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If You Share a YouTube Premium Family Plan, Read This Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 10:58:00

That popular workaround for sharing a YouTube Premium family plan with friends and relatives in different homes is now squarely in Google's crosshairs. A new wave of enforcement has begun, with subscribers reporting they've received emails warning that their account access will be suspended. The ultimatum is clear: confirm all members live at the same address within 15 days, or lose your premium perks. And now that's something you should watch out for, whether you plan to stream videos or listen

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YouTube’s new AI experiment adds AI hosts to your music

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-04 11:26:36

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube is adding AI hosts to radio and mixes in the YouTube Music app as part of a new test available through its new Labs program. The hosts are designed to “deepen your listening experience by sharing relevant stories, fan trivia, and fun commentary about your favorite music,” YouTu

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YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that present relevant stories, trivia and commentary

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 15:40:42

YouTube just announced YouTube Labs, which is being described as a "new way for users to take our cutting edge AI experiments for a test drive." This looks like a YouTube-centric version of the pre-existing Google Labs , which is another place for folks to test out experimental AI tools. There's already something new to play with here. YouTube Labs is testing AI hosts for its Music app. These hosts are designed to deepen a listening experience by providing "relevant stories, fan trivia and fun

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Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 19:04:27

I noticed a number of benchmarks failing to run on Ubuntu 25.10 this week with reported checksum errors on the files... I quickly realized it's due to the recent Rust Coreutils transition for Ubuntu 25.10 causing some major breakage for those relying on Makeself archives.Beyond Ubuntu developers dealing with some performance regressions due to moving to Rust Coreutils from GNU Coreutils in Ubuntu 25.10, some subtle differences in Rust Coreutils are also causing functionality regression in Ubuntu

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Something is seriously wrong with YouTube TV multiview, users say

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:59:43

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR For the past couple of weeks, YouTube TV users have been complaining about bad picture quality when using multiview. Numerous reports indicate that watching a single channel appears fine, but the quality severely degrades when watching two, three, or four channels at once. This is reportedly happening even with fast, wired internet connections and with other streaming apps running fine, suggesting it may be an issue with YouTube TV itself. YouTube TV’s mu

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Watch out, Sonos: I listened to Marshall's new soundbars, and they rock

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-04 23:16:00

Jada Jones/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Marshall Heston 60 and Sub 200 are $700 and $600, respectively. Both products uphold Marshall's vintage rock-and-roll-inspired design. As the company releases more modular home audio products, it pushes on Sonos's foothold. Disclosure: The cost of Jada Jones' travel to New York City was covered by Marshall, a common industry practice for long-distance trips. The judgments and opinions of ZDNE

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Meta announces paid subscriptions for both Instagram and Facebook in the UK

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 03:09:14

Facebook and Instagram users in the UK will soon be offered paid subscriptions that remove ads. In the coming weeks, those over the age of 18 can pay £3 ($4) per month on the web, or £4 ($5) per month when using Meta’s iOS or Android apps. If you're wondering why the mobile version is more expensive, Meta blames that on fees levied by Apple and Google in their respective app stores. A no-ads subscription will apply to any Facebook and Instagram account added to a Meta Accounts Center , which is

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Samsung phones could finally get a native double-tap back gesture (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-05 17:02:44

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Samsung is working on a double-tap gesture for the back of Galaxy phones. This feature currently requires users to download a Samsung Good Lock app, but we’ve discovered it in a leaked One UI 8.5 build. This discovery suggests that you can double-tap the back of your Galaxy phone without downloading a separate app. We’ve seen a few smartphone brands offering a back-tap gesture in recent years. This lets y

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Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ approach to ads is coming to UK after being rejected in EU

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-05 19:03:03

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is bringing its “pay or consent” ad model to the UK after months of wrangling with regulators over the controversial policy. The update will force Instagram and Facebook users to pick between being served up personalized ads or shelling ou

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Are you a YouTube TV subscriber? October is sounding like it could be a little messy

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 03:02:34

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube TV needs to renew its carriage contract with NBCUniversal. The service is reportedly frustrated with the high rates it pays, and wants to leverage its size for a better deal. If nothing is worked out by October, viewers face the proposition of channel blackouts. Is there anything more pathetic than when big companies take their petty spats public? You’d think that institutions with multi-billion-dollar valuations would be able to negotiate ar

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YouTube Is Going to Regret This

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-06 07:00:52

Earlier this week, YouTube gave an inch to the Online Right by announcing a plan to offer a chance at reinstatement to users who were previously banned from the platform for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election. Today, the Online Right took a mile by hammering YouTube for almost immediately terminating new accounts created by the previously banned Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes. Jones, a conspiracy theorist who still owes the families of the victi

