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Threads, Meta’s X competitor, is officially one year old. While the site was rushed into existence with a bare-bones set of features, Meta has steadily improved upon the app to make it a decent place for people looking to post on a platform that isn’t X.

The site arrived at the right moment. By last summer, Elon Musk’s takeover of X — which back then was

• I visited the Blue Zone of Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula to learn about longevity.
• Residents of Blue Zones live long, healthy lives — and you can see

Chris Nash's inverted slasher In A Violent Nature — one of the year's most inventive horror films — is now available on VOD. It's a relief it wasn't a bigger hit, or else it might have done for forest trails what Spielberg's Jaws once did for sharks. A deeply unsettling work told mostly from the perspective of a bloodthirsty killer, it recalls the premise and iconography of major masked villains

• Jill Biden whispered a donor's name in Joe Biden's ear and reminded him to thank them, per a report.
• New York Magazine's Intelligencer reported that Biden repeated the words his wife fed him.
• Biden has lost support among top Democratic

Perhaps unsurprisingly, July 4th was a quiet day for news, but we’ve still got editorials on e-ink writing, the most-delayed video game ever and more bad news from the makers of ChatGPT. 

Earlier this week, engineer and Swift developer Pedro José Pereira Vieito dug into OpenAI's Mac ChatGPT app and found that it was storing user conversations locally in plain text, rather than encrypting them

• California put up its minimum wage for workers at quick-service restaurant chains to $20 in April.
• The California Business and Industrial Alliance warned that it was costing jobs.
• But employment in the industry is seasonal and usually rises and falls throughout the year.

Since Gov. Gavin

• Russia is using waves of troops in head-on "meat assault" attacks, the BBC said. 
• Russia's using them to identify Ukrainian firepower positions, an officer told the outlet.
• Around 1,000 Russian troops a day are being killed or injured, reports say. 

Russia is using head-on attacks by waves of

Remember that massive Ticketmaster hack earlier this year? Well, it turns out this breach was bigger than initially thought. As in, "440,000 compromised tickets just for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour" big.

Cybersecurity publication Hackread reports that hacker group ShinyHunters updated their ransom demand on Thursday, asking Ticketmaster's parent company Live Nation Entertainment to shell out $8

WhatsApp is bringing a creative AI feature to its platform, allowing users to create AI-generated avatars of themselves in any imagined setting.

The feature was spotted by WABetaInfo in the new WhatsApp Beta for the Android 2.24.14.13 update, and according to The Verge, uses a combination of images, text prompts, and Meta's AI Llama model to create the images.

• I'm a long-time Swiftie and bought tickets to see her in Dublin during the Eras Tour. 
• However, weeks before I was supposed to go, I was in an accident and badly injured.
• I was determined to see her, and doctors gave me the all clear. I had an amazing time.

I've been a Swiftie si

• Popeyes has expanded its chicken lineup by adding boneless wings — which are actually made from breast meat.
• There's "a lot of online chatter around 'what the heck is a boneless wing?,'" Popeyes' US boss said.
• Customers who order boneless wings skew slightly younger and are more likely to be female, he said.

Popeyes tried out a