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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
A judge will review The Onion’s purchase of Infowars next week.

US District Judge Christopher Lopez put The Onion’s acquisition of Infowars on pause and ordered a hearing to go over the results of the bankruptcy auction, according to Variety. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction,” Lopez said during an emergency status conference, Variety reports.

Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
Polygonsky.

Our sister site Polygon has joined us in getting active on Bluesky, complete with a starter pack of reporters. If you prefer your decentralization ActivityPub-flavored, they’re still posting on Mastodon too.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Here’s iFixit’s teardown of the PS5 Pro.

Based on the video, the inside of Sony’s most advanced PS5 looks pretty similar to the inside of the slim PS5. It’s still pretty cool to see, though — and the PS5 Pro at least has an easier way to access the CMOS battery.

Check out our PS5 Pro review if you want to learn more about the console.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Coca-Cola is airing AI-generated ads for the holidays.

One of the ads, which you can see below, is an AI recreation of the brand’s classic Coke caravan commercial. All three of Coke’s AI commercials will air across TVs and online video platforms this holiday season, according to AdAge.

Ash Parrish
Ash Parrish
Twitch says ‘Zionist’ can be a punishable slur.

After calls for Twitch to address antisemitism on the platform, the site’s hateful conduct policy now includes “Zionist” as a potential slur. Twitch specifies this is conditional: you’re allowed to discuss the political movement of that name, but not “attack or demean another individual or group of people on the basis of their background or religious belief.”

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Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
X sues to block an election deepfake law.

The Elon Musk-run social media company is trying to stop a California law that would require platforms to block “materially deceptive” election content during set periods before and after voting, Bloomberg reports. X is arguing the law violates the First Amendment, pointing to “a long history” of Constitutional protections for critiques of government “that includes tolerance for potentially false speech made in the context of such criticisms.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google is reportedly prototyping a keyboard case for the next Pixel Tablet.

That would solve a notable omission from Google’s first Pixel Tablet. But this next tablet might still be “many months away from launching,” Android Authority reports, so we might have to wait awhile for it.