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Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify
2+ hour, 33+ min ago Spotify confirmed the incident and says it has disabled user accounts linked to it, but that won't un-leak the music. The first torrent released says it contains metadata, such as album art, song title, and artist name, belonging to 99.9 percent…...
Samsung ‘Wide Fold’ rumored to rival Apple’s foldable next year
8+ hour ago Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone is set to arrive next year, and already faces some preemptive competition from Samsung. Korea's ET News reports that Samsung's upcoming "Wide Fold" is also set to launch in 2026, and will closely mirror the display size…...
How AIM taught the internet to chat
1+ day, 7+ hour ago If you were an internet user around the turn of the century, there's a good chance I could play a one-second long sound of a door opening and memories would immediately come flooding back. Memories of running home from school…...
Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install
2+ day, 20+ hour ago Google says it's complying with the Epic injunction by erecting new programs and fees. Today was the deadline for Google to reveal how it's complying with Judge James Donato's order to crack open Android for third-party app stores, stop illegally…...
Google is part of Movies Anywhere again
2+ day, 21+ hour ago Films you've purchased from YouTube and Google Play recently became unavailable on the platform, but they should sync to Movies Anywhere now. Google is once again part of Movies Anywhere, meaning that movies you've purchased from Google Play and YouTube…...
ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is
3+ day, 28+ min ago OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up - or down - ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm. An update rolling out on Friday gives you the option to choose whether you want "more" or "less" of these personality traits, or stick…...
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
3+ day, 1+ hour ago SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it's illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on…...
Who owns Trump Mobile?
3+ day, 5+ hour ago And do they now do nuclear fusion too? Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week, except next week, when we take a break until the new year. We've reached out, as usual, to ask…...
Phones were fashionable again in 2025
3+ day, 8+ hour ago A year or two ago, when a phone showed up at my door for review, I could pretty much count on it being black, gray, or maybe (as a treat) white. But in 2025, that hasn't been the case. Phones I…...
Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning
3+ day, 8+ hour ago Local fights against new data centers are gaining bipartisan support across the US. If there's one thing Republicans and Democrats came together on in 2025 " at least at the local level " it was to stop big, energy-hungry data center projects. "We…...