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We thought the Amazon Echo Dot with Jack Skellington Shell bundle would disappear soon after Halloween. This is also a Christmas story, though! It’s still relevant. And even if it wasn’t, this will be a very lovely little gizmo for any Nightmare Before Christmas fan. It helps that you can also enjoy a sweet deal if you get the Amazon Echo Dot bundled with this Jack Skellington Shell, at just $62.98 for both. Buy the Amazon Echo Dot + Limited Edition Disney Jack Skellington Shell for $62.98This offer is available directly from Amazon. Maximum savings only apply if you get…

Citing “years of investment in AI, AR, and VR,” Google is stepping into the augmented reality market once more with Android XR. It’s an operating system that Google says will power future headsets and glasses that “transform how you watch, work, and explore.” The first version you’ll see is Project Moohan, a mixed-reality headset built by Samsung. It will be available for purchase next year, and not much more is known about it. Developers have access to the new XR version of Android now. “We’ve been in this space since Google Glass, and we have not stopped,” said Juston Payne,…

Apple is facing criticism after a new iPhone feature showed misleading headlines. According to BBC News, a notification from Apple’s new AI-powered feature said Luigi Mangione had shot himself. This happened earlier this week on iPhones. The notification was part of Apple Intelligence, a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to summarise news for you. Apple’s AI-powered feature sends out grouped notifications The iPhone’s new Apple Intelligence feature had a problem with a BBC News AI summary. The AI-powered summary shows that BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance…

Hadlee Simons / Android AuthorityTL;DR ES-DE update 3.1.1 adds many new features to the popular emulation front end. These include numerous bug fixes on Android, as well as support for four additional languages. Other changes include more alternative emulators and experimental multi-window support. Setting up emulators on Android devices has always been a bit of a nightmare, but projects like EmulationStation Desktop Edition (now officially called ES-DE Frontend) make things much more manageable. Today, update 3.1.1 dropped with a variety of new features for every supported platform.For starters, ES-DE Frontend now supports four additional languages: Catalan, German, Dutch, and Korean.…

Speaking of things staying the same, Blu-rays and DVDs also won’t have their content altered after purchase, as we’ve seen happen to digital versions of media. While certainly in decline, the US Blu-ray and DVD disc market made $1.34 billion in the year ending in March 2023, according to market research group Circana. Data from the first half of 2024 from entertainment trade association The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) found that while overall Blu-ray and DVD sales declined 22.2 percent during that time period, there were some areas of growth, too: Consumers continue to show strong demand for collectible disc…

YouTube, the world’s most popular video platform, is getting a handy new feature. The service has allowed users to control video playback speed for a while now. However, YouTube web now lets you tweak playback speed in a more granular way, thanks to the new “Custom” option. Last month, free and Premium users of the YouTube app for Android and iOS devices received it. Now it’s the turn of the YouTube website, which also has millions of daily users. That means you will no longer have to settle for limited preset speed settings when watching YouTube videos from your PC.…

Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR YouTube is getting new “parent codes” to limit access to profiles. With a code set, you won’t be able to load an adult profile or view signed out without the PIN. This system follows Google’s reorganization of YouTube Kids on smart TVs this past summer. YouTube has so much content on it that you could probably cancel all your streaming services, watch nothing but YouTube, and never run out of interesting new things. But with that much stuff up there, there are definitely going to be videos that parents don’t want their children exposed to…

Screenshot showing a graph tracking mining activity. Credit: Checkmarx But wait, there’s more On Friday, Datadog revealed that MUT-1244 employed additional means for installing its second-stage malware. One was through a collection of at least 49 malicious entries posted to GitHub that contained Trojanized proof-of-concept exploits for security vulnerabilities. These packages help malicious and benevolent security personnel better understand the extent of vulnerabilities, including how they can be exploited or patched in real-life environments. A second major vector for spreading @0xengine/xmlrpc was through phishing emails. Datadog discovered MUT-1244 had left a phishing template, accompanied by 2,758 email addresses scraped from…

Google continues to work on its big bet on AI, both for people and businesses. In a recent development, Google has launched Agentspace, a suite of AI-powered agents for enterprises powered by Google’s Gemini LLMs. Agentspace brings the power of Google’s AI and search tech to enterprises Many people have successfully incorporated AI-powered chatbots into their daily lives by now. However, there are also more specialized, autonomous, and proactive developments, known as AI agents. These “assistants” are initially targeting companies that aim to enhance employee productivity. They are ideal for optimizing and focusing on specific tasks. Google Agentspace is the…

Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityThe Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 offer is available from Best Buy. The Odyssey G9 and Odyssey Neo G9 bundles come directly from Samsung. The two latter deals also include a secondary G3 monitor at no extra cost. Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 This is likely the monitor I would personally buy. It has a large 43-inch screen with a sharp 4K resolution. This will make any game look amazing and provide ample screen real estate for working with multiple windows. There’s another reason why it’s bigger than usual, though: it doubles as a TV.The Samsung Odyssey…