Monthly Archives: October 2022

Netflix’s account-sharing crackdown gets a little less painful

As part of its continued push to combat password sharing, Netflix has introduced the option to transfer user profiles to new accounts.  The new feature, suitably-titled Profile Transfer, lets you move your viewing history, watchlist and personalized recommendations to a different Netflix account, should you find yourself moving from your current household. “People move. Families…

Look out, AMD – Microsoft is tanking your CPU performance again with Windows 11

Bad news for Team Red: it seems that AMD’s high-end Ryzen desktop CPUs – including the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X – are having their performance effectively throttled by a feature in Windows 11. The feature in question is the Windows 11 thread scheduler (sometimes called a thread director) – essentially a simple background program that…

Kyle Rittenhouse has started a YouTube channel all about guns

Kyle Rittenhouse. Associated Press Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse has started a YouTube channel, and it’s all about guns. Rittenhouse says his channel will document his journey to “help to defend the Second Amendment.” Rittenhouse fatally shot two men and injured a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse has started a…

There’s a serious risk the US is headed for a prolonged period of high inflation and low growth, Deutsche Bank says. An era of negative returns for stocks and bonds may be the result.

Good morning. Max Adams writing to you from New York.  Markets have been saturated with inflation conversations this year. Have prices peaked? Core versus headline? Is the Fed responding too tough to lagging indicators? Etc.  But just as you were probably getting tired of it all, turns out there’s a second part to this story,…

Today’s mortgage and refinance rates: October 18, 2022 | Rates keep inching up

Insider’s experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). In some cases, we receive a commission from our our partners, however, our opinions are our own. Terms apply to offers listed on this page. Mortgage rates have been slowly increasing this week. Inflation is still hot…

Kanye West says he plans to make Parler a social-media platform for people who were ‘bullied by the thought police’

Kanye West said Parler would be for people who were penalized by other social-media platforms. Ronald Martinez/Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Kanye West said Parler would be for people who were restricted by other sites, per Bloomberg. The rapper said he knew it was time to buy his own site after getting booted off Twitter…

An officer helping enact Putin’s mobilization is the latest in a string of unexplained deaths among high-ranking Russians

Roman Malyk seen in a photo shared by the Administration of the Partizansky urban district. Administration of the Partizansky urban district/VKontakte A Russian official who oversaw military enlistment was found dead, local officials said. He had signs of suicide but people close to him are skeptical of that explanation, reports said. A string of powerful…

Influencers are hawking dubious financial advice — and getting rich doing so

Welcome to Tuesday, readers. I’m your host, Jordan Parker Erb. Today we’re talking about a trend that, if you spend much time on social media, you’ve probably already noticed: A new era of get-rich-quick schemes has arrived.  On TikTok and YouTube, “passive income” side-hustles have skyrocketed in popularity. Influencers are promoting gigs that promise to…

A Trump aide seen moving boxes around Mar-a-Lago before the FBI raid is a former White House staffer, reports say

Mar-A-Lago is seen August 16, 2022 a week after the FBI raided the home of former President Trump, in Palm Beach, Florida, United States . Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Reports identified a Trump aide who was seen moving boxes around Mar-a-Lago before the FBI raid.  The FBI believes Trump may have tried to…