🎛️ ChatGPT’s got apps: You can summon Spotify, Zillow or Canva inside ChatGPT, no tab-hopping required. Make playlists, design posts or house-hunt mid-convo. Expedia, DoorDash and Uber are next. It’s all fun and games until $1,000 worth of Taco Bell shows up at your door. Update is rolling out now. 
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Discord hacked: Ever reach out to Discord support? One of their customer service vendors got hacked, leaking names, emails, billing info and even some ID and passport scans. The main app’s safe, but the help desk not so much. The hacker even tried to ransom the stolen data. Discord says the main platform and passwords are safe. So a reminder: Even when you trust the service, the companies they work with can still put your data at risk.
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⚡️ 3-second tech genius: Stepping away from your desk? On Windows, press the Windows key + L to lock your screen without closing apps. On Mac, press Control + Command + Q to do the same.
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Time’s almost up, so don’t miss these steals before they vanish at midnight.

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☕ Coffee machine descaler (41% off): A few ounces of this, and your morning cup will brew (and taste) like new.

Pro tip: Use code PACIFICA10 to snag an extra 10% off these beauty essentials.

🎁 More deals, less scrolling: ICYMI, I’ve got 20 more handpicked finds waiting for you. And click here to check out the rest before prices bounce back. 
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🧡 Taylor’s bad blood with AI bots: After the pop star hyped an elaborate “orange door” puzzle in her Life of a Showgirl release, Swifties learned the visuals were AI-generated and not handcrafted clues. Now she’s down a million Instagram followers and up a million think pieces on “authenticity.” Don’t be sad. The Life of a Showgirl has already sold over 3 million copies in the U.S. In just the first two days, its songs racked up more than 300 million official on-demand streams and counting. I think she’s gonna be OK.
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Picture this: It’s 2013. A guy named James Howells from Newport, Wales, is cleaning up his office and accidentally throws out an old hard drive. No big deal, right?

Wrong.

Stored on that hard drive were the digital keys to 8,000 Bitcoins. Back then, Bitcoin was worth around $130 each, a solid chunk of change. But today? One Bitcoin is worth about $122,000, which means James accidentally trashed almost $1 billion. With a “B.”

🗑️ It all went to waste

James’ Bitcoin passkey is buried somewhere under 110,000 tons of garbage in the city dump. For more than a decade, he’s begged officials to let him search. 

He offered to foot the entire bill, buy the landfill, use high-tech, robot-assisted excavation tools and split the recovered Bitcoin with the city. He even lined up investors and engineers. But the city said no. Again and again. Too messy, too expensive, too risky.

So now, he’s doing something completely wild.

🪙 Trying to create interest

James just launched a new cryptocurrency called Ceiniog Coin (that’s “penny” in Welsh). 

Here’s how it works: The 8,000 Bitcoins James lost are still technically tied to his crypto wallet. They’re frozen in time. No one can access them without the key on that hard drive. 

So James is offering Ceiniog as a kind of tribute meme coin, tied to the legend of the missing landfill billion. Buyers of the coin are essentially investing in his story.

🦄 Dump and dumpster

Think of it like this. A kid loses a super rare Pokémon card, but he somehow believes it’s still part of his collection. Then he makes new Pokémon cards based on that one and sells them to anyone who believes the card is real. That’s Ceiniog in a nutshell.

Do I think it’s a solid investment? Nope. Unless that hard drive rises from the landfill like a phoenix, it’s a clever marketing stunt. If you see it advertised online, pass. 

At the very least, this story is proof you should always double-check the trash before you take it to the curb. I’m investing in stocks. Beef, chicken and vegetables. I hope to become a bouillonaire. I think it’s a souper idea. (Sorry about all that.)
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