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The indie gaming news has been flying out of Nintendo's event today at a rapid-fire pace. One of the announcements came from rhythm game Ratatan, which will release on July 16. The title will be arriving that day on the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. It's already been available on PC since September as an early access game. 

Unfortunately, readers may notice that the original

• The US State Department has advised Americans to leave some countries in the Middle East.
• The US embassies in Jerusalem and Qatar have said they are unable to help citizens evacuate.
• Conflict is escalating in the

Fuel prices surged after the Trump administration launched strikes against Iran on Saturday, immediately raising questions about whether the war would increase energy costs for Americans, put more pressure on power grids, and

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My youngest daughter, Tessa, just accepted an internship with PwC in San Francisco. We're overjoyed she'll be home for a few months after heartlessly leaving us 18 months ago to study accounting at Wake Forest in North Carolina.

What

• Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization to support its superintelligence push
• The org will have an unusually flat structure, with manager-to-employee ratios of up to 1:50.
• The group will partner with Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Meta is establishing a new applied AI engineering organization designed to accelerate the company's push

• The average price for a gallon of regular gas jumped 11 cents in a day, according to AAA.
• That's the largest average price jump since March 2022, analysts say.
• The price spikes come as oil markets are rattled by increasing violence in the Middle East.

The drive to and

• Ted Mabrey, Palantir's global head of commercial, asked ex-employees to return to the company.
• He said re-onboarded staff would "be on a plane day one" to "incredibly meaningful" deployments.
• The pitch comes as AI

Denshattack!, the skateboarding game that manages to mix an anime-inspired narrative with Tony Hawk Pro Skater-style grinding and wall-riding, is coming out on June 17. The game's publisher Fireshine Games announced its launch date alongside a new trailer at Nintendo's recent Indie World event.

If it wasn't clear from previous trailers, Denshattack! remains stylish as hell, filled to the brim with

If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, as do the newer AirPods Pro 3. And while

• The US Navy's intel chief said China is shifting toward building all nuclear-powered submarines.
• Supported by its vast shipbuilding capacity, China is also ramping up submarine production.
• China has historically lagged behind on submarine capabilities. US officials say it's catching up.

China's navy is moving toward all-nuclear submarine construction, the US Navy's