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The first visionOS developer beta since the launch of the Apple Vision Pro is here, bringing with it a fix that lets users of the headset get closer to objects in a 3D space.

In visionOS, when you get close enough to an object or an app window, it starts to fade to nothing as you pass through it. But one of The Verge’s staffers said the

This is a lot so, sit down and take a deep breath. Gina Carano, the actress who was fired from The Mandalorian for “social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities” is now suing Lucasfilm for discrimination and wrongful termination. And, because the comments were made on X,…

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Taylor Swift, who famously sang, "My baby is fly like a jet stream," threatened legal action against Jack Sweeney, the Florida college student who runs social media accounts dedicated to tracking celebrities' private jet movements, according to The Washington Post.

• Dartmouth reinstated its standardized test requirement for 2029 applicants.
• Dartmouth and all the other Ivy League's removed the test requirement following the pandemic.
• Other Ivy League's are re-evaluating the requirement as schools question diversity practices.

Dartmouth is the first Ivy League to reinstate its standardized test requirement, which will

Bluesky, the decentralized microblogging platform launched by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has finally opened its doors to the public.

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• Total consumer debt swelled to $17.5 trillion in Q4, a $212 billion jump from the previous quarter.
• Delinquencies are rising among younger borrowers in particular, the New York Fed said. 
• Younger borrowers have surpassed pre-pandemic levels of credit card delinquencies. 

Younger Americans are falling behind on paying credit card and auto loans, with the rate of late payments rising above pre

WhatsApp, like many other major tech platforms, will have to make some significant changes to comply with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). One of those changes is interoperability with other messaging platforms, a move WhatsApp engineering director Dick Brouwer explains in an interview with Wired.

The shift toward interoperability will

• Russia keeps sending armored vehicles out without the tools to fight off Ukrainian drones to the dismay of Russian war bloggers.
• Russia has lost numerous armored vehicles to enemy drones.
• Russian milbloggers say the military should send small groups of troops

• One of Taylor Swift's private jets transferred ownership last month.
• Up until recently, the singer had two personal planes.
• Swift has faced backlash for her private jet usage in the past.

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Trips to Ikea can easily be an overwhelming exercise if you go in without a plan. Ikea’s AI assistant on the GPT Store was created to help — it will tell you all about its products and visualize them in a room.

Francesco Marzoni, chief data and analytics officer at Ingka Group, the largest Ikea franchise holder, said in a press

Parks and Recreation and The White Lotus star Aubrey Plaza is having a blast in Mountain Dew's latest Super Bowl ad. Sorry, I meant to say she's having a Baja Blast.

The ad sees the famously deadpan Plaza having a (Mountain Dew Baja) Blast in a variety of situations, including a birthday party, getting stuck in an elevator, and getting body slammed at a pro wrestling event. Best of all is the ad's

• Ukraine said on Tuesday that its special forces raided a Russian mining platform in the Black Sea.
• The facility was used to support Moscow's drone operations and control the area, Kyiv said.
• Ukrainian troops stole Russian equipment and mined the platform during the nighttime raid.

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