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It’s the end of an era: Hoda Kotb announced that, after 17 years on the TODAY show, she’ll depart the morning show in early 2025.

The longtime anchor shared the news on September 26, surrounded by her TODAY colleagues and friends Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie, Jenna Bush Hager, Sheinelle Jones, and Craig Melvin, telling herself to “be cool” as she teared up.

“So I was doing the math and I realized that I have spent 26 years at NBC, 16 years on The Ten, and seven years with you. And I just turned 60,” Kotb told them, and the audience, referring to her August 9 milestone birthday.

“And it was such a monumental moment for me when I turned 60 years old, because I started thinking about that decade,” she continued. “Like, what does that…

Disney Plus subscribers in the US will pay a little extra to share their streaming accounts. The Walt Disney Company plans to enforce its new account-sharing policies by implementing a $7 monthly fee for customers on the Disney Plus basic, ad-supported plan and a $10-a-month charge for those with premium subscriptions. The company shared the announcement on its website Wednesday.

Beginning this week, the service will charge an additional fee each month for subscribers in the US, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Europe and in the Asia-Pacific area who want to share their account with anyone outside of their household. The Extra Member fee is optional, and Disney says only one additional user can be added per account. Paid sharing is not available for customers with a Disney Bundle or for…

LinkedIn in is under fire as they’ve started to use user-generated content to train its AI systems without first having asked its users for permission to do so.

In its updated privacy policy, LinkedIn revealed that posts, articles, and other types of content shared on the platform may be used to improve the performance of its AI models. While the platform has added an opt-out option, it appears that users were automatically included in this process without any initial consent.

How Does LinkedIn’s AI Work With Personal Data?

LinkedIn’s AI is made as a tool to assist users by suggesting content creation ideas, drafting messages, and giving users other types of automated responses. The system relies on personal data, such as user posts and articles, to train the AI…

Apple finally launched iOS 18 on Monday, and like clockwork, the bugs are starting to come out of the woodwork. 

It all starts with the Apple Watch. You can directly share a watch face with someone else through Messages or Mail. The idea is to give other people access to a personalized face that you tweaked yourself.

Also: My biggest regret with upgrading my iPhone to iOS 18 (and I’m not alone)

Next, let’s say the recipient uses Messages in iOS 18 to reply to any text in a conversation thread that contains the shared watch face. With iOS 14 and higher, you can respond inline to any previous message in a thread simply by pressing down on it and tapping Reply. 

But if you’re running iOS 18, don’t do that.

Apparently, if your phone has iOS 18, replying inline to a message…

Google’s Pixel 9 series is going through a post launch rough patch at the moment. Current owners are complaining online about a wireless charging problem affecting the Pixel 9 Pro XL.

You’ll find multiple posts over on the Google Pixel subreddit with people sharing their varying experiences. One poster claimed that they tried charging their Pixel 9 Pro XL in their car. The device draws power “for a few seconds” before suddenly stopping. Another user states they placed the phone on a Qi-supported charger and again — nothing.

Also: 5 reasons why Pixel 9 stopped me from ditching Google phones for Nothing

What’s disconcerting is this issue occurs on both first-party and third-party wireless chargers. A poster on the official Pixel Phone Help forums says their model…