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The iPhone SE 4 is one of the most talked-about devices in the Apple ecosystem right now, and its impending release early next year could mark a major reboot of Apple’s most affordable phone. Fresh off the back of a report from journalist Mark Gurman spilling the beans on the device, news outlet 9to5Mac has chimed in with its own details on what we can expect, including an updated design and many feature improvements.

Citing its own “reliable sources,” 9to5Mac claims that the iPhone SE 4 will come with an A18 chip, better cameras, and Apple’s own 5G modem. In vouching for the sources’ trustworthiness, the website says that they “told us precise details about the iPhone 16 in advance.”

According to this source, the iPhone SE 4 will take on a much more modern design, specifically by using a similar chassis to the iPhone 14, with flat sides and a notched OLED display (although it will lack the Dynamic Island). The source used by 9to5Mac says it will have a resolution of 1170 x 2532 pixels, which is the same as the iPhone 14. It will also come with Face ID, they say, meaning an end to the Home button and Touch ID.

On the inside, there will apparently be an A18 chip with a 5-core GPU and 8GB of memory, which means the iPhone SE 4 will be compatible with Apple Intelligence. That will bring it in line with the iPhone 16 in terms of power.

(Image credit: Frederik Lipfert, Unsplash)

Aside from the design, other elements mentioned by 9to5Mac are taken from past Apple phones. It says the iPhone SE 4 will have the same 48MP main camera and 12MP front-facing camera as the iPhone 15 – that higher resolution of the rear camera could enable it to take 2x zoom images at 12MP resolution. However, the iPhone SE 4 will reportedly only have one rear camera, forgoing ultra-wide and telephoto lenses.

One of the most intriguing details in this report, however, is that the iPhone SE 4 could become the first iPhone to bear Apple’s own 5G modem, something that DigiTimes has also previously reported. Apple has supposedly been working on this component for years but has struggled to get it up to speed. Now, though, 9to5Mac claims the part is ready and will handle 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. It will also “drastically reduce battery consumption,” 9to5Mac says, especially in the iPhone’s Low Power Mode, and says that adding this component to the iPhone SE 4 before any of its flagship models is “a sort of experiment”.

When might we finally see the iPhone SE 4? That day will come in spring (March-May) 2025, 9to5Mac believes, which mirrors claims made by other outlets. Indeed, DigiTimes reported today that “Apple has begun sourcing OLED panels” for the device, indicating that Apple is gearing up to launch the iPhone SE 4 in the coming months. If that proves to be correct, it means there’s not long to wait until we see what could be the biggest overhaul in the iPhone SE’s history.

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Connected home tech company Aqara has launched a new smart lock that offers keyless entry for any smart home ecosystem, whether you use Apple HomeKit, Google Home, or Alexa.

You might recognize Aqara as the brand behind one of the best video doorbells currently available (the Aqara Smart Video Doorbell G4, which we've been testing for the last few weeks), but its latest foray into home security – the Aqara Smart Lock U300 – looks particularly interesting.

As 9to5Mac explains, limited compatibility is not an issue with the Smart Lock U300, which supports Thread, Matter, Apple HomeKit, and even Apple Home Key so you can unlock your door using your iPhone or Apple Watch, even if the device is out of power.

Don't have an Apple device? You can also unlock the Aqara U300 using a fingerprint reader, custom PIN (including one-time codes for tradespeople and visitors), the Aqara mobile app, a voice assistant, an NFC card, or a physical key in case of an emergency or power outage.

The Aqara Smart Lock U300 supports Thread, Matter, Apple HomeKit, and Apple Home Key (Image credit: Aqara) How to get 20% off

The Aqara Smart Lock U300 is available to buy now from Amazon in the US, with a list price of $229.99 (about £170 / AU$340). Official pricing and availability for other territories has yet to be announced.

That's already a pretty competitive price, and it gets even better if you use the code PRNAU300 at the checkout to get 20% off, bringing it down to $183.99.

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This is new—but also very old.

