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After cracking down on the use of ad blockers, YouTube has started closing another “loophole” that allowed non-paying users to access a premium feature. Reports circulating online indicate that YouTube is no longer allowing background playback through third-party browsers. Previously, users could open a video in browsers such as Samsung Internet, Microsoft Edge, Brave, or Vivaldi and continue listening to the audio while the phone screen was turned off or […]
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Epstein wrote an email to Musk in 2013 discussing a visit with four "assistants," newly released DOJ documents show. Read more ›
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Verizon is finally starting to turn things around, thanks to aggressive Q4 2025 promotions. Read more ›
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What responsibility do you have to speak up about bad things happening in the world? Does that responsibility change when speaking up might affect your business? What about if you're a sports creator, or the moderator of a deeply NSFW subreddit? What about if you're just a little ol' phone website? Ultimately, everyone has to […] Read more ›
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Don Lemon has said he was reporting as a journalist at a Minnesota church where protestors said a pastor also worked for ICE. Read more ›
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Complaints about Windows 11 bugs and glitches from the Windows community have apparently reached a tipping point. Microsoft is reportedly using all of 2026 to fix Windows 11's core issues. Read more ›
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Sumi Endo's dystopian fantasy manga is a criminally underrated hidden gem that's writing circles around its contemporaries. Read more ›
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SBF swears he was Republican-curious long before things went awry. Read more ›
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In a new report about Apple losing at least four more AI researchers in recent weeks, in addition to a high-ranking Siri executive, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated that the company is preparing to release two new versions of Siri. First, Apple announced that it plans to release a more personalized version of Siri powered by Google Gemini this year. It is expected to be part of iOS 26.4, which should... Read more ›
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Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the meantime, I finally got a reply from a company exec. After months - months - of emailing various official Trump […] Read more ›
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A new open-source framework called PageIndex solves one of the old problems of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): handling very long documents.The classic RAG workflow (chunk documents, calculate embeddings, store them in a vector database, and retrieve the top matches based on semantic similarity) works well for basic tasks such as Q&A over small documents.PageIndex abandons the standard "chunk-and-embed" method entirely and treats document retrieval not as a search problem, but as... Read more ›
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Is Tesla still a car company? It's a question we've been asking ourselves more frequently over the past year, especially as the company's car business shrinks and Elon Musk continues to push the message that Tesla should be seen more as an AI and robotics leader and less so as a mere seller of four-wheeled […] Read more ›
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DuckDuckGo recently asked its users how they felt about AI in search. The answer has come back loud and clear: more than 90% of the 175,354 people who voted said they don't want it. The privacy-focused search engine has since set up two versions of its tool: noai.duckduckgo.com for the AI-averse and yesai.duckduckgo.com for the curious. Users can also tweak settings on the main site to disable AI summaries, AI-generated... Read more ›
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Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor turned independent journalist, was arrested on Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles, who alleged that he had violated federal law while covering an anti-ICE protest in Minnesota. Notably, Lemon was not the only journalist targeted by law enforcement for their presence at the Minnesota protest. On Thursday […] Read more ›
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In a blow to the DOJ, a federal judge ruled that Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Read more ›
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Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you. Or at least, that's the idea. Read more ›
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Moltbook is essentially Reddit for AI agents and it's the "most interesting place on the internet right now," says open-source developer and writer Simon Willison in a blog post. The fast-growing social network offers a place where AI agents built on the OpenClaw personal assistant framework can share their skills, experiments, and discoveries. Humans are welcome, but only to observe. From the post: Browsing around Moltbook is so much fun.... Read more ›
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A new rumor suggests that AMD will be upgrading Zen 6 to 48MB of L3 cache to compensate for the four additional cores that will be introduced to Zen 6's CCD. Read more ›
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Meta has confirmed that it is developing a premium subscription model for its social media platforms, with WhatsApp included in this broader initiative. The move aligns with the company’s effort to diversify revenue sources and reduce its dependence on digital advertising. Signs of this new subscription tier have begun to surface in the latest beta release of WhatsApp for Android; in this version, users can already find an option to... Read more ›
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Tokyo-based design studio Metal Goat has introduced the Oogani table lamp, a lighting object that combines soft illumination with a sculptural, animal-inspired form. Shaped like a folded crab, the lamp takes cues from origami principles without directly copying the traditional look of paper folding. Instead, it presents a more contemporary interpretation of folded geometry, positioned between functional home lighting and decorative design. The Oogani lamp is part of Metal Goat’s... Read more ›
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Microsoft has issued an emergency update for Windows 11 after a newly reported bug began causing serious stability problems for some users. The issue was described as critical because it could crash Microsoft Outlook under specific conditions, particularly when users stored PST files inside folders synchronized through cloud services. This setup is relatively common in corporate environments, where Outlook data files are often kept in shared or backed-up locations. The... Read more ›
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Running modern versions of Adobe Photoshop on Linux has long been difficult, mainly because the installation process depends on Adobe Creative Cloud, which has historically failed to work properly through Wine. That situation may now be changing. According to a recent update shared by an independent developer known as PhialsBasement, Photoshop 2021 and 2025 can now be installed and run on Linux in a stable way, thanks to a set... Read more ›
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A new analysis suggests that OpenAI could face serious financial pressure and may run out of cash by mid-2027, raising questions about how sustainable the economics of frontier AI development really are. The argument comes from Sebastian Mallaby, an economist and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who recently examined the company’s spending patterns and long-term funding challenges. The concern is closely tied to the high cost of... Read more ›
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Apple is preparing to introduce a new privacy feature in iOS 26.3 that reduces how precisely mobile carriers can track user location, enabled by devices equipped with Apple’s C-series modem. Location data has long been considered highly sensitive, and while iPhone users have been able to restrict app access to precise location, carriers have traditionally retained full visibility into detailed connection data. This is set to change with the upcoming... Read more ›
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Google is working on a native music generation feature using AI that is integrated into the Gemini app for Android. Although the feature has not been announced, a source code analysis of the app reveals that the company is working on making AI music generation more accessible to everyone. The feature was found in version 17.2.51.sa.arm64 of the Google app, where “music generation” is listed alongside other fundamental Gemini features,... Read more ›
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LG Electronics has launched the 2026 Whisen Objet Collection Tower I and View I Pro air conditioners in South Korea, introducing a new proprietary cooling system known as AI Cold Free. This technology is designed to improve indoor comfort by managing both temperature and humidity more precisely than conventional air conditioners. Traditional air conditioners reduce humidity by lowering the room temperature, which can make indoor spaces feel too cold. LG’s... Read more ›
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Apple’s iPhone Air arrived as a bold experiment, combining an ultra-thin body with several compromises to keep the design minimal. Alongside choices like a smaller battery, a single rear camera, and mono sound, Apple also took a major step in connectivity: in some markets, the device dropped the physical SIM card slot entirely, relying only on eSIM. That decision has been relatively easy to accept in the United States, where... Read more ›
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