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Automakers often revive iconic nameplates to tap into nostalgia, bringing back familiar designs with modern updates. But in today’s market, those revivals increasingly come with electrified powertrains rather than traditional engines. One of Jeep’s most recognizable SUVs has returned under exactly those conditions, blending heritage styling with a very different kind of technology under the hood.

If you dig an old smartphone out of a drawer and plug it in, you can usually expect it to power on and be largely how you left it. That's not the case with many older phones, despite how rugged many of us recall them being. Even if they do come on, you may find that many of your fond memories are gone.

Downtime is the enemy of any homelab—mine especially. So, I finally decided to do something about it and made my homelab highly available. I only was able to do that because I already knew about it, so, if you’ve never heard of high availability, here’s why you should know about this unique trick.

SAVE $210: As of March 23, the Dyson V8 Plus is on sale for $329.99 at Amazon. That's a 39% discount on the list price.

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Amazon's Big Spring Sale is just days away and the deals are already looking really strong. Popular products like TVs and robot vacuums are already seeing big discounts. If you're looking for a great deal on a cordless vacuum, the Dyson V8 Plus is discounted by over $200 right now. As of March 23, it's down from $539.99 to $329.99, but only for a limited time.

This model is a great choice if you're looking for a seriously powerful clean. It has a Motorbar cleaner head that's designed to deep clean all floor types and even detangle long hair and pet hair. It gives you up to 40 minutes of full powered suction, with two power modes to choose from: a standard mode for everyday cleaning and a Max mode for more intensive tasks.

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It can easily be converted into a handheld vacuum for cleaning cars, stairs, and upholstery — it's not just designed for floors. It also includes three attachments for different cleaning needs, along with a wall dock and charger, and a hair screw tool with an anti-tangle conical brush bar.

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TL;DR: The 49-inch Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 gaming monitor is down to $799.99 at Amazon, matching the lowest price we’ve seen and saving you $500 on the list price.

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OLED gaming monitors still have a bad habit of costing as much as a full PC build, especially once you get into the giant ultrawide category. That is exactly why this Samsung deal feels worth considering, since Amazon has dropped the Odyssey OLED G9 back under $800 for a limited time.

As of March 23, the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 (G91SD) is available for $799.99 at Amazon, down from $1,299.99. That puts this massive curved display back at the same low price we saw earlier in the year, returning ahead of the Amazon Spring Sale.

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To put its sheer scale down to specifics, you’re getting a 49-inch curved QD-OLED panel with Dual QHD resolution at 5120 x 1440, which is basically the same concept as having two 27-inch QHD monitors side by side without a bezel cutting through the center. That makes it great for playing shooters like Fortnite or MOBAs like League of Legends — with space for monitoring a stream on Twitch or handling other admin tasks.

Samsung also backs that huge screen up with VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400, a 144Hz refresh rate, and a near-instant 0.03ms response time, so it is not just big for the sake of being big. On top of that, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, G-Sync compatibility, Picture-in-Picture multitasking, an ergonomic stand, and a three-year warranty help round out the package.

For an even lower price tag, you can also get the Samsung 27-inch Odyssey OLED G6 series gaming monitor at $200 off on Amazon. From other brands, you can grab the 32-inch 4K LG UltraGear gaming monitor for under $800.

SAVE $300: As of March 23, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 is on sale for $499 at Amazon. That's a 38% discount on the list price.

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Amazon's Big Spring Sale kicks off this week (March 25), but for the eager shoppers among us, there are already some early deals dropping.

The Apple Watch Ultra 2 is down to its best-ever price. As of March 23, this impressive smartwatch is down from $799 to $499, giving you a saving of $300 on list price. This deal is for the 49mm watch that has both cellular and GPS connectivity.

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This watch is truly designed for endurance sports, combining all the great lifestyle features of the Apple Watch with impressive stats for fitness tracking. It can track a range of activities including running, cycling, swimming, hiking, and diving. And for each, you'll get advanced workout metrics like heart rate zones and training load. There's even sport-specific features like running form analysis, cycling metrics with Bluetooth accessory support, and offline maps for hiking.

This watch also features water resistance up to 100 meters, so it'll support swim tracking with stats like stroke detection and lap count. You'll also get dive capabilities, including depth and temperature sensing (we weren't kidding when we said it was advanced).

It also comes with cellular connectivity, so it can handle calls, texts, and even music streaming without needing to have your phone nearby.

Amazon's Big Spring Sale kicks off later this week, but you can find this deal at Amazon right now.

SNL UK kicked off with its first ever episode on Saturday, hosted by SNL veteran Tina Fey herself — but some people, including Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan, had questions about why an American was hosting.

