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I consider having a clean controller necessary to play games well. Over time, controllers get dirty, whether it be from dust, sweat, or tears from playing rough matches or environmental factors that we cannot control.

News spread early Friday that a record-breaking data breach exposed 16 billion passwords to the world, including user credentials for the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple, and tons of other places. Some commentators were quick to call it the largest password leak in history, and in terms of raw records exposed, that’s mostly, technically true. However, these records did not come from a single breach — or even a new breach. Instead, they came from many smaller ones. 

Data breaches are an unfortunate reality in the digital age, and some of the breaches can be quite large. However, not every release of stolen data is the direct result of a recent cybersecurity breach. As Mashable recently reported in our countdown of the top cybersecurity breaches of 2025, hackers will often compile information from multiple prior hacks and combine them into one massive file. This is becoming a trend in the darker corners of the internet. The end result is more of a “greatest hits” rather than a new, noteworthy hack. 

Such is the case here. Per Bleeping Computer, the information contained in the 16 billion records was most likely compiled from a host of prior hacks, compiled, and then released as a single set of data. It was likely circulating for some time before being compiled, and likely came from a combination of breaches, hacks, phishing scams, and malware. 

This is backed up by a tweet from vx-underground, an educational website that specializes in malware and cybersecurity. “Someone took a bunch of existing leaks, threw it all together, and slapped a NEW stick [sic] on it.”

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However, the existence of all this data in one spot is still rather damaging, as cybercriminals now have access to all of this data in a single spot, potentially making it much easier to concoct more effective phishing scams or engage in identity theft. 

The largest single-point data breach in history is still Yahoo’s 2016 breach, when hackers stole data about all three billion of the website’s users. 

Mashable is live at VidCon 2025: Check out our VidCon coverage with your favorite content creators now.

Protecting yourself from password leaks

With so many records in one spot — even if some of them are legacy data that is no longer relevant — it’s still probably a good idea to take an audit of your online services to make sure you’re protected. A good place to start is Have I Been Pwned, a website dedicated to showing data breaches. Simply go there, enter your email address(es), and the site will show you which credentials have been exposed to the public. 

We recommend changing those credentials immediately if you haven’t already, and using a strong password when you do so, as they are more difficult to crack. After that, you’ll want to enable multi-factor authentication on every account you possibly can, as the added layer helps keep criminals from stealing your life if they obtain your password. That should be the bare minimum, but there are plenty of other steps you can take to keep yourself safe online as well.

Have a story to share about a scam or security breach that impacted you? Tell us about it. Email submissions@mashable.com with the subject line "Safety Net" or use this form. Someone from Mashable will get in touch.

Content creation wasn't in the plan for Kali, better known by their online handle FunkyFrogBait.

Growing up a child of YouTube, Kali looked up to creators like Jacksepticeye, dreaming of making videos themselves. But as college and the job market took priority, that dream started to feel more distant, replaced by the pressures of real-world responsibilities.

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Then 2020 hit. With more time spent indoors and the rise of TikTok, Kali — affectionately known as "Funky" by their fans — decided to give content creation a shot. The gamble paid off. Today, Kali boasts millions of followers across platforms: 2.8 million on TikTok, 340K on Instagram, and 2.72 million on YouTube.

At VidCon 2025, we sat down with Kali to talk about their growth as a creator and how they pivoted to full-time once they hit it big.

Once a software engineer, FunkyFrogBait has amassed millions of subscribers on YouTube with their commentary. Credit: Cole Kan/Mashable Composite; Funky Frogbait; Getty Images When did you start creating content?

I started in 2020 'cause I was bored, and TikTok was popping off. I was in this theater group in college, and we were doing a performance of The Oregon Trail, which was super funny. In that group, there was somebody who was scrolling TikTok, and I have a distinct memory of them turning to look at me and being like, "Oh, I think you'd do great on TikTok. You should just make some videos."

And did you start on TikTok?