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Amazon pays $2.5 billion to settle Prime memberships lawsuit

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 03:21:24

Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it used dark patterns to trick millions of users into enrolling in its Prime program and made it as difficult as possible to cancel the recurring subscriptions. The settlement requires Amazon to pay a $1 billion civil penalty and provide $1.5 billion in refunds to an estimated 35 million consumers affected by the company's deceptive practices related to Prime enrollment. "The evidence showed that Amaz

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PlayStation Plus Subscribers Are In for a Scary Fun October With These Great Games

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 02:40:46

There's a chill in the air, the days are getting shorter and Halloween is only a few weeks away. Sony announced at its PlayStation State of Play event on Wednesday that it was treating PlayStation Plus subscribers to Alan Wake 2 and The Last of Us Part 2 this October. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass and it offers subscribers a large, constantly expanding library of games. Subscribers can choose from the Essential, Extra and Premium tiers, which each have unique perks and be

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Amazon to pay $2.5B in FTC settlement over ‘deceptive’ Prime tactics

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-07 03:29:31

Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations that it duped users into paying for Prime subscriptions and made it hard to cancel memberships. The company will be required to pay a $1 billion civil penalty and provide $1.5 billion in refunds to an estimated 35 million consumers harmed by the company’s “deceptive Prime enrollment practices,” the FTC says. Amazon is also required to stop its “unlawful enrollment and cancellation

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Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle the FTC’s Prime lawsuit

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-07 07:45:17

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission, which claimed it tricked millions of customers into subscribing to Prime and made it hard to cancel. Under the agreement, Amazon will pay a $1 billion civil penalty, al

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Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-10-07 19:00:00

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. As AI music generators like Suno and Udio make it easy to churn out passable music, streamers like Spotify are getting flooded with AI-generated content, leaving audiences and artists alike to wonder what is “real” music anymore. On Thursday, Spotify announced new p

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Mollweide map projection and Newton's method

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 08:00:59

Karl Brandan Mollweide (1774-1825) designed an equal-area map projection, mapping the surface of the earth to an ellipse with an aspect ratio of 2:1. If you were looking at the earth from a distance, the face you’re looking at would correspond to a circle in the middle of the Mollweide map. The part of the earth that you can’t see is mapped to the rest of the ellipse. The lines of latitude are not quite evenly spaced; some distortion is required to achieve equal area. Instead, latitude φ corres

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Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community

news.ycombinator.com André Arko 2025-10-08 03:05:49

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community I’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Yehuda). I also didn’t work on the first six months worth of prototypes. That was all Carl and Yehuda together, back when “Carlhuda” was a super-prolific author of Ruby libraries, including most of the work to modularize Rails for version 3. I joined the team

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Uber Eats is offering grocery discounts to combat ‘veggie-flation’

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-08 04:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Uber is launching a new discount program aimed at fighting against rising produce prices. The company is launching a new feature called “Fresh Days,” in which customers will receive discounts of up to 50 percent on “local fruits, veget

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Zoox asks federal regulators for exemption to launch a commercial robotaxi service

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-08 23:44:31

In Brief Zoox has asked federal regulators for an exemption that would allow the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company to commercially deploy its custom-built robotaxis, which lack traditional controls like pedals and a steering wheel. The exemption request was first reported by Bloomberg. A Zoox spokesperson confirmed that it has submitted a petition for a “555 exemption” and continues to work closely with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration through this new exemption process

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YouTube will finally let you hide popups at the end of videos

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 03:30:02

YouTube says it will now let viewers dismiss the popups and video suggestions that appear at the end of videos with a new "Hide" button. These end screen popups are a standard part of most YouTube videos, but the company says it received community feedback that viewers wanted to dismiss them so they "focus on the content they're watching." If end screens are bothering you before the video you're watching has finished, you can now tap or click on a new Hide button in the top right corner of YouT

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YouTube’s crackdown on non-age-verified accounts seems to be picking up steam

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 07:24:59

TL;DR YouTube has started trying to verify if its users are adults or not. When the system can’t make a prediction on its own, users have been asked to provide documentation proving their age. For those who haven’t, many have started seeing their YouTube accounts locked down to child settings. YouTube offers probably the deepest video content well in the history of entertainment, and with such a massive library to draw from, not all of that content’s going to be appropriate for everyone. The

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Public betas for iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, more add these new features

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-09 07:05:33

Apple has released iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, and more in their first public beta. Here’s how you can install the latest updates, and details on new features. Apple’s public beta program now features iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, and more All throughout the year, Apple offers a beta software program to the public. Most recently, it granted early access to iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and more before their wide launches. Now, members of that beta program have new updates ready to install. iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.

