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Microsoft Quietly Pulls the Plug on Its Movies and TV Store

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-07-19 02:00:41

Microsoft abruptly shut down its online movie and TV store. On Friday, the tech giant quietly updated both its general and Xbox support pages to reflect the changes. Users will no longer be able to buy new content from Microsoft.com and the Microsoft Store on Windows and Xbox. Thankfully, Microsoft says if you already own movies or shows through the store you can still watch them via the Movies & TV app on Xbox and Windows devices. Microsoft says technical support will also continue for issues

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No, your Ring cameras aren’t haunted (and probably not hacked)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-19 06:00:53

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Ring users have started seeing multiple entries in their activity history for May 28 that they don’t recognize. Ring insists that no accounts have been compromised, and this is simply a bug displaying incorrect information. Users are still pressing for more answers, as some report entries for devices they’ve never even owned. Connecting smart cameras to the internet allows us to access our feeds from anywhere, getting alerts and checking out what’s g

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How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong

news.ycombinator.com Haki Benita 2025-07-16 07:36:08

Constraints keep the integrity of your system and prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot. Foreign keys are a special type of constraint because, unlike unique, check, and primary keys, they span more than one relation. This makes foreign keys harder to enforce and harder to get right. In this article, I demonstrate common pitfalls, potential optimizations, and implicit behavior related to foreign keys. Table of Contents Watch 📺 This article is inspired by a talk I gave at DjangoCon EU

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Spotify’s new 30-hour audiobook plans are too short to finish long books

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-07-19 22:00:20

Spotify has launched two new Audiobooks Plus add-on subscriptions that allow Premium users to double their audiobook listening limit to 30 hours. They’re available to individual Premium subscribers and users who manage Family and Duo plans. Other users on Premium accounts can now also request 15 hours of audiobook access from their plan manager. However, the new plans are still too short for those who prefer to listen to longer books. The 30-hour limit won’t get you through titles like George R

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Ring reintroduces video sharing with police

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-07-19 22:51:26

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Ring has once again started letting police request footage from users. Axon, a law enforcement technology company and maker of TASER, announced in April that it’s partnering with Ring to allow customers to share “relevant video with law enforcement to help solve crimes faster and safeguard neighborhoods,” as spotted earlier by Business Insider. The

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Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code — without telling users

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-07-19 08:04:34

Since Monday morning, Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan. Users are only told “Claude usage limit reached,” and given a time (typically within a matter of hours) when the limit will reset. But with no explicit announcement of a change in limits, many users have concluded that the

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Apple dodges iOS 13-era suit over background data usage (for now)

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-20 22:30:34

A years-old lawsuit accusing Apple of burning through users’ mobile data won’t be moving forward as a class action, but it might still be pursued individually. Here’s what happened. The case involves unauthorized cellular data usage, even when Wi-Fi was available The case, originally filed by user Alasdair Turner in 2020, claims that iOS 13 sent data over cellular networks even after users had specifically disabled mobile access for certain apps. That background activity was allegedly mislabe

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Mistral’s Le Chat adds deep research agent and voice mode to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-07-21 06:05:26

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Since OpenAI introduced Deep Research, an AI agent that can conduct research for users and generate a comprehensive report, many other companies have released their own versions of this capability, all named Deep Research. Deep Research, as a feature and product, can be accessed through various platforms, including Google’s Gemini, AlphaSe

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ChatGPT can now browse and perform web-based tasks for you

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-21 10:34:40

In a quick live stream today, OpenAI announced ChatGPT agent, which improves on its promising, but limited Operator feature announced a few months ago. Here’s how it works Operator meets Deep Research What OpenAI did was combine Operator, which already had agentic browsing capabilities, and Deep Research, which can quickly consume, understand, and infer on website content. The result is an agent that gets spun up on a virtual machine when you assign it a task, and then it just… goes. It can

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Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

news.ycombinator.com Russell Brandom 2025-07-21 10:09:51

Since Monday morning, Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan. Users are only told “Claude usage limit reached,” and given a time (typically within a matter of hours) when the limit will reset. But with no explicit announcement of a change in limits, many users have concluded that the

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Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-07-21 10:04:34

Since Monday morning, Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan. Users are only told “Claude usage limit reached,” and given a time (typically within a matter of hours) when the limit will reset. But with no explicit announcement of a change in limits, many users have concluded that the

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OpenAI unveils ‘ChatGPT agent’ that gives ChatGPT its own computer to autonomously use your email and web apps, download and create files for you

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-07-21 16:16:33

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI isn’t letting the delay of its open source AI model slow it down on shipping other features. Today, the company is unveiling ChatGPT agent, a feature that allows its AI chatbot to autonomously browse the web, conduct extensive research, download and create new files for its human users using its own virtual computer. Come again? Ch

