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If you’ve been looking to upgrade your portable speaker game before the next beach day or house party, the JBL Flip 6 deal on Woot might catch your eye. It’s currently down to $79.95, a solid $50 off its usual price of $129.95. The sale runs for ten days or until supplies last, with free shipping available to Prime members (others pay $6). That said, Woot does not ship to Alaska, Hawaii, or PO box addresses, and the warranty on this is a modest 90 days. Still, for what’s easily its lowest price ever (according to price-tracking tools), it’s worth a look.

It weighs just over a pound and measures about seven inches long, with the same cylindrical design that’s made the Flip series so recognizable. A woven grille wraps around its body, flanked by passive radiators on both ends that thump out low-end sound with surprising confidence. Inside, you’re getting a 20-watt woofer and a 10-watt tweeter, which together deliver a frequency range of 63Hz to 20kHz. The result is a deep, balanced sound with a punchy midrange and enough bass to feel satisfying without muddying vocals, notes this PCMag review. It connects via Bluetooth 5.1 and supports AAC and SBC codecs, though there’s no AptX, aux input, or speakerphone feature—something to keep in mind if you prefer wired flexibility or take calls through your speaker.

For outdoor use, though, the Flip 6 hits its stride. With its IP67 rating, it’s fully dust-proof and waterproof (drop it in a pool or rinse off the sand, and it’ll keep playing). Battery life runs around 12 hours, depending on your volume levels, and the USB-C charging port supports modern charging speeds. It’s also compatible with the JBL Portable app, where you can tweak the EQ if you like tailoring your sound, manage PartyBoost (to link other JBL speakers), and update firmware. It’s not a mini subwoofer, but for its size and price, the Flip 6 punches above its weight.


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The Crimson reports state tests on that dirty water show the cyanobacteria bloom that had spread from near the river's mouth all the way up to River Street has been dissipating: A test on Oct. 8 showed safe levels of the primordial organism, also known as blue-green algae, and Head of the Charles organizers are hoping for a second straight good reading in tests for which results will be released Thursday - just in time for the races this weekend.

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This week, California governor Gavin Newsom signed a handful of new laws that regulate artificial intelligence and social media. Among them is SB 243, which requires that chatbots provide "clear and conspicuous" notice that they are not a real person. The law goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.

SB 243 also requires chatbots interacting with children to provide a reminder every three hours to take a break and prohibits chatbots used by minors from generating sexually explicit content. The law mandates that companion AIs have safeguards for people in mental distress, and requires companies to report how they handle situations involving suicidal ideation and self-harm.

“Emerging technology like chatbots and social media can inspire, educate and connect — but without real guardrails, technology can also exploit, mislead, and endanger our kids,” the Democratic governor said in a statement.

The rest of California's new AI and tech laws

SB 243 is just one piece of a broader package of tech-focused legislation Newsom approved this week. The AI transparency act (AB 853), requires large platforms to disclose when AI is used to generate content. It also requires that recording devices sold in California, such as cameras and video cameras, include the option to embed verifying information.

Another bill signed by Newsom, AB 56, requires social media platforms to add regularly timed warnings to minors of the potential mental health risks associated with the use of the apps. AB 621 strengthens penalties for companies whose platforms distribute "deepfake" pornography. And finally, AB 1043 requires that device makers (mostly Apple and Google) implement tools to verify user ages in their app stores.

As California goes, so go the rest of the states

While the laws governor Newsom signed only apply to California residents, big tech companies are expected to voluntarily implement the guidelines for the rest of the nation; the population of California is so large that state laws regulating technology there tend to be adopted everywhere.

This is assuming, of course, that legal challenges don't scuttle or significantly change the laws: like most legislation aimed at "protecting the children," there is a potential conflict between the protection of children and the protections of adults' rights.

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Ever get a suspicious text from someone claiming to be your friend, but they appear to be texting from the right number? Well, in an era of number spoofing, which involves manipulating Caller ID to make yourself look like someone you're not, one can never be too careful. That's why Google is finally taking out of beta a Messages feature that helps you fight back.

Called "Android System Key Verifier," the idea is simple, and has actually been available as a separate app before. Now, right from the Messages app, you and a contact will be able to scan QR codes shown on or sent from each other's devices to verify each other as contacts. After that, you'll then be able to check suspicious messages to see if they came from a verified contact. The new QR code system is an alternative to a previous one, which required you and your contact to check if your chats had the same 80-digit verification code.

To try it out, open the Google Contacts app. Tap on your friend's contact page, and under Contact settings, tap Verify keys. From there, have your friend scan the QR code that pops up on your device, which they can do either in-person or via a screenshot. Then, repeat the process, but with you scanning a QR code from them. Note that while you can do this remotely via screenshots, for safety's sake, it might be best to do this in person, especially if you're already unsure the person you're texting is genuine (if that's the case, you might actually be better off comparing verification codes, which you can still do).

Once your contact is verified, you'll be able to make sure all future texts from them aren't spoofed. Just open the suspicious message, then in the top-right corner of the screen, hit More > Details > Verify keys and follow the on-screen instructions. You're able to do this in group chats, by navigating to More > Group Details, then scrolling to the contact you want to verify and selecting More > Verify keys.

It's not perfect—you'll want to verify your contacts proactively, before getting offending messages (or ignore the offending message until you can see your contact in person). Your contact could also lose their verification status if they get a new device or SIM card. But it's definitely more convenient than the previous solution, with the 80-digit code.

That said, if you do want to compare codes with your contact, you can still do that. On the page with the QR code, select Compare verification codes instead, which will show you a page with your code, to check against your friend's.

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Against all cybersecurity advice to the contrary, right next to my computer is a piece of paper with the password to my Google account written on it. Why? Well, if I forget it, what am I gonna do? Send a recovery email to my Gmail that I can't log into? It seems Google's aware of that little problem, because while it does have other workarounds on its account recovery page (like providing a mobile number that you've hopefully already linked to your account), now it's letting you use your friends' and family's emails to help you recover your Google accounts instead.

Google is calling these emails "Recovery Contacts," and you can set them up now. Just navigate to your Google Account's security settings (or click here) to get started. From the Recovery Contacts page, click the button to add a contact, then enter someone you trust (you'll see several suggestions) and send them a request to be a Recovery Contact for you. Once they accept it, they'll be able to help you get your account back if you ever find yourself unable to log in, but they'll have to jump through a few hoops that a normal recovery email wouldn't.

First, a Recovery Contact only has seven days to accept your invite, so if they missed your initial request, you'll have to send it again. Second, if they decline your request for whatever reason, you'll have to wait four days before you can send them a new one. Third, once they've actually accepted your request, you'll need to wait seven more days before they can actually help you recover your account.

But once your friend or family member is set up as a Recovery Contact for you and through the waiting period, there are only a few steps left. It's not quite as convenient as a standard recovery email, but it's close. When trying to recover your account, select your recovery contract from the list of recovery options, or follow a prompt Google says may pop up to reach out to them. Then, select Get number. Your recovery contact will then get an email with three different numbers on their device. Give them the number you got within 15 minutes, have them select it, and you should be able to get back into your account on your own device. Or, if you missed that time window, you can simply get another number to try again.

Note, though, that like with other recovery methods, Google might require additional case-by-case verification that you are who you say you are. The company says that if this is the case, your account will be put on a temporary security hold, and you'll be notified that an account recovery request was made. It's a bit annoying, but the idea is that if someone else tries to use your recovery contact , you'll be able to deny them access to your account. Given that one of the steps here simply requires a 1/3rd chance guess, I suppose that makes sense. It's still more secure than my piece of paper.

And speaking of security, if you ever find yourself not trusting a Recovery Contact as much as you once did, you can easily remove them from your list. Navigate to your Google Account's Security & sign-in page, then tap Recovery contacts, hit the Trash icon next to the account you want to remove, and hit Confirm. Note that a Recovery Contact won't get your standard security alerts or notifications, but it's still good practice to remove them if you no longer trust them.

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Though its mobile app is quite bad, the web version Google's NotebookLM has become one of my most-used tools since I started playing around with the AI large language model last spring. I've found a ton of ways to use it to be more efficient in my everyday life, which is (much) more than I can say for other AI-enabled applications I've tried.

Instead of (poorly) doing the work for you, NotebookLM acts as a true helper, assisting in organizing information for you without being intrusive. And one of the most useful ways to interact with it is via its familiar chat interface, which has turned the program into my new study buddy, and a resourceful co-worker.

How I use NotebookLM's AI chat for studying

I've been studying for a certification exam and have been uploading my materials into NotebookLM whenever I get to a new chapter. From there, I've been able to make flashcards, mind maps, practice quizzes, and study podcasts with a few clicks. The podcasts are especially unique and helpful: Two AI-generated voices discuss the concepts from my notes and materials in an informational, conversational way that sounds just like a podcast—if said podcast were a little too pedantic and on-the-nose. (Sometimes, it even adds in tics like vocal fry to make things sound that much more realistic.)

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Usually, I listen to a podcast on my chapter while I complete a chore, like packaging up my Poshmark sales. Then, I go back to the notebook and have it generate flashcards or a quiz to see how much information I retained. Each flashcard or quiz question includes a link to the source material, so I can click it and review the full passage in the left-side panel.

I find the tool so useful, I've become something of an evangelist for it. A friend of mine recently went back to school, and I taught them how to upload the slide decks, chapter scans, PDFs, and other materials from their online classes into NotebookLM. They now use the chatbot to summarize a given class's content and create outlines for discussion posts.

Using the chatbot to create outlines has been helpful for my friend, who struggles with writing but excels in thinking practically. They're able to ask the bot to generate key dates, important facts, and other concrete facts that they should be studying and referencing in their discussion posts, but which they find difficult to pull out of the dense material themselves.

The chatbot has also been useful for my own studying, but in a different way. Unlike my back-to-school friend, I have no idea what's going to be on my certification test. I don't get a study guide. I know that out of 23 chapters of material, a random selection of questions will be given to me, which means I have to study everything, hoping I adequately cover what appears on my final exam. So after listening to my podcast and drilling my flashcards, I ask the bot to summarize the main idea of each chapter and suggest five of the most crucial points within it. Even though I know I have to read the whole thing, this gives me a roadmap for where to start and what to look out for. In that way, it's similar to using a traditional study technique like KWL or SQ3R to formulate questions before a critical reading session.

I've also like to tell the chatbot to "have a conversation with me" about specific topics within the chapters. This is my version of the Feynman technique, in which you interrogate your mastery of a topic by trying to teach someone else about it, although I'm not "teaching" the bot so much as talking to it. By going back and forth conversationally, I practice describing the terms and ideas in a casual way, which I can't do if I'm not intimately familiar with them. If I find myself struggling to keep up the conversation, I know I have to study that section more.

How I use NotebookLM's AI chat for work

Back in May, I published a series here on Lifehacker entitled "Moving Made Simple." In writing and researching nearly a dozen articles for it, I interviewed something like 13 moving pros from around the world. I ended up with a stack of interview transcripts to sort through, and the idea of rereading them all to highlight the most important information, plus cross-reference reoccurring advice shared by multiple sources, was daunting, to say the least. I found myself struggling to remember who recommended what, and in what context, and determining which story each tip was best suited for.

But then I turned to NotebookLM. I opened up a new notebook and dropped in copies of all of my transcripts. Because NotebookLM only pulls information from the sources and materials you input, I could then ask its built-in chatbot questions without worrying it would spit out nonsense culled from a dubious, 10-year-old Reddit post. I asked it things like, "What do the sources recommend for carrying large furniture?" and "What order should someone pack their belongings in before a move?" and NotebookLM made simple lists in response, with each answer including a hyperlink to the exact transcript from which it came.

A number of pros recommended the same things, like packing hanging clothes in a garbage bag with a hole cut out for the hanger hook, and NotebookLM condensed all of those, highlighting that this was a top tip that I should definitely include. On request, it also included each speaker's name next to a given tip so I never had to go searching around for who said what, or risk misattributing something. NotebookLM made summarizing, organizing, and attributing all of this material so much easier than if I had spent hours going through the transcripts and highlighting everything myself.

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Another benefit: Unlike ChatGPT, I didn't feel gross about using this chatbot, as it wasn't exploiting the work of others or risking producing questionable results or full-blown hallucinations—all out its output was based on my own hard-won input. I did the work of formulating questions, finding sources, and conducting interviews. The chat program just helped me organize it all so I could use it to turn the quotes and information into useful, actionable stories. (Note that at no point did I ask AI to help me draft articles—I used it for backend organization only.)

In the months since, any time I've had a large volume of materials to work through to complete a given task, NotebookLM has been a useful tool. I sometimes use the chat feature to ask it for summaries, main ideas, or outlines of my notes, but I most often employ it to pull out quotes or standout concepts. It has helped me become a much more organized, efficient writer.

How I use NotebookLM in my daily life

As long as there are relevant, concrete materials available to upload to the tool, you can NotebookLM for other purposes as well. I think of it like relying on a single source of truth (SSOT), an older productivity hack that involves putting all the materials related to a certain project into one computer folder—but better, because in addition to giving you space to store all your resources, NotebookLM can organize them for you. Personally, I've uploaded copies of my schedule and asked the tool to outline my travel and time commitments for the week. (Not everything you input has to be a file or link. There is a plaintext option where you can just type out whatever you need the bot to know.)

But you can get much more creative with it. Say you're looking for a new job. You might upload a job description and ask the NotebookLM chatbot to prepare 20 potential interview questions you might face. Or go farther: Upload relevant news articles about a prospective employer's culture, recent scandals, milestones, or the latest investor report, and use all of that to gain an overview of the company. The more information you provide, the more useful the output will be—and again, it will only pull from those sources, meaning you should be able to trust its summaries. To make sure of this, I periodically test the chatbot (because I'm a suspicious person). I'll ask it about a totally unrelated topic that I know isn't in the materials I uploaded, and so far, it has always told me my question is "interesting," but that there is no reference to it in the provided resources.

Other possible use cases could include summarizing meeting transcripts, asking it to suggest meaningful themes in your recent journal entries, or outlining a five-year plan for your career. Your options are almost endless, and bound only by the quality and volume of the source material you upload.

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When you learn and use a studying method, you’re making it easier for your brain to synthesize new information. Great. Now think of how much more you could learn and retain if you could double up on the methods you’re using. Why, you could learn twice as much. You can do that, but it takes a little pre-planning and patience. It’s called “dual coding,” and it’s a popular teaching and studying technique that’s proven to help you retain more of what you’re learning.

Study twice as hard

The dual-coding theory was first conceptualized by a professor named Allan Paivio in 1971. He hypothesized that the mind can process new information verbally and visually, either one at a time or simultaneously. If processing both together, the mind will process more. It's not altogether revolutionary, although it does beg the question of whether you might get overwhelmed and end up learning less as a result. Worry not: There’s been a lot of research on the theory since Paivio came up with it; researchers have found that item recall does increase when you use two methods of processing at once. You just have to be strategic in your approach.

How to dual code when studying

All of this sounds very science-y and theoretical, but dual coding is actually pretty easy to do in practice. All you’re really trying to do is combine verbal and visual materials when you study. Try these approaches:

  • While listening to a recorded lecture, draw doodles representing what you’re hearing. You can also generate a podcast on your study materials using software like Google's NotebookLM, then doodle while you listen to that. Additionally, try making a "personal podcast" by recording yourself reading your own notes or materials, then playing it back. Here, you study once while you take the notes, again while you revise your script, again while you speak it out loud, and again while you listen, plus more thoroughly if you doodle what you're hearing.

  • After finishing a section or chapter in your book, draw a mind map explaining what you just read (or use the mapping technique to take notes in class). There are specialty apps that can help you accomplish this. NotebookLM can generate a mind map for you, but it doesn't exactly allow you to participate, so it's not ideal. Try Xmind instead.

  • As you read your notes or book, create a timeline of relevant events on a separate sheet of paper.

  • Make flashcards that incorporate images. A number of the best flashcard apps have paid upgrades that allow you to add pictures, charts, infographics, timelines, diagrams, or whatever else to your study materials. By combining the time-tested Leitner flashcard method with text and pictures, you're going above and beyond dual coding.

The best visual aids are timelines, mind maps, diagrams, and drawings, so use whichever one works for you and the subject you’re studying. One way to pack a punch with dual coding is by also incorporating blurting, a process wherein you read your material as usual and then write down or speak aloud everything you can remember about it without looking. Try blurting with visuals instead of written explanations, creating a timeline or diagram from memory before checking your recall against your notes or text. Just make sure you leave spaces in your visuals so you can easily fill in anything you forgot during the blurt.

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When you’re studying, you can try to simply memorize phrases and facts long enough to pass a test, but you should really be trying to retain concepts for the long term. What are you putting all this time and effort (and money) into if it's not preparation for the future? One way you can do that is by using “elaborative interrogation,” a technique that helps you learn more effectively by challenging the facts you’re going over. Even if you do only want to pass a test, this can help you understand how the material's concepts relate to one another, which can help you remember them better ahead of exam day.

What is elaborative interrogation?

Inquiry is an important part of learning, which is why it’s fundamental to some of the best study methods, like SQ3R and KWL. Using those techniques, you outline what you may already know before you start studying, take a quick scan of the material to formulate questions that can guide your reading, then answer your own questions as you go. They're great techniques for making sure you stay engaged and curious, both of which help you focus and actually learn.