I started on TikTok. A lot of the stuff that was on my feed was sketch comedy, which I was like, "OK, I've done musical theater. I've done improv in college. This is kind of a convergence of a lot of my interests. This could be fun to do, and it's what I'm already watching." I feel like a lot of people, that's how they decide to make something, there's something they're already naturally gravitating toward.

I moved from random shitposting on TikTok, getting a few thousand views here and there, just using random audios, to writing some skits.

Most of them didn't do well for a while, but then one would pop off, and it was like, OK, what made this one work and not these? I kept following that formula of putting a sketch out and seeing if people liked the characters.

I did this series called "Nursing Homes in 2077." That's actually what I got the most well-known for. It was just a very simple concept: What are we gonna be like when we're in nursing homes one day? What little pieces of brain rot are gonna stay in our brains even after we've forgotten our grandchildren's names? That was the first sketch-comedy thing that I did that really popped off.

When did you migrate to YouTube?

I did that for a while, and it was really fun. Unfortunately, because of the nature of short-form content, and specifically the way that the TikTok algorithm works, it would be so unpredictable.

I would work really hard on a sketch, and it would get a few million views, and I would feel amazing about it. I would feel like this is the direction I need to go. I would do the same thing the next day and get less than 20,000 views. So it was just so up and down in a way that was so unpredictable that it started to get really discouraging. And I found myself posting less and less on there because it was just so much time spent on such a short video that would have very little payoff sometimes.

Then I was like, OK, I did this gaming channel as a little kid, I still like that type of content — let me try that. So I tried migrating my TikTok audience over to the FunkyFrogBeat YouTube channel, which was originally a gaming channel. I was posting myself; I would record myself playing a video game. It was impossible to move a TikTok audience over. TikTok has a very insulated platform.

Anytime you try to push out anything that even hints at presence on other social media, it immediately will lock it down and make sure nobody sees it. And once again, I hit a roadblock of just feeling really discouraged. I had like just this taste of like, "There is interest here, but I can't find it." I can't get this consistent community even though I'm having these little bumps of interest. I can't gather this audience into a single place and get that consistent viewership. And then over time, my personal consumption of the internet changed.

How so?

I spent most of my time watching gaming content. Then, probably around 2022, I started watching a lot of commentary creators—people who get in front of the camera and talk about weird things happening on social media.

I shifted my personal consumption of content, and I was starting to watch a lot more of that. And then one day, I'm scrolling TikTok, and this guy comes across my For You page. It's somebody who has convinced themselves and openly declared that they believe they are the reincarnation of Hitler. It's such an absurd thing that just came across my For You Page.

I'd had this idea of making commentary content for a while, but I didn't think that there was anything I specifically had to add. But then this was just one of those circumstances where it's like, "How is no one talking about this?"

People were reacting to it on TikTok, and they were getting like hundreds of thousands of views, but it hadn't migrated over to YouTube yet. I sit down at my desk, I prop my iPhone — I don't even have a tripod — and just sit and talk at my phone for a little over an hour.

I followed a similar formula to other commentary creators I'd seen, but I also was just like, I'm just talking and being weird and being myself. I'm writing dumb jokes. I'm doing little punchlines, you know? That video immediately got hundreds of thousands of views, which is like jumping from even millions on TikTok to hundreds of thousands on YouTube for a long-form video.

A lot of people who don't make content don't realize that views from different sites mean very different things. It was an immediate thing, and it was so unexpected. I actually almost didn't post the video 'cause I was almost done editing it, and I was talking to my partner at the time, and I was like, "Oh, I don't know, this is kind of stupid." And he convinced me to post it. It was such a cool moment of like, Wow, I'm so glad I did because it was an immediate yes from the universe that I'd been looking for — this is something that really works.

So I'm curious: What is your strategy now?

