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Louvre Director Resigns Amid Heist Fallout
News Laurence des Cars’s resignation comes months after the infamous jewel heist drew international ire. Laurence des Cars before the National Assembly cultural affairs committee at the Palais Bourbon in Paris, on November 19, 2025 (photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP via Getty Images) Laurence des Cars resigned from her post as the president and read more
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Manhattan DA Drops Charges Against Photographer Alexa Wilkinson
News Wilkinson was arrested after photographing a protest at the New York Times’s headquarters. Alexa Wilkinson was charged with a hate crime months after they documented vandalism at the New York Times headquarters for social media posts critiquing the newspaper’s Israel coverage. (photo courtesy Alexa Wilkinson) Manhattan prosecutors have dropped their case against protest photographer read more
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Spotify and Liquid Death release a limited-edition speaker shaped like … an urn? | TechCrunch
Spotify and Liquid Death have teamed up to launch what might be the wildest product collaboration of the year: the Eternal Playlist Urn, a wireless Bluetooth speaker shaped like a cremation urn. Yes, you read that right. The Eternal Playlist Urn is not really meant to hold ashes, but is instead a collector’s item, with read more
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Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker accused of buying exploits stolen from US defense contractor | TechCrunch
The U.S. government announced on Tuesday sanctions against two companies that acquire and resell zero-day exploits, as well as sanctioning their founders and their associates. Officials with the U.S. Treasury told TechCrunch that the government was imposing sanctions against the brokers of zero-days — security vulnerabilities in software that are unknown to its developer but read more
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Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro Coming in 2026 With Dynamic Island and Redesigned macOS Controls
The rumored touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro that Apple has in development will adopt the iPhone’s Dynamic Island and a hole-punch camera, reports Bloomberg. The Dynamic Island will replace the notch, leaving more available screen space for content. As with the iPhone’s Dynamic Island, the Mac Dynamic Island will be interactive and it will contextually expand read more
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Your Guide to Fairs and Shows This LA Frieze Week
Once upon a time, Los Angeles hosted just two main art fairs to contend with (RIP ALAC). But this year, there are eight fairs to navigate — or more, depending on how you define them. These range from the behemoth Frieze LA at the Santa Monica Airport to the suite-hopping hotel fair Felix in Hollywood read more
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Why My Public Art Drives the Right Nuts
Opinion “Phoenix Ladder” is an homage to the people of the Bronx, a lighthouse for our collective futures, and our witness. Detail of Shellyne Rodriguez, “Phoenix Ladder: Monument to the People of the Bronx” (2025) (all photos Andrés Rodríguez von Rabenau) The violent media campaign orchestrated by the fascists against me, spearheaded by the New read more
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Apple Now Blocks 18+ App Downloads in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore Without Age Assurance
Apple today provided an update on its age assurance tools for developers in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana. Developers in these areas will face new age assurance and parental consent obligations, and Apple’s APIs will help them meet these upcoming requirements. As of February 24, Apple is blocking users in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore read more
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Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of MACBA, Ends Tenure Early Amid Conflict over Abu Dhabi Biennial
Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of MACBA, will step down at the beginning of April, ahead of her contract’s original expiration date in late July. The move concludes a tense dialogue with the MACBA Consortium, which had ruled that her appointment as director of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Public Art Biennial conflicted with her duties at read more
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Calder Sculpture in Senate Office Building to Be Restored a Decade After Dismantling
A partially dismantled sculpture by Alexander Calder in Washington, D.C. is, at long last, in the process of being restored, according to Roll Call, a publication that focuses on Capitol Hill-based news. The sculpture in question, Mountains and Clouds, fills the 90-foot-high, skylit atrium of the Hill’s Hart Senate Office Building, which was constructed in read more
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Twitch is overhauling its suspensions policy | TechCrunch
Twitch announced on Tuesday that it’s revamping its suspensions policy to shift away from its previous all-or-nothing penalty system. Until now, a temporary suspension on Twitch meant losing access to the platform altogether, including the ability to chat, watch streams while logged in, and access basic information. Now, the company is implementing two suspension types: read more
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1Password Getting More Expensive Starting in March
Popular password management app 1Password is set to get more expensive, with prices increasing on March 27, 2026. In an email sent out to customers today, 1Password said subscription prices will be going up $12 per year. The individual plan will be $47.88, up from $35.88, while the family plan will be $71.88, up from read more
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Stripe's valuation soars 74% to $159 billion | TechCrunch
Another year, another Stripe tender offer where investors buy shares from employees that values the company at an enormous step up. On Tuesday, Stripe announced that this latest secondary transaction now values the company at $159 billion. Investors buying the shares include Thrive Capital, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, and Stripe itself. In February 2025, Stripe announced read more
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Ireland Makes Basic Income Program for Artists Permanent
News After a successful pilot, artists will be paid hundreds of euros weekly over three years. National Campaign for the Arts (NCFA) members Carla Rogers and Peter Power celebrated Ireland’s new basic income scheme with Irish Culture Department Minister Patrick O’Donovan (second from right) and musician John Blek (left). (image courtesy NCFA) The Irish government read more
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My Favorite Bluetooth Speaker Is on Sale for $50 Off Right Now
JBL makes a mean Bluetooth speaker, and the brand’s Flip series has been my all-time favorite for multiple generations. The JBL Flip 7 is its best yet, with good sound, a travel-ready size, and subtle but effective upgrades over the previous two models in both sound and features. I love this speaker and its nearly read more
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YouTube beefs up its $7.99/month Lite subscription with offline downloads and background play | TechCrunch
YouTube is expanding its more affordable, $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription service with new features, including the ability to download videos for offline access and watch videos in the background, even if the screen is off or you’re using other apps. These options were previously only available to customers on its full plan, which read more
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In Leaked Transcript, UNT Dean Cites Politics as the Reason Behind Cancelation of Show with Anti-ICE Art Show
The decision to cancel a solo exhibition featuring anti-ICE art at the University of North Texas art school was an “institutional directive,” Dean Karen Hutzel said in newly leaked transcripts of a faculty meeting. First reported by the Denton Record-Chronicle, the transcripts show Hutzel declining to identify the directive’s source while warning colleagues to expect read more
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A Tour Inside the NY Botanical Garden’s Trippy Orchid Show
New Yorkers are at their finest — most comradely, most game — during extreme events we can rally around: Knicks wins, SantaCon horrors, heat waves, and, as recently experienced, winds that make parts of the city feel as cold as Antarctica. The deathly chill did not deter those who ventured to the Bronx’s New York read more
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Marquis sues firewall provider SonicWall, alleges security failings with its firewall backup led to ransomware attack | TechCrunch
Fintech giant Marquis is suing its firewall provider SonicWall, claiming that an earlier breach allowed hackers to steal sensitive information about customer firewalls that led to a ransomware attack on Marquis’ network. The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, seeks a jury trial. It claims the 2025 read more
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Apple Releases Second macOS Tahoe 26.4 Public Beta
Apple today provided public beta testers with the second releases of upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4, tvOS 26.4, and watchOS 26.4 updates for testing purposes. The public betas comes a day after Apple provided the beta to developers, and a week after Apple seeded the first betas. After signing up for beta testing on Apple’s beta read more
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