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If you need to convert or extract parts of a PDF, you might think you need to pay for Adobe Acrobat or use some shady web app. If you're willing to use the command line, either in Linux, macOS, or Windows Subsystem for Linux, you can manage your PDFs for free.

On Bumble, the app that started with the ethos of "women making the first move," men will now be able to message first, according to the company's latest earnings call.

"Now, for the first time on Bumble, by default, anyone will be able to send only one single opening message, and the conversation does not progress until the recipient responds," Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said on yesterday's earnings call for Q2 2026.

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Wolfe Herd founded Bumble in 2014 as the feminist response to Tinder, of which she was also a part of the founding team. Originally, in heterosexual matches, only women could message first. But the app has been trending away from that for some time, as two years ago it launched "Opening Moves," a way for men to technically message first by responding to a prompt on a woman's profile. (The app has since sunset Opening Moves in Australia and Mexico, though.)

Additionally, Bumble is also extending the time limit to respond to the first message, from 24 to 72 hours. "We are also addressing another major complaint that existed from our members," Wolfe Herd said.

In tests, Bumble users saw increases in chat initiations and mutual chat rates. The new rules will roll out globally by the end of this month, Wolfe Herd said.

Both real-life and AI on Bumble

Wolfe Herd also announced that Bumble will be leaning more into real-life experiences. "I am a firm believer that the future of meeting people in groups will become more important," she said, and confirmed that Plans, a rumored event-curation feature, is coming as a standalone app.

At the same time, Bumble is planning to integrate AI more. As Mashable reported in May, Bumble is getting rid of the swipe, but Wolfe Herd clarified yesterday that the app's upcoming AI dating assistant, Bee, isn't replacing it.

"Let me be clear: Bee is not replacing the swipe. We are not aiming for an AI-driven experience. Bee is simply the intelligence under the hood," she said.

"What will replace the swipe, I will be keeping under wraps a bit longer for competitive purposes," she said. "But it is designed to generate more immediate interactions, and most importantly, better outcomes, mimicking real life and eliminating the friction and delay that exists in current dating app models." Early feedback has been positive for Gen Z and millennial women and men, she continued.

Bee will apparently have an important role in how the new Bumble experience will be delivered, "but never degrading the human-first approach that we will always adhere to," according to Wolfe Herd.

Even more changes coming to Bumble

When Wolfe Herd first announced Bee in March 2026, she said that the app was developing a new tech stack (the set of technologies that build an app), with a targeted launch of the second quarter of this year. But yesterday, she said that due to a data migration delay, it's been delayed. New features, like profile and onboarding updates and more compelling ways to meet people IRL, are coming in early 2027, she said.

She also said that the app will also make the free experience more compelling, like offering limited access to "Like You," a usually-paid feature where users can see who's already liked them.

The app is re-architecting subscriptions to be simpler, and is planning on releasing a higher subscription tier designed for "mutual serious intent."

This news comes as Bumble's total revenue and paying users continued to decline in Q2 (15.2 percent and 16.4 percent, respectively, compared to Q2 of 2025). In June, Reuters reported that Bumble is considering a sale. Its announcement that it's killing the swipe upset some users, and it remains to be seen how they will react to all of these additional changes.

There’s no shortage of officially supported Android Auto apps available on the Play Store. You can find everything from navigation and music players to podcast apps and even a few games. But the simple truth is that Google still puts heavy restrictions on what apps can do inside Android Auto.

Back in the day, I used to loathe the custom skins and apps that Android phone makers added to their phones. Android's vendor-neutral default apps have since been replaced by Google apps, and the tech giant has used its dominance to fill our Android devices with far more pre-installed software than any other company.

Most people treat USB ports as background infrastructure. You plug things in, they work, and you don't think about them until something stops showing up in File Explorer. I assumed desktop PCs were basically immune to the problems I'd seen on laptops, where I'd already burned out ports by pulling too much power through them. However, the limits are real; they just fail in quieter and stranger ways than I expected.

SAVE UP TO $180: The 13-inch M5 MacBook Air (16GB/512GB) is on sale for $1,134 at Amazon, down from the normal price of $1,299. The 13-inch M5 MacBook Air (16GB/1TB) is on sale for $1,419, down from the normal price of $1,599.

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Tech prices are on the rise, not that we need to say that out loud anymore. In June, Apple raised prices and now we have to figure out how to navigate life with more expensive MacBooks and iPads (sigh). In a rare move, Amazon is offering us some relief today. Check out these sale prices.

