International Trash - Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee

Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee
• Spotify says it will refund Car Thing purchases 
• VC Says "Chaos" Coming for Startups, Ads, and Online Business as Generative AI Eats Web
• Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages 
• Who's having kids? 
• The panel discusses Ticketmaster 
• T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal; U.S. Cellular shares surge 
• Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users. 
• Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack 
• ‘Like drinking a music festival’: this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good? 
• Inside the scramble to ‘prebunk’ election misinformation before it takes hold 
• TikTok Pins Its Hopes on Trump to Avoid Ban 
• How a Self-Published Book, ‘The Shadow Work Journal,’ Became a Best Seller 
• Twitch streamers host a fundraiser for Palestinians. 
• The IRS is making its free Turbo Tax alternative permanent 
• Tribeca to Screen AI-Generated Short Films Created by OpenAI's Sora 
• North Korea says it will stop sending trash balloons as South Korea vows strong retaliation 
• Swiss company develops CPUs from lab-grown human brains & the internet is horrified 
• Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter

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