a Tamagotchi in a guitar pedal is right up your alley. Ground Control Audio showed up to NAMM 2024 with the UwU virtual pet buffer pedal.

Now buffer pedals are about the least exciting piece of gear you

• Biden is considering curtailing some weapons support for Israel, NBC reported.
• Biden wants to use the weapons as leverage to force Israel to scale back its attack.
• Israel's Netanyahu has so far refused Biden's requests to dial back the offensive in Gaza.

President Joe Biden's patience with Israeli