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Google will build new undersea cable to connect Australia and Africa.

There are relatively few undersea internet connections to Africa, says Bloomberg. The cable will start in Kenya, going south over land through several other countries before dropping undersea to connect to Australia.

Building and maintaining the undersea internet is more difficult than you’d think.


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Yikes.

Inside the trip so turbulent that one person died (probably from cardiac arrest), The injuries were severe:

At one of the hospitals where many of the victims were taken, six were found to have skull and brain injuries, and 22 suffered injuries of the spine or spinal cord. Some patients have shown signs of paralysis, though it isn’t yet known if the damage is permanent.


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Finally!

“It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster,” said US Attorney General Merrick Garland, in a statement announcing the DOJ antitrust lawsuit.


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Frank Miller’s star-studded documentary will hit theaters for one night only.

Comics legend Frank Miller has largely withdrawn from the public eye in recent years. But with the release of Frank Miller: American Genius — director Silenn Thomas’ new documentary — he’s opening his life back up to fans for one night only (June 10th) when the film his Cinemark theaters across the country. New Yorkers can also catch an earlier screening on June 6th.


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The next Call of Duty is Black Ops 6.

But that’s about all we know right now — there’s no trailer or even actual details. It won’t be long before we hear more, though, as a Call of Duty event will air right after the Xbox Direct on June 9th.


This person just beat Super Mario 64 with zero A-button presses.

For nearly three decades Super Mario 64 fans have been trying to beat the game with the least number of A-button presses, which controls Mario’s jumps. But now, Twitch streamer Marbler finally whittled that number down to zero during a run on the Wii Virtual Console — a feat that took 86 hours to complete.


The Sonos Ace headphones are here, and they’re damn impressive

The company’s app redesign fumble threatens to steal the thunder from what otherwise looks (and feels) like a strong debut in a new category.

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Embracer laid off more people than Riot Games employs.

Embracer Group says its headcount dropped by 27 percent over the past financial year, alongside closing 44 studios and 80 in-development projects. That’s 4,532 employees, more than Riot’s roughly 4,300-strong workforce.

Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors says the restructuring program is now “successfully finalized” and has “created a stronger foundation for improved profitability, cash flows and long-term value creation.”


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Live Nation is facing a DOJ antitrust lawsuit, WaPo reports.

The announcement could come as soon as Thursday. Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, calls itself “the largest producer of live music concerts in the world.” It’s one of many agents of consolidation that drastically reshaped music.


The Verge’s 2024 graduation gift guide

We found all sorts of gadgets and goodies to celebrate the class of 2024, from the practical to the poignant.

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Another OpenAI departure signals safety concerns.

Gretchen Krueger, a policy researcher at OpenAI, announced her departure on Wednesday, saying she shares the same concerns as Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever, who quit the company last week citing safety concerns.

In her thread, she voiced concerns about tech companies disempowering those seeking to hold them accountable or challenging their power, highlighting a well reported rift within OpenAI.


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Hellblade II is the first Microsoft Xbox game to hit Nvidia’s cloud on launch day.

Senua’s Saga arrived on Xbox and Windows on Tuesday the 21st — and also GeForce Now. It’ll even accept a PC Game Pass subscription as proof of ownership.

In 2023, Nvidia promised it’d release new Microsoft titles “day-and-date or as close to day-and-date as we can with the PC release of the games.” It’s happening?!


Nvidia just made $14 billion of profit in a single quarter thanks to AI chips.

Sales jumped 262 percent in Q1 2025 to hit a record $26B in revenue, of which nearly three-quarters ($19.4B) was data center compute — especially its Hopper GPUs for training LLMs and generative AI apps, says Nvidia. Gaming only accounted for $2.6 billion revenue this quarter.

Nvidia’s expecting record revenue again next quarter — $28B. Shovels in a gold rush, people.


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Microsoft Surface event: the 6 biggest announcements

Microsoft took the wraps off a new era of AI PCs.