With inquiry in general, not only do you have to memorize what’s presented to you, but you have to dig in and understand it by asking questions. Like I said, when employing SQ3R or KWL, you ask questions before you start reading, so you can find the answers. When you try elaborative interrogation, you ask the questions as you go.

Asking questions helps you find answers and establish connections that aren’t immediately apparent in the text, letting you more thoroughly understand what you’re going over. This concept makes sense: When your friend is telling you a wild story, you ask follow-up questions, right? When you ask questions, you're automatically more involved in the process of receiving information and you remember what you take in better because you're getting answers to the parts you were curious about.

How to study with elaborative interrogation

To make this work for you, you need to assess the facts of your material. Say you’re studying accounting. One fact you’ll learn is that you journalize debits before credits. You can get by and do well enough on tests just by knowing that fact without thinking any deeper about it—but if you really want to understand the material, it would be helpful to figure out why you journalize debits before credits. When doing elaborative interrogation, you ask yourself these kinds of questions after looking at your facts, so you fully grasp the meaning of it all. Here, your elaborative interrogation is, “Why do we journalize debits before we journalize credits?” Your next question can be, “Why do we record debits as a positive number?” The reason it’s done this way is to reflect incoming money more easily on the credit side.

You can even go deeper by working backwards: Why do accountants journalize? What do accountants journalize? Who sees the accountant's journal? What is included in an accountant's journal entry? What are debits? What are credits? Why are they journalized? When are they journalized? The more you understand about the core concept, the more questions you can ask, and the more you can grasp the primary fact, which is that you journalize debits before credits. Eventually, the reasoning for why debits are journalized before credits will be so obvious that the fact itself will be more than obvious. Of course that's the order you do it in, and if that order is all you need to know for your test, you're golden.

So, start by identifying the basic facts you need to know. You can do this easily by writing them down as you go through your text, notes, or lecture. Any assertion or basic fact makes the cut. You can also try using AI, like Google's NotebookLM or ChatGPT, to generate facts. As a test, I just asked ChatGPT, “What are some basic facts to study for accounting?” It gave me 16, almost all of which are great for elaborative interrogation. For instance, the software told me that the International Financial Reporting Standards are used in many countries for financial reporting. That’s probably an answer to a question on a test on its own, but to really understand the point of it all, I could ask, “Why do countries need a set of accounting standards? Which countries use the IFRS?”

If you're using ChatGPT or similar, just make sure it’s giving you actual facts; look them up to be sure they’re true. Better yet, use the other tool I mentioned, NotebookLM, because it pulls only from material you provide. Upload your course materials—slide decks, chapter scans, handouts from the professor, whatever—and ask it to pull out the key facts. You can also use the software to generate flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, and informational podcasts, but those are for different study approaches entirely. (Try them out when you're done elaborately interrogating!)

On a separate paper, write down these questions about your facts, then set to work investigating the answers. The answers may come from materials outside your class lecture, notes, or texts, so don’t be afraid to dig deep. For the most part, though, do try to stick with what you've been provided unless the professor has instructed you to look elsewhere on your own. Ultimately, getting the answers to these questions will help you establish the connections you need to truly grasp the material and remember it well.

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Marooned (1994) closes with an assurance from ScotRail that under no circumstances except the exceptional are items of left luggage opened, which fortunately no one told the protagonist of this elliptical, a little noirish, just faintly magical realist and haunting short film.

Peter Cameron (Robert Carlyle) mans the left-luggage office at Glasgow Central, but in his solitude, his oddity, and the dreamlike circling of his days, he might as well be employed in the outer reaches of Kafka. Ceaselessly surrounded by human movement and direction, he shifts to the other side of his narrow counter to change up the crick in his neck. The clock cuts his hours out in claim tags and skeleton keys, the dip of a paste pot and the closing of his hand on the coins he's dropped as impersonally as a vending machine. His eyes are absorbingly dark, the thinness of his wrists in their rolled uniform sleeves gives him a furtive, vulnerable look from his covert of sports bags and suitcases, taking a mugging, an assignation, arrivals and departures all in. The caustic familiarity with which he can greet a commuter of prior scrutiny, "And where's the redhead? I thought you married her. Did she finally figure you out?" never makes it past the thousand-yard crease in his stoneface that can crumple into real petrifaction if he's caught outside his professional script. The nautical title seems a touch dramatic for the hub of a mainline station, however landlocked, but Peter as he makes himself a precisely arranged cup of tea while listening to the shipping forecast in the office's industrially riveted recesses does have a kind of marine overcast about him, a glass-greenish tint filtering his regulation pigeon-blues, the tea towel's plaid, the leatherette of the Roberts R200 serenely intoning its warnings of gales in Fair Isle and Rockall. When he unlocks and examines the contents of bags in his care, it seems less voyeuristically invasive than quizzically alien, as if trying on the idea of what it means to have a life that can be carried in cross-section anywhere its owner feels like. He always repacks them unnoticeably. It seems a very small existence, but we have no idea if we should even wonder how he feels about it until we learn that he had a clear other choice, one which perhaps ironizes that daily ritual of a brew-up with the Met Office. "Have you been to sea? Nah, I didn't think so. You're the only one that's not been. You're breaking the tradition."

What happens to jolt this recessive character out of his routine naturally involves some illicitly opened left luggage, but much of the pleasure of the small, slant plot that precipitates is how steadily it doesn't even seem to refuse the expected next move, it just stands aside at its own slight angle. It's no twist that a man who lives at such a second hand of other lives will have no defenses when one of them touches him directly, so deer-shocked by the appearance of the black-haired, sad-eyed Claire (Liza Walker) that even before he finds her suitcase filled with the evidence of the end of a bad affair, Peter misses a tongue-tied beat of the transaction, their hands holding the same receipt for such a momentous second that for once he volunteers information he doesn't have to—"I close at half past eleven." Even more than the off-duty sight of him outside the cavernously murmuring habitat of the concourse and climbing the stairs of a grottily sodium-buzzed terrace at that, it is a real shake of the kaleidoscope to have this isolated figure situated suddenly within the ties of a family, especially a brother as big and blond and laddish as the sometime merchant seaman Craig (Stevan Rimkus), boasting of his girls and their tricks while the slight, silent shadow of his sibling holds so still that his pulse can be seen hollowing the side of his throat. "I jumped ship in Port Elizabeth . . . I owe some guys rather a lot of money. Can you help me?" A tighter, more conventionally triangulated narrative could make more of these tensions, like the snapshot memento of a happier Claire wrapped playfully around a denim-jacketed Craig that queries her unfamiliarity to Peter. Marooned lets its uncertainties lie between characters who know their own histories and turns its attention instead to the consequences that skitter off more obliquely, as riskily compassionate as enclosing a first-ever note for a fragile passenger or as heedless as slamming into a fight that wasn't expecting a mad little coathanger of a man that can't normally get three words in order, never mind a crowbar. Afterward he looks just as worried as ever, flattening himself around a seedily lit kitchen on just the wrong trajectory to avoid the other person in it. If he's peeling himself off the sidelines of the life he has always screened through timetables and sea areas, stories observed in fragments or construed from odd socks and bottles of scent, he may not be much less awkward when he gets there. Where? Standing on the deck of the ferry Juno, wiping the windblown curtains of his dark hair out of his eyes as the firth and the fog churn past almost the same sea-sanded steel-blue, he's already difficult to picture fitting as neatly behind his anonymous counter as the first time we saw him folded there, consolations of the shipping forecast or no. In the end, the hardest thing he may have to do—or the easiest, when he finally sees it—is take his own advice.

Marooned was written by Dennis McKay, directed by Jonas Grimås, and BAFTA-nominated for Best Short Film in its year, which it would have deserved: it does not feel in 20 minutes like a sketch or a slice but an elusive, immersive hinge of time where we don't need the details of the past filled in to understand the weight of what has happened in the last few days. Dialogue-wise, it's nearly silent, but it's shot by Seamus McGarvey with such an Eastmancolor-soaked combination of cinéma vérité and slow-tracked tableaux that it has the intimacy of a photo album and something of the same selective quality of time, too, edited by David Gamble as if we had to be there to find out what happened between the snaps. Occasionally it reminded me of the short fiction of M. John Harrison and not only for the late sequence where nothing more than an ear-filling hum on the soundtrack, a splutter of tea, and a pair of stares that seem to meet through the fourth wall, one somber, one shocked, confirms a fact like a folktale. The score was composed and partly performed by Stephen Warbeck and it is minimal, modern—accordion, saxophone, bass—not hopelessly sad. Much of the rest of the sound design was contributed by Glasgow Central. I found it on Vimeo and was unable to get it out of my head. It looks at almost nothing straight on, which doesn't mean not deeply. So much of it happens in Carlyle's eyes, so dark and soulful that in another kind of Scottish story, they would clinch him as a seal. "I forgot about you for three whole hours yesterday, but then it started raining and you were back in the front of my mind." This relation brought to you by my only backers at Patreon.
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Erin Reed  reports on the traditionally LGBTQ-friendly health center's decision to end treatment with puberty blockers and hormones even to 18-year-olds, normally considered adults. Fenway Health says that it could not risk federal funding for its other health programs. Reed, though questions the decision to simply comply rather than trying to fight in court.

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If constantly being mogged by sigmas has you feeling like a fuhuhluhtoogan, and you have no idea what any of that means, you've come to the right place. This glossary aims to define and explain popular slang words and phrases of Generation Z (usually defined as people born between 1997 and 2012) and Generation A (anyone born between 2012 and now) so you'll know what the hell people are talking about.

A word of warning: If you aren't of those generations, and/or you need an online list to know what slang words mean, you should not say them aloud, unless you're trying to be embarrassing.

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Heavy soda: Pop with extra syrup. Some gas station soda machines have settings that control the ratio of syrup to carbonated water. A heavy soda is a soda with the syrup level set very high.

"My steak is too juicy": The phrase "my steak is too juicy" and other variants like "my lobster is too buttery," are online insults that suggest someone is complaining about something they should be grateful for.

Scorigami: A slang term among football fans for when the final score of an NFL game has never happened before in the league's history. The most recent scorigami was on September 28, 2025, when the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys tied 40 to 40.

Slopcore: This term describes the countless 100s of millions of cheesy-looking, unsettling, AI-generated images, videos, and songs that have hit the internet since AI was given to the masses a couple of years ago.

Venus tummy: When a woman's belly is a little fat, but not too fat, she is said to have a Venus tummy. Named for ancient Greek statues of Venus and Aphrodite who were a little fleshy.


304: Hoe. (Type "304" on a calculator and turn it upside down.)

4+4: Ate. Four plus four is eight, or "ate." (See "ate.")

6-7 (or 67): This piece of Generation Alpha brainrot slang doesn't mean anything. It's just funny to some people to say "6-7," especially in answer to any question involving numbers. Ex: "Q: What time is it? A: six-seveeen."

6-7 Weekend: A weekend in which Saturday falls on the 6th day of the month and Sunday on the 7th.

80/20 Rule: An axiom in online incel spaces, the 80/20 is the idea that 80% of women only date the "top" 20% of men.

Algo speak: Coded language used to bypass online content moderation. Examples: "regarded" used instead of "retarded" and "unalive" instead of "kill."

Alpha male: Taken from animal ethology, an alpha male is the dominant member of a group of males, or just a male who is in charge. (See "beta male" and "sigma male.")

Ate/eat: Done very well, often regarding clothing. e.g.: "You ate that outfit." See also: "serving."

Aura: Someone who is mysterious and cool is said to "have aura."

Aura farming: Depending on the context, “aura farming” can refer to a person who does something cool without trying or someone who is trying too hard to appear cool.

Baddie: A bad/wild girl. Meant as a compliment.

Baka: Japanese word meaning “crazy" or “foolish.” Used mainly in the anime community.

Based: Independent in a cool way.

Bed-rotting: Staying in bed all day. You may know it as “lazing around.” (See "Hurkle-durkle.")

Beta male: A beta male, or just "beta," is a weaker, subservient male. (See "alpha male" and "sigma male.")

Boombayah: A euphemism for “having sex.” It’s used mostly online, often to defeat censorship algorithms.

Bop: A girl who sleeps around. Also: a great song.

Boysober: Someone who has sworn off sex, relationships, and/or dating.

Brain-rot: A description of the overuse of stupid slang. See also: “Skibidi.” Also used to describe the effects of being overly online.

Brat: The contemporary meaning of "brat" is an adjective describing a person who is edgy, imperfect, and confident. It was coined by pop star Charli XCX who defined it as "that girl who is a little messy and likes to party and maybe says some dumb things sometimes. Who feels herself but maybe also has a breakdown."

Bruzz: Bros. Part of the -uzz family of slang words. See "Huzz" and "-uzz."

Bubba truck: A lifted or otherwise modified pick-up truck.

Bussin': Very good or excellent.

Cap: A lie. Often used to say "no cap."

Cake: Butt, especially a nice butt.

Chad: An attractive man; an “alpha male.” See "Giga-Chad."

Chat: A reference to streamers addressing their chat windows aloud. Saying “chat” in real life is an ironic joke. 

Chopped: Ugly. Chopped is often applied to someone's face or outfit, but anything that isn't aesthetically pleasing could be called "chopped," as could anything that is generally not good, like an awkward situation.

Chud: A physically unappealing person. Sometimes used for a man who holds right-wing views.

Clanker: A slur aimed at robots and AI agents pretending to be human.

Coomer: A man who masturbates too often.

Corn: “Corn” is algo-speak that means “porn.” Used in online spaces where the word might cause your account to be flagged or banned. 

Coworker-core: A catch-all description for things that are unfunny or uninteresting in a way that appeals to older people.

Crash out: To have an intense emotional outburst, usually accompanied by impulsive behavior. Crashing out is often due to being overwhelmed or overly frustrated.

Dead: Past tense of having died laughing. If someone responds to a joke with "dead" or a skull emoji, they find it funny.

Deadass: Seriously. Used like, "I am deadass not lying."

Delulu: Delusional.

Deriod: A combination of "dick" and "period," deriod refers to men seeming to experience the mood swings commonly associated with women's menstrual cycles.

Dih: Algo speak for “dick.” (See "Algo speak.")

Doomer: A person who is overly negative and/or cynical.

Drip: A fashionable or stylish look.

Dwerking: A male-centric variation of twerking. A sexually suggestive dancing characterized by rapid, repeated hip thrusts and shaking of the dick. Other variants include "pwerking" and "bwerking" where the "p" and "b" stand for pussy and boobs.

Edgar: A variation of the Caesar haircut worn especially among Hispanic males. Also refers to the kind of person who wears the haircut. 

Fambushing: A combination of "family" and "ambushing," fambushing refers to young people checking where their parents are on location-sharing apps so they can get free food—if you see mom at Chipotle, you ask for a burrito.

Fanum tax: The theft of food between friends. Named for streamer Fanum, known for “taxing” his friends by taking bites of their meals or stealing fries. 

Fax, no printer: Telling the truth. Since "fax and "facts" are pronounced the same, this is a colorful way of saying "facts, no cap."

Fent-fold: A description of the bent-over posture of people nodding on heavy drugs.

Fit: Short for "outfit."

Fuhuhluhtoogan: Supposedly from Baltimore slang, this is a nonsense word used so people will ask what it means but never receive an answer. Often paired with "Jittleyang."

Gamer dent: The temporary indentation left on someone’s hair or skin after wearing headphones for too long.

Geeker: Someone who uses a lot of drugs.

Giga-Chad: A Chad among Chads.

Glaze: To overly praise someone, often insincerely, or with the hope of getting something in return.

Gleek: An older slang term that is gaining prominence lately, gleeking describes squirting saliva from under the tongue.

Glizzy: Hot dog. "Glizzy" was originally slang for Glock or gun, but came to mean hot dog based on the hot dog shape of a Glock's magazine.

Green fn: An interjection one might used when someone does something cool or impressive. Often used ironically. 

Gooner: A man who goons. (See "gooning.")

Goonette: A woman who goons. (See "gooning.")

Gooning: Extended masturbation without orgasm done for the purpose of entering an altered state of consciousness. (See "gooner," "goonette.")

Gyatt or Gyat: Once an interjection used when seeing someone sexy, like “god-DAMN,” “gyatt” has come to mean “attractive booty.”

Hewwo: An overly cute way of saying "hello." Usually used online, and often ironically.

HGS: Abbreviation for "home girls" used in comment sections.

Hozier yell: Named for singer/songwriter Andrew Hozier, a "Hozier yell" refers to the sound one makes when experiencing a peak, climactic, and/or awe-inspiring moment.

Hurkle-durkle: Based on an archaic Scottish word, “hurkle-durkle” means to lounge in bed after it is time to get up. See also: “bed-rotting."

Huzz: -uzz slang for "hoes." See "bruzz" and "-uzz."

"It's giving": Used to convey that something has a specific vibe. Example: "That dude texts you every 10 minutes; it's giving desperate."

"It's so over": The situation is hopeless. The opposite of "we're so back." See also: "Doomer."

IWEL: This comment-section acronym is short for "I wouldn't even lie." Sometimes written as "IWL."

Jelqing: The use of stretching or weights in an attempt to increase penis size.

Jit: A kid. Used ironically online.

Jittleyang: Supposedly from Baltimore slang, this is a nonsense word used so people will ask what it means but never receive an answer. See also: "Fuhuhluhtoogan."

JOMO: A play on FOMO (fear of missing out) JOMO is an acronym that stands for “joy of missing out.”

Jugg: To grab quickly or to steal.

"Learn Chinese": Sports slang directed at failing players. They are in danger of being sent to play in China, so they should "learn Chinese."

