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Disney gave in to threats from FCC chairman and occasional speech regulator Brendan Carr this evening, announcing that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be pulled off the air “indefinitely.” Carr was unhappy that Kimmel characterized the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk as “anything other than” a member of the “MAGA gang” and threatened to pull broadcast licenses of stations airing his show as a result.The clip of Kimmel’s monologue that got him pulled off the air is still available on YouTube. Watch it for yourself and see if it’s so objectionable as to warrant pulling the entire show, let alone entire broadcast networks that air it.“We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything but one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said near the top of his monologue. The remarks come just after the 2-minute mark in the clip on YouTube.Carr has regularly used his position as FCC chairman to try to manipulate speech by broadcasters that rely on his agency. He previously implied that CBS’s cancellation of Steven Colbert’s late-night show helped get the company’s merger with Paramount approved. The companies had to agree to government speech regulations in order to seal the deal.The Verge has reached out to the FCC to ask what specifically in Kimmel’s show is objectionable and which rules it is in violation of. The commission did not immediately provide comment.

I’ve lost count of how many productivity apps I’ve tried. They all promise to fix my scattered brain, but many just end up overcomplicating things. Between syncing, paywalls, and 50 different “views”, I often end up spending more time managing the tool than getting work done. All I really need is something to help me keep track of the stuff I usually forget and organize it in a digestible way, without turning it into a second job.

Ever since I got my MacBook earlier this year, I’ve been experimenting with different apps and tools that I could never run on my Windows, Linux, and even Hackintosh setups. This includes everything from the macOS-exclusive Affinity software stack to macOS’ new containerization platform with the unimaginative name of Apple Container.

Meta’s annual Connect conference is happening on September 17th and 18th, and it seems like there’s going to be a lot of focus on smart glasses.CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Wednesday evening keynote will discuss “the latest on AI glasses,” the company says. Rumors and a video leak from Meta already indicate that we might see Meta launch glasses that have a display on one lens and that are controlled with a neural wristband, as well as wraparound Oakley smart glasses with a camera on the nose bridge. The company also says that Zuckerberg will lay out “Meta’s vision for artificial intelligence and the metaverse,” so there should be some non-smart glasses news to look forward to, too.Zuckerberg’s keynote begins at 8PM ET / 5PM PT, and we’ll be covering the keynote and major announcements from the show live. You can keep up with all of our coverage from the event right here. Conversation focus is the first new feature on deck. Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses have twice the battery life Zuck’s onstage. Ray-Ban’s website posts a “We’ll be back soon” note ahead of Meta Connect. How to watch Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at Meta Connect 2025 Meta’s new smart glasses are coming this week Meta leaks its new smart glasses with a display It’s time for Meta to add a display to its smart glasses

