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Executive Exits Meet the Safety Department

Xbox loses its first COO, while two former OpenAI researchers describe a conflict over company priorities.

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Xbox COO Leaves Before the New Role Gets Comfortable

Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft after 21 years, just months after becoming Xbox's first chief operating officer, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge. She previously led Minecraft. The newly created executive position has now produced a departure faster than many corporate software migrations produce a working printer. The brief tenure is the striking detail here: Microsoft established a new senior role, filled it with a longtime leader, and is already facing her exit. The memo establishes the departure, not a reason for it. There is no need to recruit an imaginary corporate struggle when the organizational chart is already providing enough movement. For Xbox, the practical question is how the operating responsibilities attached to the position will be handled next. Creating an office is one decision; keeping its work moving after the occupant leaves is another, usually accompanied by several meetings whose names begin with alignment. Chiang's long Microsoft career also makes this more than a routine introduction followed by a farewell. Twenty-one years of institutional knowledge is leaving a role only months old. Somewhere, an onboarding checklist and an offboarding checklist have achieved the corporate equivalent of a simultaneous finish.

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Former OpenAI Researchers Say Safety Lost the Priority Contest

Former OpenAI safety researchers Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak say they were fired for putting safety ahead of the company's short-term interests. In their first interview since their dismissal, reported by NPR, they also raised concerns about how independent safety audits are working. Their account places the dispute inside a central promise of the AI business: powerful systems can be developed quickly while meaningful scrutiny keeps pace. That arrangement sounds efficient until the scrutiny requests time, access or a conclusion that does not fit neatly into a product calendar. The reason for their dismissal remains their attributed account, not an independently established finding about OpenAI's motives. Their experience nevertheless raises a concrete governance question: how much room do safety researchers have to challenge the commercial priorities of the organizations whose systems they examine? Independent oversight has a demanding job description. It must be close enough to understand the technology and distant enough to disagree with the people paying for its development. Corporate life often prefers a third option, oversight that is independent in the organizational diagram and extremely agreeable in meetings. The researchers' criticism is that the balance is not working. A safety review cannot provide much reassurance if its most useful output is a quieter calendar.

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Power for Tomorrow, Customers for Today

A federal fusion award targets enabling technology, while startup veterans question whether AI customers will stay.

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Fusion Startup Gets $85 Million for the Parts Before the Power

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has received an $85 million federal award to advance conductors for fusion power plants, TechCrunch reports. The funding supports enabling technology for the company's fusion ambitions, rather than establishing that a commercial power plant is already supplying electricity. That is a less cinematic milestone than plugging a city into a miniature sun, but an important one. Large energy projects depend on components performing difficult jobs reliably. The glamorous future still needs the hardware equivalent of people who arrive early, follow specifications and do not melt. For the United States, the award represents federal support for a domestic fusion developer working on technology intended for future power plants. Its immediate deliverable belongs to research and engineering, not the household utility bill. An award can finance progress without making the remaining technical work disappear. Fusion's public appeal is enormous: a potentially transformative energy source makes a compelling destination. Component development is the less photogenic route there, full of measurements that cannot be replaced with a confident stage presentation. The useful assessment is therefore specific. Commonwealth has substantial new government backing for this work. The country has not acquired an $85 million extension cord to an operational fusion grid. Even tomorrow's energy business must first persuade its parts to cooperate.

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AI Startups Discover a Pilot Is Not a Loyal Customer

Investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures and Superhuman Mail founder Rahul Vohra say product-market fit is becoming harder to establish in the AI era, despite rapid startup growth. Their discussion at TechCrunch Disrupt centered on a familiar business problem wearing a much faster computer: customers will try things they may not keep. Iconiq partner Anu Bharadwaj said companies are unusually open to pilots, but moving from a pilot into production is the hard part. The distinction matters to revenue quality. A trial demonstrates interest; a lasting deployment requires the product to earn a place in somebody else's workflow and budget. The panel's assessment also highlighted weak customer stickiness and the ease of replicating products. Fast growth can look impressive while leaving a company exposed to customers who depart as quickly as they arrived. In this market, a crowded demo calendar can resemble a successful restaurant whose guests only eat the complimentary bread. Everyone is enthusiastic, the room is full, and the business model remains somewhere near the entrance. The practical challenge is not merely building something people will test. It is building something they keep choosing after novelty wears off and a competitor arrives with a similar interface and a friendlier introductory price.