Looksmaxxing: Maximizing one’s physical attractiveness through personal grooming, working out, and dressing stylishly. See also: “-maxxing.”

Mason (or Mason 6-7 kid): A "Mason 6-7 Kid" or "Mason" is a stereotypical male member of Generation Alpha. Mason kids are known for their love of baseball-inspired fashion (caps and shorts), their "ice cream" haircut, and for repeating brainrot slang like "6-7."

-maxxing: A suffix used with any word to indicate trying to improve. Seeing your friends could be called "friendmaxxing," working out could be called "gymmaxxing," making jokes could be called "jestermaxxing," etc.

Mid: Average, bland, expected.

Mewing: A facial exercise meant to strengthen the jawline.

Mirror sex: Using a mirror to watch yourself have sex.

Mog: To be more attractive than someone, usually in an intentional or aggressive way. Example: "I was rizzing up this girl, but he walked in and totally mogged me."

"My 90 in a 30": A song played while driving that inspires speeding.

Neurospicy: A different way of saying “neuro-divergent.”

NPC: Non-player character. Originally describing video game characters, NPC is now used on the internet to mean people who don't think for themselves.

Opp: Short for "opposition." Someone who is out to get you. An enemy.

Performative male: An insult for young men whose tastes, hobbies, and lifestyle are seen as a performance aimed at obtaining societal approval, especially the approval of young women.

Pink cocaine: Also known as "pink snow," pink cocaine is slang for a powdered drug mixture that usually contains some combination of ketamine, MDMA, meth, opioids, and other substances.

Pole: A gun. See "up pole."

"Press F for respect:" In 2014 video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfighter, the player attends a funeral and a prompt is given that reads "Press F to pay respects." Now, a singular "F" in a chat window indicates respect. It's usually ironic.

Regarded: “Regarded” is algo-speak for “retarded."

"Reheating your own nachos:" This slang phrase comes from cultural critics in online fandom communities. It refers to performers and/or artists whose new works are seen as trying to recapture what was good about their previous artistic output. It's not always negative; it's possible to successfully reheat your own nachos.

Rizz: As a noun, "rizz" means charisma. As a verb, "rizz" or "rizz up" means attracting someone with your charisma.

SDIYBT: An acronym for "start digging in your butt, twin," this brainrot phrase doesn't mean anything. Some people just think it's funny to say.

Sendy and “Let’s get sendy": Sendy is an adjective based on the older rock-climbing and extreme sports slang phrase "send it." A shortened version of "ascend it," "send it" is said right before one is about to do something challenging. "Sendy" describes a person who is prone to doing bold things. "Let's get sendy" means something like "Let's get wild." It's been adopted by brainrot fans, so it's often repeated with no meaning meant to be attached.

Serve: Wearing a particularly stylish outfit. See also: "ate."

Serve cunt: To act in a powerfully and unapologetically feminine way; to slay.

Sharking: Looking for people to hook up with.

Sigma male: An internet-created male classification, a "sigma male" is as dominant as an alpha male, but is outside the male hierarchy, i.e.: a lone wolf. Originally used seriously, the concept was so widely derided it's now almost always used ironically. (See "Alpha male" and "Beta male.")

Skibidi: Named after “Skibidi Toilet,” a popular series of YouTube videos, “skibidi” itself has no specific meaning, beyond ridiculing the overuse of slang itself. See “brain-rot.”

Skrt: Onomatopoetic word for the sound of tires squealing upon acceleration.

Snatched: Very attractive and/or flawlessly styled. 

Spawn point: Mother. Based on the spot you start in a video game.

Spoopy: Spooky.

Striker: Stolen/no-title car.

Surf Dracula: A hyper-specific phrase that describes "prestige" television series. The joke is that if there were an older TV show called "Surf Dracula," Dracula would be surfing in every episode, but modern shows would make the whole first season about how Dracula got his surfboard.

Sweat: A person who tries too hard, usually used in reference to video games. The adjective form is "sweaty."

SYBAU: An online acronym that stands for “shut your bitch ass up.”

Tradwife: Believer in traditional married gender roles.

Treatler (and Treatlerite): "Treatler" and "Treatlerite" are online insults that combine "treat" and "Hitler" to refer to entitled users of services like Doordash or Uber Eats who regard luxury delivery services as a human right, and don't consider the hardships of the people who do the work that makes "private taxis for burritos" possible.

TS: TS originally was AAVE shorthand for "this shit," but it is often used to just mean "this."

Turnt: Excited or intoxicated, or excitedly intoxicated.

Unc: Short for "uncle," used to describe slightly older people. Example: "The class of 2024 are unc-status to the class of 2028." See "yunc."

-uzz: -uzz slang words use "uzz" at the end of any word, so "bros" becomes "bruzz," "hoes" becomes "huzz," "granny" becomes "gruzz," etc.

Up pole: To raise a gun.

Twelve: Police.

Twin: Best friend.

"We're so back": Opposite of "it's so over."

Wojack: The name of a style of internet drawings used to quickly stereotype someone. See this post for a full explanation of the Wojak universe.

Yapping: Describes a presentational style often seen on online streams of talking a lot and/or quickly while not saying anything worthwhile.

Yeet: To quickly and/or forcibly eject.

Yunc: Yunc is a variation of "unc." In AAVE, a "yn" is a "young n-word." So "yunc" means something like "young uncle," or a person who may be young but has uncle vibes or unc status.

Zoomer Perm: A curly on top, short on the sides haircut popular among young people. 

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On the second Tuesday of each month, Microsoft issues a major security update for Windows users, known as "Patch Tuesday." Some patches are larger than others; it all depends on how many vulnerabilities researchers discovered over the past month. October's Patch Tuesday update, however, is quite large.

As reported by Bleeping Computer, this latest Patch Tuesday update fixes over 170 security flaws with Windows. That includes 80 elevation of privilege vulnerabilities, 31 remote code execution vulnerabilities, 28 information disclosure vulnerabilities, 11 security feature bypass vulnerabilities, 11 denial of service vulnerabilities, and 10 spoofing vulnerabilities.

Bleeping Computer only includes the patches released by Microsoft itself in its totals for Patch Tuesday numbers. The total number is higher, as there are patches for Azure, Mariner, and vulnerabilities released earlier in October. All in, there are well over 200 patches here.

While all security patches are important, some are more critical than others. To that point, this Patch Tuesday includes fixes for eight vulnerabilities labeled as "Critical"—that includes five remote code execution vulnerabilities, and three elevation of privilege vulnerabilities.

Six zero-days

But even more important than that are the patches for six zero-day vulnerabilities. Zero-days are particularly dangerous, as there are vulnerabilities that are either publicly disclosed or exploited before the software developer has a chance to issue a patch. In this case, there are six zero-days, three publicly disclosed, and three exploited without this current patch, leaving Windows users vulnerable.

These are the three exploited vulnerabilities:

  • CVE-2025-24990: Windows Agere Modem Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability: This flaw allowed bad actors to gain administrative privileges via a bad Agere Modem driver. Microsoft has now removed the driver.

  • CVE-2025-59230: Windows Remote Access Connection Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability: This flaw allowed bad actors to gain SYSTEM privileges.

  • CVE-2025-47827: MITRE CVE-2025-47827: Secure Boot bypass in IGEL OS before 11: This flaw allowed bad actors to bypass Secure Boot, a security process that helps prevent malware from loading when a user's computer starts up.

These are the three publicly disclosed vulnerabilities:

  • CVE-2025-0033 - AMD CVE-2025-0033: RMP Corruption During SNP Initialization: This AMD flaw could impact memory integrity. Microsoft says this fix is not finished yet, and the patches will roll out through Azure Service Health Alerts when they're ready.

  • CVE-2025-24052 - Windows Agere Modem Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability: This flaw can be used to gain administrative privileges via a Agere Modem Driver. As Bleeping Computer notes, it appears quite similar to CVE-2025-24990.

  • CVE-2025-2884 - Cert CC: CVE-2025-2884 Out-of-Bounds read vulnerability in TCG TPM2.0 reference implementation: This flaw could have allowed for information disclosure or denial of service of the target’s TPM.

In other Microsoft news, the company has officially ended support for Windows 10. Unless you enroll in Extended Security Updates, your Windows 10 PC will not receive these security patches going forward.

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Grace Helbig is returning to YouTube. She made a video about it, and said something that resonated with me: we start out doing something because it is fun, and we keep doing it because we enjoy how fun it is. If we’re lucky, the thing we are doing for fun also helps us earn a living.

And then, when we aren’t paying attention, the thing that was fun is now work, and we are stressed as fuck about views and likes and reshares and oh my god this isn’t fun at all. Now, we are burned out.

Go watch Grace talk about this, if what I just told you seems interesting to you; she says a lot of insightful things that are worth hearing. I’m inspired, and want to make videos just like she does, if I can figure out some linux video editing software tools. But even if I can’t do video, I just want to get back to what it felt like when it was only fun, and I didn’t let all the other stuff get in the way.

I mention this because I only write in my blog for fun, and when I make it more important than just having fun, I really get in my own way. Yeah, I announce the cool things that I get to do, the cons I’m attending, I share my work and my podcast, and things that are work-adjacent, but if it isn’t fun to sit here and write about something, I just don’t do it. I won’t even go into how frustrating it is when I feel like I have to force it.

And I forget, every single time, how much I enjoy posting in my blog, how much I enjoy interacting with anyone who reads it in comments, how good it feels to make the human connections that, ironically, don’t seem to happen on social media, on account of all the bots and trolls and endless efforts to disrupt our peace.

So, hi. I’m glad you’re here. I hope we can interact in the comments and feel a sense of shared humanity and community.

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And now, a few things that have been on my mind, but not enough to fill up their own posts. I’m putting it behind a jump, because this got kind of long.

Since we are thinking about community …

LAist did a story about friendly local game shops. They talked to Donna Ricci, my friend who owns Geeky Teas & Games in Burbank, which happens to be both my favorite and my local game shop, and Jeff Eyeser, from Revenge Of in Eagle Rock (or maybe it’s Glassell Park, or Atwater Village. I’m unsure how the neighborhood boundaries work over there, but I’m sure someone will correct me). They both talked about not just building community, but nurturing and protecting it.

“We honor everyone who walks through our doors — except mean people,” Ricci said. “They can f**k off.”

I love this energy. Everyone should have this energy. Imagine how great it would be if every business (if every human) adopted this policy.

If you follow me on Bluesky, you know that something happened to me yesterday or maybe overnight while I was asleep, that seems to have flipped a switch inside of me that I have wanted to flip for literal decades: Some part of my brain insisted that I listen to the original cast recording of Cabaret. This is really weird. All I know about Cabaret is that Joel Gray and Liza Minelli are in it, and it’s painfully relevant to current events. That’s it. I have heard the “Welcome to the Cabaret” song a few times, but nothing else from the show.

I’ve never seen Cabaret, but from the moment I woke up, my brain DEMANDED that I listen to the original cast recording. I don’t even like musicals; I’ve lamented that I don’t have the gene, but holy shit this is so wonderful and I think maybe I got a mutation somehow and I get musicals?— Wil Wheaton (@wilwheaton.net) October 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM

You need this context to understand why this is a Thing for me: my whole life, I’ve wanted to like musical theater. So many of my friends have done musicals, are doing musicals, love to sing songs from musicals. And I just don’t get it. It’s like I don’t have the gene, or something? Everyone I knew growing up loved Grease. I just can’t stand it. Same with Phantom of the Opera and Cats. Oh my god do I hate Cats.

There were notable exceptions: Chicago, Les Miserables, Moulin Rouge. Rocky Horror Picture Show (which I didn’t even think of as a musical until yesterday, having categorized it as a cultural touchstone that is so much more than the sum of its parts) and Hamilton, of course.

But the classics? The ones that my elders adore? They’ve always left me cold. South Pacific and Oklahoma make my teeth itch.

Until yesterday. Yesterday morning, I listened to Cabaret three times in a row. Then I listened to The Music Man (oh my god Robert Preston where have you been all my life?), then I had to turn it off and listen to Joy Division so I could work without being distracted.

I don’t know if it’s a phase, but something is different in me today than it has been for my whole life. I still don’t like the musicals I don’t like, but I’m extremely open to discovering everything I’ve missed. I got tons of recommendations in my Bluesky mentions yesterday, but I’d love to hear yours, if you have any.

Let’s stay with music for a moment. I am late to the party, having only recently discovered The Warning, but better late than never. Three sisters from Monterrey, Mexico, who fell in love with music when they were kids, playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band. They formed a band that rocks so fucking hard, they will melt your face off. Listening to their albums put some of their contemporaries into my suggestions, and I am loving all the Mexican metal, largely driven by women, that is currently rocking my world. Start with Keep Me Fed, and you’ll know before the end of the first song if they are your jam. What are you listening to right now? Any new punk, metal, or hard rock you care to share?

I found this in my unpublished drafts folder with a note that says “this is overwrought and you should delete it” … but I didn’t. I feel VERY vulnerable sharing it, because it’s not my usual style, but this is now the third or fourth time I’ve thought about posting it, so clearly part of me feels it’s worth sharing.

This was drafted about five years ago:

Felt sad.

Felt scared.

Walked my dogs.

Went for a run.

Felt despair.

Had dinner with my family.

Held off a panic attack.

Took a walk with my wife.

Felt cynical.

Watched a movie.

Got through a day.

Cleaned my kitchen.

Did some work.

Felt hopeless.

Did some more work.

Had some meetings.

Felt angry.

Felt depressed.

Felt angry again.

Tried to sleep.

Did not sleep.

Finally slept.

Cleaned my office.

Felt numb.

Read a book.

Read some comics.

Felt okay.

Played some video games.

Got knocked down.

Got the fuck back up again.

To be able to create and share your creations without fear must be really wonderful. I have recently noticed that I’m not struggling with that the way I once did. Or, at least, not as intensely.

For almost ten years — Jesus Christ that’s a long time — I struggled like hell to understand why I never booked auditions. I asked trusted friends who I have worked with to please tell me what was wrong with me. Surely they must know, and surely they would be honest with me about why I stink, how they are able to wash the stink off when I work for them. Why does everyone tell me that I’m not just a good actor, but one of the better ones, and still I never book auditions? If I get feedback at all (and before I hung it up, I hadn’t gotten feedback for so long I don’t remember when the last time casting made the effort) it’s always positive. “You were great, but blah blah was cast.”

As the adult version of a child who was constantly told he had to earn his father’s attention and affection, but never told how to do that (ps – no child should have to earn love and attention), every audition was triggering. That’s why I quit. As much as I love being in a cast, as much as I love how good it feels to nail a performance, the industry has been loud and clear: Hollywood is not interested in me, hasn’t been for a long time, and if I keep chasing, that’s on me. I thought, “It’s weird that I can do this thing, and do it well, when I’m on the set, but never in auditions. What’s that all about?” Well, it turns out to have a lot of parts, but the bottom line is that actors who book jobs roll into the room with this confidence and commitment to the character that silently and instantly communicates to the room “Listen, you can cast me or not, but this is the best take on the character you’re going to see.” Because I was forced into acting by my mother, and then kept in it through her manipulation and exploitation of my desperate need to feel accepted in my home and family, I rolled in there with an underlying desperation: “please choose me so I have a chance at being loved by my parents. This is everything to me and I will do whatever it takes to make you happy.” I mean, it doesn’t matter how solid the performance is, how technically brilliant I am, whatever you want to call it, when there is a desperation that I’m not even aware of, underneath it all.

I’m genuinely and sincerely envious of actors who love the art, who come alive when they are performing, who don’t care if casting likes them or not, who get to feel in their souls what it means to be part of the community of performing artists. I have been close to that, I have felt it on occasion, but until this year, I didn’t realize that there was so much trauma and pain in between all of it, and me. I have wondered if I could try to do … something, probably theater, to find out if all of my trauma recovery work, which has been so intensely helpful in so many ways, has created space for me to love it the way I wish I could.

Earlier this year, I was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by AMDA. I didn’t say anything about it in public because I felt a little embarrassed. I’m only 53, so lifetime anything feels premature, but also … like … how can you give an acting and performance award to someone who can’t book an audition? Who, when you really get down to it, was just lucky to be in a few really, really good and memorable pieces of art? Sure, sure, I showed up and did the work, but it wasn’t just me. It was everyone involved in production. Nobody gets anything done on their own; everyone needs help to do any of this, and singling out one of us always feels weird.

I wanted to decline the award, but a couple of people who are close to me encouraged me to accept it, if only because it would give me an opportunity to speak to some kids about making great art.

I can’t find a local copy of the remarks I wrote for the event, so here’s a video of the entire talk (if you have time and interest, and a love of the arts, you may get something out of it). If you want to skip to my prepared remarks, they start right around 51 minutes.

Before I go, I need to clarify that the title of this post comes from The Dead Boys, not Paramore, and not Guns and Roses. Okay, I think that’s all for today. I’m glad you’re here. Take care of yourselves, and take care of each other.

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As far as action cameras go, GoPro might be a household name, but there are still some high-quality (and often more affordable) competitors that appeal to both casual adventurers and power users. One of them, the DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro (Essential Combo), is a #1 bestseller on Amazon, and is currently 21% off, marking its lowest price ever at $269.