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ChatGPT isn't just for chatting anymore - now it will do your work for you

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-07-22 02:59:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Not too long ago, I wrote that AI agents were the future of AI: tools that could carry out tasks for you, like ordering groceries or booking meetings. OpenAI's latest launch makes that reality appear a bit closer. Also: AI agents will change work and society in internet-sized ways, says AWS VP On Thursday, during a live stream, OpenAI launched a ChatGPT agent, which the company claims can handle complex tasks for you from start to finish. Some examples OpenAI prov

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OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Agent Tries to Do It All

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-07-22 02:00:00

Isa Fulford, the research lead for OpenAI’s new ChatGPT agent, needed to order a bunch of cupcakes, so she asked the AI tool to do it for her. “I was very specific about what I wanted, and it was a lot of cupcakes,” she says. “That one took almost an hour—but it was easier than me doing it myself, because I didn't want to do it.” OpenAI has launched a new agent for ChatGPT that uses a virtual browser to complete tasks and can generate downloadable files, specifically PowerPoint presentations an

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OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-07-22 02:00:03

OpenAI is launching a new general purpose AI agent in ChatGPT, which the company says can complete a wide variety of computer-based tasks on behalf of users. OpenAI says the agent can automatically navigate a user’s calendar, generate editable presentations and slideshows, and run code. The tool, called ChatGPT agent, combines several capabilities from OpenAI’s previous agentic tools, including Operator’s ability to click around on websites, as well as Deep Research’s ability to synthesize info

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Can’t sync your Fitbit? You’re not alone, as service suffers major outage (Update: Fixed)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-22 06:53:17

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Fitbit users currently report problems syncing data and logging into the Android app. The company confirms that an outage is in progress, and is currently under investigation. Right now there doesn’t seem to be anything users can do, so just sit tight and avoid the temptation to reinstall the app. Update, July 17, 2025 (12:53 PM ET): Fitbit reports that all systems are back up and running. If you uninstalled earlier and weren’t able to log back in to

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Can’t sync your Fitbit? You’re not alone, as service suffers major outage

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-22 14:32:17

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Fitbit users currently report problems syncing data and logging into the Android app. The company confirms that an outage is in progress, and is currently under investigation. Right now there doesn’t seem to be anything users can do, so just sit tight and avoid the temptation to reinstall the app. It’s a beautiful Thursday morning, and you’re up with the sun to get a nice long run in ahead of a busy day. Only what’s this? Your tracker won’t sync with

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Adobe Firefly can now generate AI sound effects for videos - and I'm seriously impressed

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-07-22 18:00:00

Adobe / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Just a year and a half ago, the latest and greatest of Adobe's Firefly generative AI offerings involved producing high-quality images from text with customization options, such as reference images. Since then, Adobe has pivoted into text-to-video generation and is now adding a slew of features to make it even more competitive. Also: Forget Sora: Adobe launches 'commercially safe' AI video generator. How to try it On Thursday, Adobe released a series of upg

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Adobe’s new AI tool turns silly noises into realistic audio effects

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-07-22 18:00:00

Adobe is launching new generative AI filmmaking tools that provide fun ways to create sound effects and control generated video outputs. Alongside the familiar text prompts that typically allow you to describe what Adobe’s Firefly AI models should make or edit, users can now use onomatopoeia-like voice recordings to generate custom sounds, and use reference footage to guide the movements in Firefly-generated videos. The Generate Sound Effects tool that’s launching in beta on the Firefly app can

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Slack is getting a host of new AI tools

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-22 22:00:23

Slack, the cloud‑based team messaging juggernaut, is charging ahead with further integration of AI into users’ day‑to‑day experience. The company is introducing a series of tools aimed at improving productivity and improving team communication. AI writing assistance has been built directly into Slack Canvas, allowing users to create assets like project briefs as well as refine the content they create using natural‑language prompts. Writing assistance can also be used to generate and assign acti

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Slack says its AI can make sense of your company’s jargon

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-07-22 22:00:34

Slack is using AI to help business users quickly understand confusing company language and concentrate on their most important tasks. The communication platform announced that it will “soon” be adding a feature that explains workplace jargon, and an AI writing assistant for Slack canvases that automates repetitive writing tasks like summarizing conversations and note-taking. The AI message context feature will instantly explain messages that contain an acronym or unfamiliar phrase when the user

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Roblox launches new age verification system to unlock unfiltered chats

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-07-23 07:00:01

Users over 13 years old will be prompted to use the facial-analysis software to estimate their age and determine whether they can access the new "trusted connections" feature that allows them to engage in private, unfiltered chats with other age-screened users, Ebanks said. Roblox's use of age-estimation tech will help the company "confirm the age of our users and give them more tailored and age-appropriate features," said Ryan Ebanks, a Roblox principal product manager for social products. So