When I started out in commentary, it was more of a drama-focused angle because that was like a lot of commentary at that time. You're the underdog coming in, you're punching in all directions. You're making fun of people who are way more well-known in the space than you. And you're punching up at them.

But then my platform exploded so quickly that I realized that the dynamic had shifted. I was now, "Oh, here's this asshole with a million subscribers being mean to this person." That was a weird thing for me because in my head, I was still doing the same thing I was before. I had to recognize my position in this space had changed, where I have to be so much more cognizant of the fact that I am a lot more zoomed out now, not putting a magnifying glass on one specific person. Maybe there's a trend that I think is annoying or harmful, and I show you 20 different examples of people doing it rather than one person.

I had a hard time processing that for a while. I was like, "This is unfair. I'm the same person, and I want to be able to approach things the same way that I always have." But it's a two-way street, where it's not just who you are; it's what the platform feeds back into you.

And if the platform says, no, this is where you're at now. You have this level of responsibility, you have this level of influence, and you don't get to say I don't care. You have to recognize the reality of your situation. And personally, I've just felt mentally a lot better with that change. It's been good to be able to have a broader outlook and to feel a lot more proud of the things that I put out, because I do have to now put up things that I've spent a lot more time thinking through and researching, because of that extra responsibility.

Do I miss the days where I could just like punch in all directions and be an asshole? Of course. Because that's fun. That's really fun to do. But, also, I feel like the impact that I get to have now is so much greater, and the amount of good I'm able to do is so much greater. It's ultimately a good trade-off.

You have this great perspective that really gives you empathy when you approach the topic.

It's great to hear. That's what I try to do. I try to have a perspective of tough love. Even if I do have to show a specific example of somebody doing something that they should not be doing, I still try to come from the angle that I have nothing personally against this person.

I try to dig into the reasoning of why they're doing it and add extra context of like, here are the reasons why I think that this has a negative impact. Or maybe this individual person doesn't have that much of an impact, but they're a part of a larger trend that is kind of a problem. I don't wanna talk about somebody just doing something stupid. I wanna talk about a whole movement that I see online that is really concerning. It's a lot harder, but it's more rewarding.

Are you all self-taught on editing?

I've never taken any kind of cinematography or editing class. Everything that I do in that realm is self-taught or involves me begging a friend to say, "Hey, can you explain this to me?" Previously, I edited everything on my own, but this past year and a half, I have had an editor to help.

But my vision for my videos is very specific. Basically, how it works is I will write out my full video and write in the edits exactly how I need them to be. So even if I'm not physically editing, if you see a thing pop up on screen, a gag, or a cutaway, it's probably because I told the editor to do so.

So, I still have a lot of creative control over the editing. And sometimes, I still go back and edit because sometimes my vision is so specific, and for a particular topic, it's impossible to communicate it effectively to another person. I really felt for a long time that incorporating an editor would take away my agency and ownership of the content. But it was just a matter of finding somebody who understood my vision.

Has there been a moment when you realized this was your full-time career now?

That happened shockingly fast after the first commentary video. I had no sense of ad revenue or anything like that. There are a lot of assumptions when you're watching YouTube that every YouTuber is rich. I didn't know what views translated to when it came to income. The analytics take a couple of days to catch up to what you're actually gonna get paid out.

I was starting to do calculations, and I was like, "This is matching my current income at a job that, let's be honest, is significantly harder." If I keep getting this amount of viewership on each of these days, I'm going to start making more than what I'm doing at this job that I went to school for four years to do. I remember looking at the analytics tab and showing my partner, dumbfounded. I had to show another person, because I was like, "Am I crazy?" I've done the math, and this is actually doable.

I was a YouTube kid. I grew up watching all of these YouTubers come into their own, and I idolized that lifestyle so much, but I'd put it aside for college. I'd put it aside for more realistic avenues.

