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Elon Musk’s X became the first large online platform fined under the European Union’s Digital Services Act on Friday. The European Commission announced that X would be fined nearly $140 million, with the potential to face “periodic penalty payments” if the platform fails to make corrections. A third of the fine came from one of the first moves Musk made when taking over Twitter. In November 2022, he changed the platform’s historical use of a blue checkmark to verify the identities of notable users. Instead, Musk started selling blue checks for about $8 per month, immediately prompting a wave of…

Soccer fans will learn Friday where their country will be playing in the FIFA World Cup 2026. The draw for the largest-ever tournament will take place in Washington, D.C.

It isn’t possible for the Condé Nast Traveler team to see and do everything, everywhere, all at once—though we try our best! Fortunately, we also have you, our readers. This year you cast an astonishing 757,109 votes in the 38th annual Readers’ Choice Awards survey, sharing your opinions on the very best in travel. You told us you were enchanted by Italian hotels, went on safari in Botswana, took to semiprivate aviation, and advocated for newcomers to the top American cities. We loved poring over the results to find out what’s sticking with readers and editors and spinning the data into a snapshot of the current moment in…

Netflix has agreed to buy the film and streaming businesses of Warner Bros Discovery for $72bn (£54bn) in a major Hollywood deal.The streaming giant emerged as the successful bidder for Warner Bros ahead of rivals Comcast and Paramount Skydance after a drawn-out battle.Warner Bros owns franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, and the streaming service HBO Max.The takeover is set to create a new giant in the entertainment industry, but the deal will still have to be approved by competition authorities.Netflix co-chief executive Ted Sarandos said the streamer was “highly confident” it would receive the regulatory approval it…

“Age is just a number. So don’t take this personally.” Those words were the first inkling I had that I was about to receive some very bad news.I woke up on Wednesday with a mild hangover after celebrating my 44th birthday. Unfortunately for me, this was the day Spotify released “Spotify Wrapped”, its analysis of (in my case) the 4,863 minutes I had spent listening to music on its platform over the past year. And this year, for the first time, they are calculating the “listening age” of all their users.“Taste like yours can’t be defined,” Spotify’s report informed me,…

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has launched a review into mental health and ADHD diagnoses

Apple TV+ has handed out a third season order for the Platonic comedy starring starring Rose Byrne (Sylvia) and Seth Rogen (Will), who play platonic best friends reconnecting after a painful falling out, only to remain just best friends. Byrne and Rogen also executive produce the series from Nick Stoller and his wife, Francesca Delbanco. Co-creators Stoller and Delbanco in a statement said: “We couldn’t be more excited to get back into the world of Platonic with our amazing partners, Rose and Seth and Sony and Apple.” The second season ended with Byrne’s Sylvia agreeing to get into business with Rogen’s Will as the public…

The 2026 World Cup draw is taking place on Friday, December 5th at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington , D.C. at 12 p.m. ET. Without a doubt, this is going to be one of the most important moments in the buildup to the much-anticipated summer tournament that taking place in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, which kicks off on June 11, 2026, at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, before coming to a close on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New York City. For the United States, it is the first time they’ve hosted…

Physicists have developed a way to model quantum systems on everyday computers, making it easier to run complex simulations without relying on supercomputers or artificial intelligence (AI) tools.The new method updates “truncated Wigner approximation” (TWA), a decades-old technique for approximating quantum behavior, into a plug-and-play shortcut for solving complex calculations.According to the team, this makes it possible to more accurately predict how real-world quantum systems might behave using standard hardware, thereby freeing up high-performance computing resources for more inscrutable quantum tasks. The researchers published their study Sept. 8 in the journal PRX Quantum. You may like “Our approach offers a…

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