As of Aug. 6, the 13-inch M5 MacBook Air (16GB/512GB) is on sale for $1,134 at Amazon, down from the normal price of $1,299. The 13-inch M5 MacBook Air (16GB/1TB) is on sale for $1,419, down from the normal price of $1,599. In total, you'll save $180 with the 1TB model or $165 with the 512GB model.

As much as we hate to see price hikes, we've come to rely on the tech so much that we're simply paying the new price. But thanks to these Amazon MacBook deals, we're getting a break. The timing couldn't be better as we're looking straight at back-to-school season.

SEE ALSO: The Apple Watch Series 11 just hit a rare $100 price drop on Amazon

Mashable Tech Editor Timothy Beck Werth's review of the 2026 M5 MacBook Air praises its premium design, speakers, display, and the upgrade to the M5 chip. On top of those highlights, the MacBook Air is incredibly travel-friendly, weighing just 2.7 pounds and measuring 0.44 inches thick.

If you're considering the upgrade but were turned off by the price hike earlier this summer, hop on this deal to save up to $180 on the M5 MacBook Air. Since we haven't seen sales this good since the price increase, it's probably wise to shop sooner rather than put it off.

We love the Raspberry Pi here at How-To Geek. For many of our writers, past and present, the Raspberry Pi was a revolution in small-format, affordable Linux computing. That’s why it pains me to recommend against buying one at the moment.

Stop us if you've heard this one before: This week, Meta confirmed that one of its AI models escaped containment and hacked a third-party.

As first reported by The Information, Meta's Muse Spark apparently breached another company's system in a cybersecurity test. After The Information's report, Meta confirmed the story to multiple outlets. It's the latest in a string of incidents where AI models went hack happy during testing.

In a statement to CNN, Meta pinned the blame on a testing partner, who it said was supposed to be evaluating the model in a secure sandbox environment: "A misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation,” the Meta spokesperson said."

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Interestingly, when Anthropic reported earlier this week that its models had escaped containment and breached outside organizations on three occasions, it also blamed Irregular for the mix-up.

In a blog post, Anthropic revealed that it "identified three incidents in which a model accessed the internet from within or while interacting with the evaluation environment of Irregular," which it identified as "one of our third-party evaluation partners."

As we've noted before, when AI companies warn about the world-changing risks of their technology, they're fundamentally engaged in marketing. (Don't make me tap my sign.)

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When OpenAI revealed recently that its models had escaped containment and hacked the Hugging Face AI repository, the company generated a ton of headlines about the power of its new models. So, while these disclosures are responsible and necessary, don't forget that they also serve the self-interests of the AI companies themselves.

Coincidentally, as the news spread that Meta Muse Spark had broken out of a sandbox and hacked another organization, Meta also announced the launch of Muse Spark 1.2.

Despite a massive spending spree on AI talent, Meta has so far lagged behind the top AI companies, though it has gained ground with its new Muse Spark family of models.

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Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

Google Wallet users can now manage money for their kids, with a new expansion that lets parents set up balances and monitor purchases for supervised accounts.

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The tool allows account managers to transfer funds, set up purchase notifications, and set daily spending limits for minor tap-to-pay Wallet accounts connected to their profiles. Parents can also completely lock down payment options for lost or stolen devices or to enact "spending timeouts," Google explains.

Kid and teen users can tap to pay using Android and Wear OS devices anywhere Google Pay is accepted.

Built with additional safeguards, the new Google Wallet option works alongside parental controls already integrated into Google's Family Link, which includes restrictions intended to reduce kids' screen time. The company recently rolled out these features to all Android devices after first launching them in 2025.

The company has been launching a series of upgrades and expansions to Google Wallet over the last month, as well, including on-screen flight updates for linked boarding passes. Last month, Google added live delivery tracking to Wallet, which pulls order information, tracking numbers, and shipping statuses from devices' Gmail accounts.

Ford is finally ready to share tangible details of its affordable electric pickup truck. The automaker has revealed that the EV will carry the Fathom name and a starting price of $28,350 when equipped with a "standard-range" battery.

SAVE $70.05: The Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD (1,024GB) is on sale at Amazon for $239.95, down from the list price of $319. That's a 23% discount and the lowest price we've seen in the last three months.

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RAMageddon has been here for a while, unfortunately. That's bad news for all of us, but especially painful for content creators, gamers, and artists, to name a few. If you've been trucking along with constant low-memory warnings, this Amazon deal might be a solution.

