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Sheryl Sandberg, original girlboss and longtime fixture at Facebook, will formally step down from her position on Meta’s board. Sandberg announced her transition away from the company on Wednesday in a post that she made, appropriately, on Facebook.

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After a few months of intense criticism over a policy that allowed schools to remove diverse books, Scholastic has had a change of heart.

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A hacker appears to have briefly gained access to Donald Trump Jr.‘s account on Twitter (now named X) and falsely claimed that daddy Donald had died. The bogus post, which was retweeted around 400 times before it was deleted, claimed Trump Jr. would run for president in his father’s stead. Trump Jr. has 10.4 million…

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The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is seeking approval from the FTC to implement facial age estimation technology to stop kids skirting parental controls. If the industry’s self-regulating body gets its way, kids and their parents may need to get used to taking selfies to sign up for games.

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