This action cam is a tough, waterproof camera (up to 65.6 feet) that you can mount practically anywhere. It has a 10-bit 4K120 video, and at 5.2 ounces, it’s lightweight yet powerful, with dual touch displays and multiple field-of-view options, including an ultra-wide setting without distortion. It also records vertical video, with creative tools like time-lapse, slow motion, and a tracking mode that keeps subjects centered. Its digital stabilization system, RockSteady, keeps things smooth, and while it may slightly narrow the lens’s view, the extra-wide 155-degree angle still allows for immersive coverage. Compared to its predecessor, it has a new image sensor with bigger pixels, a more efficient processor, touch-sensitive OLED panels on both displays, and a bigger battery.

According to PCMag, which awarded it an "Outstanding" rating, its battery life blows other action cameras out of the water. Its 1,950mAh battery uses a 4nm architecture for its image processor. While it claims to provide up to four hours of continuous shooting, the PCMag tester found that it lasts 26 minutes at 4K60, 154 minutes at 4K30, and 182 minutes at 1080p30 without overheating, whereas the GoPro Hero13 only ran for around half an hour before overheating and provided just 80 minutes at 4K30.

While the app features and lens options may not be as strong or varied as GoPro’s, if you’re looking for an action camera with best-in-class battery life, strong digital stabilization, and the ability to record continuously without overheating, the DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro (Essential Combo) is a long-lasting powerhouse that rivals contenders like the Hero13. And at a sub-$300 price point, it’s well worth it.

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If you have a Premium Family plan through Spotify, there's good news: You can now set up managed accounts for your kids. Not only can you control what they listen to, their music choices won't reflect in or affect your listening history. Congratulations: You're getting your Wrapped back.

On Tuesday, Spotify announced it is rolling out managed accounts for Premium subscribers to seven new regions: the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Premium Family subscribers in these countries can now create managed accounts for users younger than 13 that allow those users to listen on their own, in a controlled environment.

Managed accounts are music-only, so younger listeners can't browse Spotify's other offerings, such as podcasts, or send or receive DMs. In addition, account managers can control a number of settings on these accounts, including whether the account can listen to explicit music, choose to block specific artists and songs, and decide to hide video—including short-form Canvas content.

While Spotify has an existing service designed for children, Spotify Kids, it's much different, as it only contains music hand-picked for the service, and doesn't allow subscribers to control the account. Managed accounts allow subscribers to give a full Spotify experience to their kids, while having total control over what they can listen to.

Personally, I think this is a fantastic feature. As someone who grew up in the early days of iTunes, I would have loved the ability to add whatever songs I wanted to my playlists—assuming my parents gave those songs the OK, of course. It's also great that kids can get recommendations for new music from Spotify. If they are obsessed with the latest trending song, perhaps Spotify can recommend similar tunes, both contemporary tracks as well as classics. It could be a great way to expand kids' music tastes.

Spotify first tested managed accounts in 10 other countries: New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Columbia. It's now available as part of its Premium Family plan, which costs $19.99 per month.

How to create a managed account

If you're using the Spotify mobile app, head to Settings and privacy > Account > Premium Family. If you're on your account page on Spotify's website, choose "Manage members." Either way, under Plan members, choose to add members to your plan. Choose "Add a listener aged under 13," then choose "Add account."

You'll then follow the on-screen steps to confirm you are the parent or guardian of the listener; set a PIN to control the experience; choose the name and birthdate of the listener; and choose your settings.

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Researchers have demonstrated a new type of malware attack that can steal sensitive information from Android devices—including Google and Samsung phones—without the knowledge or action of the target user.

The attack is called "Pixnapping," an apparent portmanteau of "pixel" and "snapping." When you download and open a piece of software containing the malware, the app scans your phone for specific apps it might want to spy on. It then accesses another app on your phone—say, Google Authenticator—but rather than open it, it pulls the information that would be displayed into the Android rendering pipeline. From there, the app scans the display information for individual pixels, targeting areas known to contain sensitive information. In the case of Google Authenticator, the focus is on the pixels known to contain the 2FA codes within the app. The malware then checks to see whether a pixel is blank, or contains some type of rendered content. It uses these findings to recover the original images, like a complete 2FA code, without ever actually having seen the original images in the first place.

This process can repeat for as long as it takes to scan the stolen pixels and pull the original information from them, all without you knowing it's happening. Researchers compare the process to taking screenshots of screen contents the malware should not have access to.

How the malware works

There are three reasons Pixnapping attacks are possible on Android, according to researchers. First, the OS allows apps to send another app's activity to the Android rendering pipeline, which allows the malicious app to invoke sensitive activities, like refreshing 2FA codes. Second, apps can run graphical operations on pixels displayed through another app's activity, which is how the malicious app can pull pixels from something like Google Authenticator. Third, apps can measure the pixel color-dependent side effects of those operations, which allows the malicious app to leak the pixel values.

Researchers demonstrated these Pixnapping attacks on Google and Samsung phones, including the Pixel 6, Pixel 7, Pixel 8, Pixel 9, and Galaxy S25. These phones were running Android 13, 14, 15, and 16. Researchers say they aren't sure if other types of Android devices are affected by this attack, though the "core mechanisms" involved are usually present in all Android devices. Different Pixel devices had different rates of success in the 2FA hack (73%, 53%, 29%, and 53% for the Pixel 6, 7, 8, and 9, respectively), though researchers could not obtain 2FA codes on the Galaxy S25 within the 30 second timeline before the codes refreshed.

In addition to devices, researchers demonstrated Pixnapping attacks on sites and services like Gmail, Google Accounts, Signal, Google Authenticator, Venmo, and Google Maps. The implication is that this type of attack could steal many different types of information from your phone, including emails, encrypted messages, payment records, and location histories.

According to the findings, Google has tried to patch Pixnapping, but researchers were able to workaround this patch in demonstrated attacks. The vulnerability is currently tracked as CVE-2025-48561. Google is working on a new patch for the December Android security builtin.

How to protect yourself from Pixnapping

The good news, at this time anyway, is that researchers are not aware of Pixnapping attacks happening in the wild. However, that doesn't mean they won't happen, especially now that the attack has been disclosed.

The first thing to do to protect yourself is to make sure you're running the latest security patches on your Android device. While Google is still working on a subsequent Pixnapping patch, there is a patch in existence. Make sure you install it on your phone by heading to System > Software updates.

Next, be cautious with the apps you download on your device. Always try to download apps from trusted and verified marketplaces, as it's much more difficult for bad actors to hide malware on apps distributed through these stores. Even when you download apps on something like the Google Play Store, investigate the app thoroughly: Ensure it's really the app you think it is, and it's coming from the developer that makes it. If you sideload apps, be careful with what you download, and only install apps from developers you trust.

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A four-pack of these TSA-approved travel locks is currently on sale for $79.99 on StackSocial, the same price as a three-pack on Amazon. It’s designed for Apple users, integrating directly with the Find My app, so you can track your bags on a map, ping them with sound if they’re nearby, or get alerts if you’ve walked off and left them behind.

Each lock uses a simple three-digit combination and is TSA-approved, meaning airport security can access it without cutting it open. The build is solid, featuring a durable alloy shell and a thick cable loop that's tough enough for typical travel abuse. It’s also refreshingly low-maintenance, with no need for constant charging. The built-in battery lasts approximately three months and is replaceable, so you’re not forced to discard the entire device when it runs out of power. You don’t need to install a separate app to manage the tracking, either. If you’ve used Apple’s Find My for AirTags or devices, the setup will feel familiar and straightforward. You also get solid tracking features like Lost Mode and sound alerts.

That said, this is Apple-only. If you use Android, the Find My functionality won’t work, so you're better off with a traditional smart tracker or lock. If you're traveling with multiple bags or coordinating group travel, a four-in-one pack makes the price more manageable. For frequent flyers or anyone with a track record of forgetting their carry-on at Gate 17, this is one of those travel add-ons that is actually worth it.

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Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on several gun charges last night by officers who say he matched the description of a man who had earlier robbed a store at 323 Washington St. in Dorchester.

Police say the shop was robbed at 9:16 p.m. by "a male wearing a black ski mask, black top, and black pants."  About 20 minutes later, police say, officers looking around the area spotted a guy matching that description - with a black shiesty on - walking with another man about three-quarters of a mile away on Harvard Street near Talbot Avenue.

As officers exited their cruiser to conduct an inquiry, both individuals fled on foot into the driveway of 222 Harvard Street.

Officers pursued both suspects on foot. During the pursuit, one suspect, later identified as Ezequiel Rodriguez, was observed clutching his waistband as if manipulating a heavy object. Both individuals were detained after a brief chase. While canvassing the area, officers recovered a firearm in the rear of 220 Harvard Street, along the same path where Rodriguez fled.

The firearm was processed by District B-3 detectives and determined to be a Glock 17 9mm pistol equipped with a large capacity magazine capable of holding 31 rounds. The magazine contained 25 rounds of live 9mm ammunition.

Ezekiel was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of a large-capacity feeding device and unlawful possession of ammunition, police say.

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If you've been experiencing random crashes on your Pixel 10 smartphone, you're not alone. Over the weekend, multiple Reddit users complained that their Pixel 10 phones, which only just hit the market in August, were already facing severe slowdowns and frequent crashes while trying to load apps. Worse yet, the problem seemed to persist across all apps and models of the phone, leaving users with little they could actually do on their new devices.

"If an app does open and load it won't let me touch anything and it crashes," user cdriese said, with a number of others sharing a similar sentiment.

The unfortunate news took me as a bit of a surprise, since I experienced no such issues while reviewing the Pixel 10 and Pixel 10 Pro at launch, both of which I quite liked. But the problem, it seems, only popped up recently.

Multiple users across Reddit pointed to October 10's Google Play Services update as the culprit here, with some saying that uninstalling the update fixed the problem for them. "My running theory is that the October play services update is clashing with the September Android OS update in some way," said user PuzzleHeadedSquid, adding that they have had no crashes since uninstalling the Play Services update. Sure enough, when I loaded my phone with both the September Android OS update and the initial October play services updates installed, I also started to have issues.

In a way, though, that's still a relief. Your new hardware isn't broken already—but uninstalling the new Play Services update introduces its own headaches. Luckily, as of this morning, there's another solution, and it's pretty simple.

If you're experiencing crashing apps on your Pixel 10, here's what you can do.

The official fix

Random Reddit users weren't the only folks experiencing this problem. Android Police founder Artem Russakovskii also called out the problem in an October 12 X post, saying his Pixel 10 Pro XL had been "kneecapped" by it.

Luckily, as a member of the press, he had a bit more resources at his disposal for fixing this bug than the average Redditor. Over the course of the weekend, Russakovskii quickly got in touch with his contacts at Google, who he says scrambled multiple teams to address the issue and has since issued a server-side fix.

Theoretically, that means a simple restart should bring your phone back to normal, although if the problem persists, you'll also want to make sure you're running the most recent Google Play services build (which you can check under Settings > Apps > Google Play services > App details), then do another restart.

It's a pretty quick turnaround on a fix, and doesn't require much on your part, but if you've temporarily shelved your Pixel, it's worth booting it back up again to see if you're still having issues.

The unofficial fix

That said, it's possible Google's engineers still might have missed something. If you still find yourself having issues loading apps, you can use the community method of uninstalling the October Play Services update instead. This will log you out of your Google accounts, however, and won't include Google's official fix, so I'd only recommend it in an emergency.

That said, if you're at the point of pulling your hair out, you can navigate to Settings > Apps > Google Play services > App details and tap "Remove updates" to start the process. Just be sure to have your Google passwords (or passkeys!) memorized first.

First, though, try hitting the "Update" button next to it instead, then restarting your phone. That's what I did, after initially running my testing without this morning's update, and my apps are now as snappy as ever.

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The Crimson reports that in the six weeks since a federal judge in Boston ruled the regime had to end its "anti-Semitism" charade and start paying Harvard for grant-funded research again, the school has been paid most of the money it was owed during the four months it and its researchers were cut off.

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I used to feel awkward and self conscious pointing a camera at myself at the gym. My thoughts went something like: I’m no selfie-obsessed influencer. What are people thinking of me? But I’ve had a change of heart: I now whip out my pocket-sized tripod to video myself at least once every workout, and my lifts are better for it.

If you lift at a gym, you've probably noticed people are filming their lifts more often these days. While some of them may be obnoxious TikTokers (and we'll talk about etiquette below), there are lots of good reasons to want to document what you're doing on video. You can evaluate your effort and technique, share the videos with a coach, or use the videos as a way of sharing your training with friends and internet gym buddies.

The benefits of taking video of your lifts

Before we get into how, let's talk about why. There are very good reasons to film yourself lifting.

Checking your form

If I'm working out alone, I video because I’m seeking some of the feedback I would otherwise get from an in-person coach. But even when my coach is right there, I still take video of my heaviest or most important lifts of the day. I can match the feedback he gives me (good or bad) to what I see in the video. I also have a record of the day's lifts that I'll be able to look back on later.

Better feedback than a mirror

It's also good to learn to use video for technique adjustments rather than looking in a mirror. While a mirror is fine for, say, bicep curls or lateral raises, you'll want to learn to lift without one if you have any interest in powerlifting, weightlifting, or crossfit (and those gyms almost never have mirrors.) Twisting your head to look at yourself can mess up your body position, and paying attention to how you look in the mirror can interrupt your focus. Not to mention, your perspective in a mirror changes as your body moves. You're not actually getting an accurate view of your squat depth with a mirror, but a good video will tell you the truth.

Gauging effort

A video also helps you gauge how you’re really feeling. Time slows down when you’re struggling: if a pullup takes more than a split second, it feels like hours. I pull, I struggle, I move barely a millimeter. Sometimes I’ll give up, or nearly give up, because it feels like I just can’t possibly complete the move. But then I’ll look at the video and see that my perceived hours of struggle were just a momentary slowdown on a rep that ends up being totally solid.

Even for something as subjective as RPE (rating your “perceived exertion”), video helps. I remember, years ago, getting feedback from my online coaches that my “RPE 8” deadlifts looked too easy. So I looked at other people’s RPE 8 deadlifts, and there was a clear difference in effort. Comparing my videos to theirs helped me dial in the effort level I was really going for.

How to take a good lifting video

Whether the videos are for you, for your coach, or just to show off for the ’gram, they’ll be most useful if you can get a good view of yourself.

Use a tripod

Leaning your phone against something on the floor may work in a pinch, but you can’t actually see much from a badly distorted video taken from a worm’s-eye view. (If there's a bench or chair available, put your water bottle on the bench and lean your phone against it.) I'll say more about equipment below, but a selfie stick tripod like this one is an easy option. It extends to about waist height and can stand by itself on the gym floor. It also collapses small enough to fit in your gym bag or even your sweatshirt pocket.

And, yes, you do want to put your phone on on some kind of object (tripod or otherwise) rather than having a friend hold the phone. Hand-held videos tend to be harder to watch. If the person walks around you or adjusts the zoom while you're lifting, that's incredibly distracting and often cuts off important information. Even if they just stand still, there's often still enough movement to be a problem.

Shoot at a 3/4 angle

It’s tempting to take video from the side or from directly in front of you, but crucial information will be missing. A side view of your squat might show whether your thighs go parallel to the floor, but it won’t show whether your knees are caving in. For most lifts, a 3/4 view—not exactly from the side or the front, but somewhere in between—will give the most useful information.

For similar reasons, you’ll want to get your entire body in the frame. Especially if you’re showing your video to a coach or friend for a form check, they’ll want to see everything that might affect your lift—including, for example, your feet.

Check the lighting and position before you start

I use the forward-facing camera so that as soon as I step into frame, I can glance over and see that I’ve set everything up correctly. If there's a window behind you and you're backlit, or if you’re halfway off camera, fix it before you start your lift.

But once you begin, ignore the camera. Do your lift as you normally would—look in the mirror only if that’s what you always do—and then don’t look at the camera again until after you complete the lift.

Trim your dang videos

Nobody wants to watch 30 seconds of you adjusting the camera and psyching yourself up for your lift. Even if the video is just for yourself, you probably don’t want to watch that either.

You need to take a few minutes’ rest between sets anyway, so use that time to trim your videos. On iPhone, just begin watching the video, hit pause, and then hit Edit. You can trim the start and end of the video right from that screen, and then choose whether to overwrite the original file or save the trimmed version as its own copy. (Choose the new file if you think you might want to refer to your setup later; otherwise, trimming the original is fine.)

My favorite tripods and equipment

As I mentioned above, a selfie stick tripod is super convenient at the gym. It fits in your bag or pocket, and you can easily fold it up when you're not using it. The one at that link is the kind I've used most commonly over the years. I usually get a year or two of use out of one of those before something breaks, usually the mechanism that holds the phone.

That's why I've recently switched to tripods that have a MagSafe style mount, like this one. If your phone has this type of magnet in the back, your life gets so much easier. Just snap your phone onto the magnet and it stays—no adjusting for the width or thickness of the phone.

I have not used a water bottle with a magnetic mount, even though every time I see them advertised I think "oh, that's clever." If I have a water bottle, I can lean my phone against it, no special device needed. A water bottle still needs something to bring it up to an appropriate height (like a chair or bench) so it's not really a replacement for a floor tripod.

I do have a phone holder that can magnet onto a nearby machine or squat rack, but I have mixed feelings about it. If you can find a squat rack that's positioned the perfect distance away from where you're working out, and nobody is using it, great. (Make sure the phone holder is one you can angle toward you, not just a flat magnet.) But usually there's nothing in quite the right place, and you're left with a worse angle than if you were using the bench-and-water-bottle trick. I use mine in my home gym, where I have a metal post in a convenient spot. I don't find it useful when I go to a commercial gym.