"That is a valid question," says Fey in the monologue above. "Why an American host? And the way it was explained to me was that, for this first episode anyway, how do I put this politely: none of you fuckers would do it."

Coughlan isn't the only audience member to chime in, either. There's also Michael Cera and Graham Norton, with the latter joining Fey on stage to ask her a few cue card questions.

"Let me help you," whispers Norton. "I have a gift for making American celebrities likeable to a British audience."

Elsewhere, you can also watch the first ever cold open mocking UK prime minister Keir Starmer — which was later shared by Donald Trump.

The internet is a vital part of daily life, and you should get the speeds you pay for. This is a quick and easy way to turn a Raspberry Pi into an internet speed monitor so you can be sure you can know for a fact if your ISP is ripping you off.

The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.

With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.

So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections — we have you covered.

SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO: How to play Pips, the newest NYT game

Here are the clues and answers to NYT's The Mini for Monday, March 23, 2026:

AcrossOften-skipped parts of podcasts

• The answer is Ads.

Netherlands city that's home to the International Court of Justice, with "The"

• The answer is Hague.

Stopped sleeping

• The answer is Awoke.

Contents of a bear-shaped bottle

• The answer is Honey.

___ Liu, gold medal-winning figure skater at the 2026 Olympics

• The answer is Alysa.

DownSheer torment

• The answer is Agony.

"The ___ of Hazzard"

• The answer is Dukes.

"Catch you later!"

• The answer is See Ya.

Text reaction button between "👎" and "‼️"

• The answer is Haha.

Nowhere to be found, for short

• The answer is Awol.

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Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today's Strands.

Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to the latest Mini Crossword.

I love making creative projects the old-fashioned way. As a teenager, I played around with Dreamweaver, Quark Xpress, and Flash. In college and at work, I used Adobe InDesign or Microsoft Publisher for most of my projects. For me, a desktop publishing project or a handmade website is a fun journey where I learn things and feel enriched by the experience. The end result matters, but it isn't the entire point of what I do.

SAVE $300: As of March 23, the Apple Watch Series 10 is on sale for $499 at Amazon. That's a 38% discount on the list price.

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Amazon's upcoming Big Spring Sale is a great way to save big on Apple products. And the good news is there's already some impressive early deals showing up, so you don't need to wait until it officially goes live.

The sale kicks off on March 25, but deals like this one on the Apple Watch Series 10 are already impressing. Down from $799 to $499, this smartwatch is currently at its lowest-ever price. This price is for the 42mm watch with both cellular and GPS connectivity, and it comes in the gold titanium case with the gold milanese loop.

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The Apple Watch Series 10 is a perfect all-rounder smartwatch: it's a great fitness tracker, has lifestyle stats, and can even monitor safety. As a fitness tracker, it covers a variety of activities from running to swimming, giving you advanced workout metrics and training load. For swimming, it has added support stats like depth and water temperature.

Safety features are an added bonus, and include Fall Detection, Crash Detection, Emergency SOS, and Check In notifications. And it doesn't end there, this watch also has a whole range of health tracking features, including ECG, blood oxygen monitoring, heart rate notifications, sleep tracking, as well as menstrual cycle tracking.

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SAVE $600: As of March 23, the EcoVacs Deebot X11 robot vacuum is on sale for $899 at Amazon. That's a 40% discount on the list price.

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The Big Spring Sale kicks off at Amazon this week, running from March 25-31. During this week, the retail giant will be dropping huge discounts on all kinds of products, including iPads, drones, and even robot vacuums. But as always, some deals have started to drop early.

The EcoVacs Deebot X11 robot vacuum is down by $600 on list price, two days before the sale officially gets underway. If you're eager to upgrade your floor cleaning, you can find this robot vacuum for just $899 at Amazon, down from $1,499.99. That's the lowest-ever price for this impressive model.]

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This is a robot vacuum you won't regret purchasing. It's a vacuum and mop combo designed to make floor cleaning an absolute breeze. It has an OZMO Roller 2.0 system with TruEdge 3.0 that helps to improve mopping performance and edge coverage alongside BLAST 19,500Pa suction that leaves no dirt behind. It also has built-in anti-tangle brushes to help handle pet hair.

The navigation and movement on this device is next level thanks to the TruePass four-wheel system which allows it to cross thresholds, gaps, and steps with ease. The triple lift system adjusts automatically between wet and dry cleaning by lifting the mop on carpets and raising brushes when needed. AI-powered navigation (LiDAR and AIVI 3D) helps it to learn your floor layouts, so there's never any work for you to do.

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There's a moment in BTS: The Return when the question shifts from finishing the album to defining it.

