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    I’m the Taylorator, it’s me.

    Check out this cool post about “The Taylorator,” which “is a piece of software which allows me to flood the FM broadcast band with Taylor Swift’s music. No matter where you tune your radio, you will only be able to listen to her!”

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    Jay Peters
    Another look at Threads’ Community Notes.

    After sharing some screenshots of the feature earlier this month, Alessandro Paluzzi shared a couple more of the feature today.

    If you want to join the Community Notes waitlist, you can do that here.

    A screenshot of Alessandro Paluzzi’s screenshots of Community Notes on Threads.
    Alessandro Paluzzi’s screenshots on Threads.
    Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
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    Jay Peters
    Turn this Off music on.

    Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, is composing some music for the revival of an RPG called Off. You can listen to two tracks and read about Off’s influence on Undertale in an interview on the game’s website, and I’ve included one of the tracks below.

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    Jay Peters
    68 percent of all iPhones are already on iOS 18.

    And 76 percent of iPhone introduced in the last four years are on it, too, according to Apple’s iOS adoption stats that were spotted by 9to5Mac. The figures, from Apple, are “As measured by devices that transacted on the App Store on January 21, 2025.”

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    Jay Peters
    After a small hiccup, Epic has added third-party games to its mobile store.

    Epic initially “ran into a few bugs” getting the games live, but now they’ve launched. Read more details in Lauren Feiner’s story.