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Jacob Kastrenakes

Jacob Kastrenakes

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    Bloomberg says there’s been a surge of ‘hateful, violent, and inaccurate’ info on Twitter — and Twitter’s CEO isn’t thrilled about it.

    The company’s new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, pushed back in a lengthy tweet, saying the company has “made progress” and that most tweets that cross a user’s feed are fine.

    Why did this article warrant such a long response? To cheer up advertisers, who are worried about exactly this. Elon Musk tweeted last week that ad revenue is down 50 percent.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Trump may be indicted for trying to overturn the 2020 election.

    The former president wrote on Truth Social that he had received a letter informing him that he was a target of the DOJ’s investigation into January 6th and related attempts to illegally keep Trump in office. The New York Times notes that such a letter “indicates that an investigation is nearing its end and that the department is actively considering charging” a person.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    No need to mind the gap.

    Per these leaked photos, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 seems to have an improved hinge that finally lets its two sides cleanly close together — one of the big hardware achievements on the Pixel Fold. Images via AndroidPolice.

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    [DJ Khaled voice] Another one.

    Turns out if you do not pay your bills, you will get sued and asked more forcefully to pay those bills. Twitter finally paid its Google Cloud bill (though the current state of the platform might suggest otherwise), but it looks like there are still some outstanding payments the company has been letting slide.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Gen Z wants a photo with their iced coffee.

    So Keurig is getting into ice coffees. An exec on their team tells The Wall Street Journal that ice coffee’s aesthetics are one of the reasons they added a new machine designed for large iced drinks.

    “And also, let’s be frank—you drink iced coffee in a clear cup, so it’s a lot more fun to be able to play with, look at, do recipes behind and take lots of pictures,” [Becky Opdyke, Keurig Dr Pepper’s senior vice president overseeing coffee marketing,] said.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Security contractors for Bill Gates apparently performed some wildly inappropriate background checks.

    The Wall Street Journal reports that women interviewing for jobs were asked about sexual histories, nude photos, and porn — men were spared these questions.

    The report doesn’t indicate that Gates knew about these questions, but the incident follows other indiscretions that have recently put Microsoft’s founder in the news, including his connection to Jeffrey Epstein and an affair with a Microsoft employee.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    They should have called it, “My Preciou$$$.”

    Magic: The Gathering fans are already offering more than $2 million to secure the one-of-a-kind “One Ring” card that’s being released as part of a Lord of the Rings set today. One hiccup: no one’s actually found it yet!