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Ben Goggin

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deputy tech editor @nbcnews — online investigations, internet culture, extremism, child safety
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“The United Nations said Tuesday that more than 1,000 Palestinians have now been killed by Israeli forces while seeking food since the start of a new aid distribution system launched by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in late May.” nbcnews.com/world/gaza/gaz…

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There's an obit on Gawker's front page today... But it's not for Hulk Hogan, it's for Val Kilmer, and it's from April. It's also just a link to a Variety article.

There's an obit on Gawker's front page today...

But it's not for Hulk Hogan, it's for Val Kilmer, and it's from April.

It's also just a link to a Variety article.
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The funny thing about the Coldplay incident hot takes is that they all focused on "cameras everywhere" from a social media/phone perspective -- but the true culprit was an old school kiss cam, which has caused awkward interactions at mass events far before social media existed.

The funny thing about the Coldplay incident hot takes is that they all focused on "cameras everywhere" from a social media/phone perspective -- but the true culprit was an old school kiss cam, which has caused awkward interactions at mass events far before social media existed.
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Tea about the Tea app... The whisper network app for women, which displays photos of men with their names, was founded by a man, and has inspired backlash apps like "Teaborn," an app where men can discuss women. That app was removed from the app store. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

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Reuters: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid — challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

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If you work at Tesla and have a copy of this memo (or any tip, really), I'm on Signal at davidingram.77 businessinsider.com/tesla-robotaxi…

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Update: the Tea app has been hacked, and 72,000 images from the app have been leaked, including verification selfies and photos of users' driver's licenses nbcnews.com/tech/social-me….

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Police didn’t enter MN state senator Melissa Hortman’s home for OVER AN HOUR after they heard shots being fired… instead they waited to send in a drone startribune.com/new-details-fr…

Police didn’t enter MN state senator Melissa Hortman’s home for OVER AN HOUR after they heard shots being fired… instead they waited to send in a drone

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Crypto kidnapping are on the rise, and are only projected to get worse as the price of cryptocurrencies increases Bruna Horvath talked to victims of crypto kidnappings around the world to hear their stories nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/cr…

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“Two prominent Israeli human rights organizations released reports Monday concluding that their government’s actions in the Gaza Strip amounted to genocide” washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

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Satellite images show Israel building up forces for a possible ground invasion of Gaza, sources say nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

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Senators wrote to Meta today asking that they roll back the Instagram Map feature, after it alarmed and confused many users nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…