Of Interest

• Microsoft Plans First-Ever Voluntary Employee Buyout

  

  Slashdot

• Feds Arrest Soldier Who Allegedly Made $400,000 on Maduro Kidnapping Polymarket Bet

  

  Gizmodo

• Meta is laying off 10 percent of its staff

  

  The Verge

• Apple stops weirdly storing data that let cops spy on Signal chats

  

  Ars Technica

• OpenAI's new GPT-5.5 arrives with advanced agentic coding and computer use

  

  Neowin

• New York lawsuits target prediction market giants Coinbase and Gemini in major showdown

  

  ReadWriteWeb

• I tried this free Windows cleanup tool to see if it'd speed up my PC - and it worked

  

  Between the Lines

• I turned Samsung's Edge Panel into the most useful part of my phone

  

  Makeuseof

• Xiaomi's Newest Budget Android Phone Is Only Compatible With This US Network

  

  BGR

• X is shutting down its Communities feature

  

  Engadget

• Kalshi fines candidates for betting on their own elections, but one says he wanted to get caught

  

  TechSpot

• A Game Pass 'Starter Edition' Bringing Stardew Valley And Fallout 4 To Discord Nitro Just Leaked

  

  Kotaku

• Claude is connecting directly to your personal apps like Spotify, Uber Eats, and TurboTax

  

  The Verge