Spotify is adding new personalization features to Discover Weekly, the popular and influential playlist streamed by millions of users. The regularly updated playlist will now have buttons for genres like pop, R&B, and funk at the top, allowing users to tell Spotify what they want more of.The Discover Weekly playlist is one of the more noteworthy things Spotify has introduced: the company says songs on the playlist have been streamed more than 100 billion times. The weekly mixtape — generated via Spotify algorithms — promised to introduce users to new music that they might enjoy, pulling from listener data. But more recently, there have been complaints that Discover Weekly playlists, meant for finding new music, were spitting out the same songs, and that the platform’s systems weren’t accurately classifying genres. (Spotify told Business Insider in May that it had updated genre accuracy and the Discover Weekly recommendation algorithm.) In addition to the genre options, the Discover Weekly playlist is getting a refreshed look with different cover art.Spotify reshaped how people listen to music, prioritizing the playlist over the album or even the artist themselves: playlists became a battleground for labels and artists who wanted exposure. In the last few years, the music platform has taken personalization even further, tailoring selections to the individual user. The company has introduced features like an AI-powered “DJ,” an AI text-to-playlist builder tool, and even a fake AI podcast with fake AI hosts that discuss users’ listening habits. The ability to more closely guide the Discover Weekly offerings signals that hyper-personalization remains a priority — and perhaps that Spotify is aware of some of the user dissatisfaction.

Windows 95 was a big release for Microsoft in so many ways, and it was a major success, as the software giant sold millions of copies of what we can now refer to as a vintage OS. Windows has undergone significant changes since then, but we can still see remnants of it in more modern versions of Windows. However, these are too few or modified in such a way that they can barely take us down to the Windows 95 memory lane.

As my home network has grown and the number of services I decide to self-host increases, so does the dependency on those services. It's the trade-off between the privacy of having my data firmly on devices I own, and other companies' servers in the cloud, and it comes with a host of added responsibilities. I'm okay with that, but it does mean that I need to find ways to ensure high availability of those services because I'm not the only person in my household, and outages are now my problem.

If you're looking for a premium pair of wireless headphones, you can't go wrong with the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H95s. Not only are you getting premium materials here, but you're also getting excellent sound and noise cancellation. Furthermore, these headphones are now $600 less, which is nearly 50% off the original retail price, dropping them down to their lowest yet. Grab them now ahead of Prime Day.

It's no secret that Doom has managed to find its way onto all kinds of screens and devices around the world. In fact, there's an entire community based around installing Doom on as many things as possible, and it's always fun to see what gadget gets converted into a makeshift gaming system next.

I haven't played a ton of DOS games, mainly because they came and pretty much went out by the time I got to this world. Regardless, that doesn't keep me from knowing full well how pivotal the DOS era was. These were the early days of first-person shooters, weird, horror puzzle games, and above all, unhinged creativity. Thankfully, they remain relevant even today, not through their retroactive importance to their genres, but through respectful resurrection.

When was the last time you checked out the rewards section of the Nvidia App? If you haven't taken a look there in a while, and you're currently thinking about giving Adobe's Creative Cloud, you may want to take a peek. The company is giving away a month subscription to the app if you own a specific kind of Nvidia GPU, and best of all, you can score two months if you own an RTX 50 series.

The Snipping Tool is one of the most useful features in Windows 11, not only because it can capture screenshots, but also because it has all sorts of features like text recognition, automatic redaction, and more. But what if it could have even more? Enter Snipping Lens, a third-party tool that integrates Snipping Tool right into Google Lens, allowing you to look up objects, text, and more on Google just by taking a screenshot of it.

Studying is no easy task. There, I said it, and pretending otherwise simply doesn't help. I'm a full-time student and clock over 40 hours of work a week, so I'm always short on time, focus, sleep, and a lot of time and motivation. At the same time, the last thing I’d want is for that combination to become a reason for my grades to start slipping. That’s why I’ve always been on the lookout for ways to study smarter in the time I have, instead of just pushing harder and pulling all-nighters.

Would it sound crazy if I said one notebook changed my entire workflow? It might sound a tad bit dramatic, but that's exactly what happened.

Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds of Brother printer models that could allow attackers to remotely access devices that are still using default passwords. Eight new vulnerabilities, one of which cannot be fixed by patching the firmware, were discovered in 689 kinds of Brother home and enterprise printers by security company Rapid7. The flaws also impact 59 printer models from Fujifilm, Toshiba, Ricoh, and Konica Minolta, but not every vulnerability is found on every printer model. If you own a Brother printer, you can check to see if your model is affected here.The most serious security flaw, tracked under CVE-2024-51978 in the National Vulnerability Database, has a 9.8 “Critical” CVSS rating and allows attackers to generate the device’s default admin password if they know the serial number of the printer they’re targeting. This allows attackers to exploit the other seven vulnerabilities discovered by Rapid7, which include retrieving sensitive information, crashing the device, opening TCP connections, performing arbitrary HTTP requests, and exposing passwords for connected network services.While seven of these security flaws can be fixed via firmware updates detailed in Rapid7’s report, Brother indicated to the company that CVE-2024-51978 itself “cannot be fully remediated in firmware,” and will be fixed via a change to the manufacturing process for future versions of affected printer models. For current models, Brother recommends that users change the default admin password for their printer via the device’s Web-Based Management menuChanging default manufacturing passwords is something we should all be doing when we take a new device home anyway, and these printer vulnerabilities are a good example as to why.

How long do you think Windows will remain the most popular operating system in the world? Well, if one piece of speculation turns out to be true, it may lose its lead faster than you may think. Someone has spotted some strange wording in a recent blog post hinting that Windows has possibly lost 400,000 users in the last three years, and while there are several potential reasons as to why, it's impossible to say for sure.