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Jacob Kastrenakes

Jacob Kastrenakes

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    Elon Musk is backing Trump.

    Musk gave his endorsement to the former president following the apparent shooting at an event in Pennsylvania. Bloomberg reported yesterday that Musk had donated a “sizable amount” to a political group supporting him.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    The Vision Pro launches in five more countries today.

    Customers in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the UK can now buy Apple’s VR headset. It’s the second wave of international expansion, following China, Japan, and Singapore last month. When the headset launched in February, it was exclusive to the US.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Hot new productivity app just dropped.

    Improve your workflow by getting distracted and bouncing a virtual ball around your screen instead of doing whatever it was you were supposed to be doing.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Everyone wants to be on Hot Ones — no one wants to buy it.

    BuzzFeed sold off Complex earlier this year, and now it’s shopping around First We Feast, the network behind the hit hot wings show. Its initial ask was for over $70 million, according to Bloomberg. “After months of talks,” there’s still no buyer — and BuzzFeed urgently needs the cash.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    I’ve been trying to identify this UI for half an hour.

    Lots of folks on X seem to think Sydney Sweeney is using a piracy service called Flixtor, as NME reported. I’m not immediately seeing that interface there — or anywhere else. Any ideas?

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Walmart will bring digital price tags to 2,300 stores over the next few years.

    NPR looked into how digital tags are changing the supermarket — and making it easier to change prices:

    “If it’s hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there’s something that’s close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that’s the good news,” said Phil Lempert, a grocery industry analyst.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Amazon is putting the MGM library to work.

    It’s reportedly developing a sequel to Spaceballs, Mel Brooks’ Star Wars parody, with Brooks and Josh Gad producing. The project is in “early stages,” per Variety.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Android phones might get smarter about turning off your screen.

    A new setting in Android 15 called “adaptive timeout” suggests that phones will be able to turn off the screen faster if they detect you’re not around. Right now, the system is more worried about keeping it turned on when you are nearby.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Someone’s hyped about that Nintendo Direct.

    Albania’s Jasir Asani brought out Mario-themed cleats for the team’s match against Croatia today.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Perplexity continues to piss off publishers.

    Wired and Robb Knight, a developer at MacStories, found that the AI search engine seems to ignore requests not to scrape their websites. They both blocked Perplexity in their robots.txt file — a standard instruction document for web crawlers — and found that Perplexity still managed to access their content. They’re not the only ones annoyed.