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YouTube Shorts is getting a tool for adding AI-generated video to your posts

It’s about to get easier to add AI-generated video into your short-form posts. YouTube announced that Shorts will integrate Veo 2 — Google DeepMind’s newest video mode — which will allow users to generate and add AI clips into their videos. The new feature will be a part of Shorts’ Dream Screen, which already lets

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Best MacBook Accessories We’ve Tested and Reviewed (2025)

The MacBook is a powerful machine. Whether you’re using a MacBook Air for web browsing and sending emails or a MacBook Pro for graphics-intensive projects like video editing and 3D design, Apple’s laptops can do the job. But I suggest throwing some accessories into the mix. A slew of peripherals can vastly improve your experience,

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These Google Photos alternatives offer tons of storage options at a reasonable price

Google Photos is a great service for storing images across devices. But Google Drive and Gmail only offer 15GB of storage for free. Google Photos used to offer free unlimited storage of images, but that is not the case anymore. If you are looking for a better photo storage plan, different features, or just want

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The 5 Best Credit Card Payment Apps for 2025

Best overall: Square Best for highly customizable payment workflows: Stripe Best for tailored POS setups: Clover Best for interchange-plus pricing: Helcim Best for e-commerce businesses with in-person sales: Shopify Finding the right credit card payment app is crucial as the need for secure, scalable, and feature-rich payment solutions grows. With tools designed to streamline operations,

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Wordle today: The answer and hints for February 15, 2025

Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today’s answer. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d

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The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess

As well as being insecure, the DOGE website heavily leans on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. DOGE’s homepage is a feed of its own X posts, but it also uses code that directs search engines to X.com instead of DOGE.gov, a WIRED review of the site found. “This isn’t usually how things

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Court filings show Meta paused efforts to license books for AI training

New court filings in an AI copyright case against Meta add credence to earlier reports that the company “paused” discussions with book publishers on licensing deals to supply some of its generative AI models with training data. The filings are related to the case Kadrey v. Meta Platforms — one of many such cases winding through

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Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages

February continues trends seen over the past few months on the TIOBE Software Programming Community Index. Python continues to increase in ratings, enough so that TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said in January that Python is a “default language.” C stayed at a lower ranking than C++, and Go maintained its secure spot in the

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Get lifetime access to 1TB of secure cloud storage for £103

TL;DR: Use our code KOOFR at checkout and get a 1TB cloud storage lifetime subscription from Koofr for £103.14 (reg. £642.81) through 23 February. Having cloud storage shouldn’t make you feel like you’re Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, with subscription fees charging you over and over, for years or even decades. There’s a new way

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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years, WIRED has learned. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating President Donald Trump’s

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