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The all-stock acquisition concludes an agreement the two announced in April.
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-The recently resurrected Commodore is getting back into phones, but rather than taking on the likes of Apple and Samsung at their own game, the Commodore Callback 8020 is a proudly non-conformant flip phone that wouldn't have looked out of place in the '90s.

-WhatsApp is finally offering what most of its contemporaries already have: disappearing (view-once) texts.

-The White House app is reportedly coming to all devices managed by the Department of Homeland Security, whether the user wants to download it or not. GovExec that it was a "cause for alarm," as any app installed on government-issued devices can "potentially create backdoor access to government networks behind the firewall." 

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-The government recently annulled the results of a key medical school entrance test because it said that the answers were leaked ahead of time on Telegram.

-The Atlantic has published four searchable databases of music that has been used to train AI models. The scope is pretty staggering, with 12 million tracks in one database, 9 million in another, and the two final ones each containing about 100,000 songs.

-Google Earth has a flight sim mode of its own, and it can now be accessed by anyone globally via their browser.
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The company is also promoting legislation to fight the potential of AI to create 'massive' scams
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