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Luxury cars usually promise comfort and style, but they don’t always deliver on reliability. Plush interiors and fancy tech often come with a side of expensive repairs a few years down the road.

TikTok seems to be abnormally focused on what the lion does or does not concern itself with these days.

It's become a meme to post about the lion or lioness — meaning yourself — and what does or does not concern them. Most of the time, in the TikTok trend, the lion's (or lioness') concerns are either relatively trivial or outside what you might expect from a so-called grindset online figure who'd actually post this sort of thing in earnest. So the lion may not be concerned with the effects of energy drinks, or it may be concerned with their anxious thoughts.

Here's what you need to know about the trend.

What is the meme, and where did it start?

The meme generally references a now-famous quote from Game of Thrones that you probably recognize offhand. It's a callback to when master manipulator Tywin Lannister tells his son, "The lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the sheep."

Now, how did it become a meme? That's a more complicated answer. The GOT quote is famous, and people have posted it earnestly for years, so much so that it has become cringey. The New York Times noted in May that the meme began with "manosphere" or "grindset" folks promoting a particular form of masculinity before being co-opted and morphed by people making absurd or edgy jokes.

Months later, the meme has shifted again, this time on TikTok. It's become more normie, for lack of a better word. It's more silly, less edgy, and certainly not sincerely referencing oneself as a "lion." In fact, it's directly mocking that sort of person. The TikTok posts often feel like a direct send-up of men who constantly post about their weird versions of what it means to be a man.

As best I can tell — at least as it presented itself on my timeline — this version of the meme was popularized by a user on TikTok with the handle @ckwon117 (now jokingly donning the username The Lion). Starting over the summer, he posted joking things the so-called lion wasn't concerned with, such as screen time or washing his water bottle.

The formula was pretty straightforward: The lion was not concerned with something pretty silly, and it was always delivered in a serious, monotone manner. The most popular of these TikToks really took off, racking up millions of views. It seemed the world was concerned with the lion's concerns.

How the lion meme went viral

As with any meme, the lion's and lioness' concerns went viral because people saw it worked. That's literally how a meme forms — it's online word-of-mouth and people playing with the format to put their spin on it.

Soon enough, the lion was concerned about not seeing his friends for a long time.

Or the lion was not concerned with finding love until, actually, late at night, he was.

Or the lioness is not concerned with curbs and whether or not she's driving over them.

Or the lion might just not be thinking very quickly today.

As things go with memes, soon enough, the lion's concerns could really be anything you wanted them to be. Any clever, funny, or silly thought could be converted to the format.

So if you see posts about the lion on your FYP, just know that person is almost certainly not sincerely calling themselves The Lion. But The Lion wouldn't really care what you think, anyway.

ChatGPT might soon get a lot "friendlier" with users — literally and figuratively. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company plans to introduce age-gating to the LLM, marking a clear distinction between how minors and adults will interact with the chatbot.

The update stems from a post Altman shared on X Tuesday, where he addressed growing frustration over the GPT-5 update over the summer, which resulted in ChatGPT "losing" its "personality," according to many user complaints.

In the post, Altman said he believes OpenAI has "mitigated serious mental health issues" associated with AI chatbot use, and that the company is now exploring ways to ease some of its tighter content limits. OpenAI recently introduced new safety tools as well, including new parental controls.

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Altman announced that OpenAI will roll out a new version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks that "behaves more like what people liked about [previous GPT version] 4o." Then, starting in December, as OpenAI introduces "age-gating" features, restrictions around erotic or sexually explicit conversations will be lifted "for verified adult users," Altman wrote. It's unclear how OpenAI will prove users' ages.

SEE ALSO: I tested OpenAI Sora 2 vs Google Veo 3 for AI video, and there’s a very clear winner

This is a notable shift for OpenAI, especially given that the company intentionally designed GPT-5 to make the chatbot less "sycophantic" and help prevent potential mental health crises among users. Now, Altman says he wants to "treat adult users like adults" and seems more open to allowing erotica or sexual expression within the chatbot experience for those who want it.

Altman's post quickly drew mixed reactions. Some users expressed frustration that instead of simply bringing back the beloved GPT-4o, OpenAI was releasing an update that would merely "behave like 4o."

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Others mocked the CEO for seemingly walking back his August comments, when he said he was proud that OpenAI "hasn’t put an AI sex bot into ChatGPT yet." And then there were those who pointed out the irony of Altman's newfound openness to erotic chat, given his recent prediction that ChatGPT could "cure cancer one day."

Mashable reached out to OpenAI for comment but didn't receive a response before publication.