By that point, BTS already have a body of work, more than a dozen tracks they feel confident in. What they don’t have is a clear sense of what those songs mean together, or what they're meant to say about this next version of the group. This isn't just a comeback; it's a recalibration of what it means to be BTS now, after everything they've already built.

That question carries weight for a reason. Over the past decade, BTS have reshaped the boundaries of global pop, expanding what a Korean group can sound like, where they can reach, and how they can connect. Their legacy isn't hypothetical. It already exists. The challenge is how to move within it.

In a meeting with HYBE executives, that uncertainty is given language. Executive creative director Boyoung Lee frames legacy as something to be actively sustained, while Bang Si-hyuk, the group’s longtime producer and chairman of HYBE, pushes the idea further. He asks the members to consider how they are building toward that legacy as they work, and what it means to evaluate it in the process of making something new. The reference point becomes "Arirang," a traditional Korean folk song rooted in longing and collective memory, a lineage that stretches far beyond the scale of a singular pop album — and one they are now being asked to reinterpret for themselves.

It’s an ambitious proposition. Maybe too ambitious. "Are we really worthy enough to ask ourselves this question?" leader RM wonders aloud, laughing to soften the hesitation underneath.

From that point on, The Return is no longer about completing an album. It's about whether BTS — RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook — can define what they've already become and who they are still becoming.

Credit: Netflix A documentary about process, not performance

Directed by Bao Nguyen, BTS: The Return begins in August 2025, weeks into BTS's two-month stay in Los Angeles, where they have been working to complete their first full-group project in four years. By the time Jin arrives, exhausted after finishing a solo tour the night before, the process is already underway. The members are living together in a rented house, moving between the intimacy of shared domestic space and the iterative, often circular rhythms of the studio.

Nguyen's camera isn't interested in spectacle. It lingers instead on repetition, on the slow accumulation of attempts, revisions, and near-decisions that define creative work. Days pass in cycles: listening to demos, recording vocals, revisiting ideas that never quite settle. There is a looseness to how time is structured, but not to what is at stake.

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On paper, the album is close to finished. In practice, it feels suspended. The members, particularly RM and Suga, aren't entirely satisfied. They have songs in the bank but nothing that feels definitive. What they're stuck on isn't production, but decision-making. What to keep, what to change, and what those choices ultimately say about the group's future.

It's a creative rut, but not an entirely unproductive one. The work continues without settling into anything final. Ideas are tested, revised, and set aside as quickly as they come together. "We're doing a lot of experiments trying to figure out what makes us special and what makes up BTS," RM says.

The urgency never fully disappears. Once they leave the warm glow of Los Angeles, the process shifts to Seoul, where the album will be finalized and locked in. That looming endpoint adds a particular tension to their time in California. It's both a space to experiment — an "amusement park" of ideas, as V describes it — and a countdown. "I want to enjoy making music freely," J-Hope says over dinner with the members, pushing against the feeling of working in something closer to a factory than a studio. But that openness never quite resolves into clarity. As Suga puts it, what's missing isn't effort, but direction. That unifying idea that can hold everything together.

Credit: Netflix What it takes to be understood by everyone

That tension surfaces most clearly in the studio, where the act of making music is stripped of its polish and presented as labor.

Nguyen lets these sequences run longer than expected, resisting the urge to condense them into clean progress. Instead, we sit with the repetition: lines recorded and re-recorded, phrasing adjusted mid-take, producers offering notes that are at once technical and directional. The conversation keeps returning to the same question from different angles — how this album should sound, and who it needs to reach.

At one point, that question is made more explicit. A HYBE executive points to earlier tracks like "On" and "Black Swan," suggesting that, while ambitious, they weren't always easily relatable for broader audiences. The implication is that something more legible is needed. That line of thinking begins to shape the group's direction in real time, nudging them toward a lead single like "Swim," which feels designed to land more instinctively.

Part of that question is also linguistic. At various points, the group is encouraged to think about the album's global accessibility, about how certain lines will land for listeners outside Korea. English becomes part of that equation. The push toward a more global sound isn't abstract. It's articulated directly by an executive from HYBE.

The members don't resist the idea outright, but they do question what it requires. Suga feels like there's already too much English in the lyrics, particularly in the rap verses, while RM returns to the question of authenticity. For this album, he insists, that authenticity matters.

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The camera lingers as they work through English lines that don't quite sit naturally, repeating words, adjusting phrasing, worrying over pronunciation. "This is too hard," Jimin says at one point. V admits the frustration more bluntly: "It's killing me." Even Jin questions the verbosity of the English phrasing, wondering whether all those words can fit into a single lyric.

