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Apple’s AI Playlist Playground is bad at music

Apple Music: "What do you want to hear?" Me: "Atmospheric instrumental black metal to write to." Apple Music: "Here's three metal songs with vocals, a field recording, an ambient electronic track, and a piece of doom jazz." I am skeptical of AI's ability to serve up the music I want to begin with, but even […]

X limits X Pro access to subscribers of the $40/month Premium+ plan without notifying users in advance; it was previously available in the $8/month Premium plan (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
X limits X Pro access to subscribers of the $40/month Premium+ plan without notifying users in advance; it was previously available in the $8/month Premium plan  —  Social network X is now limiting X Pro access to customers who subscribe to the X Premium+ plan, which is priced at $40 per month (or $33/month when paid annually).

Netflix raises prices again, with cheapest plan now $9 a month

Watching KPop Demon Hunters and Bridgerton is getting more expensive, as Netflix hikes prices on all subscriptions.

Xona, which aims to build a commercial alternative to GPS by launching a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation, raised a $170M Series C (Sandra Erwin/SpaceNews)

Sandra Erwin / SpaceNews:
Xona, which aims to build a commercial alternative to GPS by launching a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation, raised a $170M Series C  —  The company is scaling up production as it looks to build a 258-satellite network to provide positioning, navigation and timing services

The Apple Charging Situation

Speaking of power adapters, this information guide from Rands in Repose is both useful and enlightening.