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Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty earlier this year, was also ordered to pay over $8 million. According to the DOJ, that’s the amount he earned in royalties from using bots to stream hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs from 2017 to 2024.

Google warned some apps might have performance issues on the Intel Googlebooks, but now Android Authority reports that Google says only “96.6% of the top 10k+ most-used applications” work “flawlessly” on them. There are also new app compatibility ratings for the Googlebooks, but we haven’t found many with the “Made for desktop” tag yet.

Meta’s new AI agent will be getting a native app on Windows, Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri announced at today’s event. No timeline on when, though. Meta launched a Mac Muse app in September.

Brendan Carr’s FCC voted to end the rule, which prevents a broadcast station from reaching more that 39 percent of US TV households, in August. The lobby groups say that the order “arbitrarily and capriciously ignores the harms that will surely follow from allowing broadcast station groups to exceed the National Cap,” Ars Technica reports.

The Apple Watch Ultra 4 can run for up to 84 hours between charges, but Garmin’s new $899.99 Enduro 4 can track your activities for up to 320 hours or function as a basic smartwatch for up to 90 days. Instead of squeezing in a massive battery, the Enduro 4’s sapphire-protected touchscreen has an integrated solar panel so extending its battery life requires daily sun exposure.

The change means that Paramount Games Studio, which was established this year, will be combined with WBD teams like Rocksteady Studios and Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche Software, Variety reports.