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Jay Peters

Jay Peters

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    The FBI is looking into purported attempts by Iran to hack the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns.

    Trump adviser Roger Stone told The Washington Post that “a couple” of his personal email accounts had been compromised.

    As for phishing emails sent to three Biden-Harris campaign staffers, the publication reports that “investigators have not found evidence that those hacking attempts were successful.”

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    Jay Peters
    Twitch: “Are you sure you want to send this?”

    The streaming platform is testing a prompt that encourages you to pause before sending a chat message that might be offensive. (It sounds kind of like the prompts that Twitter developed.)

    Just don’t go posting the message Twitch used as an example.

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    Jay Peters
    Apple’s iOS 18 app theming just got a nice upgrade.

    With iOS 18 developer beta 6 and public beta 4, the app color tints you select will now stay linked with the wallpaper you pair them with, as shown by betaprofiles.

    I love this — even though I keep my iPhone pretty gray most of the time, this feature means it’s easier to switch over to something with a different pop of color.

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    Jay Peters
    Epic has submitted Fortnite to Apple for notarization.

    It’s submitted Rocket League Sideswipe and the Epic Games Store, too, and it expects to launch the store on iOS in the EU “soon,” according to a post on X.

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    Jay Peters
    “Honey? Where’s my Fortnite suit?”

    In addition to revealing a new Marvel-themed Fortnite season, Disney and Epic Games also announced at D23 that three Disney villains (Maleficent, Cruella de Vil and Captain Hook), three Incredibles characters (seemingly Mr. Incredible, Mrs. Incredible, and Frozone), and two Star Wars characters (IG-11 and Moff Gideon — and a new Grogu backbling) are coming to the game.

    Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games earlier this year.

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    Jay Peters
    A former Twitter executive chairman has sued X, alleging that he’s owed shares worth more than $20 million.

    Omid Kordestani’s lawsuit, which was reported on by The New York Times, follows a lawsuit from the company’s former CEO, CFO, chief legal officer, and former general counsel over more than $128 million in unpaid severance.