VPN demand surges in Brazil despite legal threat to fine users nearly $9,000 a day for using workarounds to access X

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The X platform and logo are seen displayed on a phone screen in front of the Brazilian flag.
Demand for VPNs has surged in Brazil following the country's ban on Elon Musk's social media platform X.

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A former Google product manager made an AI-powered website to sift through Project 2025 so you don't have to

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A white poster stapled to a street post warns that Project 2025 will expand oil drilling in the US.
Fliers in Milwaukee about Project 2025, a conservative playbook written by the Heritage Foundation.

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NATO member says Ukraine's Kursk incursion shows just how hollow the Russian war machine is

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Russian President Vladimir Putin leaving after attending the opening ceremony of the last phase of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg motorway.
Sweden's foreign minister Tobias Billström said that Ukraine's shock invasion of Kursk is "devastating for the Putin regime."

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Russia is going to have a tough time trying to take Kursk back from Ukraine, says CIA deputy director

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Ukrainian soldiers preparing a vehicle adapted to fire helicopter shells.
"I think our expectation is that that will be a difficult fight for the Russians," CIA deputy director David Cohen said on Wednesday.

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What we know about the charges filed against Telegram CEO Pavel Durov

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Founder and CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov delivers a keynote speech during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Founder and CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov delivers a keynote speech during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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The OpenAI squad in charge of mitigating the risks of super-intelligent AI has lost nearly half its members, says a former researcher

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaking during the company's developer day event.
"It's not been like a coordinated thing. I think it's just people sort of individually giving up," former OpenAI governance researcher Daniel Kokotajlo (not pictured) told Fortune.

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Ikea aims to compete with eBay with launch of secondhand online marketplace

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10 May 2021, Brandenburg, Waltersdorf: The logo of the furnishing company IKEA in the district of Schönefeld in the district of Dahme-Spreewald.
Ikea has launched a marketplace for customers to buy pre-owned items in a new effort to compete with resale sites like eBay, Financial Times reported.

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Elon Musk says he's backing California's controversial AI bill

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Elon Musk speaking at the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity.
"This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill," Elon Musk wrote in an X post on Monday.

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The courts could decide this presidential election, and both campaigns are gearing up for an ugly legal fight

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A composite image of Donald Trump (left) and Kamala Harris (right).
Both the Trump and Harris campaigns are gearing up for a nasty legal battle in court over the outcome of this year's election.

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Mark Cuban is asking Elon Musk to post X's algorithm source code

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Mark Cuban attending a basketball game in Boston, Massachusetts; Elon Musk speaking at the Milken Institute's Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California.
"Can you post the expected algorithm source code, before you implement them? So users can give feedback?" Mark Cuban wrote in an X post to Elon Musk on Sunday.

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