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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Pornhub opens back up to UK users who verify their age on the iPhone.

Pornhub went dark in the UK in January after the country began mandating age checks for sites hosting content deemed “harmful” to kids. But now that Apple’s doing the verifying in iOS 26.4, Pornhub parent company Aylo announced that UK users who verify their age with their iPhone can now access the adult website.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Adobe made an AI agent for PDFs.

The new “productivity agent” connects with Adobe’s image and audio generative AI models and powers conversational document editing features in Acrobat, alongside unlocking new sharing capabilities in PDF Spaces. This is just the latest example of Adobe’s commitment to slap AI agents into all of its apps.

Blink bumps its budget buzzer to 2KBlink bumps its budget buzzer to 2K
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
It’s more of a subquest, really.

OpenAI may have pledged to cut back on “side quests,” but making its own phone doesn’t count. Right?

aprude:

No more “side quests” lol

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Your feed is overrun with clips — this is the cutthroat community of ‘clippers’ behind it

They cut up podcasts, videos, and events into infinite shorter versions. How long can it last?

Mia Sato
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
You can force your PS5 to play PS3 discs.

Remember that mod for running Linux on PlayStation 5 consoles? It turns out that people are using it as a base to install the open-source RPCS3 PlayStation 3 emulator, which allows Sony’s newer console to read physical PS3 discs.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Apple is now an EGOT contender.

After already winning Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar awards for its TV series and films, Apple now has its first ever Tony award nominations. The 12 nods are for Schmigadoon!, a broadway musical adapted from the Apple TV Plus series of the same name. The winners are announced on June 7th.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Apple axes more Mac Mini and Studio models.

After cutting the Mac Mini’s base model, Apple is now also nixing its 32GB and 64GB RAM options, along with the 256GB RAM version of the Mac Studio. RAM prices are likely to blame, not helped by AI-driven demand for the two small Macs: both computers currently have weeks-long shipping estimates from Apple’s online store.