Nokia announced the 8110 on 9 September 1996 as the first handset in its high-end 8000 series, a business-oriented model that measured 141 by 48 by 25 millimetres and weighed around 152 grams. Sliding covers defined its form from the start, protecting the keypad in a pocket and extending downward so the microphone sat closer to the mouth while the same motion answered an incoming call.

The curvature of the shell, particularly with the cover flung open, earned this phone the nickname ‘banana phone,’ and the monochrome graphic LCD made it the first Nokia model to use such a display. Battery options began with an extremely compact 400 milliampere-hour lithium-ion pack that provided 1 to 2 hours of talk time. There was also an extended 900 milliampere-hour unit, which increased standby time to 150 hours. That was a significant upgrade from the older 2110 phone.

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Janus Cycle acquired a few original handsets and discovered that there were almost no publicly available manuals on how to disassemble them. They had to rely on a service manual to repair the worn-out lithium-ion cells and get them to work again. Some early variants featured a white Nokia logo on the front, while later 8110i devices reverted to a black one.

Then, in 1999, there was a cinematic version that returned to the white logo design. Inside, there is a flat main board and a flexible user interface that has been curled to match the shell. There is just enough room for the spring-loaded mechanism to allow the production teams to include a quick-open function. On a real retail unit, you’d have to purposefully slide it open. That was the same constraint that forced Nokia to include a spring in the 7110 phone.

The firmware on the repaired phones indicates version 4.08, dated June 1996, and the service software confirms that certain units left the factory in August of the same year. Only a couple more weeks until the actual announcement. The phonebook may carry 125 entries, and call records maintain note of the last ten numbers you dialed, received, and missed.

Menus were plain back then, with no clock or fancy graphics, but the phone powered up neatly after you inserted a good battery and SIM card. It would detect the network and display the classic interface without any current overlays. The next year, Smart SMS appeared on the 8110i, allowing users to receive menu updates and ringtones over the air; this was also the first time ringtones could be obtained over text message. The 8110 and 8110i were subsequently succeeded by the 8810 in 1998.

The 8110 appeared multiple times in The Matrix as the everyday phone of both the blue pills and the red pills because its curved slider stood out in 1999. Furthermore, it was already rather popular among early GSM users. The production team adjusted the camera’s cover, giving it the fast open action that audiences recalled.

Janus Cycle’s repaired examples retain the original slide mechanism, the external antenna that protrudes from the top, and the very modest monochrome screen that displays only four lines of text. Those mechanical characteristics, restored 30 years later by meticulous cell switching and the use of diagnostic software, make the phone easily identifiable as the one Morpheus used to contact Neo. It was essentially a small business tool that became an enduring cinema icon due to its curved design and sliding cover.

Apple tightened its developer guidelines over the weekend to ban apps that use AI to create offensive content, as well as those that masquerade as regular apps to pass the App Store review process and then turn into nudify apps, or surface those features prominently.

The company updated its guidelines with strong language around AI and user-generated content, and how app developers should include enough preventative measures to moderate objectionable or offensive content.

“Apps that host user-generated content are required to filter objectionable material, give users a way to report offensive content, and let users block abusive accounts. Apps containing hidden or undocumented features are also prohibited on the App Store, including apps that misrepresent their purpose during review and only reveal harmful capabilities — such as “nudification” — after approval, a tactic commonly known as bait-and-switch,” the company said in a blog post.

Apple said that it will remove apps that add features not present in the version submitted for App Store review.

The iPhone maker has also updated the language in its legal section to reinforce that it will bar apps promoting human trafficking and exploitation of children.

Apple said last year its review process blocked over 150,000 apps from reaching users, and removed 193,000 developer accounts on account of fraud and abuse.

In July, San Francisco ordered both Apple and Google to clean up and delete nudification apps from their app stores. City Attorney David Chiu accused the companies of profiting from these apps through store fees. And in April, a Tech Transparency Project report indicated that both tech giants’ stores hosted multiple nudify apps, some of which were rated as suitable for minors.

My air fryer and slow cooker are two of my most prized kitchen tools. I recently downsized to a machine that does both. It’s the most complete multipurpose small cooking appliance I own, and I can’t stop talking about it.

At first glance, the Magnifique looks a lot like Ninja’s Crispi air fryer — another favorite of ours — with a 4.5-quart glass bowl cooking chamber and similar clamp-on air fryer hood. What sets this model apart is the optional cooking base below, which turns the appliance into a slow cooker, rice cooker and braising pot, among other functions.