Time only heightens the pressure. There isn't space to fully settle into the language, to make it feel effortless. In one writing session for "Normal," RM turns to a collaborator for reassurance, asking whether a melody sounds awkward, acknowledging the limits of his own fluency. Even for the member most comfortable navigating that boundary, the process is not instinctive. It has to be worked through, line by line.

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If English expands the music outward, Korean anchors it in something more specific. The space between the two becomes something the group has to actively parse, take by take. What The Return makes clear is that "global" isn't a neutral goal. It's a process of constant adjustment, one that happens in the body as much as in the music.

SEE ALSO: BTS fans, Spotify has a quiz for you Arirang, and the weight of what BTS carry forward

That search for direction begins to take shape in the idea of "Arirang."

The film's most conceptually dense sequence unfolds around the introduction of the popular Korean folk song and the seven young Korean men who first brought it to the United States in 1896. The conversations slow, the tone becomes more deliberate, and the stakes expand beyond the album itself.

The idea originates in a meeting with HYBE's executive creative director, but it follows them back into the studio, where it becomes something they have to actually work through. Bang wants to sample "Arirang" in the album. What is being proposed isn't just a sonic reference, but a framework. It's a way of situating BTS within a longer cultural lineage, one that carries its own expectations and histories. What that looks like, in actuality, is far less resolved than the concept suggests.

The longer they sit with the idea, the less stable it becomes. This is where Pdogg, their trusted in-house producer, comes into focus. He doesn't push the group toward a solution so much as keep them moving through the uncertainty, reframing what might otherwise feel like stagnation. At the end of one long day in the studio, when the conversation has circled without resolution, and the members seem to be slowly losing focus after hours of trying and failing to bring this idea to life, his assessment is simple: "We failed just enough."

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It's a small moment, but it reframes everything that comes before it. The point isn't to arrive at a perfect articulation of "Arirang," or even to resolve what it means for BTS to carry it forward. It's to stay inside the process long enough for something to take shape, even if that shape remains incomplete.

Eventually, "Arirang" is folded into the track "Body To Body." A debate emerges over how much of "Arirang" should be present in the track, whether it should be foregrounded or folded into the production, and how it might be interpreted depending on who is listening. Would using the song be too overt for Korean listeners? They worry it might feel too traditional, too heavy-handed, even uncomfortably patriotic. The hesitation comes from within, from a shared understanding of how "Arirang" functions culturally, and how easily it could tip from meaningful into something that feels imposed.

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At the same time, they are thinking about a global audience that might respond very differently. What risks feeling excessive or overly symbolic to Korean listeners could register as striking or resonant elsewhere. The question isn't just how much of the sample to use, but what that choice signals depending on where it's heard.

In the studio, those tensions play out in real-time. Bang pushes for a more direct use of the "Arirang" sample, at times advocating keeping it uninterrupted, while the members weigh how far they're willing to go. J-Hope, animated in his conviction, argues for what he feels instinctively works, embodying the push and pull that defines these conversations with the label. That tension carries into a later meeting in Seoul, where the members listen to a new version of "Body To Body" with a more prominent "Arirang" sample — noteably, the one that makes the final cut on the album. RM's reaction lands lightly, but pointedly: "It feels like I'm eating kimchi fried rice in Paris Baguette."

The film lingers on these exchanges, offering a rare look at how those decisions are negotiated — the kind of access fans rarely get to see.

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There are technical questions to iron out — tempo, arrangement, placement — but they quickly give way to something more layered. How do you use something this culturally loaded without letting it overwhelm the song? How do you make it feel impactful rather than performative? What emerges isn't a clear answer, but a sharper sense of how differently the same choice can land. What resonates in one context might feel excessive in another. What reads as homage could just as easily be interpreted as obligation.

Intimacy by design

If the studio sequences are defined by pressure, the film's emotional center lies in the spaces Nguyen builds around them.

The decision to introduce handheld camcorders switches the film's visual language in a subtle but meaningful way. Perspective becomes fragmented, subjective. The members are no longer just being observed; they are observing each other and the spaces around them, shaping how their time together is documented. V takes to the camera most naturally, moving through the house with an ease that makes the footage feel less like documentation and more like memory.

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That allows Nguyen to linger on moments that might otherwise be cut: eating samgyeopsal together, pouring drinks, sitting around a table as conversations drift in and out. Outside, they pass time just as loosely — tossing a ball back and forth in the yard, slipping into the pool, moving between activity and stillness without clear structure. In one scene, RM picks up a saxophone and the others singing along without prompting, the moment unfolding without pretense.

These scenes aren't framed as relief from the work, but as part of it. These are the conditions that make the work possible. The time spent together, unstructured and unproductive on its surface, becomes a different kind of creative foundation.

The effect is cumulative. By the time the film moves away from Los Angeles, that shared space feels essential to how BTS function — not just as collaborators, but as something closer to a family.

