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Apple extends free access to satellite connectivity features for an additional year for existing iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775309/apple-iphone-14-15-satellite-connectivity-free

Apple is giving iPhone 14 and 15 users another free year of satellite features
iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users are getting an additional year of free access to satellite connectivity features, according to Apple’s iPhone 17 press releases.

https://www.theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake
Wow.
That viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is a fake

The viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is most likely fake
A viral video of a “deactivated” Tesla Cybertuck is most likely fake.

Reddit removes visible subscriber counts from subreddit pages, replacing it with seven-day active visitors or contributions, to better reflect user activity (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775524/reddit-subreddit-member-count…

Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits
Reddit users can no longer see how many people are subscribed to their favorite subreddit communities

Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after it caught AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-…

Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.

Microsoft launches Copilot 3D, a free AI-powered tool allowing users to transform 2D images into 3D models without a text prompt, available in Copilot Labs (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/hands-on/756587/microsoft-copilot-3d-feature-hands-on

Microsoft’s new Copilot 3D feature is great for Ikea, bad for my dog
Microsoft has created a new Copilot 3D feature. It converts 2D images into 3D models that can be used for 3D printing or in 3D editing software.

The CSA releases Matter 1.4.2 to improve reliability, stability, and cross-platform coordination, like Wi-Fi-only commissioning to cut its Bluetooth dependency (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/matter/757179/matter-1…

Matter’s latest update doubles down on stability and pushes the platforms to play better together
Updates to how Wi-Fi routers work in Matter, how devices connect to the network, and the addition of Wi-Fi commissioning arrive with the latest Matter spec.

Lyft partners with Ann Arbor-based May Mobility to let riders in Atlanta request an autonomous minivan, with a safety driver, first in a seven square-mile area (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775074/lyft-may-mobility-robotaxi-atlanta…

Lyft’s first ‘robotaxis’ are live in Atlanta
Lyft is launching its first commercial robotaxi service with May Mobility in Atlanta. The vehicles will have safety monitors in the driver seat who may manually operate the vehicle in the initial stages.

Spotify plans to roll out lossless, offering 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC audio, to all Premium users in the next two months, without needing a new higher-priced tier (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/spotify/775189/spotify-lossless-streaming-f…

Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing
Spotify is finally adding support for streaming lossless 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC audio to its Premium plan.

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard to set terms for AI scraping (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775072/rsl-standard-licensing-ai…

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
A new licensing standard, called the RSL Standard, aims to allow AI companies to license content from across the web. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and others are already on board.

Q&A with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Notion's evolution into an "AI workspace", being profitable, B2B vs. B2C, usage-based pricing for AI, and more (Casey Newton/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Notion CEO Ivan Zhao wants you to demand better from your tools
Notion’s Ivan Zhao on AI, productivity, and the future of work.