Gym etiquette when taking video

To answer the questions I know you have in mind: Yes, it is OK to film your lifts in a gym (unless the gym has a rule specifically forbidding it, of course). And no, people won't think you're weird—as long as you make sure to do so politely and respectfully. Here's how.

Keep others out of frame

As much as possible, position your camera so that other people aren't in the video (or at least not their faces). You definitely shouldn't post a video publicly with other people in it, but even if the video is for your private use, people may notice that they're on camera and feel weird about it.

Stay out of the way

Don't place your tripod in a busy walkway, or anywhere else you'd be getting in others' way. If you want to use an unoccupied bench to prop up your phone, that's OK—for a moment. Don't leave it there for your whole workout. And consider, again, using a tripod: A phone on the ground is a lot easier to miss, and accidentally trip over, than a tripod that's pretty obviously in somebody's walking path.

Using the gym takes precedence over filming

We've all seen those TikToks where somebody gets mad at a passer-by for walking into the frame. I'm convinced that most of those videos are faked (outrage gets engagement), but obviously you do not want to be that person. Working out in a space takes precedence over using your camera there. That said, if the place is busy, just communicate like a normal human being. I train at a gym where people commonly film themselves, and everybody is very friendly about making space for each other. Someone might even offer to share their tripod.

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It's official: As of Tuesday, Oct. 14, Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10. That said, if you powered on your Windows 10 PC this morning, only to read headlines suggesting the end of Windows 10, you might be a bit confused. Your computer still works, after all. So what's really going on here?

What Windows 10 end of life really means

As it might now be evident, Microsoft ending support for Windows 10 doesn't mean the company has shut down the OS for good. Any devices still running Windows 10 will continue to run—and, in fact, much in the same way as they previously have. You probably won't notice any difference between Windows 10 on Oct. 14 vs. Oct. 13.

The issue isn't that Windows 10 won't work going forward; rather, it's that Microsoft will no longer issue security updates to Windows 10 users by default. That means the next time someone discovers a security vulnerability with this OS—no matter how big or small it may be—Microsoft will not send a patch to most Windows 10 users.

The risk of using Windows 10 going forward starts small, and escalates quickly. It's only day one of Windows 10's end of life, which means there's little risk in using the OS today. However, over time, more and more security vulnerabilities will surface. Soon enough, there will be a real danger in using a Windows 10 PC that is connected to the internet. All it takes is clicking one malicious link in a spam email, or downloading malware disguised as legitimate software, for hackers to strike.

Windows 10 extended security updates

Here's the thing, though: Between users who can't or don't want to update to Windows 11, as well as organizations that rely on Windows 10 to run specific programs and services, there are still a lot of Windows 10 machines out there. If you're running Windows 10, you aren't alone—some estimates put the OS' market share at 40.5% of all Windows machines. Sure, there are more PCs out there running Windows 11, but there could be roughly half a billion users that just lost official support from Microsoft.

Microsoft knows this, which is why this "end of life" isn't really the end for Windows 10. The company offers Windows 10 users the option of enrolling in Extended Security Updates, or ESU. Under the ESU program, you'll still receive critical security patches, even when using Windows 10. It does feel like Microsoft is soft launching Windows 10's demise, but at least all Windows 10 users have an option to continue using the OS securely.

However, you can't just expect Microsoft to automatically enroll your PC in the ESU program. You have one of three options here, two of which are free:

  1. Pay a one-time $30 fee.

  2. Opt into Windows Backup to sync your PC to the cloud.

  3. Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points.

You'll find these options your PC after updating to the latest possible version. From here, head to Settings > Windows Update, and look out for the "Windows 10 support ends in October 2025" and "Enroll in Extended Security Updates to help keep your device secure" options.

Be warned, however, that Microsoft does not see this as a long-term solution. This is still part of the Windows 10 end of life plan, after all. The ESU program only lasts from Oct. 15 of this year through Oct. 13, 2026. After that date, Microsoft will stop issuing Windows 10 security updates for good. In addition, you will only receive security patches: no features, design changes, or tech support.

Updating to Windows 11

Whether it's today or Oct. 13 of next year, it won't be safe to run Windows 10 on an internet-connected PC without these security patches. As such, your only option for using Windows in the future is by upgrading to an OS Microsoft actively supports. At this time, that means Windows 11.

That doesn't necessarily mean buying a new PC though, as Windows 11 might be compatible with your current machine. Here's are the minimum hardware requirements, as noted by Microsoft:

  • Processor: 1 GHz or faster with at least two cores on a 64-bit chip

  • Memory: 4GB or more

  • Storage: 64GB or more

  • Graphics card: Compatible with DirectX 12 or later, with a WDDM 2.0 driver

  • TPM: Trusted Platform Module version 2.0

  • Display: 720p or higher, nine inches or larger, with 8 bits per color channel

Your Windows 10 PC must also be running Windows 10 version 2004 or later, and you'll need to at least be running the Sept. 14, 2021 security update.

While many of these requirements seem pretty basic, the one that trips up many otherwise capable machines is TPM 2.0. This is a security standard that can help prevent modern cyberattacks on Windows, so it's great to have. However, if you have a PC older than 2016, it might not have TPM 2.0. Your computer might very well be capable of running Windows 11, but Microsoft won't endorse it if you don't have this security hardware in place.

Even still, you can go around Microsoft to install Windows 11 on an unsupported PC. Just note Microsoft does not approve of this, and may even stop supporting your PC if you choose this route—defeating the purpose of upgrading from Windows 10 in the process.

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Ortiz and Breadon

Ortiz and Breadon during forum.

In an online forum sponsored by Allston-Brighton Progressives last night, incumbent District 9 Councilor Liz Breadon and challenger Pilar Ortiz didn't disagree on any basic issues: The district needs more low- and middle-income housing, something needs to be done about dangerous Cleveland Circle and the decrepit Jackson-Mann School, it's time the city paid more attention to Allston/Brighton and the city needs to keep protecting immigrants and all other residents from a hostile regime in Washington.

The two even shared a mutual, if grudging, admiration for Allston's nickname of Allston Rat City, because they said it helps bring more attention to one of the neighborhood's seemingly intractable and squickier problems - Ortiz said the North End got rat-resistant trash cans, while Allston/Brighton got nothing.  

The only main differences came in their closing remarks: Breadon, an immigrant from Northern Ireland and a physical therapist, said she's built a team of advocates to help improve the two neighborhoods - she says there are now more families in the area than it's seen in a long time - and wants to continue the work. Ortiz, the daughter of immigrants and a graduate of Boston College who had been chief of staff for the city legal department, said it's time for new leadership because so many of the problems that were around ten years ago remain today.

Among the issues discussed:

Climate change. Although Allston/Brighton doesn't face inundation from rising seas, it is on the Charles and faces the threat of flooding from more severe storms. Breadon said it's vital the city work on everything from "permeable" parking lots to ensuring people living in basement apartments don't have to risk drowning during intense storms. The neighborhood also needs more trees to help reduce heat-island effects, she said, pointing to neighboring Brookline with its green leafy boulevards. Ortiz said she would work with the Boston Water and Sewer Commission to set up programs similar to its lead-abatement program to get homeowners ready for flooding - and would continue to press for moving away from natural-gas heating and stoves.

BPD gang database. Both would be in favor of ditching it. Ortiz said it's not proven really useful and is a potential side door for ICE to learn about Boston residents they might want to grab. Breadon said she's concerned that BPD started using social-media monitoring tools and never notified the City Council as it's supposed to. Both favored ordinances banning law enforcement officers from wearing masks; Breadon added that Boston Police officers already don't wear masks.

Cleveland Circle. Breadon said she is working closely with the neighborhood's legislators to make the intersection safer for pedestrians and bicyclists now, since the MBTA will eventually have to dig up the whole roadway to put in new tracks for the new mega-trolleys it plans to buy for the Green Line.  Ortiz said the condition of Cleveland Circle is one of the reasons why, ten years ago, she first wanted to run for office - and ten years later, it still looks and functions as poorly as ever.

Jackson-Mann. Ortiz said the neighborhood needs a community center there and said the fact that the building was allowed to fall apart shows the neighborhood needs "very effective and loud leadership that's activating for the community." She also said the city should do more to make certain non-profits - including Boston College - make more payments in lieu of taxes - part of which she said should go to renovating the building. "We have a huge population that deserves a community center," Breadon agreed, adding they way the city let it fall apart is just one example of the neglect of the neighborhood by City Hall.

Housing. In addition to more broadly supporting more low- and moderate-income housing, both said they would support some form of limits on rent increases; Breadon referred to "rent stabilization" and Ortiz called for "rent control." Breadon called for making it easier to build new triple deckers - which she said were banned decades ago as discrimination against immigrants - and called for rezoning some areas to add density. Ortiz called for "no-fault evictions," a minimum 90-day notice period and a "right of first refusal" that would let tenants in a building get the first shot at buying it should the landlord decide to sell.

When asked which surrounding communities had a successful policy Boston could adopt to prevent becoming a rich-people haven, Ortiz said she didn't think any other communities had done better than Boston. Breadon said she would want to look at Cambridge's effort to pair up young people looking for a place to live with seniors not yet ready to move out of their large homes, and other communities' efforts to spur "accessory dwelling units," apartments carved out of space in existing homes or small additions to them.

Better transit. Both emphasized the need for speeding up bus service. Breadon called for more traffic enforcement and the use of on-bus cameras to help ticket bad drivers and parkers. Ortiz said the area needs safer bike lanes, "real, protected bike lanes." While she said she's willing to consider bus cameras, she said she's worried they might be a path to greater police surveillance.

Allston Rat City. "It's smart marketing," a way of "highlighting for the rest of the city how bad it is here," Ortiz said, adding it's "shared trauma in a light hearted way." She gave "a big shoutout" to the Rat City Arts Festival and all the work it does to both promote local arts and steps people can take to resist the rats. "I'm fine with it," Breadon said, noting a Rat City walkaround in which 100 people went around the neighborhood one rainy evening discussing rat control. "It's not everybody's cup of tea, not everybody likes it," but it's a way to organize around the problem, she said. She added, however, that after seeing a video of rats in Fenway, she will acknowledge that Fenway rats are "definitely bigger than ours."

Other issues. Both supported a new fee on the sale of properties valued at $2 million, ranked-choice voting, setting up safe-injection clinics and the creation or expansion of a team of mental-health clinicians to respond to emergency calls from people in need of help rather than arrest. Both expressed mixed feelings about eliminating the required parking minimum for new apartment and condo buildings; both opposed the idea of an elected school committee.

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I love being able to go to the pharmacy for my own (or my kids’) flu shots. Pop in, get the shot, then go about my day. That process has now gotten even easier: Last year, the FDA approved the first flu vaccine that you can administer yourself, or that parents can administer to their children, and it's now available for at-home ordering. I just placed my order. And best of all: It’s a nasal spray, so no needles.

How can you get the at-home flu vaccine? 

The nasal spray vaccine, called FluMist, still needs to be prescribed by a medical provider. But since nearly everyone aged two through 49 is eligible, FluMist’s maker (AstraZeneca) has a telehealth website that bundles the provider's approval with an order to an online pharmacy. The process takes about five minutes on average, they say, and I found that to be accurate.

I've already had my flu shot this year, but my kids haven't gotten it yet. (I also know my daughter strongly prefers the nasal to the injection when possible.) The website allowed me to add multiple people to the same order, so I filled out the questionnaire for each child, giving their names, ages, allergies, and so on.

The website then reached into some big data cloud out there and told me it already knew their insurance information (existentially frightening, yet convenient!) and presented me with my bill: an $8.99 fee, which included $2.50 for physician evaluation and $6.49 for shipping and processing. Insurance covers the cost of the vaccine itself.

Who can use the at-home flu vaccine? 

The at-home vaccine is the same as regular FluMist, which is approved for ages two through 49. That means babies and older adults will still need to visit a provider for the regular, injectable flu vaccine. Children can get flu shots starting at the age of six months.

FluMist uses a live, weakened virus. It can't give you the actual flu, but it can cause some respiratory symptoms in people with weakened immune systems. So it's not recommended for people who are pregnant, have certain medical conditions, or are immunocompromised or have close contact with an immunocompromised person. If that's you, talk to a provider about your best options. You may be advised to get the regular injectable type, which doesn't include any live virus.

How do you give yourself the at-home flu vaccine? 

Mine hasn't arrived yet, but the instructions say that a package containing the vaccine will arrive at my door on the day I selected. It will be packed in an insulated container with cold packs, and should be put in the refrigerator upon arrival. There's also a tag I can scan to make sure the vaccine stayed at the proper temperature during the shipping process.

Assuming that all goes well, you follow the instructions to spray the vaccine up your nose. (If you've gotten a FluMist at a pharmacy, it's the same idea.) Adults can administer it to themselves, and children will need an adult to do it for them. Instructions are, of course, provided. After you administer the vaccine, there is a prepaid envelope you can use to return the sprayers for disposal.

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There’s no shortage of wireless earbuds out there, but if you want noise cancellation, full iOS compatibility, and a fit that won’t budge during a workout, you should consider the Beats Fit Pro. Right now, you can buy them on sale for $99.99 at StackSocial (reg. $199.99). The sale includes all four color options—white, black, gray, and purple.

They're “open box” models, meaning that they’ve likely been handled but not used, and they’ve been inspected to make sure they’re still in new condition. They’re rated IPX4 for water resistance, so sweat and light rain aren’t a problem, though the case itself isn’t protected and doesn’t support wireless charging. Battery life is around six hours with ANC on and another 18 to 23 hours from the case, depending on how you use them.

Sound-wise, these lean hard into bass, which some folks will love and others might find a bit much. The low end hits especially well at high volumes without distortion, which makes them great for hip-hop, pop, or EDM, notes this PCMag review. The noise cancellation holds up pretty well for sounds like plane rumbles and low-frequency distractions, but don’t expect total silence in a noisy café (higher-pitched noises still leak through). There’s also a decent Transparency Mode that lets in just enough outside sound for you to cross the street or chat with someone without pulling out an earbud. Android users do have access to most core features through the Beats app, but some perks, such as automatic switching, hands-free Siri, and Spatial Audio, are still iOS-only. Getting all that for over half off isn't a bad deal at all.

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People going through TSA checkpoints at Logan Airport don't have to worry about being barraged by a blaring Secretary of Puppy Murder blaming Democrats for the current federal shutdown in a looped video.

Massport spokeswoman Jennifer Mehegan says the authority has not gotten any requests to play the video. More important: "There are no video screens at our TSA checkpoints."

Right as rain at Ruggles

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Rain-filled Ruggles lobby

Handmaid reminds us you might want to put on some galoshes if you need to use Ruggles on the Orange Line, since those soaring glass panels the T so loves long ago stopped being the answer to that Creedence Clearwater Revival song.

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While sometimes there's a big piece of misinformation that a lot of people latch onto—like The Rapture or the existence of "MedBeds"—the fractured nature of the information sphere has all but killed the overarching conspiracy theory. No longer do big ideas like "we never went to the moon" unite the dumbest minds; instead, the algorithm creates bespoke conspiracy theories. So instead of joining the Flat Earth Society, you might think the actual year is 1728, or that AI secretly imagined a British comedian from the the 1980s and seeded the web with evidence of his existence.

But how does it start? And how quickly can social media platforms transform someone from a person from a seeker-of-knowledge to a believer-in-bullshit? YouTuber Benaminute recently posted a video where he dug in to find out. His question: If you start with a benign, broad, randomly chosen subject, and you only watch videos having to do with that subject, how long will it take until TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels feed you a conspiracy theory video? The answer: not long at all.

Different topics all lead to the same place (more or less)

For the experiment, Benaminute created "blank" social media profiles and behaved like someone who was innocently curious about one of three topics—dinosaurs, The Vietnam War, and the 2000 presidential election. He put the keyword in each platform's search bar and only watched and liked videos about the initial subject.

Dinosaurs

  • YouTube Shorts: The initial videos were ads for Jurassic Park, AI slop featuring dinosaurs, and the occasional educational video, but the 541st video was a clip from the Joe Rogan Experience about how the pyramids were not tombs, but "DNA restoration devices."

  • TikTok: If you thought TikTok would get to conspiracy theories quickly, you'd be right. The 144th video was this fake UFO video that has 24 million views.

  • Instagram Reels: Insta took 661 videos to get from dinosaurs to a "forbidden phone from the 2000s that lets you see into a parallel dimension."

The Vietnam War

Things get worse for people interested in historical or political events. On all short-form platforms, an interest in Vietnam will lead you pretty quickly to right-leaning content, which leads you to conspiracy theories.

  • YouTube Shorts got to a conspiracy theory video about Noah's Ark in only seven videos.

  • TikTok took a little longer; video 161 was about how financial services company Blackrock had something to do with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

  • Reels took 139 videos to get to "Bush did 9/11."

The 2000 election

The election of 2000 is still a charged topic, but it's been awhile, so maybe cooler heads and verified information will win the day? Spoiler: nope.

  • YouTube Shorts took 136 videos to get to the same Noah's Ark conspiracy as it did for dinosaur fans.

  • TikTok only took 38 videos to get to "The Rapture is happening on September 24."

  • Reels took only 26 videos to land on "The World Trade Center was bombed" (by either Clinton or Bush).

Which social media app leads to conspiracy theories fastest?