What remains when they're not trying to define it

That sense of proximity becomes more fragile once the group returns to Seoul.

Nguyen doesn't dramatize the change so much as let it register through contrast in the absence of the collective energy that defined their time in Los Angeles. What once felt continuous now feels dispersed, each member moving through his own space again.

In one of the film's most intimate moments, Jimin sits alone, describing a life that has grown smaller, more contained in the aftermath of fame. The scene is unadorned: a meal, a screen, the low hum of routine. The camera holds on him just long enough for the weight of that admission to settle, not as a revelation, but as something quietly lived. It reframes what came before.

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In retrospect, the Los Angeles sessions begin to feel less like a production period and more like a rare alignment — a stretch of time defined not just by work, but by closeness. By the simple, increasingly uncommon experience of being together in the same place, moving through the same days.

RM gestures toward this in his philosophical reflections on time, drawing a distinction between what can be measured and what can be felt. The steady passage of days gives way, in those shared moments, to something more elastic, shaped by presence rather than schedule.

Nguyen doesn't underline the point. He doesn't need to. It's already embedded in the film's pulse, in what it lingers on, in what it refuses to resolve.

By the time BTS leave Los Angeles, the album remains unfinished. The questions that shaped it are still open. But what the film reveals, almost in spite of itself, is that the time they spent together was never just a means to an end.

It was the thing they were trying to hold onto.

BTS: The Return is streaming on Netflix on March 27.

TL;DR: Unblock porn sites for free with a VPN. The best service for unblocking porn sites is ExpressVPN.

The online world is full of content restrictions and blockades. It might not always seem like that, but look around. More and more restrictions on your movement are coming into force.

Porn naturally comes with a lot of restrictions, but there's really nothing wrong with adults visiting their favorite sites at entirely appropriate moments. When the time is right, you should be able to bypass content restrictions to access sites like XNXX from any network and location. And fortunately, you can do exactly that with a quick and easy hack.

If you want to unblock porn sites like XNXX from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

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VPNs are useful tools that can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to secure servers in other locations. This straightforward process can bypass geo-restrictions to access porn sites like XNXX from anywhere in the world.

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Unblock porn sites like XNXX by following these simple steps:

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The best VPNs for bypassing content restrictions are not free, but leading VPNs do tend to offer free-trial periods or money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can unblock porn sites like XNXX without actually spending anything. This obviously isn't a long-term solution, but it does mean you can retain access to porn sites when temporarily away from a secure network.

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The explicit tube site Pornhub is now blocked in 23 U.S. states.

This is due to age-verification laws. These laws vary state by state, but typically require visitors of a site with over a third of explicit content to submit a government ID or other form of age authentication. Louisiana was the first state to enact such a bill a couple of years ago, and now others have followed suit. In June, the Supreme Court deemed Texas's age-verification law constitutional, setting a precedent for such bills that come before and after.

SEE ALSO: Porn censorship is going to destroy the entire internet

According to one preliminary study, age verification won't work to keep minors off porn sites. This is because of software like VPNs that allow someone to appear to be in a different location, and because of non-compliant websites. (The Florida attorney general is suing foreign-based porn sites for not instituting age verification.) Yet, these laws keep getting passed — and are encroaching on non-explicit websites as well, experts told Mashable.

While Pornhub is not blocked in Louisiana, it is blocked in these states, a Pornhub representative confirmed to Mashable:

• Alabama

• Arizona

• Arkansas

• Florida

• Georgia

• Idaho

• Indiana

• Kansas

• Kentucky

• Mississippi

• Missouri

• Montana

• Nebraska

• North Carolina

• North Dakota

• Oklahoma

• South Carolina

• South Dakota

• Tennessee

• Texas

• Utah

• Virginia

• Wyoming

Pornhub isn't blocked in Ohio despite the state's age-verification law, due to a clause stating that establishing age verification methods doesn't apply to a provider of an interactive computer service (Aylo considers itself one).

In Louisiana, where users must submit ID to view Pornhub, the site has seen traffic decline by around 80 percent, Aylo (Pornhub's parent company) told Mashable.

"These people did not stop looking for porn. They just migrated to darker corners of the internet that don't ask users to verify age, that don't follow the law, that don't take user safety seriously, and that often don't even moderate content. In practice, the laws have just made the internet more dangerous for adults and children," Aylo stated when asked for comment by Mashable back in January.

In a statement to Mashable, Aylo continued:

First, to be clear, Aylo has publicly supported age verification of users for years, but we believe that any law to this effect must preserve user safety and privacy, and must effectively protect children from accessing content intended for adults.

Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions worldwide have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous. Any regulations that require hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information is putting user safety in jeopardy. Moreover, as experience has demonstrated, unless properly enforced, users will simply access non-compliant sites or find other methods of evading these laws.

Industry experts say that, in addition to not working for their intended purpose, age verification laws also raise concerns about privacy protection and safety since websites now have to host (even more of) people's personal information. It will be harder to be anonymous online, which experts warn is dangerous to free speech. Adult industry experts Mashable spoke to in an explainer on age-verification laws advocated for device-level filters, as did Aylo in its statement.

SEE ALSO: YouTube will begin using AI for age verification next week

Some in the adult industry worry about what Trump's second presidential term will bring due to the conservative policy outline Project 2025 and its measures to ban porn. One of Project 2025's authors, Russell Vought, was caught on a secret recording stating that age-verification laws are the "back door" to a broader porn ban.

A quick look at the best Amazon Spring Sale gaming deals: Best Console Deal ASUS ROG Xbox Ally $549.99 (save $50) Shop Now Best Video Game Deal NBA 2K26 (PS5) $19.93 (save $50.06) Shop Now Best Gaming Monitor Deal Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 (G91SD) $799.99 (save $500) Shop Now Best Gaming Mouse Deal Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse $26.99 (save $23) Shop Now

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale has not officially started just yet, but there are still plenty of early gaming deals stacking up across for PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. Whether you’re shopping for a new handheld console, a discounted game, or an upgrade for your setup, Amazon has started rolling out price cuts well before the main event gets underway.

Alongside our roundups of Lego deals, TV deals, and Pokémon deals, here are the best gaming offers you can find on-site right now.

Best gaming console deal Opens in a new window Credit: ASUS ASUS ROG Xbox Ally $549.99 at Amazon
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Handheld gaming PCs are still far from cheap, but Amazon has already shaved something off one of the newer Xbox-branded options. The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally is down to $549.99 from $599.99, which knocks $50 off the list price.

That’s the best price we've seen for this system so far (confirmed with price tracker camelcamelcamel), so this is an impressive price cut on a portable system that blends Xbox branding with the flexibility of a Windows handheld. You're getting a 7-inch 1080p 120Hz touchscreen, AMD Ryzen Z2 A processor, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and a three-month Xbox Game Pass Premium subscription bundled in.

This handheld model supports Xbox Game Pass, but you can also run games on Steam, Epic Games, and other Windows titles. That gives it a lot more versatility than a locked-down console-style device.

Best video game deal Opens in a new window Credit: 2K NBA 2K26 (PS5) $19.93 at Amazon
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As for cheaper games, though, NBA 2K26 is down to just $19.93 from $69.99 on PS5 — its lowest price ever, as confirmed with camelcamelcamel, as well. That’s 72% off the full game that includes ProPLAY-enhanced gameplay, MyCAREER, MyTEAM, and MyNBA modes, giving basketball fans plenty to dig into whether they mostly play solo or jump online with friends.

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PlayStation games

• Sonic Superstars — $12.60 $29.99 (save $17.39)

• Sonic X Shadow Generations — $19.49 $49.99 (save $30.50)

• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Exclusive Amazon Edition — $24.99 $49.99 (save $25)

• Elden Ring — $26.68 $49.99 (save $23.31)

• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Tactical Edition — $35.57 $49.99 (save $14.42)

Nintendo Switch games

• Stray — $25 $39.99 (save $14.99)

• Pokémon Shining Pearl — $47.99 $59.99 (save $12)

• Pokémon Sword — $51.25 $59.99 (save $8.74)

• Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!) — $51.90 $59.99 (save $8.09)

• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate US Version — $52.91 $59.99 (save $7.08)

• Super Mario Bros.™ Wonder — $53.99 $59.99 (save $6)

• Pokémon Legends: Z-A — $54.49 $59.99 (save $5.50)

• Pokémon Sword and Shield Edition — $225.37 $419.99 (save $194.62)

Nintendo Switch 2 games

• NBA 2K26 — $19.99 $29.99 (save $10)

• Sonic X Shadow Generations — $24.99 $49.99 (save $25)

• Dragon Quest VII Reimagined — $49.99 $59.99 (save $10)

Xbox games

• NBA 2K26 — $19.99 $29.99 (save $10)

• SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide — $19.99 $39.99 (save $20)

• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Tactical Edition — $32.90 $49.99 (save $17.09)

Gaming mice

• Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse — $26.99 $49.99 (save $23)

• Logitech G502 Hero High Performance Wired Gaming Mouse — $35.99 $69.99 (save $34)

Gaming headsets

• SteelSeries Arctis Nova 1 Multi-System Gaming Headset — $36.49 $59.99 (save $24.50)