Magnifique Glass Air Fryer and Slow Cooker

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Pros & Cons

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  Combines air fryer and slow cooker in one
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  Breaks down easily for storage
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  Glass bowl is nontoxic, oven-safe and easy to clean
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  4.5 quart capacity is enough for a family of 4 or 5
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  Good value at $250

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  Can’t air fryer and slow cook at the same time
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  More expensive than most standalone air fryers

The glass bowl offers several advantages over nonstick or ceramic air fryer baskets, and the entire unit breaks apart when not in use, meaning you can store it in a cupboard, pantry or large drawer.

Here’s everything you need to know about the single best small kitchen appliance I’ve tested all year. 

The Magnifique’s Combo Glass Air Fryer + Multi-Cooker launched earlier this year. If you’ve never heard of Magnifique, neither had I just a year ago, but the brand has quietly unleashed a small but impressive line of premium countertop kitchen appliances. The lineup includes a claypot multicooker, rice cooker, glass air fryer, and a handheld ice cream maker. 

I’ve tested a few, and none impressed me more than the air fryer-slow cooker combo. 

A 2-in-1 space saver

I simply couldn’t go without a slow cooker and air fryer. I use both weekly, and no other cooking tools save me as much time, energy and cleanup when I plan meals. Having one machine that does both means one less bulky appliance to accommodate.

I love how it breaks down

Even though I use my air fryer and slow cooker often, I still don’t need them on my countertop all the time. Avoiding kitchen clutter is one reason, but aesthetics matter, too. Even the best-looking air fryers don’t have quite the visual flair of a stand mixer or espresso machine. The Magnifique admittedly looks better than the pod-style air fryers we’re used to, but I still prefer to store it away.

After use, the glass casserole bowl and matching lid go in the dishwasher and are stored with the rest of my pots, while the cooker and air fryer units tuck neatly away in a drawer. Fully assembled, it measures 12 by 13.5 by 13 inches.

Slow cooker function 

Slow cookers aren’t complicated machines, and Magnifique’s is as good as any I’ve used. It has simple function controls with low and high heat and four- or six-hour cook times. Cheap cuts of beef turn fork-tender after an afternoon of low-and-slow cooking.

The bottom cooker has eight cooking modes in all: slow cook, steam, braise, rice, proof, pasta, oatmeal and warm. I use the slow cooker function most often and rely on braise mode for a quicker cook, like meatballs.

The bottom cooker maxes out at 214°F.

Air fryer function 

The air fryer is equally impressive. Even with the larger cooking chamber, the top-down cooker sizzles chicken thighs, wings, French fries and hash browns in minutes. The air fryer has four settings: warm, bake, air fry and max air fry. The latter two turn on the convection fan, a signature air-frying feature, while the warm and bake settings offer gentler cooking.

The air fryer hood turns off when you remove it from the bowl, so the risk of burns or fire is low. You can’t set precise temperatures for air frying, but the machine maxes out at 450°F, which is standard for air fryers. 

The glass cooking bowl doubles as a serving dish

Another benefit of the glass-bowl design is that it doubles as a storage and serving vessel. You can bring a pot of slow-cooked stew or braised meatballs straight to the table, without finding and dirtying a new dish. Same goes for a batch of air-fried chicken wings or salmon fillets. 

It’s a reliable rice cooker but takes longer than most

I’ve used the rice cooker too, but because it’s so large, I usually pull out my Tiger stand-alone rice cooker, which makes a few cups of rice faster and with better results. Also, I use the Magnifique so often for the main course that I rarely have it available for a rice side dish.

Magnifique vs. the competition: Someone finally beat Ninja to the punch

Other multicookers offer slow-cook and air-fry functions. Most notably, Ninja’s now-discontinued Foodi also features a pressure cooker. Instant Pot similarly makes a pressure cooker, slow cooker and air fryer.

These machines performed well in our testing, but they’re bulky, they don’t break down for easy storage and their cooking chambers aren’t as multipurpose as Magnifique’s. You also can’t see the food while it’s cooking — another bonus of the glass-bowl design — so you have to stop cooking and release the heat to check progress.

The $180 Ninja Crispi is the closest comp in the glass-bowl air fryer category. To be clear, I love the Crispi, and it’s still my favorite standalone air fryer. The Magnifique stands out for its ability to transform into a slow cooker, rice cooker and braising pot.

Another notable difference is that the Magnifique’s bowl is completely glass. Ninja’s has food-safe plastic handles and feet, meaning it can’t be used in an oven. Both are dishwasher-safe.

Included accessories

• Removable 4.5-quart glass pot
• Glass lid (dishwasher- and microwave-safe)
• Air Crisper hood
• Multicooker base
• Crisper disk
• Steam rack/tray

One notable drawback 

The biggest drawback of having your air fryer and slow cooker in one gadget is that you can’t use both at the same time. That is, unless you were to corral a second glass bowl, since the air fryer hood doesn’t require the slow cooker base to function. 