The champion of "normal search to conspiracy theory" speed runs is TikTok, with an average of 114 videos or 57 minutes of watching. YouTube Shorts comes in second with 230 videos or 1 hour 57 minutes of time, and Reels takes 275 video or 138 minutes. It's a distinction without a difference; however, all three platforms lead to conspiracies in the time it takes to watch a Marvel movie.

What does it all mean?

It would be easy to conclude that the massive tech companies that built YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok companies weight their recommendation engines so viewers are led to fake stories. Maybe they have specific political aims and are trying to sway votes, or maybe (as Benaminute posits in a semi-tongue-in-cheek way) these apps are built to "keep us angry, divided, and distracted" from realizing the conflict isn't between Left and Right, but between "up and down."

This is also a conspiracy theory, however. I'm not saying he's wrong, but we don't have enough information to know why algorithms recommend conspiracy content. It could be because bad actors at the top demand specific results for some purpose, but it seems more likely to me that TikTok et al. don't have an agenda beyond making money.\

I have no doubt that a social media platform featuring an algorithm that weighs the truth heavily would fail pretty quickly; the Truth is boring compared to conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories, broadly, make believers feel special, like they have inside knowledge the rest of us lack. People scroll TikTok to have fun; the truth usually isn't fun. Conspiracy theorist can say things like "UFOs are here!" or "They're turning the frogs gay!" Meanwhile, if you're devoted to the truth, you mostly have to go with "the best evidence suggests..." or "it seems logical that..." and who wants to hear that?

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Performance-wise, the Tune Buds pack in more than you’d expect for the price. They support Bluetooth 5.3, AAC, and SBC codecs, along with multipoint pairing, so you can jump between your phone and laptop without reconnecting. The active noise cancellation is solid for casual use—good enough to dull traffic noise or a chatty office, even if it can’t fully block the low rumble of a subway, notes this PCMag review. There’s also an IP54 rating, meaning these can handle sweat and light rain, making them suitable for workouts or daily commutes. Touch controls are customizable through the companion app, and there’s built-in Alexa support if you like using voice commands hands-free.

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Many established study methods grew out of old research and stuffy pedagogical theories, so when a new one crops up on social media it’s worth checking out—if only to gauge whether a modernized approach can pay dividends. Sometimes, the most tried-and-true, old-school methods are best, but that doesn't mean fresh updates on traditional ideas can't be great, too. One study technique that frequently makes the rounds on social media is dubbed the “2, 3, 5, 7” method (or usually just "2357").

What’s interesting about this method is that while it is new in a sense, it is a modification of one of those older, time-tested techniques. More on that below, as well as what you need to know to use 2357 for your next study session.

What is the 2357 study method?

When using the 2357 technique, you revise your notes and study materials over and over again, following a set schedule:

  • Day 1: Revise your initial notes

  • Day 2: Revise and review them

  • Day 3: Revise and review again

  • Day 5: Revise and review again

  • Day 7: Revise and review again

Each time you revise, you should identify and expand upon key facts that you need to remember. If you usually take notes by hand, digitizing them can serve as your first revision. Conversely, you can play around with note types. On Day 2, you can redo your notes using the Cornell method, for instance, then make a mind map on Day 3. Taking a slightly different approach each time will force you to reconsider the material, identify elements you can expand on or you're not quite grasping, and think a little differently about how it all fits together.

By the time you have completed that final revision on day seven, the content should be easy to retrieve from your memory with minimal effort. Days 5 and 7 should also focus a little more on reviewing, not just revising. One of those days can be dedicated to blurting, for instance, which is a technique that asks you to write down everything you can remember about a topic before checking against your notes and other resources for anything you missed. Try blurting a new note outline entirely.

Why the 2357 method works

This study method is effective because it combines elements of a few tried-and-true techniques, including spaced repetition, an established way to combat the so-called “forgetting curve” by increasing the amount of time between your study sessions until the information enters your long-term memory. This TikTok-beloved hack also employs elements of distributed practice, which operates on a similar theory.

Studying via 2357 will work best if you slowly start weaning yourself off your notes and materials as you go, which forces you to practice active recall as you progress through the latter days of the cycle. Like I said, those final days of the cycle should be more about reviewing than revising. If you're running across information you're not quite grasping, mix in other techniques, like the Leitner flashcard method, which also relies on distributed practice to help you entrench material in your memory.

Doing this all sounds easy, but it isn't quite. It might be harder than you think to remember to stick to this very specific schedule. If you find yourself struggling, call for backup. A school-focused planning app, like My Study Life, can help you create a schedule and carve out time for all these little studying tricks.

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Studying is about so much more than just rereading some chapters and notes. That said, while it's a good idea to have a strategy for actually retaining what you’re going over, if your method is too convoluted, you’ll never stick to it—and then it's just as useless as mindlessly rereading the same section five times.

The best study methods not only rely on research and established understandings of how memory works, but are easy to incorporate in a practical way. The "123" method meets all the criteria of a good study method. 

What is the 123 study method?

The 123 study method is a lot like the 2357 method, except it’s much easier to stay on top of and actually execute. With 2357, you review and revise your notes and materials on days two, three, five, and seven after first learning them, which is a tricky schedule to remember and maintain. You can and should, however, call on a study-scheduling app, like My Study Life, to help you with this and other time-based academic tasks.

The 123 method is simpler: On day one, you learn your material. On day two, you review it. Review it again on day three, then don’t think about it for a week, at which point you'll review it again. Again, use of a planner, calendar, or scheduler is encouraged here. These techniques are useful, but only if you actually execute and stick to them, so don't be afraid to get a little boost from an app or even your phone's built-in "reminders" function.

Why the 123 study method works

The 123 method relies on distributed practice, which calls for you to review your materials at spaced intervals to better retain them in your long-term memory. That's a technique that works fabulously, but often, adherents expect you to distribute the practice in ways that are difficult to manage. By going over it for three days, then giving your brain a week and seeing how much you retained, you can fit distributed practice into your life a lot more easily than if you follow some elaborate, torturous schedule of off days and on days.

This method is best done about 10 days out from a big test, so you can study and review on those first three days, then once more the day before the test. How you review is up to you, but you can try flashcards, which help you with memory retrieval, or blurting, which helps you identify your problem areas by forcing you to recall as much information as you can without looking at your notes. Whatever method you choose for the actual review, try to make sure it incorporates some element of active recall, or the act of forcing yourself to pull key information from your memory.

Just know that the one-week interval between reviews is key. When your brain has almost forgotten something, it works a little harder to pull the information out of your memory, which is what will truly help get the facts to stick before your big test. 

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Google's sponsored ads are generally a pain. Not only are they often not relevant to what you're searching for, they can occasionally be malicious: You might think you're clicking on a legitimate link for something you've searched for, but you're actually heading somewhere else entirely. Together with all the new AI components Google has introduced in recent years, it's increasingly tough to get the search results you're actually looking for.

But there's some small good news on this front: As initially reported by The Verge, Google's sponsored ads are getting a little less annoying. Previously, these ads would appear one after another, each within its own "Sponsored" header. Going forward, you'll only see one "Sponsored" header, with all sponsored links listed below. And the best part? Once you scroll to the end of that content block, you'll have the option to collapse all those sponsored links, hiding all the ads from your search view.

It's a small but helpful change for anyone who is tired of dealing with Google's often frustrating sponsored ads on each and every search they conduct. Google makes much of its money from search ads, so the company will never get rid of them completely. But to give you the option to hide them from view—even if you only see that option after scrolling past all sponsored ads—is a step in the right direction.

Of course, if you elect to use an ad blocker, you never need to worry about sponsored ads appearing in search to begin with. Heck, iif you're already using one, you might never have known about this change in the first place. But ad blockers aren't for everyone, and they can hurt smaller sites that rely on ad revenue to run, even as they protect you from malicious (and annoying) ads.

If you choose not to use an ad blocker, thanks to these changes, perusing your Google search results can be a little bit better, at least.

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3"> <div class="flex w-full gap-x-5"> <div class="flex w-full flex-col flex-nowrap justify-center gap-2 text-black no-underline md:order-2 md:gap-y-6"> <div class="flex flex-col justify-between gap-y-2 md:w-full md:gap-y-1"> <div class="block w-fit cursor-pointer font-akshar text-lg font-medium leading-5 text-brand-green duration-200 ease-in-out hover:text-brand-green-700 md:text-xl md:leading-6"> Google - Pixel 9 Pro 128GB (Unlocked) - Obsidian </div> </div> <div class="hidden md:flex md:justify-between md:gap-x-4"> <div class="w-full mb-0 md:flex md:flex-col md:justify-center font-sans leading-4 text-black"> <div class="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-center gap-1 md:justify-start"> <span class="font-bold"> $699.00 <span class="font-medium">at Amazon</span> </span> </div> <div class="flex items-center justify-center gap-x-1 font-bold md:justify-start"> <span class="text-sm line-through">$999.00</span> <span class="text-sm text-brand-green">Save $300.00</span> </div> </div> <button class="flex justify-center items-center w-full bg-brand-green text-white text-base font-sans font-medium rounded-md hover:bg-brand-green-700 hover:cursor-pointer md:text-sm hidden self-end h-12 max-w-[10rem] duration-200 ease-in-out hover:bg-brand-green-700 md:flex md:h-10"> Get Deal </button> </div> </div> <div class="flex aspect-video h-[90px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center self-center md:order-1"> <img class="m-0 max-h-full max-w-full rounded-md" src="https://lifehacker.com/imagery/product/00n6i3pV6MkhtzvtyIH3BPf/hero-image.fill.size_autoxauto.v1723578353.jpg" alt="Google - Pixel 9 Pro 128GB (Unlocked) - Obsidian" width="auto" height="auto" loading="lazy"> </div> </div> <button class="flex justify-center items-center w-full bg-brand-green text-white text-base font-sans font-medium rounded-md hover:bg-brand-green-700 hover:cursor-pointer md:text-sm w-full h-12 duration-200 ease-in-out hover:bg-brand-green-700 md:hidden md:h-10"> Get Deal </button> <div class="flex flex-col items-center w-full md:hidden font-sans leading-4 text-black"> <div class="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-center gap-1 md:justify-start"> <span class="font-bold"> $699.00 <span class="font-medium">at Amazon</span> </span> </div> <div class="flex items-center justify-center gap-x-1 font-bold md:justify-start"> <span class="text-sm line-through">$999.00</span> <span class="text-sm text-brand-green">Save $300.00</span> </div> </div> </a> <a href="https://cc.lifehacker.com/v1/otc/06ZVRiLmglGs4QA6plTXzTC?merchant=05kie42h3YvHwjr4G1w80Qq&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DVHV7X53&amp;template=Deals&amp;module=product-list&amp;element=offer&amp;item=offer-btn&amp;position=4&amp;element_label=Google+Pixel+9a+128GB+Unlocked+Phone+%28Obsidian%29&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss&amp;product_uuid=06FFZ6yNFVNG8k4Q3mO9onK&amp;offer_uuid=04hKOzWBvSUMACaXggyh7SI&amp;pageview_type=RSS&amp;object_type=04hKOzWBvSUMACaXggyh7SI&amp;object_uuid=06FFZ6yNFVNG8k4Q3mO9onK&amp;data-aps-asin=B0DVHV7X53&amp;data-aps-asc-tag=lifehack088-20&amp;data-aps-asc-subtag=04hKOzWBvSUMACaXggyh7SI" data-commerce="1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow sponsored" data-parent-group="affiliate-link" title="(opens in a new window)" class="flex flex-col py-8 gap-5 border-dotted border-[#CFCFCE] cursor-default no-underline md:flex-row md:gap-y-2 md:py-7 border-b-2" data-ga-click="data-ga-click" data-ga-module="product-list" data-ga-element="offer" data-ga-item="offer-btn" data-ga-label="Google Pixel 9a 128GB Unlocked Phone (Obsidian)" data-ga-position="4" aria-label="Google Pixel 9a 128GB Unlocked Phone (Obsidian) Product Card" x-cloak="x-cloak" x-show="showMore || 3 &lt; 3"> <div class="flex w-full gap-x-5"> <div class="flex w-full flex-col flex-nowrap justify-center gap-2 text-black no-underline md:order-2 md:gap-y-6"> <div class="flex flex-col justify-between gap-y-2 md:w-full md:gap-y-1"> <div class="block w-fit cursor-pointer font-akshar text-lg font-medium leading-5 text-brand-green duration-200 ease-in-out hover:text-brand-green-700 md:text-xl md:leading-6"> Google Pixel 9a 128GB Unlocked Phone (Obsidian) </div> </div> <div class="hidden md:flex md:justify-between md:gap-x-4"> <div class="w-full mb-0 md:flex md:flex-col md:justify-center font-sans leading-4 text-black"> <div class="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-center gap-1 md:justify-start"> <span class="font-bold"> $399.00 <span class="font-medium">at Amazon</span> </span> </div> <div class="flex items-center justify-center gap-x-1 font-bold md:justify-start"> <span class="text-sm line-through">$499.00</span> <span class="text-sm text-brand-green">Save $100.00</span> </div> </div> <button class="flex justify-center items-center w-full bg-brand-green text-white text-base font-sans font-medium rounded-md hover:bg-brand-green-700 hover:cursor-pointer md:text-sm hidden self-end h-12 max-w-[10rem] duration-200 ease-in-out hover:bg-brand-green-700 md:flex md:h-10"> Get Deal </button> </div> </div> <div class="flex aspect-video h-[90px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center self-center md:order-1"> <img class="m-0 max-h-full max-w-full rounded-md" src="https://lifehacker.com/imagery/product/06FFZ6yNFVNG8k4Q3mO9onK/hero-image.fill.size_autoxauto.v1744288027.jpg" alt="Google Pixel 9a 128GB Unlocked Phone (Obsidian)" width="auto" height="auto" loading="lazy"> </div> </div> <button class="flex justify-center items-center w-full bg-brand-green text-white text-base font-sans font-medium rounded-md hover:bg-brand-green-700 hover:cursor-pointer md:text-sm w-full h-12 duration-200 ease-in-out hover:bg-brand-green-700 md:hidden md:h-10"> Get Deal </button> <div class="flex flex-col items-center w-full md:hidden font-sans leading-4 text-black"> <div class="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-center gap-1 md:justify-start"> <span class="font-bold"> $399.00 <span class="font-medium">at Amazon</span> </span> </div> <div class="flex items-center justify-center gap-x-1 font-bold md:justify-start"> <span class="text-sm line-through">$499.00</span> <span class="text-sm text-brand-green">Save $100.00</span> </div> </div> </a> <a href="https://cc.lifehacker.com/v1/otc/06ZVRiLmglGs4QA6plTXzTC?merchant=05kie42h3YvHwjr4G1w80Qq&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D7HWJDQM%2Fref%3Dox_sc_act_title_1%3Fsmid%3DATVPDKIKX0DER%26psc%3D1&amp;template=Deals&amp;module=product-list&amp;element=offer&amp;item=offer-btn&amp;position=5&amp;element_label=Google+Pixel+9+128GB+Unlocked++6.9%22+OLED+Smartphone+%28Obsidian%29&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss&amp;product_uuid=03hnWHEAMzvd5jAOdDlVUFQ&amp;offer_uuid=07egQTHWil6VyEvHBU6Ec5P&amp;pageview_type=RSS&amp;object_type=07egQTHWil6VyEvHBU6Ec5P&amp;object_uuid=03hnWHEAMzvd5jAOdDlVUFQ&amp;data-aps-asin=B0D7HWJDQM&amp;data-aps-asc-tag=lifehack088-20&amp;data-aps-asc-subtag=07egQTHWil6VyEvHBU6Ec5P" data-commerce="1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow sponsored" data-parent-group="affiliate-link" title="(opens in a new window)" class="flex flex-col py-8 gap-5 border-dotted border-[#CFCFCE] cursor-default no-underline md:flex-row md:gap-y-2 md:py-7" data-ga-click="data-ga-click" data-ga-module="product-list" data-ga-element="offer" data-ga-item="offer-btn" data-ga-label="Google Pixel 9 128GB Unlocked 6.9&quot; OLED Smartphone (Obsidian)" data-ga-position="5" aria-label="Google Pixel 9 128GB Unlocked 6.9&quot; OLED Smartphone (Obsidian) Product Card" x-cloak="x-cloak" x-show="showMore || 4 &lt; 3"> <div class="flex w-full gap-x-5"> <div class="flex w-full flex-col flex-nowrap justify-center gap-2 text-black no-underline md:order-2 md:gap-y-6"> <div class="flex flex-col justify-between gap-y-2 md:w-full md:gap-y-1"> <div class="block w-fit cursor-pointer font-akshar text-lg font-medium leading-5 text-brand-green duration-200 ease-in-out hover:text-brand-green-700 md:text-xl md:leading-6"> Google Pixel 9 128GB Unlocked 6.9" OLED Smartphone (Obsidian) </div> </div> <div class="hidden md:flex md:justify-between md:gap-x-4"> <div class="w-full mb-0 md:flex md:flex-col md:justify-center font-sans leading-4 text-black"> <div class="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-center gap-1 md:justify-start"> <span class="font-bold"> $599.00 <span class="font-medium">at Amazon</span> </span> </div> <div class="flex items-center justify-center gap-x-1 font-bold md:justify-start"> <span class="text-sm line-through">$799.00</span> <span class="text-sm text-brand-green">Save $200.00</span> </div> </div> <button class="flex justify-center items-center w-full bg-brand-green text-white text-base font-sans font-medium rounded-md hover:bg-brand-green-700 hover:cursor-pointer md:text-sm hidden self-end h-12 max-w-[10rem] duration-200 ease-in-out hover:bg-brand-green-700 md:flex md:h-10"> Get Deal </button> </div> </div> <div class="flex aspect-video h-[90px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center self-center md:order-1"> <img class="m-0 max-h-full max-w-full rounded-md" src="https://lifehacker.com/imagery/product/03hnWHEAMzvd5jAOdDlVUFQ/hero-image.fill.size_autoxauto.v1741034887.jpg" alt="Google Pixel 9 128GB Unlocked 6.9&quot; OLED Smartphone (Obsidian)" width="auto" height="auto" loading="lazy"> </div> </div> <button class="flex justify-center items-center w-full bg-brand-green text-white text-base font-sans font-medium rounded-md hover:bg-brand-green-700 hover:cursor-pointer md:text-sm w-full h-12 duration-200 ease-in-out hover:bg-brand-green-700 md:hidden md:h-10"> Get Deal </button> <div class="flex flex-col items-center w-full md:hidden font-sans leading-4 text-black"> <div class="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-center gap-1 md:justify-start"> <span class="font-bold"> $599.00 <span class="font-medium">at Amazon</span> </span> </div> <div class="flex items-center justify-center gap-x-1 font-bold md:justify-start"> <span class="text-sm line-through">$799.00</span> <span class="text-sm text-brand-green">Save $200.00</span> </div> </div> </a> <button class="mb-4 mt-6 pr-4 font-akshar text-sm font-medium text-gray-900 hover:cursor-pointer hover:text-brand-green md:pr-8" x-cloak="x-cloak" x-show="!showMore &amp;&amp; 5 &gt; 3" x-on:click="showMore = !showMore" x-on:keydown.enter.prevent.stop="showMore = !showMore"> SEE 2 MORE <svg class="-mt-[2px] inline-block size-3 fill-current text-brand-green"> <use href="https://lifehacker.com/images/icons/spritemap.svg#sprite-chevron-down"></use> </svg> </button> </div> <h2 id="the-best-deal-on-a-unlocked-google-phone-the-pixel-9-pro">The best deal on a unlocked Google phone: The Pixel 9 Pro</h2><p>After the <a href="https://lifehacker.com/tech/what-we-know-about-the-pixel-10-and-pixel-10-pro-made-by-google-2025" target="_blank">Google Pixel 10</a> was released earlier this year, the Pixel 9 Pro dropped dramatically in price&mdash;and you can still find it at the lows it hit during Amazon's October Prime Day sale. The Pixel 9 Pro is the most premium model in the <a href="https://lifehacker.com/tech/pixel-9-and-pixel-9-pro-features-are-announced" target="_blank"><u>Pixel 9 lineup</u></a>, and right now, an unlocked <a href="https://zdcs.link/QPpV1W?pageview_type=RSS&amp;amp%3Btemplate=Deals&amp;amp%3Bmodule=content_body&amp;amp%3Belement=offer&amp;amp%3Bitem=text-link&amp;amp%3Belement_label=128GB%20Google%20Pixel%209%20Pro&amp;amp%3Bshort_url=QPpV1W&amp;amp%3Bu=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ftech%2Fgoogle-pixel-9-pro-amazon-deal&amp;amp%3Bevent_label=128GB%20Google%20Pixel%209%20Pro&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=128GB%20Google%20Pixel%209%20Pro&amp;short_url=QPpV1W&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window"><u>128GB Google Pixel 9 Pro</u></a> is discounted to <strong>$699</strong> (originally $999). That's the second-lowest price it has ever reached on Amazon, according to <a href="https://lifehacker.com/best-price-tracking-tools-1692745053" target="_blank"><u>price-tracking tools</u></a>. The <a href="https://zdcs.link/QOgDl7?pageview_type=RSS&amp;amp%3Btemplate=Deals&amp;amp%3Bmodule=content_body&amp;amp%3Belement=offer&amp;amp%3Bitem=text-link&amp;amp%3Belement_label=1TB%20version&amp;amp%3Bshort_url=QOgDl7&amp;amp%3Bu=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ftech%2Fgoogle-pixel-9-pro-amazon-deal&amp;amp%3Bevent_label=1TB%20version&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=1TB%20version&amp;short_url=QOgDl7&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window"><u>1TB version</u></a> is also at a record-low price of <strong>$982.40</strong> (originally $1,499), making it the best deal if you need upgraded storage.</p><h2 id="the-best-deal-on-an-unlocked-samsung-phone-the-galaxy-s25-edge">The best deal on an unlocked Samsung phone: The Galaxy S25 Edge</h2><p>The <a href="https://zdcs.link/QmOXxq?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=Galaxy%20S25%20Edge&amp;short_url=QmOXxq&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Galaxy S25 Edge</a> is Samsung's thinnest phone, and you can get it for <strong>$729.99</strong> (formerly $1,219.99). If you're interested in a thin and light Galaxy phone that comes with Samsung's latest hardware, this is a great buy. It just came out this past summer, is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chip, and comes with 12GB of RAM and upgraded storage of 256GB. It has a dual camera setup with a 200 MP wide lens and 12 MP ultra-wide and front lenses, and it's super thin at around 5.84mm, proving you don't need to spend top dollar to get a great device.</p><h2 id="the-best-unlocked-budget-samsung-deal-the-galaxy-s25">The best unlocked budget Samsung deal: The Galaxy S25+</h2><p>It's not often you find this good a deal on a refurbished flagship model, but that's what we have with the <a href="https://zdcs.link/akwR26?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=Galaxy%20S25%2B&amp;short_url=akwR26&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Galaxy S25+</a>. It's currently <strong>$598</strong> (originally $899) from Amazon. This is an "excellent" refurbished phone from Samsung's S25 lineup. You can see the <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/comparisons/samsung-galaxy-s25-edge-vs-s25-plus" target="_blank" title="open in a new window" rel="noopener">difference between the S25 Edge and the S25+</a> here, but in short, they are pretty similar, with the Edge supporting a stylus and a thinner build. 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I am the biggest booster of Google's NotebookLM, an AI tool that functions like a personal ChatGPT. I have recommended it for studying, used it for my own work loads of times, and generally found it to be one of the best bits of software available right now. But recently, I tried using it on my phone, not just on my computer browser—and it fell surprisingly flat. Here's how I've been managing to use it via mobile, anyway, and why you should stick to the computer version for now.

