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Ukrainian soldiers look at the sky in search for a nearby Russian drone at the Bakhmut frontline, Ukraine, in January 2024.
  • Russian soldiers often move at night to try and avoid being seen, and they have more time to do this in winter.
  • They are more exposed when moving, and Western intel has said they fight poorly at night.
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After threatening to do so earlier this week, Universal Music Group (UMG) has started pulling the catalogs of performers it represents including Taylor Swift, Drake, Billie Eilish, The Weeknd and others. There are no longer tracks listed in profiles of some of the world's most notable artists.

Moreover, UMG music featured in TikTok videos will be muted going forward, forcing creators to replace



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The CEOs of Meta, Snap, Discord, X and TikTok testified at a high-stakes Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child exploitation online. During the hearing, Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, Jason Citron, Linda Yaccarino and Shou Chew spent nearly four hours being grilled by lawmakers about their records on child safety.

Judiciary Committee Chair, Senator Dick Durbin, noted Discord’s Citron “only



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Intuit, maker of TurboTax, is in another row with lawmakers — this time over how it spent $94 million in tax breaks. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and



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A sign posted in front of a Denny's restaurant in Emeryville, California.
  • Denny's has closed its only diner in Oakland, California over safety concerns.
  • This comes hot on the heels of In-N-Out Burger's announcement that it's closing its Oakland restaurant.
  • In-N-Out had cited frequent and severe crime in the area, like car break-ins and armed robberies.

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A still from a video shared by Defense Intelligence of Ukraine on February 1, 2024, purporting to show the Ivanovets ahead of its claimed destruction.
  • Ukraine has shared extraordinary footage of what it says is the sinking of a Russian ship. 
  • The claimed drone attack on Wednesday night sank the Ivanovets, Ukraine said.
  • Russia has not commented on the incident



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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, has written to the US Trustee asking it to intervene in the bankruptcy of prison healthcare provider Corizon.
  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren has called for action by a federal regulator in the bankruptcy of prison healthcare provider Corizon.
  • She wrote the US Trustee, which oversees bankruptcies



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Ukrainian servicemen fire a M777 howitzer at Russian positions near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, on March 17, 2023.
Ukrainian servicemen fire a M777 howitzer at Russian positions near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, on March 17, 2023.
  • Ukraine is able to fire just 2,000 shells a day, its defense minister said. 
  • That's about a third of what Russia is firing, Rustem Umerov added. 
  • In a letter seen by Bloomberg, Umerov urged his EU counterparts to fulfill their ammo commitments.

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Casual friendships are key to our emotional lives, but these "fringe friends" are slowly disappearing.

Nikol Moses felt the itch to head somewhere new.

The pandemic made her a little stir-crazy, so two years ago, she decided to take the plunge and move from her native Melbourne to Brisbane — a two-hour flight down Australia's west coast. Self-described as both social and talkative


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"EyeSight" has featured heavily in the marketing for the Vision Pro.
  • Some Apple fans were unimpressed by the Vision Pro's "EyeSight" feature when reviews came out this week.
  • It displays the users' virtual eyes on the outer screen of the Vision Pro.
  • The feature was branded "goofy" and "awful" by some commenters online.

Apple fans got a proper look at one of the Vision Pro's more bizarre features



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Hulu has told subscribers it will begin cracking down on password sharing on March 14.
  • Hulu has reportedly told subscribers it will be banning password sharing.
  • The Disney-owned platform becomes the latest streaming service to crack down on account sharing.
  • It follows Netflix and Disney+, who both began restricting the practice last year.

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The company’s pre-existing Phone 2. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge

The Nothing Phone 2A is official... sort of. The company confirmed the name of the upcoming device during its most recent community update YouTube video, but that’s about all it announced. It didn’t show off much more about the phone, including its appearance, specs, or price. The name of the device