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

Months of private Telegram conversations between Young Republican leaders across several states depict a startling culture of racist, fascist strategizing, according to an exclusive investigation by Politico.

More than 2,900 pages of Telegram chats obtained by the publication show repeated uses of violent, anti-Black, and antisemitic terminology, including the phrase "I love Hitler." Members of the group chat praised violent sexual assault and repeatedly used racist, ableist, and sexist slurs. Some evoked Holocaust imagery when discussing political opponents and casually used white supremacist dogwhistles. Many of them parroted talking points by conservative figureheads while doing so, including Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk.

SEE ALSO: For Trump officials, social media is war

Leaders implicated in the leak include Kansas Young Republican vice chair William Hendrix and New York State Young Republican leaders Bobby Walker and Peter Giunta, as well as one Trump administration employee, Michael Bartels. Guinta said in a statement that the leaks were part of a targeted character assassination, but did not categorically refute the contents. Other Young Republican leaders have denounced the chat, while the White House denied any affiliation with the Young Republican splinter group. All together, the group is a segment of a new wave of GOP activists, many of whom led the charge to get President Donald Trump back into office in 2025.

The Trump administration and its vocal Republican allies haven't refrained from using social media in increasingly controversial ways, including sharing racist and xenophobic posts, applauding anti-LGBTQ actions, and targeting individual dissenters directly. Groupchats, at large, have posed a different set of problems for conservative leaders, including the controversial exposed Signal chats between the nation's top defense leaders, Vice President JD Vance, and the editor in chief of the Atlantic. Behind the scenes, a robust network of Signal conversations between private industry leaders and political figures formed the basis of Trump's re-election campaign and rapid shift in political support, documented in a sprawling investigation by Semafor.

Last week, leaked Signal messages between top White House advisors showed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was considering deploying the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne infantry to Portland, the current hot spot for Trump's crackdown on so-called ANTIFA organizers. First reported by the Minnesota Star Tribune, the chats appear to show the Trump administration is still relying on the third-party encrypted messaging platform to discuss sensitive government operations — despite ongoing privacy (and reputational) concerns.

UPDATE: Oct. 15, 2025, 10:21 a.m. An earlier version of this story listed former New York State Young Republican vice chair as "Bobby Hendrix." It has been corrected.

It's common for movies to film far more content than you see in the cinema. After the editing process is complete, a lot ends up on the cutting room floor. Often to curb runtimes or to get a lower age rating to maximize the potential audiences.

TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office for life on sale for only $39.97 (reg. $229). Sale ends Oct. 19 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

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Have you seen how much Microsoft 365 costs now? And who can say when the next price hike will come.

Software subscriptions are a subtle way of massively overpaying for apps you used to be able to own. If you don’t want to pay $99.99 per year, every year just to use basic Microsoft Office apps, it might be time to switch to a more budget-friendly option, even if it costs a little more up-front. Right now, it’s only $39.97 to get Microsoft Office 2019 for life. That’s marked down from $229, but that price won’t last much longer.

SEE ALSO: Unlock eight Adobe and Microsoft apps for just $90

This version of Microsoft Office comes with:

• Word

• Excel

• PowerPoint

• Outlook

• OneNote

• Teams Classic

You can install each of these apps on one computer for life. After that, there are no subscription fees or hidden payments to worry about. You also don’t have to deal with a sudden update from Microsoft completely changing how you work (or those frustrating AI tools constantly interrupting you).

This version of Microsoft Office is a little older than the apps you get from Microsoft 365, but they still work great for everything from school to the office, and you don’t need internet to use them.

This license is for 1 Mac, but Windows licenses are also still available for now.

If you want to stop paying for Microsoft apps every month, then get a Microsoft Office 2019 lifetime license while it’s on sale for only $39.97.

Sale ends Oct. 19 at 11:59 p.m. PT. No coupon needed.

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Guillermo del Toro is the king of gothic horror and classic monster cinema, renowned for hits like Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water. Now, he’s back with a new masterpiece—Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which is easily one of the fall’s most anticipated releases. Given the director’s gift for visual storytelling through uncommon artistry evoking entrancing beauty and feeling, there’s no doubt his film will both mesmerize and move us, but how true to the classic will it be?

The ultimate winter e-reader accessory is coming to Kobo e-readers. No, it's not a fuzzy case or branded knit blanket — it's a remote. Rakuten, the company behind Kobo e-readers, just announced that on Nov. 4, it'll be launching a remote that's compatible with the brand's e-readers. A remote is one of our favorite accessories for an e-reader, and Kobos are the first e-readers to get a native remote.

Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn says, "The Kobo Remote is the perfect accessory for peak immersive reading; it’s an invitation to lounge deeper, multitask smarter, and simply enjoy reading without limits, no matter whether your environment is beach or blankets."

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Page-turning remotes are not a new innovation in the e-reader landscape. The BookTok girlies have been all over it for years, touting cozy setups with gooseneck stands and remotes to keep their hands tucked under the blankets while still being able to turn to the next page on their e-readers.

Kobo's remote will come in two shades, white and black, just like most of its e-readers. The Kobo remote measures 3.92 inches long and about 1.18 inches wide. It has a curved design for an ergonomic feel, and is powered by Bluetooth and a AAA battery. E-reader remotes have never been sold by e-reader brands, making Kobo the first to do so.

The Kobo remote is compatible with the following Kobo e-readers: Kobo Clara 2E, Kobo Clara BW, Kobo Clara Colour, Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Libra Colour, Kobo Sage, Kobo Elipsa, and Kobo Elipsa 2E.

Most other page turners come in two parts: one piece that clips onto the side of the e-reader to tap the screen, and then the actual remote, which controls that clip-on piece. The Kobo Remote will just be one piece, as it's native to the Kobo operating system and communicates with the device over Bluetooth rather than needing a clip-on piece to tap the screen.

This page-turner is much needed in the Kobo system, as I've found that generic page-turner remotes don't always work with the Kobo e-readers. Because the screens on Kobo e-readers aren't flush to their borders, the lip prevents the page turners from pressing the screen unless positioned just right. With the Kobo Remote, that won't be a problem.

The only current downside I see is the price. At $29.99, it's $10 more than most remotes you can find on Amazon, which typically retail for $19.99. That being said, the extra cost will be worth it for the cozy reading experience.

Now that Kobo has released a remote for its e-readers, it's just a matter of time before Amazon designs a remote for Kindles.

The day has finally arrived for Windows 10 to go into retirement. So if you have a computer that can run Windows 11, the time has come to decide whether you want to go ahead, or if you should take a different path (cough, Linux, cough).

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new type of attack that affects Android devices, and they say it lets hackers get their hands on your private data in a matter of seconds.

This includes your private chats, text messages, emails, and even two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, as Ars Technica reported.

The attack, dubbed "Pixnapping" by the team of researchers who discovered it, can be used to extract information from any data displayed on the screen. First, the victim has to download a malicious app. Once the app is installed, a Pixnapping attack can occur without the victim providing any further device permissions.

"Anything that is visible when the target app is opened can be stolen by the malicious app using Pixnapping," reads a message on the Pixnapping website, a resource created by researchers to share information on the attack. "Chat messages, 2FA codes, email messages, etc. are all vulnerable since they are visible."

According to the Pixnapping website, the vulnerability is detailed in a new research paper, part of a collaboration between seven researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Washington, University of California, San Diego, and Carnegie Mellon University. A preprint of the paper, titled “Pixnapping: Bringing Pixel Stealing out of the Stone Age,” is available online and will be published this week at the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Taiwan.

Information that can not be displayed on the Android device's screen, such as a secret key that is obscured using asterisks for example, cannot be stolen by the hackers in a Pixnapping attack. This is because of the way the attack is carried out.

Once a victim installs the malicious app, it weaponizes the Android API to target other apps with access to sensitive data. The app then accesses the pixels displayed on the screen using an unintended data leak, also known as a hardware side channel. The malicious app pushes those individual pixels through the rendering pipeline, where the Pixnapping attack then performs graphical operations. This continues until optical character recognition, or OCR, can occur, meaning the app can extract text from visuals.

In effect, any information that's displayed on your device's screen can then be stolen.

"Conceptually, it is as if the malicious app was taking a screenshot of screen contents it should not have access to," the Pixnapping site reads.

Researchers tested the Pixnapping attack on Google Pixel 6 through 9 smartphones, as well as the Samsung Galaxy S25, running numerous different versions of the Android mobile operating system, from Android 13 to 16.

While this is certainly concerning news, researchers say that they are unaware of any real-world examples of the exploit being used in the wild. 

The team of cybersecurity researchers informed Google of the Android vulnerability in February. Google released its first patch for Pixnapping last month. However, the researchers discovered a workaround within days, and informed Google once again. Google says it will release an additional Pixnapping patch in its December Android security bulletin.

Josh O'Connor has had a banner 2025, starring in queer drama The History of Sound, art heist comedy The Mastermind, and highly anticipated whodunnit Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.

But that's not all! O'Connor's busy 2025 slate actually kicked off back in Jan. with the Sundance Film Festival release of the upcoming drama Rebuilding, written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman.