Some of the top browser makers around have issued a letter to the European Commission (EC) alleging that Microsoft gives the Edge browser an unfair advantage and should be subject to EU tech rules.

A letter seen by Reuters, sent by Vivaldi, Waterfox, and Wavebox, and supported by a group of web developers, also supports Opera’s move to take the EC to court over its decision to exclude Microsoft Edge from being subject to the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Edge’s exclusion from the DMA means that it is not subjected to the same rules as other browsers, which includes restrictions aimed at making it easier for consumers to choose a service best suited to them.

Edging out the market

The letter, sent on September 17, stated, “It is paramount that the Commission reconsiders its position. Unfair practices are currently allowed to persist on the Windows' ecosystem with respect to Edge, unmitigated by the choice screens that exist on mobile.”

As Edge comes pre-installed by default on Windows machines, users must navigate the Microsoft offering in order to download their browser of choice. The letter states that, “No platform independent browser can aspire to match Edge's unparalleled distribution advantage on Windows. Edge is, moreover, the most important gateway for consumers to download an independent browser on Windows PCs.”

The authors also alleged that Edge, which accounts for just over 5% of the browser market share, mischaracterizes features of rival browsers in pop-up messages to users. However a EC decision in February deemed that Edge was not a “gatekeeper” and that Microsoft should ensure that users can uninstall Edge, alongside any other software.

TechRadar Pro has reached out to the European Commission and Microsoft for comment, but neither immediately responded.

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OpenAI has decided to grant all ChatGPT users on its Free tier a 10-minute-a-month preview of its Advanced Voice mode, and if you’ve got the ChatGPT app on your phone you can try it right now.

Usually only available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, Advanced Voice mode gives you the ability to talk to ChatGPT on your smartphone and get it to talk back to you in a voice of your choosing. You can ask it pretty much anything within reason and get a human-like response. In many ways, it’s the natural evolution of the chatbot into something that feels even more futuristic.

So long, Scarlett

It feels like we're now a long way from the launch of ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode, back in May this year, when the actress Scarlett Johansson went to war with OpenAI over the use of its voice called Sky, which sounded very much like her voice from the movie Her, in which she played an AI-powered assistant.

OpenAI denied claims that it had copied her voice. A statement from CEO, Sam Altman, on May 20, 2024 read: “The voice of Sky is not Scarlett Johansson's, and it was never intended to resemble hers. We cast the voice actor behind Sky’s voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson. Out of respect for Ms. Johansson, we have paused using Sky’s voice in our products. We are sorry to Ms. Johansson that we didn’t communicate better.”

Even though your time is limited, you get access to all the features of Advanced Voice mode for those 10 glorious minutes, including the ability to choose a voice. In the current version of Advanced Voice mode you’ll find there are nine different voices to choose between, which have different qualities: Sol, Juniper, Vale, Spruce, Breeze, Arbor, Cove, Maple, and Ember.

(Image credit: OpenAI)

Advanced Voice mode is a real step up from the previous standard voice mode that you’d find on ChatGPT – it can sense and respond to humor and you can interrupt it at any time while it's talking. Interestingly, once you’ve chosen a voice you can’t ask ChatGPT to then change to another voice. Instead, you have to go into Settings, which you get to by tapping on your name at the bottom of the screen and scrolling down until you find Voice and tapping on it.

How to know you’ve got Advanced Voice mode

It’s hard to miss Advanced Voice mode, in the iOS or Android app you’ll see a message pop up in the prompt window informing you that you have access to Advanced Voice mode and pointing to a new icon to the far right. Simply tap it to begin. The first time you access it you’ll be asked to choose a voice and once you’ve done that you’re good to go.

When you see a glowing blue orb, somewhat reminiscent of a palantír from Lord of the Rings, you know that ChatGPT is listening and you can start having a conversation - ask it what you should have for lunch today, or where would be a good place to go on a vacation. You’ll discover that the conversation feels startlingly real.

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Android 15 has only just started rolling out to users, but we're already hearing news about what Android 16 could bring with it next year – including enhancements to the Advanced Protection Mode to help you lock down and secure your phone to an even greater extent than you already can.

