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Apple Music import tool now available worldwide, with a few exceptions

Following a limited launch late last month, Apple has now officially rolled out its Apple Music import tool worldwide, making it easier for users who want to switch from Spotify and other music platforms. Here is how it works, and where it is (and isn’t) available. Apple began testing its Apple Music importing tool back in February, and following a limited release to users in Australia and New Zealand in May, it began rolling it out more widely last month to users in Brazil, Canada, France, Ger

Apple Music Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify Now. Here's Why You May Want To

Apple Music app customers woke up to a new feature last week, although not many know it exists yet. Apple Music subscribers can now grab songs or playlists from other music platforms, notably Spotify, and bring them to Apple. The ability to transfer music from other music services is buried in the Music App settings. Initially tested in Australia and New Zealand last year, this transfer option has now been rolled out to the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and several other countries. It

Apple Music Now Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify: Here's Why You May Want To

Apple Music app customers woke up to a new feature Tuesday, although not many know it exists yet. Apple Music subscribers can now grab songs or playlists from other music platforms, notably Spotify, and bring them to Apple. The ability to transfer music from other music services is buried in the Music App settings. Initially tested in Australia and New Zealand last year, this transfer option has now been rolled out to the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and several other countries. It's

OpenAI Warns Against Investing in Its Stock

OpenAI isn't a publicly-traded company — yet, at least — and as such, the company's express written consent is necessary for the sale or transfer of its equity. But that massive caveat has not, apparently, stopped sleazy operators from trying to rip would-be investors off with shady promises of buying into the red-hot artificial intelligence giant. In a new blog post, OpenAI warned that there are bad actors out there attempting to make "unauthorized opportunities to gain access" to the company

Easily switch from Spotify to Apple Music in the US; Spotify DMs

Earlier this year, we saw an Apple Music tool intended to make it easier to switch from Spotify, and that tool is now available in more countries, including the US. But wait! Are you sure you really want to do that when Spotify has just rolled out its very latest feature? Direct messages … Spotify to Apple Music transfer tool First seen in beta last year, Apple started a slow roll out of the transfer tool this year, beginning with Australia and New Zealand. The feature has now come to the US

Switching from iPhone to Pixel 10? It’ll soon be easier to transfer your eSIM (APK teardown)

TL;DR Google is bringing a new feature to transfer eSIM from iPhone to Android. The feature is expected to work both ways, allowing a seamless migration of profiles. It only works with devices running iOS 26, and is unlikely to work with iPhones running older firmware. Google just unveiled the Pixel 10 series officially. While the new phones bring some welcome improvements like Pixelsnap, a more efficient chipset, and a host of new AI features, there’s one grim change that could rile up folks

Vim Macros for Beancount

Here I try to describe performing a niche Beancount data manipulation by building up complex Vim Macros from basic Vim Motions. I am a long time user of vim: still a novice frustrated that I still opt to use the hjkl movement keys to navigate around without going deeper by committing the more sophisticated motion capabilities into muscle memory I have recently (in the last 4 years) have finances that are somewhat representative of a normal(ish) adult salary housing expenses bills mainten

Warning: Protect your phone from choicejacking before it's too late - here's how

Elyse Betters Picaro (with graphic elements from Ameythyststudio, Aleriimingirov, and Romansa design art via Canva) / ZDNET Giving your phone some extra juice via a public charging station is always a handy option, but it may not be a safe one. As described in a new report from NordVPN, cybercriminals can now turn to a trick called choicejacking, in which they're able to transfer data from your phone to a device disguised as a charger. What is choicejacking? With this new method, a malicious

How to transfer your Ticketmaster tickets to someone else

If you can't make it to a concert or game, you can at least ensure your ticket doesn't go to waste. That reunion tour concert you booked a few months ago is creeping up on your calendar, but you're going to be trapped at home because life gets in the way sometimes. If you booked your ticket through Ticketmaster, you can easily transfer your pass to someone else instead of letting it turn into an empty seat. How to transfer tickets in the Ticketmaster app If you have the Ticketmaster app, you

How to transfer Ticketmaster tickets to your friends or family

If you can't make it to a concert or game, you can at least ensure your ticket doesn't go to waste. That reunion tour concert you booked a few months ago is creeping up on your calendar, but you're going to be trapped at home because life gets in the way sometimes. If you booked your ticket through Ticketmaster, you can easily transfer your pass to someone else instead of letting it turn into an empty seat. How to transfer tickets in the Ticketmaster app If you have the Ticketmaster app, you

Tesla Tries to Save the Cybertruck With Its Most Desperate Offer Yet

Less than two years after its hyped-up debut, Tesla is making an aggressive, almost desperate, move to salvage the Cybertruck, a vehicle widely seen as one of the biggest busts in recent automotive history. Faced with production woes, quality control nightmares, and underwhelming sales, the company has added its polarizing truck to a massive sales event, offering a powerful incentive it has historically reserved for its most loyal customers: a free transfer of its $12,000 Full Self-Driving (FSD

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

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

WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash

WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash The firm has now updated its terms, saying it has "made the language easier to understand" to avoid confusion. A WeTransfer spokeswoman told BBC News: "We don't use machine learning or any form of AI to process content shared via WeTransfer, nor do we sell content or data to any third parties." The file sharing company had received lots of criticism from customers on social media after changing its terms of service, which some interpre

Robinhood CEO downplays OpenAI concerns on tokenized stock structure

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says it's not "entirely relevant" that the trading platform's so-called tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX aren't technically equity in the companies. It comes after OpenAI raised concerns about the product, which is designed to give users in the European Union exposure to various U.S. stocks — including private companies, which are less liquid than publicly listed firms. OpenAI last week warned that Robinhood's stock tokens do not represent equity in the company an

Got a Nintendo Switch 2? Here's the Right Way to Move Your Games and Data

A system transfer from the original Switch to the Switch 2 is supposed to be easy, and it is. However, there are a few tricks in the process that some Switch 2 owners have tripped over since buying the new portable console. If you have both an original Switch and a Switch 2, Nintendo added a System Transfer tool that moves over your profiles, purchased games, save data and other settings. This option shows up when starting up the Switch 2 for the first time, but if certain instructions aren't f