The phrase is being used to describe the horizontal lines or wrinkles that naturally develop across your neck, and may be exacerbated by constantly looking down at your phone. It sounds like yet another way to sell cosmetic treatments to people by making them feel bad about themselves.
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The formal investigation opened by the European Commission will focus on five areas: age assurance, default account settings, reporting of illegal content, dissemination of prohibited products, and the grooming and recruitment of children for criminal activities. These DSA probes can take a while, and no timeline has been provided.
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The bubbles are live in the third Android 17 beta, alongside Wi-Fi and mobile data being separated under the Quick Settings menu, a new option to hide app labels on your home screen, granular audio controls for hearing devices, and a redesigned screen recording toolbar.
The European Commission has preliminarily ruled that Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos have insufficient measures in place to prevent minors from accessing their platforms. The porn sites are being advised to remedy the DSA breaches or risk facing fines:
“At this stage, the Commission considers that Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos need to implement privacy preserving age verification measures to protect children from harmful content.”
The Cupertino company sued former Vision Pro engineer Di Liu last year for allegedly stealing trade secrets before starting a new role at Snap. The case was dismissed this week after Liu agreed to return Apple’s confidential information and pay the company an undisclosed sum for monetary damages.
The Samsung Browser is available for Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices, though some of its AI-powered features — including multi-tab awareness and a chatbot assistant that searches the web for you — are limited to the US and South Korea. An expansion to other regions is “expected in the future.”
iFixit praised the device’s built-in privacy display, but said it made for “one of the ugliest screen repair paths in a flagship phone,” giving it a provisional repairability score of 5 out of 10.
“Parts of this phone suggest Samsung understands what repair-friendly hardware looks like,” says iFixit. “The company just keeps stopping short of fully committing to it.”
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An order that required nonprofit groups to take down online videos of two former DOGE staffers being questioned under oath has been lifted, with US District Judge Colleen McMahon ruling that the risk of “embarrassment and reputational harm” isn’t enough to overcome public interest in the conduct of public officials.