This comes from some code digging done by the team over at Android Authority, which revealed the option to toggle Advanced Protection Mode on and off from the main Android Settings screen (right now you need to enrol through a dedicated website).

What's more, apps installed on Android will be able to check in on the status of Advanced Protection Mode, and tailor their behavior accordingly – so your individual apps will have the opportunity to put up some security barriers, as well as Android as a whole.

That this code exists doesn't necessarily mean it's going to make it all the way to the final version of Android 16, of course: it might come out earlier, or later, or not at all. But for those who are particularly keen to get the strongest level of security on their Android devices, it could add some extra peace of mind.

Keep it secret, keep it safe

Android 15 rolls out to more users this month (Image credit: Shutterstock / Mojahid Mottakin)

Don't worry if you've never heard of Advanced Protection Mode before: while it's been around since 2017, it's not used too widely. Google introduced it for users with "high visibility and sensitive information" – so think journalists, politicians, people in law enforcement, and so on.

It can actually be switched on by anyone, but you need to register a physical security key or some biometric data in order to access your Google accounts. It makes it much harder for someone else to pretend to be you, even if they have your password.

At the same time, it also means logging into your Google account takes a little longer each time you do it – that's the trade-off. If you're interested in enabling the feature, you can read more about it on Google's official support pages.

Actually, this isn't the first Android 16 rumor we've come across: last month we heard that the operating system might change the way that the Quick Settings panel gets accessed. There's also been talk that test versions of Android 16 might show up a little earlier in the year than the Android 15 betas did, perhaps before July.

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Google is set to clamp down even further on using certain unsupported extensions, most notably ad blockers, with its Chrome browser, given a new move in testing.

As spotted by Leopeva64, a regular leaker of browser-related info on X, there’s a change in the Canary (early test) build of Chrome whereby Google has entirely stripped away the ability to use Manifest V2 browser extensions, such as uBlock Origin, a popular ad blocker.

Google is already testing the removal of the option to re-enable unsupported extensions, in Chrome Canary the toggle to re-enable them is now greyed out, you can only remove them or find alternatives:https://t.co/aVxHvgB01N pic.twitter.com/zitGWq1SR2October 3, 2024

Let’s rewind a bit for background here – as you may have seen, Google has been ushering in a shift in Manifest, the platform its extensions are built on, from V2 to V3, as the latter is designed to offer better security, performance, and other benefits (there are plenty of folks who disagree, mind).

As we’ve seen in recent times, that move to Manifest V3 is now underway, and Chrome users have for some time now been warned that older extensions built on V2 are not supported by the browser.

Currently, though, you can still use a V2 extension like the mentioned uBlock Origin – though you’ll be warned against it – but as Leopeva64 spotted, in the latest Canary build of Chrome, the switch to use a disabled V2 extension is now greyed out. In other words, you can no longer make the decision to enable uBlock Origin or other V2 extensions for Chrome at all (in testing).

What you get instead is a choice to bin the extension, or find an alternative - for example, with uBlock Origin you might be redirected to uBlock Origin Lite, the V3 spin on this add-on (missing some key abilities, it should be noted, as the ‘Lite’ designation hints).

(Image credit: Shutterstock/Antonio Guillem) Analysis: Some alarms, but no surprises

Well, this is no surprise. Google has been a long time in enacting this shift from Manifest V2 to V3, and in fact, it was six years back that the new platform was first aired.

Google previously let us know that during this final stage of the transition to V3, there would be an option to keep using V2 extensions for those who really wanted to – the mentioned toggle – but that this would be removed in the future. That future has arrived sooner than we expected, though note, the change is still in testing right now.

We guess there’s a chance that this switch may not make the cut for release – as is the case with anything in testing – but given that Google has previously announced that it would be fully removing the option to run V2 extensions, it seems pretty certain that this move will be coming through to the stable version of Chrome probably very soon.

