Spotify expands parent-managed accounts to users on its free tier

Spotify announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing parent-managed accounts for kids to its free tier. Families in the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Germany, and the Netherlands can now create a “Managed Account” for their child, a feature previously available only to paid subscribers.

The Batman Part 2 officially confirms new release date in first look at new DC movie

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Published Jul 15, 2026, 10:40 AM EDT

Matt Reeves' sequel was originally supposed to be released in 2025

The Batman Part 2 first look confirms delay to 2028

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Star Wars creator embraces the dark side, argues for AI in filmmaking

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Published Jul 15, 2026, 10:39 AM EDT

Alexa, play "The Imperial March" for George’s leitmotif.

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In the immortal words of Harvey Dent (or Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the movie's dialogue), “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” In an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot earlier this month, Star Wars creator George Lucas said that the use of generative AI in filmmaking is an inevitability.

'Extremely Troubled': Read Judge's Scathing Criticism Of Todd Blanche In IRS Case

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A federal judge’s ruling against President Donald Trump was particularly scathing in her comments about Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, which takes on greater relevance Wednesday as he sits for a confirmation hearing Wednesday.

March and March's Andile Mvuyelwa Somgxada shot: Special South African police team to investigate killing of anti-migrant leader

A special police team has begun investigating the killing of a provincial leader of an anti-migrant group in South Africa.

Police confirmed that Andile Mvuyelwa Somgxada, the Gauteng province leader of March and March, was shot outside his home east of Johannesburg earlier this month and died several days later in hospital.

Tripling US union membership would shift $1.2tn to workers annually – report

Tripling union membership in the US would lead to a 14.5% raise for the median US worker, shifting $1.2tn to workers annually and significantly narrowing racial wage gaps, according to a new report released on Wednesday.

Three men jailed for Brighton beach rape

Three men who raped a woman on Brighton beach in an "entirely predatory, callous and contemptuous" attack have been jailed.

Asylum seekers Abdulla Ahmadi, Ibrahim Alshafe and Karin Al-Danasurt attacked the woman in the early hours of 4 October.

Ilhan Omar introduces resolution urging US to join international criminal court

The Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar introduced a resolution on Wednesday urging the United States to join the international criminal court (ICC), marking the first congressional pushback against the Trump administration’s pledge to “systematically disable” the war crimes tribunal through sanctions and diplomatic pressure.

As GTA 6's PC portless launch looms, ex-Rockstar producer says prioritising consoles first is primarily about being "better off starting with the constraints"

"Shrinking is a lot harder than extending"

The wait for GTA 6 on PC lasting past this November's been a foregone conclusion for a while now, but if you're interested in a bit of developer perspective as to why Rockstar opt to do things that way, a former producer at the company's offered some. Essentially, it's a matter of it being less of a headache to scale up after initially getting a game working on hardware with stricter limitations than it would be to strip back an all-singing, all-dancing PC port for consoles.

My Twitter, not X

Nothing much stays with me from the first days of Twitter, which was publicly launched 20 years ago, on July 15, 2006.

I had discovered the internet back in 1995 and early on, I started thinking about how to get my voice heard by the world. I created a couple of websites through Angelfire and 8m, but there was no real ecosystem to nurture the idea. It’s like opening a shop to sell a certain product in a remote area – somewhere nobody really knows, at a time when there’s no interest – compared with opening that same shop in a mall, or on a street full of other vendors.