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That was fast. A week after a new feature for sharing long-form text was spotted in the Threads app, Meta is making the experiment official. Threads users will now be able to append text snippets of up to 10,000 characters to their posts in a feature Meta says is meant to support journalists and creators on the platform. As Engadget detailed last week, the feature is fairly basic for now. Selecting "text attachment" from the post composer opens up a simple text editor that has some formatting options. Once.
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Charlie Javice faces a decade in prison after being found guilty of using a spreadsheet full of bogus data when selling her startup to JPMorgan. Read more âș
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In the early months of the war in Ukraine, Gen. Mark Milley, then chair of the joint chiefs of staff, carried a note card in his briefcase outlining what he saw as the main priorities when it came to the US and NATO approach to the war. As reported by the Washington Post, they were: [âŠ] Read more âș
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I still can't figure out how to think about Ghost of Yōtei. And, honestly, its predecessor, Ghost of Tsushima, even four years on. I enjoy these games - I enjoy these kinds of games, even. I'm a sucker, if you'll forgive the pun, for the Sucker Punch style of open world. A kind of Diet Assassin's Creed: even lighter; even shallower; even simpler to grasp and follow around, sword in... Read more âș
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Today, Microsoft and Asus are officially opening preorders for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X at $599 and $999 respectively in the US. Theyâre $799 CAD and $1299 CAD in Canada, âŹ599 and âŹ899 in Europe, ÂŁ499 and ÂŁ799 in the UK, and $799 AUD and $1599 AUD in Australia. They both [âŠ] Read more âș
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order approving a sale of TikTok's US business. Oracle will oversee its user data and audit its algorithm. Read more âș
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The phone has one wild feature the iPhone doesn't. Do you need it? Well, maybe. Read more âș
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The Humain Horizon Pro PC puts agentic AI at the heart of your computing experience. Read more âș
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The Trump administration is signaling that a government shutdown on Wednesday could lead to more firings. Democrats say its an intimidation tactic. Read more âș
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Tom Homan, the White House border czar, allegedly accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives during a sting operation last year, according to MSNBC. The payment was made after Homan implied that he could help the agents secure government contracts in a second Trump administration. In laypersonâs terms, this is [âŠ] Read more âș
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The bad news is that the rear camera cutouts seem to cause major issues with some games. Read more âș
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Doug Bowser, president of Nintendo of America since 2019, will retire at the end of 2025 after overseeing major expansions including theme parks, films, and the launch of the Switch 2. He will be succeeded by Devon Pritchard, while Satoru Shibata will also take on a CEO role at Nintendo of America. "One of my earliest video game experiences was playing the arcade version of Donkey Kong," Bowser said in... Read more âș
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order finalizing some of the terms of a deal to bring TikTok's US business under American control. The new TikTok entity will be owned by a group of US-based investors, while ByteDance will maintain a smaller stake in the new company and keep the app's algorithm. TikTok has faced more than a year of uncertainty about its future in the United States since... Read more âș
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The United States government has finalized a deal licensing the Grok 4 chatbot for use by federal government workers. This follows recent deals made with OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic, but raises eyebrows due to the previously fractured relationship between xAI boss Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Read more âș
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Software giantâs move follows media investigation into use of its products to surveil Palestinian civilians Read more âș
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iPhone users who reside in North Dakota will soon be able to add their driver's licenses and IDs to the Apple Wallet app on the âiPhoneâ and Apple Watch. The on-device Digital ID can be used instead of a physical ID at select U.S. airports and for age verification in retail stores, in apps, and on the web. Apple added North Dakota to its list of states that support driver's... Read more âș
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Microsoft has ended access to its data centers for a unit of the Israeli military that helped power a massive surveillance operation against Palestinian civilians, according to a report by The Guardian. The company says that the country's spy agency has violated its terms of service. This surveillance system collected millions of phone calls made by Palestinian civilians every day in Gaza and the West Bank. The massive trove of... Read more âș
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In a four-part series of religious lectures in San Francisco, Peter Thiel - yes, that Peter Thiel - has argued that the End Times are night and that a biblical Antichrist - yes, that Antichrist - will come to earth in the form of onerous government regulations placed on science, technology and AI. These are, [âŠ] Read more âș
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President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. It's not a one-time fee either: Companies will have to pay $100,000 a year for any employee it brings over to the US on the visa for up to six years. The Secretary of Homeland Security will restrict approval for visa applications unless accompanied by the fee, though the rule "allows case-by-case... Read more âș
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The Secret Service says it thwarted a telecommunications cyber-op in New York City. On Tuesday, the agency announced that it seized a network of SIM servers. It was capable of jamming cell towers, conducting DDoS attacks and enabling encrypted communications. The discovery came ahead of world leaders gathering for the UN General Assembly this week. The network, reportedly discovered in August, was extensive and sophisticated. It included over 300 SIM... Read more âș
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President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. But according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, it won't be an annual fee as the administration initially said it would be. During the signing at the Oval Office on Friday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said multiple times that the fee would be applied per year. In a follow-up X post... Read more âș
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When Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta's latest smart glasses at the company's Connect 2025 keynote, he encountered two glitches that prevented him from properly demonstrating some of the devices' features. Now, Meta's Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Bosworth, said in an AMA on Instagram that they were demo failures and not actual product failures. The first glitch took place in the middle of a live demo with a cooking content creator, who... Read more âș
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A few months after the release of Grok 4 and an extremely problematic antisemitic meltdown of its chatbot, xAI is already trying to move on with its latest AI model. Elon Musk's xAI announced the release of Grok 4 Fast, a faster, more efficient reasoning model compared to its recent predecessor. According to xAI, Grok 4 Fast offers similar performance to Grok 4 while using 40 percent fewer thinking tokens... Read more âș
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WhatsApp is now rolling out message translations on its iOS and Android apps. Starting today, Android users will be able to translate messages between six languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic. On iPhone, there's support for translation between the following languages (i.e. all of the ones supported by Apple's Translate app): Arabic Dutch English French German Hindi Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Mandarin Chinese Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Spanish... Read more âș
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The inevitable has happened and Disney+ has once again announced that prices will be going up for its streaming service. Whether it's because of the ever-increasing costs or because of the company's recent teetering toward censorship or because you simply aren't using it, you may decide it's time to take a break. Here's everything you need to know about canceling your Disney+ subscription.How to cancel via web or mobileThe simplest... Read more âș
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The upcoming Football Manager 26 will include the officially licensed Barclays Womenâs Super League and National Womenâs Soccer League, among other women's competitions, marking the first time that womenâs soccer has featured in the long-running management sim. This means youâll be able to select a womenâs team to manage, complete with accurate player imagery, club logos and kits. The debut of womenâs soccer was actually announced way back in 2021,... Read more âș
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Amazon is pivoting its grocery operations in the UK, announcing that it will close 14 of its Amazon Fresh stores in the country. The remaining five Amazon Fresh locations in the UK will be converted to the Whole Foods Market brand. Rather than the brick and mortar shops, Amazon said it will focus on online grocery deliveries within the region. In 2026, the company said it expects to add perishables... Read more âș
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Logitech has launched the Signature Slim Solar+ K980, a new solar-powered keyboard that you don't need to put under the sun whenever it runs low on battery. The company says it can use "light from any light source to stay charged and ready to use" and that you can use it in complete darkness for up to four months once it's fully charged. As long as the light source reaches... Read more âș
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