The year's biggest gaming show had plenty of titles worth playing.

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-Five members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice previously testified at Seattle city council meetings about AI data centers. Now, three of them are apparently under investigation by the company.

-Richard Hermer, the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland, has reportedly told his department to stop posting official updates on X.

-Rivian has been sued on allegations that it made misleading statements about the self-driving capabilities of its R1T truck and R1S SUV.

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-Waymo told Engadget that it identified an area of improvement regarding performance around freeway construction zones, adding that the company voluntarily restricted freeway operations last month.

-Relativity Space will provide spacecraft, rocket and cruise operations to deliver the agency's science instruments to Mars.

-Apple's outgoing CEO Tim Cook all but confirmed that higher prices are on the way for the company's products, saying "price increases are unavoidable.

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The all-stock acquisition concludes an agreement the two announced in April.

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-The recently resurrected Commodore is getting back into phones, but rather than taking on the likes of Apple and Samsung at their own game, the Commodore Callback 8020 is a proudly non-conformant flip phone that wouldn't have looked out of place in the '90s.

-WhatsApp is finally offering what most of its contemporaries already have: disappearing (view-once) texts.

-The White House app is reportedly coming to all devices managed by the Department of Homeland Security, whether the user wants to download it or not. GovExec that it was a "cause for alarm," as any app installed on government-issued devices can "potentially create backdoor access to government networks behind the firewall." 

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-The government recently annulled the results of a key medical school entrance test because it said that the answers were leaked ahead of time on Telegram.

-The Atlantic has published four searchable databases of music that has been used to train AI models. The scope is pretty staggering, with 12 million tracks in one database, 9 million in another, and the two final ones each containing about 100,000 songs.

-Google Earth has a flight sim mode of its own, and it can now be accessed by anyone globally via their browser.

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The company is also promoting legislation to fight the potential of AI to create 'massive' scams

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-The Fox Corporation announced it will be acquiring Roku, best known for its streaming device ecosystem for about $22 billion for Roku, or $160 per share.

-Ahead of the G7 conference in France, Donald Trump is once again threatening massive tariffs on France if it doesn't remove its three percent digital tax on US tech companies.

-The UK is banning young people under 16 from social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram.

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