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France Plans to Bolster Police Presence, Expecting New Protests

23 October 2026 at 14:18
Government officials are trying to avoid a repeat of last weekend’s unrest across the country, which injured police officers and damaged stores.

Β© Abdul Saboor/Reuters

Riot police officers during civil unrest in Paris on Sunday.

Our best tips for using the iPhone Duo

23 October 2026 at 14:00
It’s been a long time since we had to rethink how to use an iPhone. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

The Duo is an entirely new kind of iPhone, so it comes with a bit of a learning curve. That's a wild thing to imagine, since the iPhone has had very few fundamental changes since its inception. But the Duo is built different. If you won the preorder lottery and managed to get your hands on one today, you'll see what that means. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll lose track of the volume buttons as you turn the thing around.

We've learned a few tricks over the past week of flipping and folding the Duo as much as we could. Here are our favorite tips and hacks for newly minted Duo owners.

You can set orientation lock on each screen independent …

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Apple revives the original iPod as an Apple Music easter egg

23 October 2026 at 13:58
An Apple Music 404 page showing an interactive first-generation iPod

If you've been feeling nostalgic for your old iPod, you can head over to Apple Music's 404 page to listen to music on a virtual recreation of the first-generation iPod. The hidden iPod was spotted by users on social media on Friday. It's appropriately stocked with music from the early 2000s, like Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" or Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc." The iPod seems to pop up on any non-existent Apple Music page, so you can find it by just adding a string of random letters after the main Apple Music URL.

theres a hidden fully functional ipod as a 404 page on apple music https://t.co/vLYpnkHG4x pic.twitter.com/0cSz4SF1kp

- Kian (@kianworl …

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Drivers Are Livid After Vote to Ban NYC’s Horse Carriages

The City Council voted 40 to 7 to ban the carriages from Central Park starting in 2028. But the carriage drivers vowed to fight their loss of livelihood in court.

Β© Lucia Vazquez for The New York Times

A ban on carriage horses has been debated for years but finally received the needed political support after a tourist died in a fall over the summer.

The reactor meant to showcase nuclear’s comeback keeps hitting problems

23 October 2026 at 13:43

US regulators have issued a warning to a nuclear project critical to Donald Trump’s efforts to revive the industry, after a contractor fell into a reactor cavity and a bundle of fuel rods nearly tipped over during refuelling.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Holtec International, a company racing to reopen a shuttered reactor at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan, to address a β€œchilled work environment” that has made staff hesitant to raise safety concerns without fear of retaliation.

The warning has prompted concerns among critics that financial and political pressures to revitalise nuclear power as an answer to booming AI-driven energy demand are increasing risks of accidents.

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The Bukeleization of Latin America Has Arrived

23 October 2026 at 13:05
Nayib Bukele’s notoriously harsh and wildly popular security crackdown in El Salvador is spawning imitators and remaking the region.

Β© Fred Ramos for The New York Times

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has overseen an extraordinary security crackdown that has led to plummeting crime rates.

The Bukeleization of Latin America Has Arrived

23 October 2026 at 13:05
Nayib Bukele’s notoriously harsh and wildly popular security crackdown in El Salvador is spawning imitators and remaking the region.

Β© Fred Ramos for The New York Times

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has overseen an extraordinary security crackdown that has led to plummeting crime rates.

People are vibe coding their way to better TVs

23 October 2026 at 13:00
A TV operating system homepage without ads and large tiles to select different streaming services.
Just imagine… a nice, clean homescreen with no ads, thanks to Claude. | Image: cleanyourtv

Vibe coding has reached TVs. Social media is awash with posts from people using LLMs and open-source tools to remove ads and tracking, trim bloat so the OS runs faster, and even completely change the look and organization of their homescreens. While a lot of it is fun - one user turned their TV homescreen into a PokΓ©mon town - I think there's a level of frustration behind it, too. And TV companies should take notice.

Vibe coded my parents' TV this afternoon!

It was showing a sponsored ad before you could even get to Netflix.

Gave Claude Code the model number, it found the TV on wifi, removed 25 Xiaomi packages and wrote a new launcher.

Looks …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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