What is NotebookLM?

NotebookLM is a language model that only uses resources you provide. Like ChatGPT, it can offer summaries, outlines, and studying or organizational help, but unlike ChatGPT, it's not pulling from the World Wide Web to do that. Instead, you upload PDFs, links, plain text, and documents and, when you ask it a question, it relies only on those to give you an answer.

Here's a practical example.: I use it a lot when I'm writing an article that features a load of interviews. I copy and paste my interview transcripts into NotebookLM, then prompt it, to, say, "Find me three quotes about the value of good sleep." If three of my sources mentioned how important it is to get a good night's rest, I'll get three quotes right away, plus a hyperlink to where they each appear in their respective interview, so I can go back and read the context around them. It makes being organized so much easier and I don't waste time searching, word by word, through every transcript for what I need.

For studying, it's even better. You can upload all the slide decks, e-texts, and notes you have from a class, then ask it to generate practice quizzes, flashcards, summaries, or essay outlines. One of its coolest features is that it will even create a fake podcast, complete with two hosts who have vocal ticks and even vocal fry. The two AI hosts discuss the material from your sources in an informational, conversational way, like a real podcaster might, and you can listen to it and learn wherever you are.

It's been incredibly helpful for me, and it doesn't feel unethical to use, like other AI chatbots, because it's synthesizing information I already found, compiled, and put the work in on. It doesn't feel like I'm cheating when I use it; instead, it feels like I'm getting a little boost in my organization, but still doing most of the work. Plus, there's never a risk that it will make up a fake fact or pull in information that is irrelevant or faulty, like there is with ChatGPT. It relies only on what you give it.

The mobile app problem

All of that said, I became and stayed obsessed with this after only using it on my desktop browser for the last six months or so. Last weekend, though, I was studying for an upcoming certification exam and was, as usual, using NotebookLM to generate flashcards, quizzes, and fake podcasts. But I was also cleaning my apartment and doing the laundry, which involved a lot of running to and from the laundromat. I decided to use the NotebookLM iPhone app so I could study on the go; I assumed that since the product is so stellar on the computer, it would be great on the app, too. It was not.

On the app, all you can do is review your sources, talk to the chatbot, and listen to your generated podcasts. Here's what you can't do:

  • Generate flashcards

  • Review existing flashcards

  • Generate a quiz

  • Take existing quizzes

  • Select the sources from which you make a podcast, quiz, flashcards, or chat topic

One of the best things about the browser version is you can toggle sources on and off. So, if you upload a separate PDF for five different book chapters, you can select only Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 before generating a quiz or flashcards, for instance. If you keep them all selected, your quizzes, flashcards, podcasts, or chats will pull from all of them. By narrowing the scope, you can study more specifically.

You can't do that on the app, but it doesn't actually matter because you can't generate (or use) anything on the app, anyway. You can generate a podcast, but only one that pulls from all your sources. The other features—quizzes and flashcards—aren't available at all.

Workarounds for NotebookLM

The first workaround I found was a little annoying: I generated a podcast for every chapter using my computer, then listened to them through the mobile app on my phone while I ran my errands. I had to stay on top of my schedule, bouncing from cleaning to laundromat to computer and back again, so I wouldn't find myself without a study podcast to review, but all in all, I got the hang of it. You can't do this for flashcards, quizzes, or mind maps, but if you're after the podcasts, this works with some pre-planning.

The second workaround is not to use the app at all. Most websites and companies want to push you toward app use, presumably for data-collection purposes, but never forget there is a browser on your phone, too. I navigated to the NotebookLM website on my mobile browser and, though it's smaller and harder to navigate than the computer, have been able to use it to generate flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, and more. You can check and uncheck sources on the mobile browser version, which is ideal.

I'm hopeful the app will improve. NotebookLM is such a great resource that has helped me a ton, but it would be much better if it were more usable in its app format. I can't always be attached to my laptop; the real value of studying with flashcards, especially, is that they should be accessible and reviewable anywhere via my phone.

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French Toast in October

Patrick Snyder woke up this morning and, naturally, his thoughts turned to French Toast.

On Webster Street in East Boston, though, some people's thoughts turned to how to get rid of the tree that snapped and fell:

Tree down on Webster Street in East Boston

At the Fenway Star Market, the rain was coming from inside the house, including in a refrigerator case:

Buckets catching rain in the Star Market, including in a refrigerator case

A construction site on Norfolk Avenue in Roxbury had a bit of a landslide - enough to knock over some large "bricks:"

Large blocks knocked over by landslide

Down on Washington Street in Lower Mills, the wind sent fencing flying:

Fencing down on Washington Street in Lower Mills

Somebody who braved the elements to walk along the Greenway wondered why the fountains were still going:

Fountains running in the middle of a nor'easter

A large tree limb came down in Franklin Park at Seaver and Humboldt, but the person who reported it to 311 noted it wasn't blocking any roads or paths, so no need to rush:

Large tree limb on ground in Franklin Park

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Drugs, death, and depravity are probably what come to mind whenever you hear about the dark web. Or, is it the deep web? Is it both?

You might find yourself conflating the two terms, with the assumption that both the dark web and the deep web are the same place—a spot people flock to for reasons that include illegal and/or generally shady activities. But while the dark web is a part of the deep web, the deep web isn’t really the dark web.

The "regular internet" is the surface web

I need to start this explanation with a different term altogether: The internet as most of us know it is called the “surface web.” (Perhaps you've also heard it called the open web or visible web.) Essentially, it’s a collection of sites that are indexed by search engines. If it pops up in a Google search, it’s a part of the surface web.

This article, for example, is a part of the surface web; CNET's homepage is a part of the surface web; the Facebook login screen is a part of the surface web. Most of the internet you're familiar with is likely covered under this definition.

That’s not the case with the deep web or the dark web. You can’t open Chrome and expect to find any dark web pages via a Google search. For the deep web, you'll need to visit each website individually, and, in the case of the dark web, while using a special browser altogether.

What exactly is the deep web?

Also known as the “hidden” web, the deep web is the collection of sites that aren’t indexed by search engines. Most of these sites are obscured behind login pages, and can range from banking and email pages, to paywalled content like streaming sites. Sure, you’ll find Netflix via a Google search, but you won’t find the player for Love Is Blind, Season 9, Episode 1 unless you log into the site first.

The deep web also consists of protocol pages, responsible for identifying user accounts when you log in to a site, running payments when you make a purchase, and other processes you never need to see. In short, it’s both the backbone of the internet, as well as a part of the internet you regularly interact with yourself. And it's actually what makes up most of the internet: According to CrowdStrike, the deep web accounts for over 90% of all content online. Deep web pages aren’t indexed, but they often have URLs that can be linked to directly, and are accessible from traditional web browsers like Chrome or Firefox.

In your daily life online, you frequently jump between the surface web and the deep web, likely without realizing it. When you open your bank's website, that's the surface web. When you log into your account, your balance and investments are hosted on the deep web. When you open a YouTube video, that's the surface web. If you access your YouTube account's settings page, that's the deep web. You jump through these hoops all the time, but fear not: Your frequent deep web activity never puts you in danger of accessing the dark web.

What exactly is the dark web?

The dark web is a subsection (a small one, at that) of the deep web. But unlike the latter, the dark web is not accessible via a typical web browser like Chrome or Firefox. That's because it's not just hidden by login pages or hidden URLs; the dark web uses both encryption and routing to mask its websites, as well as proxy servers to host requests and traffic without any centralized regulation. This is still the deep web, it's just not a part of it you'd ever stumble upon by accident.

How to access the dark web

If you want to access the dark web, you need special tools to do so. A specific browser, such as Tor, for example, is required to get started. Just as you use Chrome to access public internet sites like Facebook or Lifehacker, you use a dark web browser to access dark web pages. It's also common to know the specific dark web site you want to visit ahead of time; these often end in .onion instead of .com. While the dark web does have its own search engines, like Ahmia, Torch, and even a special version of DuckDuckGo, they are not as robust as the search engines you're used to.

Since you need special protocols to access these sites, that traffic is often private and anonymous. That’s what makes the dark web an attractive option for illegal activities—the site activity isn’t as easily traced back to individual user accounts. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are the common tender on the dark web, since it also protects your privacy during transactions.

The dark web isn't just illegal stuff

When you think of the “dark web,” you probably imagine an underground, secretive network of sites, where illegal activities are aplenty, passing drugs, contraband, and illicit media with reckless abandon. You might also hear about data leaks ending up on the dark web, with bad actors paying for your passwords, hacked accounts, and credit card info. Those sites surely exist, but they’re only one part of what’s known as the dark web, which isn't only a playground for the perverse and malicious.

While many common use-cases for the dark web might be against the law, anyone with a reason to be anonymous online can utilize the networks. Common examples of “good” on the dark web are whistleblowers who need a place to leak their information without having the governments and organizations responsible for that data knowing who they are, as well as legitimate news and information sites for citizens of countries with strict censorship laws. One study from 2020 estimates that 57% of the dark web contains illegal content. If true, that's a lot, but it also means the other 43% isn't breaking the law.

In short, the deep web is not a scary place. The dark web can be, but not always.

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BJ’s Wholesale Club isn’t just about oversized ketchup bottles and 40-roll toilet paper packs—though you’ll definitely find those too. If you’ve been considering joining a wholesale club, a one-year Club Card Membership with BJ’s Easy Renewal is on sale for just $15 at StackSocial instead of the usual $60. It’s only available to new members, and you’ll receive a redemption code to activate the membership directly through BJ's official website. It's great if you have a big family, dream of a well-stocked pantry, or simply love saving on groceries, gas, and daily essentials.

The value shows up pretty quickly. BJ’s claims up to 25% savings compared to regular grocery stores—and it covers a wide range: produce, meat, deli, and cleaning supplies, as well as tech, toys, clothes, and even furniture. Their fuel perks might be the real unsung hero, though. Fill up at BJ’s Gas and you can stack extra discounts through the Fuel Saver Program, which rewards you for buying specific items in-store. And, if you hate wandering through aisles, the app offers curbside pickup or same-day delivery in select areas, and you can clip digital coupons that automatically apply at checkout. It’s not flashy, but it's efficient.

The only catch: You're auto-enrolled into BJ’s Easy Renewal, which means you’ll be charged full price (whatever that is next year) when your discounted membership ends. You can cancel before that happens, but you’ll need to keep track of the renewal date or set a reminder to not forget. Also, this offer is only available to new sign-ups; it's not applicable to existing or recently former members.

If you’ve never had a BJ’s membership and want to test the waters without paying full price, this deal gives you a pretty low-commitment way in. And for just $15, the savings might cover that in just one or two grocery runs.

Apple TV+ Is Getting a Name Change

Oct. 13th, 2025 06:30 pm
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I love Severance as much as the next TV obsessive (though I admit I'm a serial avoider of Ted Lasso—sorry), but I must be honest: Nobody calls the service those shows are hosted on "Apple TV+." And now, they don't have to, because the streamer is getting a new name.

I get what Apple was going for with that "+" symbol. It already had a streaming box called an Apple TV, and a pay-per-view app called Apple TV, so it needed to call its subscription-based streaming platform something else. But everyone I've ever talked to about an Apple TV+ show, whether online or in-person, tends to drop the "plus" from the name, perhaps even forgetting it was there in the first place—especially because the aforementioned, plus-less pay-per-view app is still where you go to actually watch your Apple TV+ content.