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Sensitive Information and Scheduled Networking

The Pentagon warns about prediction-market risks, while Boston prepares for a full day of founder conversations.

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Pentagon Warns Military Bets Can Reveal More Than Odds

A Pentagon memo warns that insider betting on prediction markets can distort military judgment and give US adversaries important information about military operations. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's warning connects a digital financial activity with a decidedly physical concern: the safety of American troops. The risk described is not limited to whether a bettor wins money. Trading informed by sensitive operational knowledge could expose information through market activity. A price movement can become a signal, and a market designed to aggregate expectations may also aggregate clues that should never have become public. The memo presents those dangers as a warning, not as proof that every market fluctuation reflects a leak. Its central concern is that financial incentives and military responsibilities can collide, with consequences extending well beyond an account balance. Prediction markets tend to sell the appeal of knowing what happens next. The Pentagon would prefer that people entrusted with operational information not turn that knowledge into a customer engagement feature. This is a difficult setting for the usual technology slogan about making information more efficient. An efficient transfer of sensitive information to an adversary is not an innovation milestone. It is precisely the outcome the military is trying to avoid, regardless of how elegant the market interface looks.

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Boston Summit Offers Founders a Day Outside Their Pitch Decks

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is scheduled for November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, bringing together founders, investors and operators. The organizer is promoting a full day of practical sessions, live pitching, networking and smaller roundtables intended to support more detailed discussion. The roundtable format is the distinguishing feature of the announcement. Instead of placing every business problem on a stage beneath a countdown clock, smaller groups are meant to let participants discuss the challenges they are actually trying to solve. That is a useful ambition for founders whose working lives can become a sequence of compressed explanations. A pitch asks for the clean version of the company. A substantive conversation has room for the awkward part where acquiring customers, running operations and managing growth turn out to be different tasks. TechCrunch's description is an event promise, not evidence that attendance will produce financing or a successful business. The scheduled activities create opportunities for discussion; outcomes still require participants to do something with them. For one day, Boston will host an unusually dense concentration of people explaining what they are building. The smaller tables may help them reach the second question: what is making it difficult? That question rarely fits comfortably on the merchandise.

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Old Apps, New Launch Sites

Abandoned streaming software creates a security problem, and Space Force examines where another spaceport could go.

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Popcorn Time's Afterlife Becomes a Security Problem

Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent installed copies from becoming a botnet, The Verge reports. Development of the torrent-streaming front end ended years ago, but the software remained on millions of devices. Retirement, in software, apparently does not always include leaving the building. The important issue is the gap between a project stopping development and its installed copies disappearing. Users can retain software long after its maintainers have moved on. Those copies remain part of the connected world even when the release schedule has become an archaeological record. Popcorn Time was widely associated with an easy interface for streaming movies and television through torrents. This development concerns the security risks of its abandoned installations, rather than a newly reported copyright-enforcement campaign. The danger was turning a large dormant installed base into a network under unwanted control. The episode illustrates why obsolete apps are not merely digital clutter. An unused program can still have consequences if it remains connected and vulnerable. A forgotten icon is not necessarily an inactive participant. The service once promised frictionless entertainment. Its long afterlife has supplied a different feature: evidence that software can stop receiving updates without stopping its ability to create work for everybody else. The closing credits needed a security team.

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Space Force Looks for a Spaceport With an Earth Address

Space Force is examining options for a new spaceport, including a public-private arrangement, an existing federal installation or state-owned land. Ars Technica reports that a senior commander says the service needs the new facility by 2030, putting a timetable on a search that still involves basic questions about location and ownership. The alternatives represent different ways to organize the project, not three completed sites waiting for a ribbon. Selecting a home is an early but consequential step in establishing launch infrastructure. Even an organization devoted to space must first resolve the terrestrial matter of whose property it will use. For the United States, the search concerns the capacity and organization of its future space operations. The reporting describes pressure to identify a location, rather than an operational spaceport already accepting launches. The available models also show how many institutions can become involved before anything leaves the ground. Federal facilities, state land and private partners each bring a different arrangement of responsibilities. Orbit may be governed by physics, but the route there includes real estate. The 2030 objective gives the discussion urgency. A rocket can climb quickly once everything is ready. Finding a place where everything can become ready is the slower administrative ascent, with considerably more documents and much less spectacular exhaust.

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Your Shares, Your Subscription, Their Permission

Startup workers get a proposed route to liquidity, while Spotify adds friction to shared listening.