SEE ALSO: 'The Mastermind' review: Josh O'Connor is truly magnetic in Kelly Reichardt's latest film

Audiences have seen O'Connor as royalty in The Crown and as a tennis hotshot in Challengers. In Rebuilding, though, he's in full-on cowboy mode. He plays Dusty, a Colorado cowboy who loses his entire ranch to a devastating wildfire. With no home left, he moves into a FEMA trailer camp, where he forges new bonds with his neighbors who, like him, have lost everything. He also reconnects with his ex-wife Ruby (The White Lotus Season 2's Meghann Fahy) and young daughter Callie-Rose (Lily LaTorre).

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Rebuilding received largely positive reviews out of its premiere at Sundance, praising O'Connor's performance as well as the film's empathy for Dusty and his new community members. That quiet empathy is on display in the film's first trailer, which promises O'Connor ruminating on life, family, and his daughter's future.

In addition to O'Connor, Fahy, and LaTorre, Rebuilding also stars True Detective: Night Country's Kali Reis and Weapons' Amy Madigan.

Rebuilding hits theaters Nov. 14.

A Cambodian “pig butchering” scam ring has been relieved of $15 billion in Bitcoin courtesy of the Department of Justice, according to a DOJ press release issued on Tuesday. The scam’s alleged ringleader, UK and Cambodian national Chen Zhi, has also been indicted for his role in the scam, though he remains at large. Prosecutors say that the scam ring relied on human trafficking and violence to maintain its operations, and that it stole billions of dollars from people all over the world since 2015. 

In a 68-page indictment unsealed on Tuesday in a Brooklyn federal court, prosecutors accused Zhi and his associates of running a massive "phone farm" that operated 1,250 mobile phones, which controlled more than 76,000 social media accounts around the clock. The group reportedly also ran 10 “violent forced labor camps" across Cambodia, where human trafficking victims were coerced into stealing Bitcoin from unsuspecting victims. According to prosecutors, the people who worked in these camps were migrant workers who traveled to Cambodia in search of work but were instead trafficked and forced to work in these industrial scam compounds. 

The indictment reads like something you might see on TV or in a Hollywood movie, and government officials said it's the largest forfeiture action in the history of the Department of Justice.

A picture of a phone farm with 1,250 mobile devices appeared in the indictment. Credit: Department of Justice

For the uninitiated, a pig butchering scam works in two steps. The scammer creates a relationship with the victim, either through a traditional romance scam or some other means. Once the metaphorical “pig” has been “fattened,” the scammer will make their move and manipulate the victim into sending Bitcoin, often under the guise of a phony investment opportunity. Some victims will liquidate their entire life savings.

SEE ALSO: What are pig butchering scams? How to protect yourself from online con artists.

“Today’s action represents one of the most significant strikes ever against the global scourge of human trafficking and cyber-enabled financial fraud,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in a press release. “By dismantling a criminal empire built on forced labor and deception, we are sending a clear message that the United States will use every tool at its disposal to defend victims, recover stolen assets, and bring to justice those who exploit the vulnerable for profit. We are grateful for the hard work of Director Patel and the men and women of the FBI.”

International pig butchering rings, often located in Southeast Asia, operate massive phone farms and call centers to enact scams at an industrial scale. In Cambodia alone, the scam industry steals $12.5 to $19 billion annually, per the indictment. However, prosecutors said the accused scammers didn't just steal money. Prosecutors said they also used violence to "further their criminal schemes," and the indictment contains bloody images of alleged victims of the gang's activities.

The indictment accused Zhi and his associates of bribing officials to stay ahead of law enforcement raids. One section of the indictment detailed how Zhi and his co-conspirators allegedly hunted down an associate who fled with stolen money, leveraging contacts in the government and mob to locate the thief.

Zhi is publicly known as the leader of the Prince Group, a multinational corporation that does business in over 30 countries. The group was “ostensibly focused” on real estate development and financial services, but the DOJ alleged it provided cover for the sophisticated scam operation. The indictment describes how Zhi and Prince Group executives allegedly used their ill-gotten gains to buy mansions, luxury yachts, expensive watches, private jets, and even rare artwork, "including a Picasso painting purchased through an auction house in New York."

The gang's operations even took place on U.S. soil, prosecutors claimed. The group reportedly used shell companies and financial institutions located in Brooklyn and Queens, New York to facilitate their schemes and defraud U.S. victims.

If located, arrested, and convicted, Zhi faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering. Zhi is currently at large, with a sizable amount of his assets in the DOJ's hands. According to a U.S. Treasury Department press release, the Treasury and the UK’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have also imposed sweeping sanctions against the Prince Group.

