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News Image This iOS 18 Feature Attempts to Make Your iPhone Not Worth Stealing

Activation Lock on iOS 18 will render your iPhone practically useless to a thief.

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News Image Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘s Writers Explain How They Approached Those 2 Big Character Deaths

Tim Burton's horror comedy sequel brought back characters from the original... but not everyone survived.

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Tenants spend more of their income on housing than homeowners; Young singles hit hardest

In 2022, tenants spent much more of their income on housing costs (25.5 percent) than homeowners (16.6 percent) on average, Statistics Netherlands

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News Image Boeing risks losing billions as 33,000 workers vote to strike

Union members cheer during a news conference following a vote count on the union contract at the IAM District 751 Main Union Hall in Seattle, Washington, US, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. District 751 president Jon Holden urged the union to accept the deal—which Boeing said was the "largest-ever general wage increase" in the company's history—hundreds of Boeing employees immediately began resisting ahead of a Thursday vote that ultimately doomed the deal.

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News Image Sinister Parasitic Wasp Turns Adult Fruit Flies Into Living Incubators

The newly found wasp appears to be common in the eastern United States, and inflicts Lynchian body horror onto its hosts.

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Y Combinator expanding to four cohorts a year in 2025

Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator will expand the number of cohorts it runs each year from two to four starting in 2025, Bloomberg reported Thursday, and TechCrunch confirmed today. Y Combinator president Garry Tan told the site that approximately the same number of companies will go through YC each year, despite the change. This […]

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News Image Pick Up This DeWalt 20V Max Cordless Drill for 45% off and Then Buzz It Twice as You Are Compelled To

Drill down on savings! Get a DeWalt 20V Max cordless drill for a solid 45% off

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News Image How to Use Google Lens in a Chrome Browser

Searching for visuals on the web is easier than ever.

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TechCrunch Minute: Meta acknowledges it’s scraping all public posts for AI training

If you’re wondering if your Facebook and Instagram posts have been used to train AI models at parent company Meta, the answer is almost certainly yes. That’s probably not a huge surprise. Meta already announced that it’s using user content and data to train AI — but this week, its global privacy director, Melinda Claybaugh, […]

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News Image ‘Terrorgram’ Charges Show US Has Had Tools to Crack Down on Far-Right Terrorism All Along

The federal indictment of two alleged members of the Terrorgram Collective, a far-right cell accused of inspiring “lone wolf” attacks, reveals the US is now using a “forgotten” legal strategy.

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Telegram CEO Durov’s arrest hasn’t dampened enthusiasm for its TON blockchain

Telegram has had a tough few weeks. The messaging app’s founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested in late August and later released on a €5 million bail in France, charged with running a company complicit in distributing child sexual abuse material and facilitating drug trafficking and organized fraud. Predictably, that crashed the price of the network’s […]

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News Image TIFF 2024: all the latest movie reviews from Toronto

A regularly updated stream of everything we see.

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First subzero temps of the season recorded in the Netherlands overnight

The first below-zero temperature of the autumn has been recorded.

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Student grant cuts next month may come as a surprise to many: Budget institute

Some students living away from home may have to deal with an unexpected financial setback at the end of this month.

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News Image What the hell did I just watch?

Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating epic Megalopolis is a series of loosely connected ideas, tied together with an undercooked world and embarrassing dialogue.

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News Image Dramatic Video Shows the Closest Flyby Ever of Mercury

BepiColombo captured stunning views of the innermost planet on its way to explore its magnetic field.

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A fireside chat with Andreessen Horowitz partner Martin Casado at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Martin Casado, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, will tackle one of the most pressing issues facing today’s tech world — AI regulation — only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, taking place at Moscone West in San Francisco on October 28-30. Casado is a pioneering figure in software-defined networking and is a key player in the […]

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RansomHub claims Kawasaki cyberattack, threatens to leak stolen data

Kawasaki Motors Europe has announced that it's recovering from a cyberattack that caused service disruptions as the RansomHub ransomware gang threatens to leak stolen data....

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News Image Neofetch is over, but many screenshot system info tools stand ready

Sorry about all the black space in the lower-right corner. Nerdfetch does not make good use of the space it's given—unlike the Asahi install on this MacBook. Almost nobody truly needed Neofetch, but the people who did use it? They really liked it. Neofetch, run from a terminal, displayed key system information alongside an ASCII-art image of the operating system or distribution running on that system. You knew most of this data, but if you're taking a screenshot of your system, it looked cool and conveyed a lot of data in a small space. "The overall purpose of Neofetch is to be used in screen-shots of your system," wrote Neofetch's creator, Dylan Araps, on its Github repository. "Neofetch shows the information other people want to see." Neofetch did that, providing cool screenshots and proof-of-life images across nearly 150 OS versions until late April. The last update to the tool was made three years before that, and Araps' Github profile now contains a rather succinct coda: "Have taken up farming." Araps joins "going to a commune in Vermont" and "I now make furniture out of wood" in the pantheon of programmers who do not just leave the field, but flee into another realm entirely.

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News Image Spotify is testing a new way to keep kids songs out of your listening history

If kids are asking to hear one song from Encanto on repeat, it can filter back into the algorithm and recommendations for a parent’s Spotify profile. The company tried addressing the issue with a dedicated kids app, and last year, Spotify added a feature to exclude specific playlists from a user’s taste profile. Now, Spotify is launching a pilot in three countries to test managed accounts for users under the age of 13. For parents and guardians, managed accounts enable them to better tailor the content that is available to young listeners via in-app controls—like managing the playback of Canvas, videos, and content labeled as explicit. They will now also be able to decide whether a young listener can play certain artists or tracks with...

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