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Jimmy Kimmel Live! usually aired every weeknight at 11:35PM ET. Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk. The decision, according to Variety, was made after television giant Nexstar announced that its local ABC affiliates would pre-empt airings of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, just hours after Carr issued that threat. Nexstar is one of the biggest owners of television stations across the country. We’ve reached out to the FCC for comment on what specifically is objectionable from Kimmel’s show and which FCC regulations he may have violated.Nexstar is also waiting on Carr to approve a pending $6.2 billion merger with rival broadcaster Tegna, according to comments made by CEO Perry Sook during a recent investment call. Earlier today, Carr suggested to MAGA influencer Benny Johnson earlier today that he would consider pulling the broadcast licenses of television stations that air ABC, after late night host Jimmy Kimmel claimed on his show that the “MAGA gang” was “trying to desperately categorize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them”.In the interview, which Johnson posted on X, Carr also offered ABC and its parent company Disney an easier way out: punish Kimmel themselves.“This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” he said. “These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead. They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest.”Carr, a Trump appointee, has spent his tenure at the FCC attacking legacy media outlets for alleged bias against conservatives, regularly threatening to pull broadcast licenses over coverage he dislikes. He’s exploited the FCC’s merger approval process to gain leverage over entertainment companies, particularly Paramount and Skydance, who agreed to let a “bias” watchdog scrutinize the programming they aired. Carr also previously threatened to investigate Disney for its diversity policies.During the manhunt for Kirk’s killer last week, heated speculation arose over possible ideological motives. While Republicans immediately asserted the shooter was on the political left, online speculation over the weekend suggested Robinson might be tied to the far-right groyper movement that had long harassed Kirk — a trend that Kimmel brought up briefly in his monologue on Tuesday night.“We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to desperately categorize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” said Kimmel, who then moved on to discuss President Donald Trump’s Friday press conference.  Johnson characterized the comment in an X post as Kimmel “claiming Charlie Kirk’s assassin was a MAGA Conservative.” Carr told him that was enough for the FCC to work with. “There are calls for Kimmel to be fired,” Carr added later. “I think you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this.”The previous day, Carr had opposed Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recent call to distinguish “free speech” from “hate speech” and prosecute the latter, part of a larger Republican attempt to classify criticism or mockery of Kirk as unlawful. “I think you can draw a pretty clear line, and the Supreme Court has done this for decades, that our First Amendment, our free speech tradition, protects almost all speech,” he said at a summit hosted by Politico.So speech about Kirk flies on the internet, apparently. But broadcast TV is subject to greater government oversight thanks to the FCC’s licensing of spectrum. Kimmel’s comment, Carr claimed, fell under the offense of “news distortion”, which he said was enough to pull the license of stations that broadcast it.“We have a rule on the books that interprets a public interest standard that says news distortion is something that is prohibited. Likewise, we have a rule that addresses broadcast hoaxes, and so again, over the years, the FCC has stepped back from enforcing it, and I don’t think it’s been to the benefit of anybody. Just look at the credibility of these legacy media,” Carr said. (Pulling station licenses for airing a late-night show would be virtually unprecedented — it’s a penalty that’s been used rarely in egregious circumstances.) Disney itself doesn’t hold a broadcast license, so Carr issued his clearest threats to local ABC affiliates. “Disney needs to see some change here, but the individual licensed stations that are taking [Disney’s] content, it’s time for them to step up and say this, you know, garbage — to the extent that that’s what comes down the pipe in the future — isn’t something that we think serves the needs of our local communities,” he said.Nexstar needs the FCC to loosen regulatory restrictions in order to proceed with its proposed merger with Tegna, which would make it the largest owner of broadcast stations in the country.  Under current FCC rules, a single company cannot directly own television stations that reach more than 39 percent of American viewers. The merger would bring it to 80 percent.In an investor conference call last month, Newscast Studio reported that Sook expressed his belief that Carr and the Trump administration would repeal those rules for them.  “We feel very, very positive about moving forward with the regulatory approval process,” Sook said. “We’re meeting this deregulatory moment where it is, and we will work together with regulators as they consider modifying and repealing outdated rules and regulations.”Earlier, Carr noted all the other media outlets he’d threatened with legal recourse were now doing amazing jobs at complying with being fairer to conservatives. “I mean, look, NPR has been defunded. PBS has been defunded. [Stephen] Colbert is retiring. Joy Reid is out at MSNBC,” Carr crowed. “Terry Moran is gone from ABC and is now admitting that they are biased. CBS has now made some commitments to us that they’re going to return to more fact based journalism, and so I think you see some lashing out from people like Kimmel, who are frankly talentless and are looking for ways to get attention.”

Microsoft is getting ready to launch its Xbox full-screen experience on the new Xbox Ally devices next month, but it looks like you won’t need new hardware to get it. Windows enthusiasts have discovered a way to enable this new Xbox mode early in Windows 11, thanks to the latest 25H2 update to the operating system.The method, which involves installing a Release Preview version of Windows 11 and lots of tweaks, works on a variety of handheld gaming PCs — including MSI’s Claw devices and Asus’ ROG Ally range. I’ve been trying it out on the original ROG Ally today, and it allows the device to ignore Asus’ own software in favor of Microsoft’s Xbox app at boot.Microsoft’s new Xbox mode on Windows has leaked for any handheld. Windows enthusiasts have found a way to get the new Xbox full-screen experience running on Windows 11. Guide here: https://t.co/KvXqjQMr6A pic.twitter.com/w7iEbAtLAP— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) September 17, 2025The new Xbox full-screen experience doesn’t load the full Windows desktop or a bunch of background processes, freeing up more memory for games. It’s essentially not loading the Explorer shell and saving around 2GB of memory by suppressing all the unnecessary parts of a typical Windows 11 installation. You launch straight into the Xbox PC app instead, which includes all of your PC games from the Microsoft Store, Battle.net, Steam, and other storefronts. There’s a Game Bar for navigating around, and a new task view that’s a lot more handheld-friendly.You can also still swap into a Windows desktop mode, or access Windows apps and games directly in this full-screen Xbox mode. Microsoft warns that you’re exiting to the Windows desktop and that you should use touch or a mouse and keyboard “for the best experience,” and it’s the exact same Windows experience that exists on multiple devices right now.If you want to try this out for yourself, it’s a relatively easy process to get going. But be warned, fiddling with registry settings or the Windows Feature Store (known as Velocity) could result in system instability. If you’re willing to risk some issues that might need rolling back or require a reinstall of Windows, there’s a handy guide on Reddit for all the settings required.

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