I was a YouTube kid. I grew up watching all of these YouTubers come into their own, and I idolized that lifestyle so much, but I'd put it aside for college. I'd put it aside for more realistic avenues. In fact, I'd honestly shut off a lot of my creative passions completely to pursue this particular career path. I'd completely deadened myself in many ways to the things that really made me feel like myself, and to be able to look at the raw numbers and realize I could do content creation was amazing.

I worked as a software engineer for a telecommunications company. I got my boss in a meeting, and I was like, "They're gonna hate me. They're gonna be so mad at me." And they were actually so chill with it. They were so encouraging. They were like, "That's amazing, and if it doesn't work out for you, you can always come back and work here again. We love you. We really want this to work out for you." It was another yes from the universe — this is the direction, this is the path.

I feel so creatively fulfilled, and I've had so many amazing opportunities. It's been so good to know that this was the right path to take, even if it didn't feel like it at the time. It's a wonderful thing that I'm privileged to be able to do.

Mashable will be live at the Anaheim Convention Center this week, covering VidCon 2025. Check back in the days ahead at Mashable.com, where we’ll be talking to your favorite creators, covering the latest trends, and sharing how creators are growing their followings, their influence, and making a living online.

Affiliate links are a well-known part of the creator economy, especially for creators whose content revolves around unboxing videos, beauty tips, or product reviews. And thanks to YouTube Shopping, this can also be a really lucrative practice for creators.

At VidCon 2025, creators Carter Kench, Christie Xie, and Ben Schlichter spoke about how they use YouTube Shopping to streamline the affiliate process, and how it's seriously paid off. After the first month of using the tool, Xie couldn't believe how much money she made: "It was like  four times the amount that I was usually making, and I was like, did I commit tax fraud?"

SEE ALSO: Here are the highlights from VidCon 2025 this week so far

To become a part of the program, creators need at least 10,000 subscribers and to be a member of the YouTube Partner Program. From there, it's up to the user on how they navigate it. For a helpful place to start, here's what Kench, Xie, and Schlichter had to say.

Timestamps and auto-tagging make a big difference

Kench finds adding timestamps to products, which allows the link to pop up in-video as it's being mentioned, adds a level of ease that can't be matched. The moderator of the panel and head of creator partnerships for YouTube Shopping, Julia Hamilton Trost, chimed in with a stat that supported Kench's feeling, saying that in an experiment, YouTube found that creators using timestamps along with description links saw a 43% increase in clicks over creators who just used description links.

SEE ALSO: VidCon 2025: The latest updates from your favorite creators

Admittedly, tagging products can take some time, which is why Xie relies on YouTube's auto-tagging feature, which automatically detects and links products. She finds it takes care of the bulk of the work for her, and it allows her to go back in and revise the product list as needed.

Authenticity is key

Authenticity is a word that's thrown around a lot with content creation, but when sharing products with your audience, it becomes even more important to practice — it's a fine line between sharing and shilling.

All three creators spoke about the importance of being selective with the products you talk about.

 " I only tag products I actually want to talk about. I really try to keep it very real with my content," Kench said.

The moderator and panelists pose for a photo after dispensing their YouTube Shopping knowledge. Credit: Bethany Allard / Mashable

Xie, a beauty creator, explained her approach, saying, “It’s content first, shopping experience next."

Schlichter, who reviews home appliances, echoed this sentiment, while calling back to a point Xie made about full-basket commissions, which allow creators to receive commission for a viewer's entire basket, even if they only linked out to one product with an affiliate link.

" Even if I give something a negative review, I tear into it and say this stinks. I don't like it, but here's the link for it, just for you to look at it. Because what Christie said earlier, with the full basket commission, they don't have to like that product for me to make money on it," Schlichter said.

It's a strategy that works: " I make more money off of affiliates on YouTube Shopping than I do even AdSense," Schlicher added.

YouTube Shopping data can help you negotiate brand deals

Despite being a popular home appliance reviewer, Schlichter didn't have a brand relationship with Lowe's. However, after seeing how well he did with Lowe's products through YouTube Shopping, he approached a brand rep, saying, " Hey, I'm doing really well for you guys on YouTube shopping. Can we work together in some sort of more creator-based capacity?"

