Month: August 2024
Martin Shkreli Made Copies of His $2 Million Wu-Tang Album—and Hid Them in ‘Safes All Around the World’
The one-of-a-kind album is apparently now anything but.
The one-of-a-kind album is apparently now anything but.
Best Labor Day Appliance Deals: Discounts on Refrigerators, Washers, Air Fryers and More
We’ve gathered top deals on small and major appliances alike to so you can upgrade your home at a great price this Labor Day.
We’ve gathered top deals on small and major appliances alike to so you can upgrade your home at a great price this Labor Day.
Google Sued by Yelp in Antitrust Case
Yelp complained for more than a decade that Google tilted the search market in its favor. After its rival’s landmark legal loss, it finally decided to sue.
Yelp complained for more than a decade that Google tilted the search market in its favor. After its rival’s landmark legal loss, it finally decided to sue.
Apple Music now lets you easily transfer playlists to YouTube Music
Illustration: The Verge
Apple Music subscribers can now transfer their playlists over to YouTube Music, according to a recent support document spotted by MacRumors. Up until now, Apple did not offer native tools for transferring playlists to rival music services, making YouTube Music the first.
There are some caveats, however. Only songs available on YouTube Music can be transferred over, which means you won’t be able to migrate audio files like podcasts or audiobooks. You also can’t transfer curated or non-collaborative shared playlists, music files, or the folders you’ve created to organize playlists in Apple Music.
To move your playlists over to YouTube Music, you must have an active Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription, as well as an active YouTube Music account. Once logged into Apple’s Data and Privacy page, simply select “Transfer a copy of your data” and follow the onscreen instructions. Depending on how many playlists you’re migrating, it could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
Apple Music still doesn’t allow users to transfer playlists to other services, though, so you’ll still need to use a third-party tool to move your playlists to Spotify, Amazon Music, and other streaming services. However, Apple might be looking into making importing playlists easier. In February, Redditors noticed an Apple Music on Android beta that lets you use third-party service SongShift natively, allowing you to move playlists from Spotify and other services to Apple Music.
Illustration: The Verge
Apple Music subscribers can now transfer their playlists over to YouTube Music, according to a recent support document spotted by MacRumors. Up until now, Apple did not offer native tools for transferring playlists to rival music services, making YouTube Music the first.
There are some caveats, however. Only songs available on YouTube Music can be transferred over, which means you won’t be able to migrate audio files like podcasts or audiobooks. You also can’t transfer curated or non-collaborative shared playlists, music files, or the folders you’ve created to organize playlists in Apple Music.
To move your playlists over to YouTube Music, you must have an active Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription, as well as an active YouTube Music account. Once logged into Apple’s Data and Privacy page, simply select “Transfer a copy of your data” and follow the onscreen instructions. Depending on how many playlists you’re migrating, it could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
Apple Music still doesn’t allow users to transfer playlists to other services, though, so you’ll still need to use a third-party tool to move your playlists to Spotify, Amazon Music, and other streaming services. However, Apple might be looking into making importing playlists easier. In February, Redditors noticed an Apple Music on Android beta that lets you use third-party service SongShift natively, allowing you to move playlists from Spotify and other services to Apple Music.
Five more dead in record-breaking outbreak linked to Boar’s Head meats
CDC implores consumers to check their fridges for the recalled meats.
Enlarge / Listeria monocytogenes. (credit: Getty | BSIP)
Five more people have died in a nationwide outbreak of Listeria infections linked to contaminated Boar’s Head brand meats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.
To date, 57 people across 18 states have been sickened, all of whom required hospitalization. A total of eight have died. The latest tally makes this the largest listeriosis outbreak in the US since 2011, when cantaloupe processed in an unsanitary facility led to 147 Listeria infections in 28 states, causing 33 deaths, the CDC notes.
The new cases and deaths come after a massive recall of more than 7 million pounds of Boar’s Head meat products, which encompassed 71 of the company’s products. That recall was announced on July 30, which itself was an expansion of a July 26 recall of an additional 207,528 pounds of Boar’s Head products. By August 8, when the CDC last provided an update on the outbreak, the number of cases had hit 43, with 43 hospitalizations and three deaths.