Now, it seems, even Apple is giving up on the name, and just doing the same intuitive thing all my friends and family have already been doing for years, because at the bottom of a press release earlier today, the company quietly admitted that Apple TV+ will now just be called Apple TV.

Why Apple TV+ is no more

Despite the conflict with other Apple products, it makes sense...mostly. Apple TV+ is a mouthful, and a bit redundant, and sounds too much like Paramount+ or Disney+ (a service I don't like very much). My brain just naturally wants to call the app where I watch Apple content "Apple TV" instead. It's also arguable that calling the platform Apple TV+ implies you need Apple TV hardware to watch it, so arguably the new name is more descriptive than the old one.

That said, as smart as the decision is, Apple is burying the announcement. It came at the end of a post about F1 The Movie's subscription streaming premiere (set for Dec. 12, by the way), and in a way taht wasn't very descriptive. All we know is that, according to the company, "Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity." As of this writing, neither the Apple TV app or the Apple TV+ website have been updated to match this new moniker, so your guess is as good as mine as to what the rebrand will look like once it goes live. It could be a big new relaunch, with a new UI, or it could be a quiet change that Apple will try to sneak by with as little fanfare as possible.

At any rate, if you see Apple TV+ branding disappear from your Apple TV app, that's why. All your subscription content will still be there, just without a plus symbol next to it. The big dangling question, then, is how this will affect Apple's pay-per-view store, or its Apple TV hardware.

What will become of the old Apple TV?

For the former, it seems like it won't be a big change, as Apple's F1 blog admits that while the movie isn't available for streaming via the newly rechristened Apple TV subscription yet, but is purchasable only in the wider Apple TV app. That implies that the subscription service and the rest of the app will both continue to operate as separate entities going forward, and while it's a bit confusing for them to share a name, I can't say that calling the service Apple TV+ was every a great solution to that problem. Instead, subscription shows will probably just get a slight visual change to the section they already live under in the Apple TV app.

But how will this affect hardware—specifically the Apple tV streaming box? I could see that being a bit more confusing. Imagine a less literate family member buying a physical Apple TV at Walmart, only to realize they still have to pay for a subscription to actually watch Apple TV shows. For all its faults, at least "Apple TV+" did imply buying Apple's streaming box didn't automatically give you access to its shows (even if, again, you can watch those shows without Apple TV hardware).

That said, it's possible a solution for that is forthcoming: According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, a consistently accurate predictor of all things Apple, the company is set to announce a new slate of MacBook hardware sometime later this week. Could the Apple TV+ name change imply that we'll see a rebranded Apple TV streaming box alongside these new laptops? We may find out soon.

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When I first unboxed the Hydrow Arc Rowing Machine, I was cautiously optimistic. While rowing machines always sounded great in theory—an efficient, low-impact, full-body workout!—when I tried them in the past, I felt like reality fell far short of the hype, but my initial impressions were promising, and the machine itself is really nice.

And now, after 30 days of consistent rowing, I can confidently say that my legs do indeed feel stronger than ever. Moreover, I've yet to get tired of this workout. Here's how my last month of workouts went, and how I'm feeling now.

Week one: Getting acquainted with rowing

To be honest, my first few sessions with this machine were humbling. Despite having rowed before, those first 20-minute workouts reminded me that rowing is much more challenging than it looks. Your quads burn, your hamstrings engage in ways you forgot were possible, and your glutes? They're doing work. The Arc's electromagnetic resistance (or "drag setting") feels incredibly smooth, and that fluid motion meant I could focus on form without the jarring stops and starts of cheaper machines I'm used to at the gym. But that also meant being able to truly focus on the burn.

When it comes to the machine itself, the Hydrow's 24-inch pivoting HD touchscreen immediately became my favorite feature. It's the company's largest display yet, and when you're mid-workout, staring at an instructor rowing through scenic waterways in Croatia or the Charles River, that immersive quality actually matters. It helped pull me in enough that I was able to forget I was suffering through the last two minutes of a power interval.

Weeks two and three: Starting to build strength

I was already familiar with the benefits and challenges of running and lifting, but just weeks into my rowing regimen, I felt a unique and surprising strength starting to build—not just bulk, but functional power that translated to everyday movement.

The HydroMetrics system (Hydrow's proprietary tracking feature) became oddly addictive during this phase. It measures your performance across three key areas: Precision (how consistent your stroke is), Endurance (how well you maintain output), and Power (how much force you generate). Watching those scores improve gave me concrete proof that I wasn't just feeling stronger—I was getting stronger. As my 30-day HydroMetrics Index climbed, that gamification kept me coming back.

The Arc's workout library is massive—you can choose from thousands of classes, ranging from 10-minute quick sessions to 45-minute endurance challenges. I found myself gravitating toward the 30-minute scenic rows in the morning and shorter, high-intensity sessions in the evening. The variety meant I never got bored, and the on-demand format meant I could work out at 6 a.m. or 10 p.m. without planning around a studio schedule. The machine's quiet operation also meant I didn't have to plan around my roommate's sleeping schedule.

Week four: Feeling the full-body difference

Rowing is often referred to as a full-body workout, and after a month, I certainly understand why. If you haven't committed to it, you might assume rowing is more of an upper body workout. But one of the first things I learned with my Arc is that I needed to be driving power way more from my legs than I previously realized. After a month, my core felt more stable, my posture had improved (from all that engagement during the drive phase), and my arms—while not the primary focus—definitely were more toned.

Beyond the physical gains—which can really only be anecdotal after just a monthlong trial like this—I noticed a mental benefit I hadn't anticipated: The personalized workout recommendations made it feel less like I was forcing myself to exercise and more like the machine knew what was needed to motivate me. Some days it suggested endurance rows; other days, it served up power intervals. That intelligent guidance removed the decision fatigue that often kills my workout streaks.

The bottom line

After 30 days with the Hydrow Arc rower, my legs feel stronger than ever—not in a "I can't walk up stairs" way, but in a "I feel powerful and capable" way. The machine delivered on the promise of building what Hydrow cutely refers to as "Fluid Strength": that sort of full-body, functional fitness that makes everyday life easier.

Is the Arc a perfect workout solution? Well, it's a high-quality machine with a large footprint and a premium price tag, so it's not for everyone. But if you're serious about building strength efficiently, want a low-impact workout that actually challenges you, and appreciate smart technology that adapts to your progress, it's worth considering, despite the substantial investment necessary. After 30 days, I'm not just stronger—I'm hooked on rowing.

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Wanted man

Boston Police report they are looking for this guy for some A&B at the Tasty Burger, 86 Van Ness St. in the Fenway, around 1:15 a.m. on Saturday.

He paired his black outfit with white sneakers.

If he looks familiar, you can call detectives at 617-343-5619 or contact the anonymous tip line by calling 1-800-494-TIPS (8477) or texting TIP to CRIME (27463).

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An outraged Silver Line rider filed a 311 complaint at 11:17 p.m. on Sunday about the situation on Tremont Street:

The theater district is gridlocked because there is no enforcement when drivers leave their cars in the left travel lane for New York Pizza. There needs to be a zero tolerance policy for lane blockers here, it shouldn’t take 15 minutes for a Silver Line bus to get from Boylston St to Stuart St!

The complaint lists the specific address as "Intersection Of Allen's Aly And Lagrange St And Tremont St, Boston, Ma" - here's the (completely unrelated to the complaint) history of Allen's Alley.

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I first tried the Norwegian 4x4 workout a year ago, and since then, it has become a staple of my fitness routine. I don't do it every week (some folks do), but it's a workout I keep returning to whenever I want a hard, cardio-boosting routine that only takes about 40 minutes. It's simple and effective.

The Norwegian 4x4 is constantly being discussed on social media and especially in biohacking and longevity spaces. That's because the 4x4 has been well researched as a way to boost your VO2max. People who have a high VO2max—one measure of cardio fitness—tend to be healthier as they age, and may be able to expect a longer lifespan. With that in mind, some longevity influencers have been singing the praises of the “Norwegian 4x4” workout, which is targeted to improve your VO2max. So how do you do it? And is it really a magic bullet for fitness and longevity? Let's get into it.

What kind of workout is the Norwegian 4x4? 

I’ll give a step-by-step further down, but basically it’s a cardio workout (usually done while running or cycling) that features four-minute-long intervals. You do four of these hard four-minute intervals, hence the name 4x4. There is also a warmup at the beginning of the workout, a cooldown at the end, and a three-minute rest period between each interval.

If you’re a runner, you’ll recognize this as a classic VO2max interval workout. Typically, VO2max intervals are done for three to five minutes, with a recovery time similar to, or slightly less than, the work time. Couldn’t I just do any old VO2max interval workout? you might be asking. Yes, you can.

The Norwegian 4x4 is a good example of a VO2max interval workout, but it’s not the only one. Also, intervals like these that target your VO2max pace are not the only way to improve your VO2max. So the 4x4 isn’t unique or special, it’s just a simple protocol that’s easy to remember and has been tested on a wide variety of people, including elderly people with heart conditions. 

What benefits can I expect from the Norwegian 4x4 workout?

According to the experts, after doing this workout regularly (say, twice a week) for several weeks to months, you can expect an increase in your cardio fitness, including metrics like the “cardio fitness” or “VO2max” readings on your smartwatch. If you like to run races, you’ll notice you can run them a bit faster. It will be harder for you to get winded if you go for a hike or run around in the backyard with your kids. 

Your heart health will likely improve; this exercise fits right in with the exercise recommendations for heart health and general health. Cardio exercise in general, including intervals like these, tends to reduce people’s risk of heart disease, improves mental health, and more. Again: you can get similar results from other exercise, too. But 4x4 is one good option among many. 

I'd like to throw in my personal experience. Like I said above, I don't do the 4x4 as my main workout, so I can't tell you how that feels. But I do keep it in the rotation for anytime I want to do a hard workout. When I do it, my Garmin tends to tell me I'm being "productive." (Garmins are notoriously stingy with their praise.)

Having the 4x4 as a workout option has made it so much easier to get VO2max intervals done. I don't need to design a specific workout, choosing the interval lengths myself. If I'm on a training plan, the might tell me what interval workouts to do, but that means I'm on my own when I'm not following a plan. But the 4x4 is always there for me, saved on my watch just waiting for me to press "start."

How to do the Norwegian 4x4 Workout

The 4x4 gets its name because you are doing four repeats of a four-minute-long hard intervals. The authoritative source on this is the Cardiac Exercise Research Group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), which has a video with researcher Anja Bye explaining how it works. Refer to that source for your follow-up questions, not podcasters or influencers who try to translate it into zones or modify the repeats or rest times. If you want to do the 4x4, do it right. (Then experiment with it on your own, if you choose.) 

The 4x4 was originally designed to be done while running, but the researchers say it’s OK to do it with other activities like “swimming, biking, or skiing.” (Forgive me if I don’t have skis at the ready.) Here’s the protocol: 

  • Warm up with 10 minutes of moderate intensity jogging or brisk walking.

  • First interval: 4 minutes at a hard pace. It may take 1-2 minutes for your heart rate to reach the target (85-95% of your tested max HR), and that’s OK. If you don’t have a heart rate monitor or you don’t know your true max, aim to work hard enough that you can’t talk in full sentences. Bye says “the intensity of the last minute should be high, but not so exhausting that you cannot complete it.” 

  • Recovery: 3 minutes at a moderate pace, jogging or brisk walking. Aim to get back to 60-70% of your max heart rate. 

  • Repeat the intervals until you have done four of them, in total.

  • Cooldown: 5 minutes of moderate intensity again.

In total, that’s 40 minutes: 

  • 10 minute warmup

  • 4 minute hard interval

  • 3 minute recovery

  • 4 minute hard interval

  • 3 minute recovery

  • 4 minute hard interval

  • 3 minute recovery

  • 4 minute hard interval

  • 5 minute cooldown

Note that it’s three minutes of recovery between hard intervals, not four. (People tend to misremember this part.) Also: don’t skip the warmup. It helps get your heart rate up so you’re ready to hit the required numbers during the first interval. 

How often should I do the Norwegian 4x4 workout? 

The NTNU recommends doing it twice each week, plus one longer cardio session where you exercise at a moderate pace only. They also recommend that if you’re exercising four times or more each week, that your interval sessions be half or less of your total training. That would generally still mean two 4x4 sessions per week, since you would be doing two to four sessions of some other type of exercise.

What heart rate zones should I be in? 

Trick question! This is not a zone-based workout. If you use a heart rate tracker, you have numeric targets:

  • 85-95% of your tested max during the final 2-3 minutes of the 4 minute intervals

  • 60-70% during the warmup, recovery, and cooldown periods.

That 85-95% range includes parts of zone 4 and 5, in most of the five-zone systems. The recovery heart rate may put you in zones 1 and/or 2, again, depending on how your watch sets it up. (As I keep saying, the zone boundaries vary by device.) 

If you’re using heart rate as a target, make sure you know your actual max heart rate. Don’t trust your device to calculate it; people are different and the default formula can easily be off by 10 beats or more. NTNU recommends using a modified version of the 4x4 to test your max. Begin the workout as above, but when you get to the third interval, run it all-out. The highest number you see on your watch during this test is the number you should use as your max. 

Is this a zone 5 workout? 

You’ll probably reach zone 5 at some point during the intervals, so in that sense, yes. But the point is not to hit zone 5, the point is to follow the protocol.

Is this a VO2max workout? 

Yes, this is a pretty classic set of VO2max intervals. That said, it’s not the only way to improve your VO2max! Good cardio fitness comes from training in a variety of ranges, including longer, slower workouts, and intervals of various lengths and intensities. All of this will ultimately improve your VO2max, and better yet, your cardio fitness in general. 

The idea of a VO2max workout comes from athletic training, where coaches will consider the different aspects of running performance and will program different types of workouts throughout the season to help their athletes improve their strong points and shore up weak points. “VO2max” intervals are part of that process. 

In a separate thread of logic, researchers who study heart health and longevity have found that VO2max is an aspect of fitness they can test in a consistent, repeatable way. People with better cardio fitness tend to be healthier and live longer, so you can correctly say that a VO2max is associated with health. But that’s not because you need to improve your VO2max relative to other aspects of fitness; it’s because improving your fitness will improve your health, and your VO2max will go up as a side effect.

Am I doing it right? 

I keep seeing Reddit posts from fans of various biohacking podcasts, asking whether they did their 4x4 workout right. Here’s a checklist: 

  • Did you look up the protocol from its actual source on NTNU? Because some influencers don’t explain it correctly, or they mention it alongside other exercise protocols and it’s easy to get confused about what the protocol actually is.

  • Did you do the warmup and cooldown? The warmup sets you up for a good first interval. If you start from complete rest, you’re wasting a lot of that first interval just on getting your heart up to speed.

  • Did you do three-minute rests? Not four minutes. Three minutes. (Not that four-minute rests would be bad, but it’s not the 4x4 protocol.)

  • Were you at 85-95% of your max heart rate during the last two minutes of each interval? It takes time for your heart rate to ramp up, but you should be hitting the target for at least the last half of each interval.

  • Were you at 70% or less during most of the recovery intervals? It takes time for your heart rate to come back down, but you’re aiming for 70% since that’s the intensity of exercise where your body can clear lactate most efficiently (to be ready to go again). 

  • Did you finish the workout feeling like you could have done at least one more round? You’re not trying to completely exhaust yourself, just give yourself a challenging workout. 

If you didn't do the workout properly, don't beat yourself up—just take note of where you can improve next time. Any kind of cardio is good for you, and gives you a foundation to build on.

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If you’ve been eyeing a big-screen upgrade but waiting for the prices to make sense, this might be the moment. The 77-inch LG C5 OLED Evo TV has dropped to $2,150, down from nearly $3,700, which is wild considering it’s only a few months into its release. Sitting just below LG’s flagship G5, the C5 borrows much of the same tech without the gallery-design markup. Reviewers, including CNET, praised it for its lifelike contrast, vibrant colors, and clean motion performance, but agreed it was a bit overpriced at launch. Now that the price has dropped, that part’s been taken care of.

Performance-wise, the C5 makes a convincing case for OLED fans who want more brightness without giving up those perfect blacks. Thanks to LG’s OLED Evo panel, it’s noticeably brighter than older C-series models (like the C3 or C4), hitting up to 870 nits in HDR scenes, but it’s not quite at the G5 or Samsung’s QLED level. Still, it’s plenty luminous for most living rooms. For gamers, the C5 is a dream setup with 4K at 120Hz, four HDMI 2.1 ports, VRR, G-Sync, and FreeSync support. You can plug in multiple consoles and still get buttery-smooth visuals with minimal input lag.

It also comes with webOS 24, LG’s latest smart TV platform, which now includes five years of guaranteed software updates, which is reassuring if you plan to hold onto this for the long haul. The Magic Remote (still a wand-style pointer) remains one of the more intuitive TV remotes out there, and it works with Alexa and Google Assistant for voice commands. You get Dolby Vision, HDR10, and the new Alpha 9 AI Processor Gen8, which uses machine learning to upscale older content and fine-tune color and tone scene by scene. There’s also a Filmmaker Mode that disables unnecessary processing to preserve the director’s intent, for a more natural movie experience. That said, while Dolby Atmos support helps, the onboard speakers of the C5 can’t quite match its visual impact. A soundbar or external setup is recommended.


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