Magnifique doesn’t currently sell the bowl separately, but the clamp-on air fryer works with other similarly sized vessels, including the one that comes with the Ninja Crispi system.

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Still, the $250 multipurpose kitchen appliance offers solid value and less clutter than buying a separate glass-bowl air fryer ($180) and a slow cooker ($80 to $120) of this size and quality.

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David lives in Brooklyn where he’s spent more than a decade covering all things edible, including meal kit services, food subscriptions, kitchen tools and cooking tips.

David earned his BA from Northeastern and has toiled in nearly every aspect of the food business, including as a line cook in Rhode Island where he once made a steak sandwich for Lamar Odom.

Right now he’s likely somewhere stress-testing a blender or tinkering with a toaster. Anything with sesame is his all-time favorite food this week.

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Among the major vendors that listed Discover-Tech as a “certified” or “verified” vendor were Google and the advertising industry association IAB Europe. The Israeli firm also used European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) consent frameworks to target users within the European Union. Discover-Tech has served ads through major networks such as Google, Yandex, and Beeswax.

Google and IAB Europe have since removed Discover-Tech from their ad vendor registries, and Google further terminated Discover-Tech’s access to its ad exchange platforms. Beeswax has removed Discover-Tech from its ad buying platform. Fellow ad platform Vungle (Liftoff) paused Discover-Tech’s access while conducting a review, and Eskimi blocked Discover-Tech’s accounts and domains.

Thursday’s report said that Discover-Tech ad impressions have appeared on government and national-security-linked networks throughout the world: NATO, United Nations networks, European lawmaking bodies, critical infrastructure providers in Australia, and armed forces and government agencies in Norway and Sweden.

“Discover-Tech’s mass abuse, privacy invasion, and facilitation for mercenary spyware attacks illustrates structural flaws with the online advertising system, which failed to detect or prevent the abuse documented in this report,” Citizen Lab said.

The research lab said that the mercenary malware installed through AdFection was developed and distributed by Candiru (rebranded as “Integrity Labs”). Under the arrangement with Discover-Tech, targets with specific profiles of interest to the Candiru customers received ads that carried JavaScript or other code that connected to Candiru’s control servers. In response, those servers delivered an exploit that served the zero-click payload when the ad appeared on an individual’s device.

The research doesn’t describe the vulnerabilities exploited in the zero-click attacks or the final malware that was installed in them. It’s likely they were zero-days that have been fixed after Citizen Lab discovered the campaign. Citizen Lab didn’t immediately respond to questions.

Messages sent to Discover-Tech and Candiru went unanswered.

Citizen Lab called on advertisers and government officials to take concrete action to proactively prevent campaigns like AdFection. Beyond that, the researchers said users can reduce the risk of being infected by installing ad blockers, resetting mobile advertising ID in iOS and Android settings (it’s unclear why the researchers didn’t advise turning off personalized ads altogether), and installing ad-blocking software on home or office networks. As always, installing updates in a timely manner is also a must.

Ask most people how Black Friday and Cyber Monday differ, and you’ll hear the same answer: one happens in stores, the other happens online. That was true ten or fifteen years ago, but it isn’t really true now. Both events are mostly online, and both have been stretched from a single day into something closer to a week. The differences that matter today are smaller and easier to miss.

Where Each Day Came From

Black Friday started as an in-store event, one where shops opened early the day after Thanksgiving and slashed prices to get the holiday season moving.

Cyber Monday arrived later, as online retailers wanted a day of their own after a weekend that was all about queues and parking lots, so they made one.

Even though the line between online and in-store shopping has mostly disappeared, those origins still explain which products tend to be cheapest on each day.

Big Items on Friday, Digital Ones on Monday

Black Friday is usually the better day for large, physical purchases such as washing machines, sofas, TVs, and the cut-price electronics retailers use to pull people in. Stores build their whole campaign around that Friday, so it’s often when prices on these items are at their lowest.

Cyber Monday tends to be better for things you do not need to see in person, such as streaming plans, software licenses, online courses, and small tech accessories. Prices on these often fall further on Monday than they did on Friday, especially at retailers that sell mostly online or hold back their best web deals until after the weekend.

Consider How Long the Deals Last

Black Friday deals often go live before Thanksgiving, reach their lowest price on the Friday, and sell out or end soon after. Cyber Monday prices tend to stay put all day, and some carry over into Tuesday or Wednesday. Without crowds at the door, retailers have less reason to squeeze everything into a few hours.

If you need a new fridge, buy it on Black Friday before stock runs out. A software subscription or digital gift card can usually wait until Monday, and it may cost a little less by then.

Don’t Pick a Favorite

It’s tempting to treat the two days as rivals and put all your shopping into one of them. That’s a mistake. They suit different kinds of purchases, and you’ll save the most by matching each item on your list to the day it’s likely to be cheapest.

