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Lorde Speaks Out Against “Fucked Up” AI Glasses
While performing at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday 9 July 2026, the pop star Lorde used her time on stage to speak out against AI-enabled smart glasses. Telling the crowd that “increasingly in our world it gets harder and harder to know what is real”, she declared “Fuck the Glasses. Don’t get…
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Meta Verified scam threatens Facebook deletion
Fox News’s technology column, written by Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson, warns readers about a phishing scam that impersonates Meta in order to steal Facebook login details. The fraudulent message appears official, using the Meta logo and threatening that the recipient’s Facebook account will be deleted, a sense of urgency designed to make people act before thinking.…
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‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Star Miranda Hope Talks Music Debut and Shares a Season 5 Update
Miranda Hope, best known for starring in Hulu’s Emmy-nominated reality series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, has launched a music career with her debut single “FU4THAT”, a country-pop track about reclaiming personal power and moving forward. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she framed the release as the start of a broader musical…
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“I sued their asses and won!” Gamer wins legal battle to get hacked Xbox account back after they were told to rebuy all their digital games
A gamer in Brazil has won a legal case against Microsoft after the company suspended their Xbox account, and access to all associated digital games, following a hack. The user, known on Reddit as Ordo_Liberal, said Microsoft’s support team confirmed the account had been compromised but claimed it could not be recovered, leaving the player…
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FL Studio head Constantin Koehncke turns to Reddit for feedback and fun
The Verge has published a “Weekend Questionnaire” interview with Constantin Koehncke, CEO of Image Line, the company behind the popular digital audio workstation FL Studio (once known as Fruity Loops). The piece highlights how Koehncke stays close to his user base, checking the FL Studio forums and Reddit every day, and it matters as a…
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Bahamas plane crash kills ten as Trump threatens Iran with year of destruction
A Flamingo Air Cessna crashed near San Andros killing all ten aboard, as Trump warned Iran of massive retaliation; Meta scrapped its Muse tool and England face Norway in the World Cup quarter-final.
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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
OpenAI is expanding its focus from individual users towards families, and is hiring a dedicated product manager in San Francisco to build experiences for families, caregivers and older adults across its products. The move signals a shift in how the company views ChatGPT — less as a personal productivity tool and more as technology embedded…
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Engadget review recap: Steam Machine, Samsung Music Studio 7, Oura Ring 5 and more
Engadget has published its latest review recap, gathering together recent verdicts on a spread of new consumer technology spanning gaming hardware, audio, wearables, laptops and displays. The roundup matters as a quick guide for buyers, with the headline item being Valve’s much-anticipated Steam Machine console, which the site judged underpowered and overpriced despite praising the…
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Star Citizen’s next update will switch focus to fixing its bug-riddled previous update, with bigger changes shunted to a later patch
Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has decided that the space sim’s next update will concentrate on fixing the numerous bugs introduced by its previous release, rather than adding significant new features. This means the larger, more ambitious changes originally planned have been pushed back to a later patch, signalling a shift in priorities towards…