As of Aug. 6, the Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD (1,024GB) is on sale at Amazon for $239.95, marked down from the list price of $310. That's a 23% discount, which works out to savings of $70.05. It's the lowest price we've seen within the last three months.

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For those in the market for high-powered performance, Kingston aims to impress with the Fury Renegade G5 Pcle. It uses the latest Gen 5x4 performance and boasts read speeds up to 14,800 MB/s. Write speeds can reach up to 14,000 MB/s. These stats put the SSD in line for a great experience with game and app load times. At the same time, it's designed to stay cool.

Since the Kingston Fury Renegade has a compact M.2 2280 form factor, it should fit nicely in most motherboards. Kingston also says it's backward compatible with Gen3 and Gen4 systems.

Since memory storage isn't expected to improve soon, snagging an upgrade today might put you in line for the best price we'll see until things calm down. If the Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD (1,024GB) meets your needs, it's on sale on Amazon for a nice 23% discount.

We've all been there: you're in the middle of a winning streak in a game and your ping spikes, or you're on a video chat and suddenly your image freezes without warning. Maybe a download is inexplicably slow despite other devices on the network functioning fine.

SAVE $138: As of Aug. 6, new NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers can lock in an eight-month streaming subscription for just $30 per month instead of the usual $47.25. That's just $240 for eight months and $138 in savings.

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It's tough being a fan of a non-local team in any sport. But supporting a non-local NFL team is excruciating. The only legitimate and legal way you can watch every out-of-market game live on Sundays this football season is with NFL Sunday Ticket. And it's pretty dang expensive.

Fortunately, if you have yet to pull the trigger, you can lock in your NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for the season for just $30 per month instead of the usual $47.25 per month. That adds up to $240 for the eight-month season (reg. $378), which saves you $138.

Yes, there are plenty of bootleg broadcasts floating around the internet, but we can't recommend those in good conscience. Plus, a lot of the time, they're shoddy at best. An NFL Sunday Ticket subscription will ensure you can watch your favorite team every Sunday. No scouring Reddit for sketchy bootleg links necessary.

The league's own premium sports package, NFL Sunday Ticket essentially broadcasts NFL regular season games that are blacked out on your local channels. For instance, Ravens games are blacked out for me in Nashville, Tenn., in favor of the Titans broadcast. Sunday Ticket allows me to watch the Ravens every Sunday.

You can get NFL Sunday Ticket as an individual channel on YouTube or as an add-on to YouTube TV. Either way, for a limited time, you'll only pay $30 per month if you're new to the streamer.

SAVE $1,169.99: As of Aug. 6, get the Dream L60 Ultra robot vacuum for $1,169.99, saving you $130 off its list price. Act fast to score 10% off this combo robot vacuum and mop at Amazon.

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In the summer, it's shocking how much gathers on our floors. Dirt, sand, and grass from all the outdoor adventures. Not to mention all the pet hair from summer shedding. If you're sick of bringing out the vacuum and mop multiple times a week, it's time to outsource your cleaning. And no, I'm not talking about hiring a cleaner — you need a robot vacuum.

A robot vacuum, especially one that's also a combo mop, will quickly become your favorite appliance because it cleans and you don't have to lift a finger. One of our favorites comes from Dreame. Mashable contributor Tabitha Britt has sung the praises of the Dreame L60 Pro Ultra, and right now the L60 Ultra is on sale.

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As of Aug. 6, get the Dreame L60 Ultra robot vacuum for $1,169.99. That saves you $130 off its $1,299.99 list price. This isn't the lowest price ever on the combo robot vacuum and mop, but until the next Prime Day, we're jumping on this extra 10% off.

Mashable's robot vacuum expert Leah Stodart gave Dreame our highest honor, naming the X60 Max Ultra the best robot vacuum of 2026. The currently on sale L60 Ultra is an equally great model with advanced obstacle monitoring, with AI-enhanced 3D vision that detects objects and maps your home. The PowerDock, your robot vacuum's home base, charges your vacuum and is where it self-empties and washes its mop pads. Plus, for thorough sanitization, it heats the mop water to 100 degrees Celsius.

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Elon Musk's Wikipedia clone is not doing a great job of imitating Wikipedia these days.

