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Spotify introduces new features that allow subscribers to create more professional and personalized playlists. On Tuesday, the company launched a custom transition feature. This allows you to automatically add transitions between tracks in your playlist, or use preset options such as Fade, Rise, Blend to customize your own transitions using other options. To use the feature, open any playlist and select “Mix” from the toolbar to start editing. You can also customize tracks with different transition styles, adjust settings such as volume, EQ, effects, and more, and use the waveform and beat data to find the best spot for each…

Openai launched a new, inexpensive ChatGPT paid subscription plan called £399 ($4.60) a month in India, called ChatGpt Go. The company had turned on local currency prices for all plans a few days ago. The launch also allows users to pay through UPI (Unified Payment Interface), the Indian payment framework. Nick Turley, Vice President of Openai and Head of ChatGpt, said the plan will increase message, image generation and file uploads 10 times in the free tier. The ChatGpt Go plan allows better memory retention for more personalized responses, Turely said. ChatGpt Go has been released in India. This is…

A July data breaches at US insurance giant Allianz Life allowed hackers to steal the identity of 1.1 million customers, according to the data breach notification site. Allianz Life disclosed the data breach in late July, confirming that hackers had stolen the “majority” of their 1.4 million customers and employees from their cloud store's customer relationship database. Allianz had previously refused to accurately check the number of people affected by the violation. I used Pwned. The Data Breach Notification Site, a data breach notification site, warns people when their email addresses get caught up in a data breach, and in…

According to new data from App Intelligence Provider Appfigures, even when App Store downloads are growing, Elon Musk X is struggling with Android devices regarding new installations. In July 2025, Google Play X downloads fell significantly as new installs fell 44% year-on-year, even if iOS downloads increased by 15%. This sudden drop in installations has lowered the overall average for X, with a 26% drop in total mobile download downloads compared to the previous year in July. This is slightly better than the previous month, when total downloads fell 35% thanks to a sudden drop in Android downloads. Image credits:…

You need to keep focused. You cannot open Tiktok, Instagram, or a small phone game you want to play. If it fails, the knitting project will rely on its ability to maintain focus, making anthropomorphic beans very sad. This is the premise of Focus Friend, a productivity app created by Honey B Games and Hank Green. This is a longtime online creator/entrepreneur/educator/sock salesman. The app was released last month, but Focus Friend is currently only gaining momentum on the App Store charts. With Green and his brother John Green posting more, it reaches fourth among all free apps and second…

Substack, the newsletter subscription platform, will begin taking advantage of the US app store options that allow users to purchase outside of Apple's in-app purchase system. This feature is permitted by a change to the App Store rules in May as a result of an anti-trust lawsuit against the tech giant by Epic Games. Since then, many top apps have been moving to provide in-app purchase links pointing to their own websites, such as Spotify, Patreon, and Amazon Kindle apps. In the case of Subscack, external payment support benefits both of the company. This means that there is no need…

Xai's Grok Chatbot website publishes several prompts for its AI persona, including “crazy conspiracyists” designed to hand over users to the belief that “secret global cobalts” control the world. TechCrunch has confirmed the system prompt exposure first reported by 404 media. They include the instructions of various AI personas, like Anni, “silly nerds, but a bit of a nerd.” [her] An edgy look. ” This revelation follows Glock's wild tangent on “Mechahitler,” followed by a planned partnership between Elon Musk's Zai and the US government to make Groke available to federal agencies. Also, following the uproar following the leaked guidelines…

Linktree, a popular link-in bio service used by millions of creators and businesses, was not accessible in India for several days. The sudden loss of failure from the Indian web remains a mystery to the Australian startup itself. Over the past week, Linktree is inaccessible in India, with several users raising the issue on X. First, TechCrunch noticed that it temporarily displayed a message suggesting that the site was blocked by the Indian government. This was then replaced by a common SSL protocol error. The Linktree app is also not accessible domestically. Founded in 2016, Linktree became a unicorn in…

Workday, one of the biggest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breaches that allow hackers to steal personal information from one of their third-party customer relationship databases. In a blog post published late Friday, the HR Technology giant said the hackers had stole unspecified personal information from the database. Workday did not expressly rule out that customer information was retrieved in a data breach. This states that “there is no indication of access to the customer tenant or the data within it.” The company said stolen information could be used to promote social engineering fraud. Hackers said…

Grammarly has a new document-based interface built behind CODA, a productivity startup that we acquired last year. The interface also includes AI assistants and several AI tools for students and professionals, such as AI graders, proofreaders and quote finders. The new interface can adopt a block-first approach to insert tables, columns, separators, lists, and headers. You can also add rich text blocks to highlight information, add hints, and add alerts. The sidebar hosts the AI assistant. AI assistants can summarise texts, answer questions and provide writing suggestions. Image credit: Grammarly There are also many AI tools. Reader Reactions allows you…