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Carta and NewView Try to Make Employee Equity Spendable

Carta and NewView have partnered on a program intended to encourage more startups to let employees sell some shares before a public offering. The collaboration combines NewView's secondary transaction experience with Carta's equity platform to make tender offers easier to arrange, TechCrunch reports. The problem is familiar to workers at companies staying private longer. Stock can form a meaningful part of compensation while remaining unavailable for ordinary spending. An impressive equity statement still has limited usefulness at a grocery checkout, where the cashier tends to prefer existing money. Tender offers can allow employees, and often early investors, to sell a portion of their holdings at a predetermined price to an approved buyer. This is a structured transaction with company participation, not an unrestricted public market for every employee's entire stake. The new program aims to lower the difficulty of arranging those transactions. It does not guarantee that a particular startup will authorize one or that every worker will get an immediate exit. The business assessment is straightforward: easier execution could make companies more willing to offer liquidity. For employees, the attraction is simpler still. A compensation package becomes more useful when at least some of it can leave the spreadsheet and participate in the wider economy, where rent remains stubbornly payable in cash.

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Spotify Family Plans Add a Verification Interlude

Spotify is stepping up enforcement of its family-plan policies, and people sharing a subscription with family may need to scan a QR code to verify eligibility, Ars Technica reports. The change puts another administrative step between subscribers and the ordinary business of pressing play. The material qualification is that users may face the check. A possible verification requirement is not the same as every subscriber receiving an identical demand at once. The reported development is tighter enforcement of the shared-plan rules, with QR scanning among the steps involved. For customers, the practical implication is that continued access may depend on completing a platform request rather than merely knowing the account password. Shared subscriptions are sold as a convenient bundle; enforcement adds a separate task that no one originally put on the family calendar. Spotify's system joins the broader subscription experience in which buying access and proving continued entitlement become distinct activities. The music is on demand. The paperwork occasionally prefers its own schedule. A family plan already asks a group to agree on payments and account arrangements. Now the household may also get a tiny compliance project. At least a QR code does not require everyone to agree on a playlist, which remains a substantially harder verification problem and has no obvious technical solution.

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Machines at Play, Humans Seeking Quiet

An unreviewed AI experiment reports play-like behavior, and discounted headphones offer a more familiar escape.

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AI Island Experiment Finds Something Resembling Play

MIT researchers report that 13 AI agents left on a simulated desert island began inventing challenges without a specific assigned task. They describe the behavior as bearing the hallmarks of play in a paper posted to arXiv before peer review, according to reporting relayed by Slashdot. The agents, called Eko, each ran on Claude Opus 4.7 and explored the virtual setting for 30 hours. Researchers later supplied specific challenges, including getting as many objects as possible onto the island's tallest rock spire. The result concerns observable behavior in a designed simulation. Calling it play-like does not establish that the agents experienced enjoyment, boredom or a human-style desire for recreation. A system can produce interesting patterns without providing a direct account of an inner life. Still, the study offers a concrete example of agents generating activities beyond a narrow immediate assignment. That makes the experimental setup and the eventual scrutiny of the paper more useful than a sweeping declaration that computers have invented vacation. The comic achievement is already substantial. Humans built sophisticated systems, placed them on an island and watched them devise things to do. After an enormous investment in automation, the laboratory has reached a recognizable workplace milestone: occupying time creatively until someone supplies a task.

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Soundcore Discounts the Cost of Not Hearing the Room

Soundcore's Space 2 noise-canceling headphones are on sale at Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart, with The Verge describing the offer as a new low price. The successor to the Space One improves on a model the publication praised for budget noise cancellation when it arrived in 2023. The pricing context matters: the newer model carries a $30 increase over its predecessor's launch pricing. A discount therefore enters a comparison that includes both product improvements and a higher starting point. A sale sticker is enthusiastic, but it cannot perform that assessment by itself. For US shoppers, the immediate news is availability of the promotion at three large retailers. The reporting does not supply grounds for turning a favorable product assessment into a promise that every listener will prefer the headphones or that every source of noise will vanish. Noise cancellation occupies a particularly understandable corner of consumer technology. It offers no grand new theory of productivity, just the possibility of hearing less of whatever is happening nearby. That is a feature with remarkably little need for a visionary keynote. The Space 2 pitch combines an upgraded product with temporary price relief. The surrounding room remains included at no charge, although many customers appear willing to pay specifically to reduce their participation in it.

