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It’s been exactly 10 years since Grand Theft Auto V first launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, followed soon after by Grand Theft Auto Online. In a thread on X today, Rockstar Games thanked fans, calling them “the reason GTA V has thrived across multiple console generations.”

Last week, Rockstar announced new

• On August 23, two months after his brief rebellion, Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash.
• The cause is unclear, but Russian President Vladimir Putin is suspected of orchestrated the crash.
• If so, the process of removing Prigozhin

• The UAW union late last week went on strike to pressure the "Big Three" to raise worker wages.
• The strength of President Biden's economic message could hinge on the outcome of the strike.
• Biden has sought to sharpen his 2024 economic pitch, but voters aren't fully sold on his message.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledges in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning that there are “some things about” the platform formerly known as Twitter that he doesn’t like. Cook called the platform’s apparent anti-Semitism problem “abhorrent” but said, “Twitter is an important property; I like the concept that it’s there for discourse.” He didn’t say

• In recent months, Moscow has seen high-profile drone attacks thought to be launched by Ukraine.
• Russian officials have scrambled to deploy additional air defenses around the capital city.
• Moscow has had air defenses for a century, but they haven't been designed for what

Mark Gurman writes in the subscriber edition of his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg from this morning that he expects Apple to finish its transition to USB-C by 2025. Gurman says that, in addition to other products, he expects the company will release USB-C versions of the now-discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack and the MagSafe Duo

You usually go to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a lot of things, but memorable original music isn’t really one of them. But Rogers: The Musical—a corny Hamilton-alike that told a very condensed story of Chris Evans’ Captain America—is one of the more successful attempts at musically spicing things up for the…

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Buy enough tech and you can’t escape the siren call of a smart home. Amazon practically throws Echo Dots at you. Google will sneak a Nest Mini in the box with almost anything you buy in its store. Good luck buying a new kitchen appliance that doesn’t beg to be connected to

Throughout the year, there’s been ongoing concerns about the use of generative AI across various forms of entertainment such as film and TV. Every industry has their own stance on the matter, and in the case of tabletop games, it’s quite divisive: some in the industry have put restrictions on AI-made products, while…

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• President Joe Biden has won the backing of most major Democratic officials as he seeks reelection.
• But in a recent AP-NORC Center poll, 55% of Democratic voters said they didn't want Biden to run.
• William Owen, a DNC member, told The New York Times he was puzzled by voter fixation on Biden's age.

National Democratic

• Bernie Sanders on Sunday voiced support for a 4-day workweek, a demand of striking auto workers.
• On CNN, the Vermont senator blamed long working hours for a decline in US life expectancy.
• "People in America are stressed out for a dozen different reasons," Sanders said.

This country needs to seriously consider cutting back the hours that people have to labor at their job, Vermont Sen. Bernie

• Video footage appears to show US Chosen Company volunteers fighting Russian troops in Opytne.
• Chosen Company includes US volunteers fighting alongside Ukraine's 59th Motorized Brigade.
• Opytne is a few miles outside the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk.

Video footage from the frontline in eastern Ukraine appears to