Clearly, Google is serious about trying to oust ad blockers from its browser, or at least those extensions with fuller (V2) levels of functionality. One of the crucial twists with V3 is that it prevents the use of remotely hosted code – as a security measure – but this also means ad blockers can’t update their filter lists without going through Google’s review process. What does that mean? Way slower updates for said filters, which hampers the ability of the ad-blocking extension to keep up with the necessary changes to stay effective.

(This isn’t just about browsers, either, as the war on advert dodgers extends to YouTube, too, as we’ve seen in recent months).

At any rate, Google is playing with fire here somewhat – or Firefox, perhaps we should say – as this may be the shove some folks need to get them considering another of the best web browsers out there aside from Chrome. Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, has vowed to maintain support for V2 extensions, while introducing support for V3 alongside to give folks a choice (now there’s a radical idea).

It should be noted that Google’s shift to Manifest V3 is a move with Chromium, the web engine, more broadly affecting other browsers using that engine – like Microsoft Edge (or Opera) – but specific moves like removing the V2 enable toggle here are just for Chrome (Chrome is the browser, Chromium is its underlying engine which is used elsewhere).

Via Neowin

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Cybersecurity researchers have reported finding multiple mobile applications used in so-called ‘pig butchering’ schemes, lurking on the official Google and Apple repositories.

‘Pig butchering’ is a type of financial fraud in which the victims - called ‘pigs’ - are first “stuffed”, before being “slaughtered”. In other words, the victims get led on for weeks and months, and their wallets drained and drained, before the fraudsters finally pull the trigger and disappear with the money, completely.

The apps found by Group-IB are called SBI-INT (iOS), Finans Insights (Android), Finans Trader6 (Android), and have thousands of downloads among them, suggesting that many people fell for the trick.

Bots across the world

Pig butchering mostly targets cryptocurrency users. The fraudsters would usually assume the identities of beautiful young women, and would approach the victims in casual conversation, or even flirt with them. At some point, they would introduce them to a unique, hidden, or otherwise scarce, cryptocurrency trading platform that guarantees major gains for their users. In some instances, the victims were led to believe they would earn millions through the platform, and then ride off into the sunset with their newfound significant other.

The platform is obviously fake, and built by the fraudsters as a way to steal the victim’s money. But the trick is to keep the ruse going for as long as possible. The victim is first invited to invest a little money, and then shown - through the app - their enormous gains. Obviously, these are all just numbers on a screen and the actual money is already with the fraudsters.

The victim is then enticed to invest more and more, and by the time they decide to withdraw the money - it’s already too late. To make matters worse, the “stuffing” continues even after the victim realizes they can’t withdraw. Sometimes, they will reach out to customer support (also scammers), who would tell them they need to pay a withdrawal fee.

Both Google and Apple removed the apps from their repositories as soon as they were notified.

The best way to protect against such scams is to use common sense - if something sounds too good to be true, it most likely is.

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If you've been using your Apple Watch on the latest watchOS 11 update, there's a vital update rolling out that should fix a range of issues experienced by users since the rollout last month.

Pushed to Apple Watch users Thursday, the new watchOS 11.0.1 update can now be installed on all of the best Apple Watch models, and corrects several serious problems.

According to Apple's release notes, the new update includes bug fixes for your Apple Watch including:

• Apple Watch may unexpectedly restart for some users
• Music app may unexpectedly restart for some users
• Battery may drain more quickly than expected
• Touch screen may be temporarily unresponsive for some Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users
• Messages may unexpectedly quit when replying to a message with a shared Apple Watch face

As you can see, that's a laundry list of inconvenient bugs that will seriously degrade your Apple Watch experience. You'll probably want to download watchOS 11.0.1 as quickly as possible. Here's how.

How to install watchOS 11.0.1

(Image credit: Future / Britta O'Boyle)

The easiest way to install watchOS 11.0.1 is to head to the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Make sure you've selected the My Watch tab in the bottom left-hand corner, then select General, likely including a red number to denote there's an update available.

Then tap Software Update, where watchOS 11.0.1 should automatically show as available. Downloading might start automatically, after which you can tap the Install button to push the software to your wrist.

