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In an X post announcing the change yesterday, the company also said that Canvas, its ChatGPT coding helper feature, now has the ability to render HTML and React code.

OpenAI added that Canvas has rolled out to the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS.

You can log into multiple WhatsApp accounts on one iOS device in a recent iOS beta version, writes WABetaInfo.

In the case of Android phones, which have had the feature since 2023, you need a multi-SIM card phone and a second phone number to register another account.

From an interview with Gates published overnight by The London Times:

“You want to promote the right wing but say Nigel Farage is not right wing enough… I mean, this is insane shit. You are for the AfD [in Germany].” Is he embarrassed a billionaire techie has gone rogue? “We can all overreach… If someone is super-smart, and he is, they should think how they can help out. But this is populist stirring.”

Last fall, Megan Garcia sued Character.AI, its founders, and Google over the death by suicide of her 14-year-old son, who had chatted continuously with its bots, including just before his death. In December, the firm added safety measures aimed at teens and concerns over addiction.

TechCrunch reports that Character.ai has filed a motion to dismiss the case, which you can read in full here.

After sharing some screenshots of the feature earlier this month, Alessandro Paluzzi shared a couple more of the feature today.

If you want to join the Community Notes waitlist, you can do that here.

Bambu had originally suggested it was working with the developer of the third-party slicing tool, a stance which the developer rejected. Now, SoftFever says Orca is doing the opposite of working with Bambu, and advises Bambu owners not to upgrade their firmware.

Read all about Bambu’s controversial change, and its answers to our questions, right here.

According to The Information, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was annoyed by the costs of shows like LotR: The Rings of Power and Citadel and has pushed for the video service to be profitable by the end of this year. As Netflix raises prices, Prime is promoting shows from competing services and focusing more on live sports than originals.

Amazon’s betting that sports can more reliably draw audiences to the Prime Video service than new movies and shows, significantly boosting its ad revenue, according to multiple people familiar with its strategy.

Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, is composing some music for the revival of an RPG called Off. You can listen to two tracks and read about Off’s influence on Undertale in an interview on the game’s website, and I’ve included one of the tracks below.

Hairo Satoh has managed to squeeze a Nintendo DS into an original Game Boy that still closely resembles the original hardware. DS games are playable thanks to an added card slot on the bottom, a second screen that pops out the top, and a touchscreen upgrade. Now just give it an 3DS autostereo screen and stubby joystick!

Correction: It was the 3DS, not the DS, that had a stubby joystick.

And 76 percent of iPhone introduced in the last four years are on it, too, according to Apple’s iOS adoption stats that were spotted by 9to5Mac. The figures, from Apple, are “As measured by devices that transacted on the App Store on January 21, 2025.”

Please don’t buy used phones with TikTok installed. I know it’s hard to pass the time without the FYP, but it’s a massive security and privacy risk. Just scroll on your browser instead.

It’s not clear whether any of the examples in this New York Times story have actually sold, but eBay is full of listings that apparently have been purchased.

These 10 designs are the finalists in Manchester City’s contest that tasked fans with creating future kits using AI. Not sure why mine wasn’t chosen.

Atari’s Space Race debuted in 1973 with a limited number of arcade machines featuring a futuristic fiberglass cabinet design.

They’re now hard to come by, so the Retro Collective recreated one from scratch using a crude 3D iPhone scan of an original unit that was refined, 3D-printed, and assembled like a giant retro gaming puzzle with some added electronics.

Epic initially “ran into a few bugs” getting the games live, but now they’ve launched. Read more details in Lauren Feiner’s story.

The Wi-Fi Alliance and Thread Group have revealed they’re working with the CSA on several solutions to make sure your Wi-Fi router plays well with your smart home devices:

These include features like IPV 6 and multicast discovery, which we want to make sure are consistent and reliable across routers ... The way routers implement their multicast discovery can be broken, and that leads to a pretty bad experience for users ... We need to make Wi-Fi work reliably for all of the IoT use cases.

I’ve experienced network issues setting up Matter devices and keeping them online, and I’m not alone. If Matter can fix Wi-Fi routers, all will be forgiven.

Security researchers Sam Curry and Shubham Shah found vulnerabilities in Subaru’s Starlink web portal that allowed them to control vehicles remotely and view detailed location information dating back an entire year.

Subaru patched the flaw in November, but it’s a stark reminder of the risks that are often present as cars grow smarter and more connected each year.

The impressively small Mac Mini doesn’t include a slot for cable locks, so Kensington’s solution to prevent it from getting stolen from schools, offices, and other shared spaces is a new $69.95 secure steel cage.

The Kensington Security Mount for Mac Mini also doubles as a mounting solution, allowing the desktop to be installed out of sight for added security.

In an interview with The Verge, Vividh Siddha, director of engineering at Apple and president of Thread Group, shared another use case for the Thread radio in newer iPhones.

As well as allowing setup of a Thread device when you don’t have a Thread border router, the Thread radio in the iPhone lets you control devices when the power is out:

But the other important factor is the ability to use your accessories, and some important ones, like your front door lock when there’s a power outage. If you have no infrastructure — your Wi-Fi router is down, your Thread border router is down — and you still want the ability to get into your house or do other things that might be smart home related. Those are some use cases that it’s explicitly designed for, but it’s not limited to that. 

Chinese regulators are issuing a notice about a Tesla software update for 1.2 million vehicles to fix a problem with CPUs that can short out and prevent safety equipment like the rear-view cameras from working.

Tesla issued a similar recall update earlier this month for 200,000 vehicles in the US.

After celebrating the 100th anniversary of its first 35mm prototype camera in 2014, Leica is now celebrating the 100th anniversary of the mass-produced version, the Leica I, with a bunch of wildly expensive merchandise.

This includes a $500 set of non-mechanical pencils created by Graf von Faber-Castell that will come in a fancy box and be limited to just 500 pieces when available in February.

Android Authority reports that Samsung may be the first to noninvasive blood glucose monitoring in the Galaxy Watch, citing comments from Samsung senior vice president Hon Park saying the tech will be a “game-changer.”

I hate to be a wet blanket but people have been working on this tech since 1975. Here’s a report I did on why this tech is taking so long and why it probably won’t look like what you expect if / when it does arrive.