Checking You’ve Got the Best Cyber Monday Price

Since Cyber Monday deals don’t vanish within a few hours, you’ve got time to double-check a price before you pay.

Discoup has a page just for Cyber Monday that lists active codes as retailers release them. It’s a quick way to see whether the price in your cart is already the lowest one or whether there’s a code you can add on top.

It’s also worth checking a second coupon site before any bigger purchase. A few extra minutes won’t usually cost you anything, because these offers stick around far longer than Black Friday’s doorbusters.

Before You Check Out

Of course, you do not have to choose one day over the other. You could buy large, physical items on Black Friday while the lowest prices are available, and leave your software and other digital purchases for Cyber Monday, when discounts last longer. Whichever day you shop, compare prices first, since the first item marked as a sale often isn’t the cheapest option.

Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. They’re out this week, so Caroline Haskins is reporting for duty. If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Caroline an email at [email protected] or reach her securely on Signal at carolinehaskins.61.

The nonprofit 7×24 Exchange International wants to promote data centers, which they believe are “mission critical” infrastructure. As part of this work, the group recommends a children’s story, “What is a Data Center?,” which follows a honey badger named Honey who gets a guided tour of a data center from a worker named Oliver. Oliver explains that the job of data center employees is to make sure that the “functions supported by the data center” are available to anybody, “no matter what time it is.”

“Like when my mom shops online late at night because my dad is sleeping and won’t know about it?” Honey asks.

The story is part of a broader pattern across the data center industry. In addition to lobbying, job creation programs, tax breaks, companies and interest groups are trying something a bit more creative: winning over the youth. As pushback to massive data center build-outs and energy-guzzling campuses intensifies, the industry is apparently taking a softer approach to community building using a tactic other industries with a public relations problem have tried.

Alex Molnar, a research professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and the director of the National Education Policy Center, tells WIRED that, for over a century, industries with an image problem—fast food, tobacco, oil and gas—have brought their messaging to schools.

“A very, very big reason why corporations get involved in the schools is, quite simply, corporate propaganda—for the purpose not necessarily of selling a product, but of telling their ‘story,’” Molnar says.

In May, the Potomac chapter of the Association for Computer Operations Management (AFCOM), a trade group for the data center industry, sponsored Memorial Day-themed flag-making kits to be distributed to 3,100 first graders across 37 schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, also known as Data Center Alley. In addition to the flag kits, kids received an informational card with statistics about “the positive impact” that the data center industry has on the local economy.

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The generative AI revolution hasn’t been kind to Vanniall, an OnlyFans creator who lives in New York City. She now constantly finds hyperrealistic deepfakes—AI-generated images and videos that copy everything about her—circulating online and often isn’t able to get them removed.

On top of that, Vanniall struggles to build an audience on popular social media platforms, like Instagram, without getting in trouble. “There’s always some sort of report or appeal that I’m going through with them,” she tells WIRED. Vanniall’s Instagram account, which has over 100,000 followers, is currently restricted and cannot be viewed without logging in.

So, when I tell her that Meta allows its AI agent, called Muse, to engage in explicit sexting with adult users, she seems frustrated by the decision: “It’s not fair that they get to pull money out of people with their sexually active AI agent, but they won’t let real people, real adults, engage in any sort of sensuality or sexuality.”

It’s a common refrain I heard from other adult content creators, who questioned why their accounts on Meta platforms often seem restricted, while Meta’s AI agent is now allowed to talk dirty with millions of adult users.

“A private, one-to-one conversation between an adult and an individualized AI agent on a platform restricted to people 18 and over is very different from the marketing and promotion of services on a social media platform,” Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton tells WIRED.

Meta’s Muse is the first always-on AI agent to break out of early adopter circles in San Francisco. The Muse app is like a message thread; text the digital assistant, give it access to your personal data, like calendar and email, and have it proactively find ways to help, like canceling a workout class that overlaps with your dinner reservation. Meta’s large distribution network, through platforms like Instagram and Facebook, helped catapult the app to the top of the download charts during its first month, as millions of new users experimented with an agent for the first time.

In addition to having it organize your calendar, Meta says, it’s OK for users of the adults-only app to engage in X-rated AI conversations with Muse. A Meta spokesperson previously told WIRED the company wouldn’t “block legal adult behavior.” Meta’s Muse generates explicit text but not images or videos.

While Meta takes a different approach to moderation on Instagram, other social media platforms in the United States do allow sexually explicit content. X remains one of the most popular platforms for many OnlyFans creators to draw in new subscribers and connect with fans. Many adult performers have also migrated to Bluesky after Elon Musk took over the platform formerly known as Twitter, where users can also share adult content.