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macOS Tahoe 26.1 public beta now available, here’s how to install it

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-09 07:07:33

After releasing the first developer beta for macOS 26.1, Apple is now rolling out the first public betas for the upcoming system. Here’s how you can install it. First, a word of advice If you’ve been happy with macOS 26, you might want to consider skipping this beta, as it doesn’t seem to bring many user-facing features. After the release of developer beta 1, we reported a few under-the-hood changes, such as Apple laying the groundwork for adopting Anthropic’s MCP protocol, and to introduce ne

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These YC founders pivoted 5 times before building a social app that nabbed 300K users and over $1M ARR in 6 months

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-10-09 07:00:51

A couple of months ago, the founders behind YC-backed social app Candle were in “pivot hell,” cycling through more than a dozen ideas after joining Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 batch, while the clock on their seed money ticked down. Alex Ruber, previously an engineer at Apple, and Parth Chopra, formerly an engineer at Asana and Twitter, had built multiple projects together, including Encore, a conversational AI shopping tool that got them into YC and with which they raised $2 million. However, whi

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YouTube will now let you hide those pesky end screens

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-09 11:25:45

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube will finally let you dismiss the pop-ups that fill your screen with recommendations at the end of a video. Now, when you come across an end screen, you can select a new “hide” button in the top-right corner of the video so you can finish what you’re watc

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YouTube will reinstate accounts banned for spreading misinformation

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-09 19:51:40

YouTube will allow creators whose accounts were terminated for repeated violations of COVID-19 and election integrity policies to rejoin the platform, according to a letter that YouTube parent company Alphabet sent to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday. “Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the Company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies tha

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Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 22:45:07

I’ve been learning Persian (Farsi) for a while now, and I’m using a bunch of tools for it. The central one is certainly Anki, a spaced repetition app to train memory. I’m creating my own never-ending deck of cards, with different types of content, for different purposes. The most frequent type of cards is grammar focused phrases (very rarely single words) coming sometimes from my own daily life, but also very often directly from videos of the Persian Learning YouTube channel, created by Majid, a

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YouTube Gives the Right Wing What it Wants, Says Biden Admin ‘Pressed’ it to Remove Content

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-09 23:45:03

Google, like Meta before it, has made what appears to be a strategic decision to bend the knee to the Trump administration and Republican leadership. In a letter addressed to the US House Judiciary Committee and released by Chairman Jim Jordan, the company claimed that the Biden administration attempted to pressure it to remove content that didn’t explicitly violate its content policies. To rectify the situation, the company committed to allowing users who had their YouTube accounts terminated o

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GitHub notifications abused to impersonate Y Combinator for crypto theft

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-10 03:37:31

A massive phishing campaign targeted GitHub users with cryptocurrency drainers, delivered via fake invitations to the Y Combinator (YC) W2026 program. Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that funds and mentors projects in their early stages, and connects founders with a network of alumni and venture capital firms. The attacker abused GitHub’s notification system to deliver the fraudulent messages, by creating issues across multiple repositories and tagging targeted users. When mentioning an

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If You Share a YouTube Premium Family Plan, Read This Now

YouTube’s new AI experiment adds AI hosts to your music

YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that present relevant stories, trivia and commentary

Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables

Something is seriously wrong with YouTube TV multiview, users say

Watch out, Sonos: I listened to Marshall's new soundbars, and they rock

Meta announces paid subscriptions for both Instagram and Facebook in the UK

Samsung phones could finally get a native double-tap back gesture (APK teardown)

Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ approach to ads is coming to UK after being rejected in EU

Are you a YouTube TV subscriber? October is sounding like it could be a little messy

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Amazon pays $2.5 billion to settle Prime memberships lawsuit

PlayStation Plus Subscribers Are In for a Scary Fun October With These Great Games

Amazon to pay $2.5B in FTC settlement over ‘deceptive’ Prime tactics

Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle the FTC’s Prime lawsuit

Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem

Mollweide map projection and Newton's method

Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community

Uber Eats is offering grocery discounts to combat ‘veggie-flation’

Zoox asks federal regulators for exemption to launch a commercial robotaxi service

YouTube will finally let you hide popups at the end of videos

YouTube’s crackdown on non-age-verified accounts seems to be picking up steam

Public betas for iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, more add these new features

macOS Tahoe 26.1 public beta now available, here’s how to install it

These YC founders pivoted 5 times before building a social app that nabbed 300K users and over $1M ARR in 6 months

YouTube will now let you hide those pesky end screens

YouTube will reinstate accounts banned for spreading misinformation

Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

YouTube Gives the Right Wing What it Wants, Says Biden Admin ‘Pressed’ it to Remove Content

GitHub notifications abused to impersonate Y Combinator for crypto theft

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