Spotify co-CEO confirms QR code crackdown on Family Plan cheaters
The streaming giant is tightening household verification, a move that could convert shared-plan discount users into full-price subscribers.

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The streaming giant is tightening household verification, a move that could convert shared-plan discount users into full-price subscribers.
Late-stage win sets up regulatory talks and could reshape how cancer is treated - and how biotech investors value mRNA platforms.
Heavy AI spending is squeezing the carmaker's bottom line, and a SpaceX tie-up would put two Musk giants on one balance sheet.
Mukesh Ambani's Jio listing is drawing record demand, but the offering's real story is how the telecom giant is repositioning itself as a technology company.
A new University of Mississippi and Cornell review finds precision weed tools can replace chemicals and labor, yet adoption comes with serious financial and operational hurdles.
Thore Graepel, who helped build DeepMind's AlphaGo, is applying game-winning search techniques to general reasoning. His warning: LLMs can't be trusted to reason.
Musk says the launch tower will try to grab the returning booster, aiming to make history by recovering an entire orbital launch vehicle for the first time.
The Beatles' own company is quadrupling its Liverpool museum footprint, adding a Yellow Submarine viewing tower and tying ticket sales to a new artist charity.
Revolut, Halifax, and Emma went dark Tuesday as Google's London cloud region failed. Here's what it means for fintech's reliance on Big Tech infrastructure.
All-cash acquisition delivers divesiran, a late-stage-ready experimental treatment, to Merck KGaA's pipeline.
The federal ban on the low-cost Chinese model signals a new front in AI supply-chain security, with compliance and vendor implications.
New global analysis finds 25% of data centers already face water stress for at least one month a year - and climate change could push that to one-third.