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Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings  —  Meta plans to test new subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on it apps, the company told TechCrunch on Monday.

There’s a Hidden Preference to Auto-Resize Columns in the Finder on MacOS 14 and 15

Good tip from “DifferentDan” on the Realmac customer forum, posted back in November:

I saw on macOS Tahoe 26.1, Apple finally added an option in the Column View settings to automatically right size all columns individually and that setting would persist, but I don’t really like Liquid Glass (yet) so I haven’t updated to Tahoe.

Looks like someone found a workaround however for those that are still on Sequoia. Just open up Terminal on your Mac, copy in the below, and press return.

 defaults write com.apple.finder _FXEnableColumnAutoSizing -bool YES; killall Finder

Marcel Bresink’s TinkerTool is a great free app for adjusting hidden preferences using a proper GUI, and it turns out TinkerTool has exposed this hidden Finder preference for a few years now. You learn something every day. I enabled this a few days ago on MacOS 15 Sequoia, and it seems exactly like the implementation Apple has exposed in the Finder’s View Options window in Tahoe, which I wrote about Friday. No better, no worse.

Code Vein 2 review: an early contender for 2026's worst Soulslike

Code Vein 2 makes all the same mistakes as the first Code Vein, adds a bland open world, and misunderstands what makes Soulslikes good.

Trump’s plan to extort Minnesota, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Minnesota’s secretary of state said over the weekend that the Trump administration is trying to “ransom” Minneapolis’s freedom from an increasingly violent federal presence. What’s […]

How NYC Schools Handled a Remote Snow Day

People brave a heavy snowstorm in Fort Greene, Brookyn,

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As Bronx social studies teacher Seth Gilman sipped his coffee and prepared to log on for a day of virtual teaching, he was met with an error message. At first, he worried it would be a repeat of a disastrous pivot to remote learning during a […]

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