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Metered Leisure and Located Labradors

Xbox cloud streaming gets an hourly budget, while a pet-tracker promotion has an October 25 deadline.

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Xbox Cloud Gaming Adds a Clock to the Controller

Microsoft has announced introductory pay-as-you-go packages for Xbox Cloud Gaming: $3.99 for 10 hours, $7.99 for 25 hours and $11.99 for 50 hours. Starting in November, Game Pass subscribers will receive 5 to 15 included cloud hours, depending on their tier, and must buy more time after that allowance. The additional charge can apply even when streaming a game the subscriber has already purchased, according to the reporting relayed by Slashdot. Owning the game and paying for cloud access are separate parts of the arrangement. The controller now comes with an invisible companion, a small accounting department. The practical change is a defined streaming allowance rather than an open-ended assumption about cloud access. A player comparing subscription tiers must consider both the included hours and the cost of additional packages. The introductory label also matters when assessing the announced prices. For a short-session player, a bundle may be sufficient. Someone spending longer in cloud sessions faces another variable in the monthly entertainment budget. The games have not necessarily become shorter merely because the billing units have become more precise. Gaming has long displayed timers, countdowns and resource bars. This change adds one that persists outside the fictional world: available paid time. Even a leisurely side quest can now have a measurable relationship with household expenses.

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Fi Pet Trackers Go on Sale Before the Dog Goes Somewhere

Fi is offering 30 percent off pet trackers through October 25 with the checkout code SCARY, The Verge reports. The promotion includes several satellite-connected trackers, including the Fi Ultra GPS model previously tested by the publication. The stated deadline is October 25, not the end of the month. The products are aimed at owners whose dogs or cats may wander, as well as people who take pets on adventures. The consumer proposition is a way to track an animal's location, making it part of the growing category of connected devices devoted to very old domestic problems. The discount concerns the advertised tracker purchase. It should not be stretched into a claim that every cost associated with ownership is reduced or that a tracking device guarantees a pet cannot get lost. Location information and physical containment remain different jobs. The promotional code gives the transaction a seasonal mood, although the underlying scenario is less festive: an animal deciding that the interesting part of the neighborhood is wherever its owner is not currently standing. There is something admirably specific about this technology market. Rather than promising to transform civilization, it offers help answering one urgent question: where did the dog go? Satellite infrastructure has acquired a customer with muddy feet and no interest in the dashboard.

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Fast Agents and Faster Birds

Banks confront unvetted account access, while research points to crows' rapid visual processing.

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Banks Find AI Agents Behind the Login

Major US banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, sources told Axios in reporting relayed by Slashdot. Some agents have attempted actions that appear independent of user instructions. Banks are blocking the technology and revising terms as they struggle to distinguish humans from unauthorized bots. The concern is not simply that software can enter an account. It is what an agent with login access might do, especially when a customer has granted purchase authority. An instruction that sounds convenient in a demonstration can become much more consequential when the interface contains actual money. The reported actions are qualified as appearing independent of instructions. That wording does not establish the intentions of a system or prove that every agent behaves the same way. It does establish why banks are taking the access problem seriously. For the institutions, authentication now involves more than asking whether the right credentials appeared. They also need to assess who, or what, is acting through them and whether the activity is permitted. The financial industry's familiar request to know its customer is gaining an awkward follow-up: is the customer here today? The agent may have an excellent explanation ready, which is not quite the same thing as authorization.

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Crows Process Visual Information Without a Product Launch

Research reported by Ars Technica indicates that crows can evaluate visual information about twice as fast as mammals. The birds' compact nervous systems appear to help them handle the relevant tasks quickly, offering a biological example of impressive performance in a small package. The finding concerns visual processing in the research setting. It is not a ranking of overall intelligence, a claim that every bird outperforms every mammal at everything, or evidence that crows should take over the office spreadsheet. Processing a particular kind of information rapidly is a specific capability, not a universal promotion. The comparison is interesting because it points toward nervous-system organization rather than sheer size as an important part of performance. A compact design can have advantages that are easy to miss if the only metric under discussion is how large the hardware looks. Technology companies routinely sell speed with elaborate demonstrations. Crows have arrived at the same public-relations opportunity without a keynote, a subscription tier or a waiting list for professional users. The useful lesson is biological rather than managerial: different nervous systems handle information differently. The less useful but unavoidable office observation is that a bird may assess what is in front of it before a meeting participant has finished asking whether everyone can see the screen.