• HyperX Cloud III Wired Gaming Headset (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S) — $64.99 $99.99 (save $35)

Gaming monitors

• Samsung 27-inch Odyssey OLED G5 (G50SF) — $429.99 $549.99 (save $120)

• Samsung -37-inch Odyssey G7 (G75F) — $599.99 $899.99 (save $300)

The best Amazon Spring Sale Pokémon deals at a glance: Best Mega Charizard deal Pokémon TCG Mega Charizard X ex Ultra-Premium Collection $196.97 (save $53.02) Shop Now Best Preorder Deal Pokémon TCG First Partner Illustration Collection Series 1 $64.75 Shop Now Best Collector Chest Deal Pokémon TCG Collector Chest Fall 2025 $47.30 (save $10.69) Shop Now Best Mega Evolution Deal Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes 2-Pack Blister $28.45 (save $1.50) Shop Now Best Perfect Order Deal Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order Booster Display Box $249.95 (save $30.04) Shop Now Best Elite Trainer Box Deal Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution Perfect Order Elite Trainer Box $104.95 Shop Now Best tin deal Pokémon TCG: Mega Charizard X Tin $35.34 (save $2.59) Shop Now

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale has not officially started yet, but Pokémon shoppers already have a few worthwhile deals to browse before the event kicks off for real.

Amazon has early discounts and preorder price cuts live across a wide range of categories — gaming deals, TV deals, Lego deals, and much more — making this a good time to shop if your wishlist includes sealed TCG products, collector boxes, or a couple of first-party Pokémon titles.

Best Pokémon Elite Trainer Box deal Opens in a new window Credit: The Pokémon Company Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution Perfect Order Elite Trainer Box $104.95 at Amazon
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With Pokémon TCG's Perfect Order expansion finally out this week on March 27, we're at the turning point where pre-launch ETBs will start going well above $100 upon release — making this the best time to grab the Perfect Order Elite Trainer Box for under $100.

Soon after, we predict the Perfect Order ETB will follow the market's usual trend (like other Pokemon ETBs on Amazon), going well above the $110 mark as availability starts to drop. Now is the best time to jump in before that happens.

The Perfect Order Elite Trainer Box includes nine Perfect Order booster packs, a full-art foil Tyrunt promo card, 65 sleeves, 40 Energy cards, a player’s guide, dice, a coin, a collector’s box, six dividers, and a code card for Pokémon TCG Live.

Best Pokémon collection deal Opens in a new window Credit: The Pokémon Company Pokémon TCG Mega Charizard X ex Ultra-Premium Collection $196.97 at Amazon
$249.99 Save $53.02   Get Deal

The Pokémon TCG Mega Charizard X ex Ultra-Premium Collection is one of the best early Pokémon deals already live ahead of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale — down to $196.97 from $249.99, saving you $53.02 on a premium collector box with tons of packs and extra collectibles. It's now only $11 above TCGplayer's market price value of $185.

This set includes 18 booster packs,, foil promo cards of Mega Charizard X ex and Oricorio ex, plus sleeves, a playmat, deck box, metal coin, dice, and a code card for Pokémon TCG Live. That makes it more of a centerpiece purchase than a casual pickup, but for collectors or Charizard fans, it is one of the more eye-catching early deals live right now.

You'll get four packs of Phantasmal Flames, four Mega Evolution, four Destined Rivals, four Journey Together, and two Surging Sparks with this limited-time offer.

Best Pokémon Booster Pack deal Opens in a new window Credit: The Pokémon Company Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order Booster Display Box $249.95 at Amazon
$279.99 Save $30.04   Pre-order Here

With a new price cut of over $30, pre-ordering the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order Booster Display Box (36 booster packs) for $249.95 means you're only paying roughly $6.94 per booster pack; that's almost $5 off compared to buying Perfect Order boosters individually.

So unlike an Elite Trainer Box, you are not getting sleeves, dice, or storage extras. This is more of a straight pack-heavy buy for collectors who want to open a full box at once or chase cards from the new Perfect Order expansion without paying for the added accessories.

Best Pokémon preorder deal Opens in a new window Credit: The Pokémon Company Pokémon TCG: First Partner Illustration Collection Series 1 $64.75 at Amazon
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The second option is less of a markdown and more of a strategic preorder for anyone trying to get ahead of the rush. The Pokémon TCG: First Partner Illustration Collection Series 1 is available to preorder for $64.75 and is set to release on March 20. 

This set, along with a booster pack each of Phantasmal Flames and Mega Evolution, includes one booster pack containing three of nine illustration rare-style promo cards themed around first partner Pokémon from the Kanto, Sinnoh, or Alola regions, plus a sticker sheet. 

