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Ikea launched the Ormanäs, its first smart RGB LED light strip, in the Netherlands. The news comes by way of Dutch tech site Tweakers, which notes that the Ormanäs is a four-meter, or roughly 13-foot, dimmable Zigbee affair for €29.99 (about $32) that works with the company

Calls on WhatsApp are (optionally) getting even more secure for the app’s most privacy-minded users. As outlined in this blog post, WhatsApp just added a new “protect IP address in calls” toggle to its settings that shields your IP from whoever’s on the other side of a call. When activated, calls will be relayed through Meta / WhatsApp servers, thus

• US bank stocks hit an all-time low relative to the S&P 500, according to Bank of America.
• The recent underperformance of bank stocks comes amid a bond crash that has weakened balance sheets.
• Other factors hurting banks include government regulations and a period of low interest rates.

Our Chart of the Day is from Bank of America, which shows that US bank stocks hit an all-time low

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• If you have all or most of your money in a single investment account, you're missing opportunities to build wealth.
• One of the

• Santa Fe voted overwhelmingly for a new tax on homes sold for more than $1 million.
• The new 3% tax will fund affordable housing construction and maintenance.
• The vote indicates strong support for so-called "mansion taxes" across the country.

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The latest version of Apple’s venerable all-in-one desktop is an excellent and beautiful computer. It just doesn’t fit most modern computing needs.

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Millie Bobby Brown will sleuth again in Enola Holmes 3. Hear Alan Tudyk sing about farts in a new clip from Disney’s Wish. Plus, more looks at the return of The Santa Clause. Spoilers get!

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is back online after being down and inaccessible for its 100 million weekly active users. ChatGPT went down shortly before 9AM ET / 6AM PT and remained inaccessible for more than 90 minutes. OpenAI said it was experiencing a major outage that also impacted the company’s API services. ChatGPT users were greeted with a “ChatGPT

• A Ukrainian commander's top aide was killed in an explosive "accident," a Ukrainian official said.
• A suspect warned Hennadii Chastiakov that the grenades he gave him for his birthday were real.
• "The deceased probably did not believe this information," Maryana Reva told Radio Svoboda.

A Ukrainian military aide who blew himself up with a

Samsung aims to take a stab directly at the heart of Google’s big AI ambitions with its upcoming phones. The next range of Samsung mobile devices coming next year will be bursting at the seams with generative AI, including a new assistant chatbot.

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