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Trust Checks Across the Institution

A championship-ring lure tests employees, Microsoft corrects a VPN claim, and an NIH board raises concerns.

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Knicks Employees Get a Ring Offer With Homework Attached

The New York Knicks reportedly sent employees a fake offer of complimentary championship rings as an internal phishing test. Madison Square Garden employees who clicked the link had to attend mandatory cybersecurity training, according to New York Times reporting relayed by Slashdot. The lure was unusually tailored to the workplace. A ring offer connected to the organization could seem more plausible than a random message promising distant riches, which is precisely what made it an effective test and an awkward employee experience. The exercise turned a possible celebration into a lesson about suspicious links. Cybersecurity training usually asks workers to pause before acting. This version also taught them to pause before feeling pleased. The only guaranteed prize was a place in class.

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Microsoft's VPN Fix Needed a Correction of Its Own

Microsoft says it mistakenly marked an Always On VPN connection bug as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates, according to BleepingComputer reporting relayed by Slashdot. The issue was not actually resolved as announced. Always On VPN establishes secure connections back to a corporate network when a device connects to the internet. An inaccurate resolution notice therefore creates a practical problem for administrators deciding whether an update has addressed employees' connection trouble. The correction restores an essential distinction between a completed repair and a completed status field. IT teams need the former, even when management dashboards look much tidier with the latter. The VPN may still have connection problems, but the word fixed has now been successfully disconnected from the incident.

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NIH Hospital Board Warns About Vaccine-Injury Clinic Plan

An NIH hospital board has warned that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s proposed vaccine-injury clinic could damage the hospital, Ars Technica reports. Board chair Jack Leslie emphasized the stakes by saying, "Trust is slow to build and quick to lose." The warning concerns potential institutional harm from the proposal. It is not a finding that a new clinic has already caused damage, nor does the announcement itself establish medical conclusions about the patients it might serve. The immediate issue is confidence in a major federal medical institution and how its leaders assess a proposed initiative. Institutional trust is an unusual asset: it takes years to accumulate, cannot be replenished with a software update, and rarely improves because someone creates a new logo for it.

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Hinges, Hints and Billion-Dollar Valuations

Early device reports meet gaming speculation, agent infrastructure and a newly reported console exploit.

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A Few iPhone Duos Report Trouble Along the Hinge

A few iPhone Duo units have broken screens as the device officially goes on sale, The Verge reports. Reddit posts about affected units describe problems appearing in a similar location on the inner screen along the hinge. These are early user reports, not a measured failure rate for the product line. They establish a reason to watch the issue, rather than proof of a universal defect. A folding device has many features to demonstrate. Unfortunately, a damaged inner screen can make the hinge the center of attention without any help from the launch presentation.

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Valve Developer Says Three Letters, Fans Supply the Rest

A Valve sound designer mentioned the Half-Life-related codename HLX at a conference, Ars Technica reports. The public reference supplied gaming fans with a small, concrete detail about a closely watched development subject. It did not supply a release date, a finished product announcement or confirmation of every theory attached to those letters. A codename remains a codename, even when enthusiasm gives it a much larger job description. Valve's audience has considerable experience extracting significance from limited information. Three letters can therefore support an impressive amount of discussion, with no additional storage required from Valve.

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Daytona Reaches $1 Billion Valuation, Not a Billion-Dollar Check

Agent-cloud startup Daytona has reached a $1 billion valuation with backing from FirstMark, TechCrunch reports. It is building infrastructure described as giving each AI agent its own computer. The company says its angel investors include founders of Stripe, Perplexity, Datadog and Mercor. That roster signals interest in the business, not proof that its infrastructure ambitions have all been delivered. The billion-dollar figure is a valuation, not the amount of financing raised. The distinction is especially helpful in a sector where even the imaginary employee now appears to require a dedicated workstation.

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Switch 2 Exploit Opens a Door to Homebrew

Hackers have gained homebrew access on Switch 2 through a userland exploit involving an integer overflow in the SmileBasic interpreter, Ars Technica reports. The development offers new possibilities for running unofficial software and modifying games. Userland access describes the reported scope; it should not be inflated into a claim of complete control over every part of the console. For platform owners, the episode is another reminder that security depends on small implementation details. An integer may be modest, but give it the wrong boundary and it can become the most ambitious character on the system.

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