Currently, this sits over $10 above its market price on TCGplayer, but Amazon's listing is still cheaper than most listings when shipping costs are considered. Because this is a limited collection, we expect the value of the First Partner Illustration Collection to go way up once there’s less availability after its release date. 

More Pokémon deals

• Pokémon Twilight Masquerade Sleeved Booster Pack — $8.87 $11.90 (save $3.03)

• Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Obsidian Flames Booster Pack — $14.43 $15.99 (save $1.56)

• Pokémon TCG Scarlet & Violet Prismatic Evolutions Booster Pack — $17.99 $18.99 (save $1)

• Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution: Ascended Heroes: 2-Pack Blister (Random Promo) — $28.45 $29.95 (save $1.50)

• Pokémon TCG Pokémon Day 2026 Collection — $34.45 $36.94 (save $2.49)

• Pokémon TCG Mega Charizard Y Tin — $40.92 $47.95 (save $7.03)

• Pokémon Shining Pearl (Nintendo Switch) — $47.99 $59.99 (save $12)

• Pokémon Sword (Nintendo Switch) — $51.25 $59.99 (save $8.74)

• Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (Nintendo Switch) — $51.90 $59.99 (save $8.09)

• Pokémon Legends: Z-A (Nintendo Switch) — $54.49 $59.99 (save $5.50)

• Pokémon TCG Mega Venusaur ex Premium Collection Box — $59.99 $74.49 (save $14.50) 

• Pokémon TCG Scarlet & Violet: Journey Together (8 Booster Pack Lot) — $64.45 $69.95 (save $5.50)

• Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes Premium Poster Collection Mega Lucario — $133.93 $159.99 (save $26.06)

• Pokémon Sword and Shield Edition (Nintendo Switch Lite) — $225.37 $419.99 (save $194.62)

• Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order Booster Display Box — $249.95 $279.99 (save $30.04)

• Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution: Ascended Heroes Mini Tin Display — $249.95 $349.99 (save $100.04)

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The world of porn continues to be impacted by age-verification laws. Back in early 2025, more than a third of U.S. states introduced age verification laws for online adult content. Pornhub hit back by blocking users from those locations. A similar situation took place France and the UK, and now Australians are facing the same set of challenges.

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FREE BOOKS: The latest Stuff Your Kindle Day takes place on March 20-23. Stuff with Fantasy is offering free fantasy books from a number of sub-genres for your e-reader.

Stuff Your Kindle Day likes to keep everyone guessing. We can go weeks without anything, and then the schedule gets wild without warning. We're in a wild phase, which is good and bad news for bookworms. The good news is that you can stock up on new reads without spending anything. The bad news is that you need to get your head out of a book and prepare your wishlist.

Stuff with Fantasy is the latest event to go live, offering participants the chance to download fantasy books without spending anything. Everything that you download is yours to keep forever, so there really is no need to hold back. This is your opportunity to stock up on fantasy reads so you're covered through the spring and summer.

SEE ALSO: I tested the best Kindles to help you find the perfect e-reader

Looking to make the most of the latest Stuff Your Kindle Day? We've lined up everything you need to know about this popular event.

When is Stuff Your Kindle Day?

Stuff with Fantasy takes place on March 20-23. That's a long weekend of free reading. Does it get any better than that?

A lot of Stuff Your Kindle Days only last 24 hours, so this is a refreshing change of pace. There's no need to panic this with fantasy giveaway. You can assess your options, make a wishlist, and then add to your ever-growing virtual pile of books. That's your weekend plans sorted.

Which ebooks are free?

Stuff with Fantasy offers free fantasy books from a number of sub-genres. There's a hub page with 100s of free books listed out, with helpful filters for Age Category, Spice Levels, Representations, Tropes, Subgenres, and Language Level. Narrow down your search and find exactly what you want to read, without spending anything.

Anyone can participate in this event: Kindle and Kobo readers can download these romance books for free.

Is Stuff Your Kindle Day the same as Amazon Kindle Unlimited?

Everything you download on Stuff Your Kindle Day is yours to keep, and there's no limit on the number of books you can download (we're seeing close to 200 free books in this latest giveaway). Stuff Your Kindle Day downloads don't count towards the 20 books that Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscribers can borrow at the same time, so don't hold back.

The best Stuff Your Kindle Day deal Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Kindle (16GB) + Kindle Unlimited (3 Months) $109.99 at Amazon
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These popular e-readers let you take your entire library on the go. With weeks of battery life and an anti-glare display, you can read anywhere and anytime with the Kindle. Plus, you can get three months of Kindle Unlimited for free with your purchase for a limited time. We're hoping to see price reductions over Amazon's Big Spring Sale, but there's no guarantee of anything.