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When it comes to difficulty, most games like to put you in a bucket. At the start of the experience, you have to choose whether you want to play on a hard or easy mode, and usually, over the course of the game, you can move between these as you see fit, which is good because it’s hard to

Charlie Brooker created Black Mirror for Channel 4 in the U.K. before it was snapped up by Netflix for streaming. The first two seasons (plus one special) were extremely dark, and Brooker admitted during a chat at SXSW Sydney that the general lightening of tone once the show was produced by Netflix was a “criticism”…

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• Drug use is widespread in the Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, news outlet Verstka reported.
• One soldier told the outlet that drug use is "like in Las Vegas."
• Soldiers order a range of substances from

• The judge in Trump's fraud trial angrily noted a "blatant violation" of his gag order banning attacks on his legal staff.
• An offending post remained on Trump's campaign site after the order; the defense called it "truly inadvertent."
• "Donald Trump is still responsible for the large

• Consumers are about to feel the impact of soaring bond yields, Blackstone president Jonathan Gray told the FT. 
• The yield on the 10-year US Treasury continued to rise on Thursday, edging closer to 5%.
• Higher bond yields are raising borrowing costs all over the economy

Jon Stewart is best known for pissing the right people off with his nuanced political takes on his Apple TV show The Problem with Jon Stewart, and it appears he’s also pissed off his employer. Stewart’s The Problem has officially been canceled, and the reason why may lie in his view on artificial intelligence, a…

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• Sam Bankman-Fried needs to decide soon whether he'll take the witness stand in his criminal trial.
• The case is going badly for SBF, so he may think he has little to lose.
• If the judge thinks he's lying under oath, he could get an even harsher sentence.

Prosecutors are nearly done walloping Sam

Brave’s privacy-centric browser has been downloading VPN services to some customers’ computers without their consent. Noted by Ghacks, starting in 2022, downloading Brave to a Windows PC meant you were also downloading the company’s VPN service

• Chinese stocks have wiped out all of their gains since the nation reopened its economy.
• The CSI 300 Index slumped on Friday, briefly slipping below its October 2022 low.
• Investors are fretting over the slew of economic headwinds Beijing currently faces.

Chinese stocks just wiped out all of their gains since Beijing

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Today, let’s talk about how the traditional platform justice system is seeing signs of a new reform movement. If it’s successful at Discord, its backers hope that the initiative could lead to better

• AI is bringing change to medical-imaging analysis and helping to speed up diagnoses. 
• The technology also has the potential to sort through vast amounts of genetic information.
• Experts predict AI could integrate image-based diagnosis and DNA-based personalized medicine.
• This article is part of "Big Trends