“The guy in question is Mr. Zuckerberg,” The New York Times reports.

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The Slayer approacheth. Every day we get closer to the May 15th release date of Doom: The Dark Ages. In the lead up to launch, id Software has been drip feeding fans new trailers and tidbits to keep the hype high. With this latest update, the developers at id are showing off an all new location, the cosmic realm, new Lovecraftian enemies, and new combat mechanics that are gonna look mighty familiar to anyone who’s played Returnal.
Turns out the number Pete Hegseth keeps using to chat about military strikes isn’t all that secret:
“On Aug. 15, 2024, he used his personal phone number to join Sleeper.com, a fantasy football and sports betting site, using the username “PeteHegseth.” Less than two weeks later, a phone number associated with his wife, Jennifer, also joined the site. She was included in one of the two Signal chats about the strikes.”
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Confronting Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War film five decades later.




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A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.
There’s no word on whether she’ll be playing Zoe or Mio, but Variety reports Sydney Sweeney has been cast in the upcoming Split Fiction film adaptation that will be directed by Wicked’s Jon M. Chu and written by Deadpool & Wolverine scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.


Zulay Kitchen, which makes and sells kitchen gadgets, told CNBC that the company is “temporarily raising” the price of some of its products as it works to move production to India, Mexico, and other locations not subject to Trump’s 145 percent tariff on China.
Another seller, Pure Daily Care, plans to “stagger price increases” while trying to stretch existing inventory in case the US and China reach an agreement, CNBC reports.
As part of its relatively new preservation program, GOG has just added Capcom’s classic PlayStation-era RPG Breath of Fire IV to its digital PC games shop. The new version features both English and Japanese localizations, some visual improvements, and support for modern controllers. You can grab it right here.
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The New York Times explores the likelihood that synthetic dyes will be phased out of US “food” production.


The upcoming thin phone was included on a list of models eligible for a discount on Samsung Canada’s French site according to WinFuture journalist Roland Quandt. The CAD$1,678.99 price sits right in between the S25 Plus and S25 Ultra, which suggests it’ll cost $1,100-1,200 in the US.
After warning a hike was coming, the ultra-cheap Chinese retailers are no longer so ultra-cheap. The increase comes ahead of the end of the de minimis exemption on May 2nd, at which point their low-value, direct-to-consumer packages will be subject to a 120 percent tariff.
TikTok says it’s also raising prices on “impacted products” sold through the video app, while AliExpress warns of both raised prices and delivery delays.
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That’s what The Financial Times’ sources are saying, with the goal of producing “the entirety of the more than 60mn iPhones sold annually in the US by the end of 2026.” But the real goal is to avoid the worst of Trump’s tariffs and to continue the diversification of Apple’s supply chain to places outside China.
So I guess “the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones” won’t be from the US? Shocking.
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The agency and Paramount are discussing “a commitment that the company continues to abstain from particular corporate diversity initiatives,” The Wall Street Journal reports in a story about talks over Paramount’s merger with Skydance Media.








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Just weeks after Apple replaced AI chief John Giannandrea as the head of Siri, Bloomberg reports that the company now plans on placing its robotics team under the leadership of John Ternus, the senior vice president of hardware engineering.
The change will allow Giannandrea’s AI team to “focus on underlying artificial intelligence technology,” Bloomberg reports.






Bloomberg reported 20 percent job cuts were coming this week, but Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings release isn’t saying that. Intel is “taking actions” that include “streamlining the organization, eliminating management layers and enabling faster decision-making,” but doesn’t say how many jobs. It does hope to save an extra $0.5 billion in 2025, more in 2026, and will have “restructuring charges associated with these actions.”
“We have not set any headcount reduction target,” Intel’s Sophie Metzger tells The Verge.
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Sources tell leaker Majin Bu that iPadOS 19 could add a menu bar to the top of the iPad when it’s connected to a Magic Keyboard, as spotted by MacRumors. That tracks with Bloomberg Mark Gurman’s report that Apple is planning to bring more multitasking and windowing features to its tablets.
Additionally, Majin Bu says Apple may add external display support to iPhones with USB-C, which could offer an experience similar to Stage Manager.


Why is Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan the go-to for tech bros who want something from San Francisco politicos? It kind of seems like there’s no tangible result, and yet he is routinely tagged in on X anyway. Is this the new way for startup founders to network?
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