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Jay Peters

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    ResetEra is disabling X embeds in posts.

    “The hope here is that people will start moving away from Twitter as a source of information and go to other sites and platforms,” according to the GM of the gaming-focused forum. Screenshots and X links will still be allowed, though “screenshots will need to feature the name of the account and the date it was posted so that we can all avoid trolls and people misrepresenting others.”

    Many subreddits recently banned X links.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Balatro is coming to Xbox Game Pass today.

    The poker roguelike is also getting a bunch of new collaboration cards featuring games like Civilization VII, Bugsnax, and Assassin’s Creed.

    The announcement follows the news that Balatro will be getting a revised rating in Europe after an appeal.

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    Jay Peters
    More potential Trump tariffs.

    President Trump signed a memo to have his administration “consider responsive actions like tariffs to combat the digital service taxes (DSTs), fines, practices, and policies that foreign governments levy on American companies.”

    As Reuters notes, “the digital service taxes aimed at dominant US tech giants including Alphabet’s Google, Meta’s Facebook, Apple and Amazon have been a longstanding trade irritant for multiple US administrations.”

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    Jay Peters
    The DOJ is moving to drop its SpaceX lawsuit.

    Reuters has a good summary of what’s going on. The Department of Justice initially sued SpaceX in 2023 over alleged hiring discrimination.

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    Jay Peters
    The AP is suing the Trump administration.

    The administration has blocked the Associated Press from attending some events, including at the Oval Office, because of the publication’s policy to use the name Gulf of Mexico “while acknowledging” the Gulf of America name.

    “The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government,” reads the AP’s lawsuit, filed by attorneys from the Ballard Spahr law firm. “The Constitution does not allow the government to control speech. Allowing such government control and retaliation to stand is a threat to every American’s freedom.”