You'll need your Apple Watch on its charger and in range of your iPhone, which in turn needs to be connected to Wi-Fi. Once your Watch is charged to 50%, the update will install.

WatchOS 11 has been available since September and the advent of Apple Watch Series 10. It brings a wealth of new health and fitness updates including a training load tracking feature, a new Vitals app, and an improved function for adding rest days into your training program.

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It probably isn't much of a surprise that workers are overwhelmed with notifications and emails on a daily basis, but new research has suggested this is actually having a detrimental effect on day-to-day cybersecurity operations.

A Vectra AI survey has shown that 71% of security practitioners worry that they will miss a real attack buried in a flood of inconsequential alerts, as vendors scramble to cover all bases in an ever evolving threat landscape.

In some cases, threat detection tools are causing more problems than they solve, as 47% don’t trust their tools to work the way they need them to, and the majority (54%) say their workload has actually increased instead.

The signal and the noise

A staggering 81% of security pros spend over 2 hours per day trawling through and triaging security events, reporting that only 16% of the alerts they receive are ‘real attacks’.

Things are improving though, with teams are more confident in their defenses than they were a year ago. The introduction of AI is helping, with 73% saying their workload and burnout have reduced thanks to AI. Since AI is playing a bigger role in cyberattacks, many security pros are adopting it as part of their response.

“Teams believe AI delivers an attack signal that will help them identify and prioritize threats, accelerate response times, and reduce alert fatigue, however, trust needs to be rebuilt. AI-powered offerings are proving to have a positive impact, but to truly reestablish trust, vendors will need to show how they add value beyond just the technologies they sell,” said Mark Wojtasiak, vice president of research and strategy at Vectra AI.

The trust has certainly been broken between practitioners and vendors, so the introduction of AI tools may take some convincing, but almost all (89%) plan to use more AI tools to replace legacy threat detection and response.

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Google just announced loads of AI search updates including video search capabilities in Google Lens adding a whole new way for people to search the internet.

The new Video Search feature comes at a time when every major tech company is looking to one-up its competitors in the race to have truly useful AI functionality that sticks with consumers - could searching the web via video be it?

Rolling out to all Google app users on iOS and Android, Video Search flexes Google’s AI muscles just in time for the launch of Apple’s Lens competitor the Apple Intelligence feature, Visual Intelligence. Apple’s offering is yet to receive a release date but it’s at the core of the company’s marketing for the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, taking advantage of Camera Control.

Visual Intelligence lets you snap an image of something and quickly get information on whatever you’re looking at. Whether you’re snapping a photo of a closed restaurant to check opening times (apparently places don’t show opening hours in their windows anymore) or aiming your iPhone’s camera at a friend’s dog to check the breed (we don’t ask questions anymore either), Visual Intelligence is essentially Apple’s competitor to Google Lens - but new video and voice features in Lens leave it behind before the feature even launches.

Search what you record

(Image credit: Google)

So how does Video Search work? And would you even want to use it? You’re now able to snap videos on Google Lens and quickly ask questions related to what you’re seeing. The example Google gave was a person recording a school of fish in an aquarium and asking Lens to analyze the species based on search results. It’s pretty cool stuff, but how much more useful is video recording than snapping a quick photo?

At the time of writing, I’ve not been able to test Google’s new Video Search functionality, which is available globally for users enrolled in Search Labs ‘AI Overview and more’ experiment. I’ve also not had the opportunity to test Visual Intelligence, and as far as I’m aware no one outside the walls of Apple has had the pleasure either. With new video search functionality and even voice search functionality coming to Lens, I can’t help but feel like Visual Intelligence is already lagging behind in the same way Siri was compared to other voice assistants when it launched back in 2011.

There are a lot of questions here and we won’t get answers for at least a few months. But I have to ask, do people even care about Video Search anyway? Or will Visual Intelligence’s dedicated launch button on the side of all iPhone 16s be enough to make people start searching without typing?

