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Microsoft is ending production of its Surface Studio 2 Plus all-in-one PC two years after introducing the latest model. Surface Studio 2 Plus stock started running out in recent weeks, and now Microsoft has confirmed to Windows Central that it’s no longer manufacturing the device.

“Customers can continue to

Last week, Brazil's antitrust regulator CADE ordered Apple to allow users to download apps and make purchases from outside its App Store, with a 20-day deadline and fines for not complying. Now, a Brazilian federal court has overturned that injunction, ruling that it was "disproportionate and unnecessary," 9to5Mac reported. 

Cade ordered Apple to allow third-party developers to tell users about

• First lady Jill Biden decorated the White House for the 2024 holiday season.
• She chose the theme of "A Season of Peace and Light."
• Hidden details in the Christmas decorations reference the theme and pay tribute to fallen soldiers.

The White House is decked out for the holidays

• Russia is firing 1.5x more shells than Ukraine, Western officials said, down from 10x earlier this year.
• While its artillery advantage is shrinking, glide bombs are compensating, officials told Sky News.
• Russian advances on the front lines have come at a

What's worse: Not being recognised by someone, or being recognised as the wrong person?

In the Jimmy Kimmel Live! clip above, Billy Eichner – Mufasa star and host of Billy on the Street – tells a story of being at the same Oscars afterparty as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. The latter came up to him at the bar, only to excitedly address him as "Jimmy on the Street" by mistake.

The solution that

• Business Insider asked 27 venture-capital investors to nominate the most promising fintechs.
• Fintechs using AI to help Wall Street firms, bankers, and consumers lead this year's series.
• Here are the top 15 AI fintechs, according to VCs.

Fintech investors still see at

• Russia last month suffered record casualties, according to UK intelligence.
• A US think tank said replacing the dead and injured with new recruits is not sustainable.
• It added that Western military support remains vital to Ukraine's war effort.

Russia will

Paul Mescal's taking his upcoming Saturday Night Live hosting gig seriously — a little too seriously in the teasers.

In the latest promo for Saturday's show, Mescal teams up with fellow host Shaboozey and SNL's Chloe Fineman for a few fairly cringe gags, but there's a good one about how exactly to say the Gladiator II star's surname.

Seems to be a trend with celebrities this week.

• Dubai is a haven for rich expats seeking business opportunities and low tax.
• Its real estate market is struggling to keep up with demand for luxury housing.
• Property prices keep rising as Dubai scrambles to build thousands more villas to meet demand.

Dubai is hot with the rich. The emirate has become an economic hub for

• Keira Knightley recalled how she was told that she "wanted to be stalked" early in her career.
• Knightley became famous after starring in "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Love Actually" in 2003.
• Now, she's opening up about how toxic Hollywood was for women in the early 2000s.

Keira Knightley was told she "wanted to be

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Google DeepMind has just revealed Genie 2, a world-modelling AI capable of creating 3D worlds and sustaining those environments for significantly longer. Genie 2 isn’t a game engine. It’s a diffusion model that generates images as the player (either a human being or another AI agent) moves through the world the software is simulating. All it needs to start is a single image prompt either generated