He was able to strike a deal, and he soon became one of the brand's top-earning creators, he said.

"That knowledge is power as a creator," Schilichter told the audience.

Follow the audience data

The creators also stressed the importance of closely examining what resonates with their audience. This data helps guide their brainstorming process when creating content.

"Really watch your YouTube Studio on any insight," Xie said. " For example, for me, a lot of people love lip glosses and lip balms. So, I try to do more lip combo videos. Catering to your audience is very important."

Schilichter chimed in, " Of my top 10 videos, I'm gonna say half of them are from commenters saying, 'Hey, why don't you look into this?'" He added, "When it comes to my shopping videos, 75 percent of the ideas aren’t coming from me anymore.”

Sa Nguyen grew to fame on her TikTok for her mukbang videos, but the Orange County, CA college student has grown her channels far beyond the eating trend. She shoots lifestyle vlogs and content about running, music festivals, her dogs and more.

At VidCon 2025's Meta Night Out, we chatted with Nguyen about all the tech she needs to grow her audience to a whopping 4.3 million followers on TikTok, 263,000 followers on Instagram, and 38,000 subscribers on YouTube.

She told Mashable that she uses her phone when she shoots on TikTok because it gives off a "FaceTime vibe" that her audience loves. She edits directly on the TikTok app or on the Instagram Edits app.

"If I'm filming an Instagram reel, I'll use edits and post it directly from edits," she said, adding that she occasionally uses CapCut, too.

But she doesn't use her phone to shoot all of her content. She also uses her Alix Earle light and the wired headphones from Apple — but when it comes to cameras, she has three go-tos.

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Nguyen uses her Canon PowerShot V10 when she vlogs on the go. She likes that it can stand up by itself at any angle. When she shoots on her Canon, she edits using Final Cut Pro.

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She says she uses the Canon XS740, for instance, when she goes on a vacation and wants to take both pictures and videos. When she shoots on her Canon, she edits using Final Cut Pro.

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When Nguyen just wants to take photos, though, she prefers her Leica D-LUX 8. "It's so, so good for photos," she said. While Nguyen uses the D-LUX for photography, it can also shoot 4K video.

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The popular Mac video editing software is available via the Mac App Store. You can also sign up for a limited free trial.

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The Switch 2 has a number of tricks up its sleeve compared to the original, and one of the most surprising is the ability to convert those new Joy Cons into mice by simply flipping the controller on its side.

I haven't used a PC in a year. Well, almost. There's just one reason I need to have a conventional computer in the house, and that's making sure the other gadgets in my life get their latest software updates.

Whenever I need to kill some time (or distract myself from work), I like a good puzzle game. I've got a couple I'd love to share, but the best part is all these puzzle games can be played from your browser, and on almost any PC or phone.

One of the scariest films of the year, 28 Years Later, used iPhones to film key scenes.

Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland reunite almost 28 years after their groundbreaking 2002 film 28 Days Later, delivering a gloriously horrifying cinematic experience in their latest film.

SEE ALSO: Review: '28 Years Later' is a triumphant return, one of the scariest films of the year

Also returning is cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, whose use of digital camcorders defined 28 Days Later. Here, Boyle and Mantle use a host of cameras, including 20 adapted iPhone 15s, all deployed to capture Boyle's go-to 2.76:1 widescreen aspect. But what effect does this produce in 28 Years Later, and what does it mean for the actors in front of the many lenses?

Mashable entertainment editor Kristy Puchko sat down with Boyle for Mashable's Say More podcast, and UK editor Shannon Connellan spoke to 28 Years Later stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, and Alfie Williams to understand more about making a major horror film using iPhones.