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Roblox is adding an 'age estimation' feature for teens

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-23 07:00:47

Roblox is joining the growing ranks of online platforms that are trying to better understand the ages of their teen users. The company is rolling out a new " age estimation " feature for teens 13 and older. With the update, teens will be prompted for an age check that requires a video selfie in order to access its new less restrictive chat feature called "trusted connections." Roblox is relying on third-party identity company Persona for the actual "estimation," and users who fail the check wil

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ChatGPT for Mac rolls out Record Mode for Plus subscribers

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-24 02:53:11

Following its June debut for Team, Enterprise, and Edu users, OpenAI is now rolling out Record Mode to ChatGPT Plus subscribers on its macOS app. Here’s how it works and how to use it. In a post on X, the company announced: Plus users, the mic is yours. Record mode is now available to ChatGPT Plus users globally in the macOS desktop app. https://t.co/xmReUOx473 — OpenAI (@OpenAI) July 16, 2025 But what is Record Mode? Record Mode was first unveiled last month during a ChatGPT for business

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WeTransfer Backtracks on AI File Training After Backlash: What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 09:14:37

WeTransfer, the service that allows users to send large files to others, is explaining itself to clients and updating its terms of service after a backlash related to training AI models. The company published a blog post, "WeTransfer Terms of Service -- What's Really Changing," that details more updates the company made to its policies, after users noticed that recent changes seemed to suggest WeTransfer was training AI models on the files users are transferring. In the blog post, the company

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Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-07-27 06:40:32

Getting rid of them isn’t straightforward—or cheap. Users have been forced to resort to regenerating clips (which costs them more money), using external subtitle-removing tools, or cropping their videos to get rid of the subtitles altogether. Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and Gemini, posted on X on June 9 that Google had developed fixes to reduce the gibberish text. But over a month later, users are still logging issues with it in Google Labs’ Discord channel, demonstrating how d

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Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-07-27 06:55:16

Reddit users in the United Kingdom are now required to verify their age as a way to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content. The new requirement comes after the U.K.’s Online Safety Act (OSA) introduced new steps for platforms to take to block children from encountering harmful content, like pornography and material promoting self-harm. Reddit will use the third-party service Persona to confirm a user’s age, necessitating users to submit a picture of their government-issued ident

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Reddit begins age verification checks for UK users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-27 10:45:16

Redditors in the UK will now have to verify their ages before they can view mature content. Just like Bluesky, which announced a few days ago that it was rolling out age verification features, Reddit had to enforce the new rule to comply with the UK Online Safety Act. The UK's new requirements are meant to prevent children from accessing age-inappropriate posts. Reddit will use a third-party company called Persona to verify a user's age. Users will either have to upload a photo of their governme

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Crimson (YC X25) is hiring founding engineers in London

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 14:00:48

Crimson is the AI platform for high-stakes litigation. We're working with top law firms in the UK and US to streamline how complex disputes are run. Our platform drafts pleadings and submissions, analyzes judgments and orders, summarizes transcripts and locates key evidence in seconds. We're a team of three co-founders with deep technical and domain expertise. Our users are lawyers who trust us with their most sensitive case files. They care about security, accuracy, reliability and speed, and

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Reddit is rolling out age verification in the UK

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-07-27 21:30:45

Reddit users in the United Kingdom will now be blocked from accessing “certain mature content” unless they complete the platform’s new age verification process. Reddit announced on Monday that UK users will need to upload a selfie or a photo of their government ID in order to view content that’s restricted for under-18s by the UK Online Safety Act (OSA), including abusive, violent, and sexually explicit materials. The age verification process is performed by Persona, a third-party provider that

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Microsoft Quietly Pulls the Plug on Its Movies and TV Store

No, your Ring cameras aren’t haunted (and probably not hacked)

How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong

Spotify’s new 30-hour audiobook plans are too short to finish long books

Ring reintroduces video sharing with police

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code — without telling users

Apple dodges iOS 13-era suit over background data usage (for now)

Mistral’s Le Chat adds deep research agent and voice mode to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance

ChatGPT can now browse and perform web-based tasks for you

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users

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ChatGPT isn't just for chatting anymore - now it will do your work for you

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Can’t sync your Fitbit? You’re not alone, as service suffers major outage (Update: Fixed)

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Adobe’s new AI tool turns silly noises into realistic audio effects

Slack is getting a host of new AI tools

Slack says its AI can make sense of your company’s jargon

Roblox launches new age verification system to unlock unfiltered chats

Roblox is adding an 'age estimation' feature for teens

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Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem

Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules

Reddit begins age verification checks for UK users

Crimson (YC X25) is hiring founding engineers in London

Reddit is rolling out age verification in the UK

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