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The launch of iPadOS 18 hasn’t exactly been smooth. Apple quickly pulled the update from the iPad Pro 11-inch (2024) and the iPad Pro 13-inch (2024) following reports that it was breaking some devices, seemingly due to their M4 chipset, with the company forced to send out replacements.

This all happened around two and a half weeks ago, leaving owners of the latest iPads stuck on iPadOS 17. Now, however, you can finally get iPadOS 18 if you have one of these tablets. Or rather, you can get iPadOS 18.0.1, which has rolled out to all compatible devices.

By ‘compatible,’ we mean any device that supports iPadOS 18 (check out our iPadOS 18 compatibility explainer for the full list), though this isn’t a big update, so it will mostly be of interest to owners of the M4-powered iPad Pro models mentioned above.

Other notable fixes

In fact, all that’s here is bug fixes. The most significant being the bug that was bricking some iPads, but there are also fixes for a bug that could cause performance problems due to an issue with memory allocation, and a bug that could crash Messages if you replied to a message with a shared Apple Watch face.

That latter bug was also quite nasty, albeit easily avoidable, so it’s definitely worth downloading iPadOS 18.0.1, even if your device is already running iPadOS 18.

This update is joined by a similar iOS 18.0.1 update for iPhones, which fixes the same performance and Messages bugs, as well as a bug that causes the camera to freeze, and one that caused the iPhone’s touchscreen to become temporarily unresponsive on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models.

So, this is worth downloading, too, though it’s a slightly less notable update than iPadOS 18.0.1, since iOS 18 wasn’t bricking devices.

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Nvidia has updated its new Nvidia App, currently in beta, introducing much-needed features, including G-Sync controls, RTX HDR multi-monitor support, driver rollback, and other user-requested tweaks.

Nvidia has been working on the new app since February 2024, aiming to incorporate features of its separate Nvidia Control Panel and GeForce Experience apps into a seamless and simplified one-stop shop for all Nvidia driver updates and game settings.

Nvidia claims the app will be exiting its beta testing phase by the end of the year, with a definite plan to phase out the older ones.

“Your feedback matters,” Andrew Burnes writes in Nvidia’s announcement post, “and we appreciate your continued support. In future updates, we’ll continue to add the remaining Nvidia Control Panel options, with the goal of unifying the Nvidia Control Panel and GeForce Experience’s key features in one app.

“Additionally, we intend to migrate all remaining GeForce Experience users to the new Nvidia app when it exits beta before the end of the year.”

Building a better app

Previous updates to the app have allowed users to alter their monitor refresh rate, resolution and orientation, which are essential features that have been part of the Nvidia Control Panel app for years. If Nvidia really wants its new app to replace its existing ones, then making sure it offers all of the features its users rely on. The new update adds G-SYNC controls, and, most-interestingly, RTX HDR multi-monitor support.

RTX HDR is a filter that uses AI to bring High Dynamic Range to games that weren’t designed for it, which can have a big impact on visual quality. Using it in a game is seamless; it can be activated just by typing ALT+Z, and its potential is huge: out of Nvidia’s 50 most-played GeForce games, only 12 offer HDR support. Games running on Vulkan, DirectX 9, 11, and 12 will benefit from the enhanced experience on multiple HDR-capable monitors at once.

The app also contains updates introduced based on user feedback. Now you can view system stats and latency info in game and on your desktop, and frame rates from the “heads up display” settings tab. You can also adjust how and which stats are shown, and sort and filter your games and apps, hide programs and remove manually-added programs.

The app update was released on October 1 , 2024. Users will have to install the new app beta update and GeForce Game Ready Driver 565.90 WHQL driver to take advantage of these new features.

User feedback has certainly appeared to have had a positive influence on the app’s development. Nvidia encourages users to continue sending feedback, which they can do via a button at the top right of the app. Meanwhile, features still to come include custom resolutions, surround options and multi-monitor setup.

It’s good to see big companies like Nvidia listening to their customers – as sometimes it can feel like they can forget about us and putting their financial interests first. This is especially important when making big changes to apps many of us use every day. Other companies *cough* Microsoft *cough* would do well to remember this.

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