"When someone puts an iPhone very close, it's a bit intrusive. You feel kind of vulnerable, and you can't hide. There's a quality about it that just shows everything, and it meant we had to feel very present in the moment," says Taylor-Johnson. "You got used to it very quickly, and it became such a great environment to work around."

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"Technology’s moved on, and we thought, we’ve got to move on and yet we want to respect that instinct which is to use the ordinary in some way. So it feels like it’s something that’s come from the place that the story is about. And of course, we’ve all got the phones now so we decided to use them," Boyle says.

"They’re lightweight, they now record at 4K, but they allowed us to visit places, remote places, in the UK, with a very light footprint," he adds. "But we used a lot of cameras. We didn’t just use the iPhones… there’s a red sequence in it that’s used this special Panasonic camera, the EU123. We used drones, which use 6K cameras. And we unified everything with a format, with a 2.76:1, which is a widescreen format, which you can do now with all these cameras."

As for teen newcomer Williams, who plays 12-year-old Spike, the experience of making films on iPhone is pretty standard for his generation. "This was normal for me," he says.

28 Years Later is now playing in theaters. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is slated for theatrical release on Jan. 16, 2026.

Microsoft Excel has so many keyboard shortcuts that it can sometimes be difficult to remember the most useful. One of the most overlooked is F9, which gives you more control over formula calculation in your worksheets.

One of the reasons why I haven’t been super excited about Gemini is how many things it lacks compared to the ancient Google Assistant. For a very long time, Assistant has been able to identify songs when you ask it to, which can be a real lifesaver. But with Gemini stepping into the spotlight, that seamless experience vanished, leaving a frustrating void.

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The Kinhank Super Console X2 Pro has thousands of games preloaded, and you might recognize a few. These are retro titles like Street Fighter and Final Fantasy, and it’s only $89.97 (reg. $159.99) to get access to all of them.

70,000+ games plus a surprise

Kinhank Super Console X2 Pro gives you a single, smooth interface to play thousands of modern and old-school titles. You get dual operating systems, with Android 9.0 for streaming apps and EmuELEC 4.5 for emulation, giving you flexibility beyond gaming. You can go straight from trouncing your friend in a 1-on-1 deathmatch to marathoning your favorite show.

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This iOS app transforms your iPhone or iPad into a handy little scanner that works for basically any document type. It's also only A$38 (reg. A$306) for a lifetime subscription. 

No more wasted desk space

Even if you're one of the few with a physical scanner still in your presence, you can now clear some counter space thanks to iScanner. And while you're at it, you can throw away that dusty old filing cabinet, too. 

iScanner is the number one US-based scanning and document management tool, letting you knock items off your to-do list from anywhere. Need to save a receipt for taxes? Do you have a contract you need to digitize? You can scan any document using just the phone on your iOS device. 

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The RTX 5000 series of GPUs was just released this year, and deals on hardware packing the new cards are hard to come by. Not impossible, though. One of HP's best Omen gaming laptops is currently heavily discounted, in case you want to hop on it now.

In 2023, Ollie Forsyth, the founder of New Economies, found that 33 percent of creators used AI. This year? 80 percent of creators use AI.

The creator economy is relatively new, so predicting how it might develop and shift is tricky — but it's also expected to become a nearly $500 billion industry, making accurate forecasts fundamentally important. During Forsyth's talk "Mapping the Modern Creator Economy: Trends, Tensions, and What Comes Next" at VidCon 2025, he argued that the future of the creator economy lies almost entirely in AI.

SEE ALSO: AI adoption has reached 40% among U.S. workers

Every creator is going to have to be AI focused, Forsyth argued, because AI agents will be able to allow creators to be truly flexible and more efficient. It'll help them free up the time they spend on admin, finances, brand partnerships, marketing, and more as startups use AI to solve these problems.

Beyond the flexibility, AI also allows creators to be "global from Day One," Forsyth said. Just look at MrBeast: The creator speaks only English but, thanks to AI dubbing services, has huge audiences in Spain and India while also dubbing his most popular videos in nearly a dozen languages.