Grokipedia launched late last year as an AI-written alternative to the popular crowdsourced encyclopedia, which Musk called Wokipedia" on X. Evidently, the AI-generated resource hasn't been updated since April of this year, according to an investigation published by Lawfare this week. According to Lawfare, not a single entry on Grokipedia has been updated in more than three months, and every user-submitted edit request has been sitting in a dead-end queue since earlier this year.

SEE ALSO: Elon Musk claims Grok will make 'historically accurate' AI 'Odyssey' adaptation this year

Lawfare's reporters said they assumed Grokipedia was simply blocking edits to sensitive pages. So, Lawfare tried submitting an uncontroversial factual edit to the SpaceX page (that the company had gone public recently) and not only did the update never happen, but other visible requests from users for the same exact edit have been sitting in the queue since the company went public on June 12.

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The site's investigation revealed that neither "popular nor unpopular pages seemed to be updating." What's more, Lawfare found that the "same pattern holds across topics and traffic levels," which points to a broader problem.

This is strange because, as Lawfare pointed out, edits used to happen very quickly on Grokipedia, previously in a matter of minutes in some cases. It doesn't seem at all like intended behavior for the site to simply stop editing pages for months at a time. That puts it at a distinct disadvantage compared to something like Wikipedia, which is updated daily to reflect current events as needed.

Though, considering Grokipedia has a history of copying directly from Wikipedia or sourcing white supremacist websites, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

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Are you ready for another slew of homelab projects to try out this weekend? Well, you're in luck, because I have some nifty things to try out, including my favorite project of the weekend—creating a custom TV channel for your home based on your Plex media server.

For months, video game enjoyers have been wondering when we'd actually get to see some real gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto VI prior to its release in November. It seems like the answer is "very soon," but the choice of venue is a little unusual.

Rockstar Games announced on X on Thursday morning that "an extended look" at GTA VI will air on Aug. 27 on Netflix, at 3 p.m. ET. If you can't or don't want to watch it on Netflix, the same footage will appear on Rockstar's YouTube channel at 9 p.m. ET that night. The Netflix website also states, "Coming August 27: See an extended look at Grand Theft Auto VI, the next evolution in the groundbreaking Grand Theft Auto series.

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Fans have been speculating for months about when the next GTA VI trailer will finally see the light of day. Interestingly, neither Rockstar Games nor Netflix actually uses the word trailer, so it's unclear what form this "extended look" will take.

Likewise, Rockstar's post didn't include any new footage or even a clear description of what we'll see, but it's easy enough to make an educated guess. The game is out on Nov. 19 and we still haven't seen anything resembling real gameplay footage yet. The two trailers we have seen have focused entirely on vibes and tone, so we don't actually know much of anything about how GTA VI works at this time. If Rockstar doesn't give us any information along those lines in this "extended look," then we might never get it until the game is in our hands.

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It's also worth briefly noting that, as someone who has followed video game news very closely for more than 20 years, I can't recall a single game trailer airing first on a paid streaming service. That's the world Rockstar has created for itself.

As a reminder, you have until the middle of November to save up $100 for the version of the game that comes with every feature.

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Many Android apps need internet access. Lots don't, but connect anyway. By installing a firewall app on my Pixel, I was able to lock down more than a dozen apps. It brings a big privacy boost as well as data and battery savings. And it's surprisingly simple to set up.

We've all heard that 5GHz Wi-Fi is better, so the logical conclusion would be to just let everything use 5GHz, right? Nope. Not so much.

TikTok has paused a test of a dating feature that put singles in live chats, Business Insider reported.

Over the past week, TikTok tested the tool, which was in a section of the app called "hangout." Users were invited to join chat rooms with "great people" or "awesome people to meet," according to Business Insider. The chatrooms ranged from unrelated to dating to more sexual in nature, like a chatroom for lesbians looking for "big beautiful women."

SEE ALSO: TikTok withheld a safety feature from 15 million users, report says

A TikTok spokesperson told Business Insider that the app wouldn't recommend dating livestreams to users unless they'd already followed the host creator. TikTok livestreams can only be hosted by users over 18, according to the app's community guidelines, and the app won't recommend "restricted content" to teens under 18.

The spokesperson also told Business Insider the test was seen by a subset of users in the U.S. and a few other markets, but it's now paused, as is a broader test of the "hangout" social livestreaming section.

Like other social media apps (like then-Twitter), TikTok isn't an explicit dating app, but people have found love therege despite this. Meta was the first social media giant to formally enter the dating app scene with Facebook Dating, which apparently has over 20 million users.