It’s not just you: Reddit is down
Reddit is currently having some problems. The site appears to be down across the board, apart from a blank homepage that doesn’t contain or point to any content. “We encountered an error,” the website reads. “We were unable to load the content for this page.”
Clicking on any subreddits shows a “Community not found message.” The Reddit status update page listed the problem as “Degraded Performance for reddit.com,” and was initially flagged as “Investigating.” At 4:32PM ET, the status was updated as “Identified – The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”
Of course, the jokes on social media didn’t take long to start rolling in:
reddit is down. how am i supposed to google anything??— Corey Atad (@CoreyAtad) August 28, 2024
Reddit had another major outage earlier this year when it went down for nearly an hour.
We’ll keep an eye on the status and update this story accordingly.
Developing…This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/its-not-just-you-reddit-is-down-203615508.html?src=rss
Reddit is currently having some problems. The site appears to be down across the board, apart from a blank homepage that doesn’t contain or point to any content. “We encountered an error,” the website reads. “We were unable to load the content for this page.”
Clicking on any subreddits shows a “Community not found message.” The Reddit status update page listed the problem as “Degraded Performance for reddit.com,” and was initially flagged as “Investigating.” At 4:32PM ET, the status was updated as “Identified – The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”
Of course, the jokes on social media didn’t take long to start rolling in:
reddit is down. how am i supposed to google anything??
— Corey Atad (@CoreyAtad) August 28, 2024
Reddit had another major outage earlier this year when it went down for nearly an hour.
We’ll keep an eye on the status and update this story accordingly.
Developing…
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/its-not-just-you-reddit-is-down-203615508.html?src=rss
Telegram CEO charged in French criminal investigation
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images
A French investigative judge has charged Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with enabling illegal transactions among other alleged offenses, according to reports from NBC News and Le Monde. Durov had been arrested Saturday as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse material and other criminal activity on Telegram.
French prosecutors will release Durov under judicial supervision on a €5 million bail, but he won’t be allowed to leave France. As noted by Le Monde, Durov also faces charges of refusing to comply with authorities and complicity in the criminal distribution of CSAM.
Durov was arrested as he deplaned in Paris on a warrant issued by France’s OFMIN agency that’s tasked with preventing violence against minors. An agency official cited Telegram’s “lack of moderation and cooperation” for the investigation. The judge ordered Durov to be released from police custody Wednesday morning prior to being brought to court for his “first appearance and a possible indictment,” according to a Paris prosecutor’s office statement reported by The Associated Press.
Telegram said in a statement on Sunday that Durov has “nothing to hide” and called the claim that the platform is responsible for its users’ abuse of it “absurd.” The platform serves as a major information source, particularly in countries like Russia, where unfiltered news can be otherwise hard to come by. But it’s also widely known as a home base for terrorists and other bad actors.
Durov and his platform are known for being extremely hands-off when it comes to moderation, typically only doing so when compelled to do so by outside forces, like government regulators.
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images
A French investigative judge has charged Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with enabling illegal transactions among other alleged offenses, according to reports from NBC News and Le Monde. Durov had been arrested Saturday as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse material and other criminal activity on Telegram.
French prosecutors will release Durov under judicial supervision on a €5 million bail, but he won’t be allowed to leave France. As noted by Le Monde, Durov also faces charges of refusing to comply with authorities and complicity in the criminal distribution of CSAM.
Durov was arrested as he deplaned in Paris on a warrant issued by France’s OFMIN agency that’s tasked with preventing violence against minors. An agency official cited Telegram’s “lack of moderation and cooperation” for the investigation. The judge ordered Durov to be released from police custody Wednesday morning prior to being brought to court for his “first appearance and a possible indictment,” according to a Paris prosecutor’s office statement reported by The Associated Press.
Telegram said in a statement on Sunday that Durov has “nothing to hide” and called the claim that the platform is responsible for its users’ abuse of it “absurd.” The platform serves as a major information source, particularly in countries like Russia, where unfiltered news can be otherwise hard to come by. But it’s also widely known as a home base for terrorists and other bad actors.
Durov and his platform are known for being extremely hands-off when it comes to moderation, typically only doing so when compelled to do so by outside forces, like government regulators.