More people than ever want to be creators, and more media companies are relying on creators to get the job done — just look at all the creator-led podcasts that interviewed presidential candidates in 2024 in comparison to traditional media outlets.

"It's a great time to be a creator," Forsyth said.

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Movie lovers, if you're looking to revisit the most iconic films from the 1970s, Fandango at Home has the perfect bundle for you.

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Valued at $127.90, the collection includes digital versions of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Exorcist, Every Which Way But Loose, Deliverance, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blazing Saddles, All the President's Men, A Clockwork Orange, Superman: The Movie, and Kelly's Heroes. That means once you spend the $14.99, the movies are yours to own and watch as you please. And that's quite the start to your digital library.

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Each movie in the collection typically costs anywhere from $7.99 to $14.99, for a grand total of $127.90. So, ultimately, you'll save about $112.91 on some of the most iconic films around.

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TL;DR: Live stream British and Irish Lions vs. Argentina for free on TG4, S4C, or RugbyPass TV. Access these free live streams from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The 2025 British and Irish Lions tour only takes place every four years and brings together the best rugby players from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. This year they are touring Australia, with fixtures lined up against Australia's four Super Rugby franchises, an invitational side made up of players from Australia and New Zealand, a team of players with First Nations and Pasifika origin, and a three-match Test series against Australia.

But before all of that, the British and Irish Lions take on Argentina in a crucial warm-up game before setting off Down Under.

If you want to watch British and Irish Lions vs. Argentina for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

When is British and Irish Lions vs. Argentina?

British and Irish Lions vs. Argentina starts at 8 p.m. BST on June 20. This fixture takes place at the Aviva Stadium.

How to watch British and Irish Lions vs. Argentina for free

British and Irish Lions vs. Argentina is available to live stream for free on the following platforms:

• Ireland — TG4

• UK — S4C

• USA — RugbyPass TV

These free live streams are geo-restricted, but anyone from around the world can access these services with a VPN. These tools can hide your digital location and connect you to a secure server in another location. This simple process bypasses geo-restrictions so that you can secure access to free live streams from anywhere in the world.

Live stream British and Irish Lions vs. Argentina from anywhere in the world by following these simple steps:

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3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Ireland, UK, or USA

4. Visit TG4, S4C, or RugbyPass TV

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but most do offer free-trials or money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch British and Irish Lions vs. Argentina without actually spending anything. This clearly isn't a long-term solution, but it does give you enough time to stream this warm-up game before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming sites from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

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ExpressVPN is the best choice for streaming live sport on free services like TG4, S4C, or RugbyPass TV, for a number of reasons:

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Samsung hasn't officially announced its next batch of foldable devices yet, but the day is coming soon, and so are the leaks.

The freshest leaks come courtesy of Android Headlines, which in two separate articles published leaked renders of the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7. These two phones seem to have roughly the same form factors as their predecessors; the Fold is essentially a normal-sized phone that unfolds into a mini-tablet, while the Flip is a normal-sized phone that can collapse into a clamshell instead. The leaked renders show the devices in blue and black colorways, but Android Headlines says more colors will be available when these devices theoretically launch this summer.

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Aside from both devices appearing to be very thin compared to their predecessors (something Samsung actually did already confirm would be the case), the main takeaway here is that the Z Fold 7 has a hole-punch selfie camera, as opposed to an under-display camera like the Z Fold 6 had. It remains to be seen what, if any, effects this will have on photo and video quality, but at the very least, it doesn't look as elegant as what was there before. It's possible Samsung needed to make this compromise to keep the phones thin, though the leaked renders don't make it clear whether or not the Z Flip 7 also has this feature.

On a more positive note, the outside cover display on the Flip 7 seems bigger than the Flip 6's cover screen was. Rumor has it that Samsung will announce these devices sometime this summer, and we will of course keep you updated as soon as we know more.