In total, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Justice Department National Security Division filed a civil forfeiture complaint for 127,271 Bitcoin, worth an estimated $15 billion.

The new red band trailer for HBO's IT: Welcome to Derry has everything fans of Stephen King's It could want. Children heading into sewers! Terrifying visions courtesy of Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård)! And so, so, so much blood.

SEE ALSO: Is 'IT: Welcome to Derry' based on Stephen King's book?

Developed by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the sibling team behind IT and IT: Chapter Two, the upcoming IT prequel series transports viewers to Derry, Maine in 1962. That's 27 years before the first film takes place, meaning it's perfectly timed to Pennywise's last awakening before the events of IT. (King's novel kicks off in 1957, but the films moved the time period up several decades.)

Based on IT: Welcome to Derry's latest trailer, Pennywise's 1962 feeding cycle will play out similarly to his 1988 cycle. He's going to terrorize a group of Derry children and feed on their "tasty, tasty, beautiful fear." Of course, the Derry children are making his mission easier for him, because they keep going into the sewers where he lives! Given how many times I yelled, "Don't go in there" at this trailer, I can only imagine how many times I'll yell it at the TV during the actual series.

The red band trailer for IT: Welcome to Derry gives a haunting glimpse at the kind of scares that lay in store for Derry's citizens, including a gnarly, zombified take on Uncle Sam. But it's the image of Pennywise's clown form that proves an eternal terror — especially when he unhinges his jaw.

In addition to Skarsgård, IT: Welcome to Derry also stars Jovan Adepo, Taylour Paige, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso.

IT: Welcome to Derry premieres Oct. 26 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.

Ever since I moved from a larger Android phone to a slightly smaller iPhone, I've been struggling to type the words I mean to type. It seems no matter how hard I try, I keep hitting the keys next to the one I thought I was hitting.

Today is the day we've been waiting for, as Microsoft has officially ended support for the Office 2016 and Office 2019 suites, standalone apps, and servers. That means if you are still running any of these versions, you won't be getting any more fixes or technical support from Microsoft.

Following the explosion in popularity of services like ChatGPT, the term "AI" was suddenly in everything. Much like the dot com boom and bursting bubble, simply adding the word "AI" to your company or product could boost sales and stock prices.

A significant feature is making its return to the Windows Copilot app. You can give direct links to the operating system’s Settings. The new capability, officially called "Direct Settings Access," is beginning to roll out to users in all Windows Insider Channels.

The Linux Mint team has announced the arrival of a new Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) release, LMDE 7 with the nickname "Gigi." This full release, following the LMDE 7 beta just over a month ago, is the first in the series to drop 32-bit support. It also updates the LMDE experience to keep up with other Linux Mint releases.

TL;DR: Live stream Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers for free on RTP Play. Access this free streaming site from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

Portugal are sitting at the top of Group F in World Cup qualification, having won every game so far. Hungary are second behind Portugal, and now these two sides meet at the Estádio José Alvalade. If Hungary can secure a huge victory away from home, they'll move to just two points behind Roberto Martínez's side.

If you want to watch Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

When is Portugal vs. Hungary?

Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers kicks off at 7:45 p.m. BST on Oct. 14. This fixture takes place at the Estádio José Alvalade.

How to watch Portugal vs. Hungary for free

Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers is available to live stream for free on RTP Play.

RTP Play is geo-restricted to Portugal, but anyone can access this free streaming service with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Portugal, meaning you can access free live streams on RTP Play from anywhere in the world.

Lve stream Portugal vs. Hungary for free by following these simple steps:

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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 Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers without actually spending anything. This clearly isn't a long-term solution, but it does give you enough time to stream select World Cup qualifiers 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.

What is the best VPN for RTP Play?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport on RTP Play, for a number of reasons:

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SAVE $67.49: As of Oct. 14, the Ultimate Ears Everboom portable speaker is on sale for just $202.50 as a Lightning Deal at Amazon. That's a savings of 25% and its best price since Prime Day in July.

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If you missed out on the Bluetooth speaker deals during Prime Big Deal Days, this Lightning Deal on the Ultimate Ears Everboom might make up for it.

As of Oct. 14, the Ultimate Ears Everboom portable speaker is on sale for just $202.50 in cobalt blue. That's a savings of 25% and the best price we've seen since Prime Day in July. As a Lightning Deal, it will disappear once all units have been claimed or the deal timer runs out — whichever comes first. In other words, if you're in the market, you may want to grab it ASAP.

We haven't tested the Everboom specifically, but we've spent some time with plenty of other Bluetooth speakers from Ultimate Ears and they're some of our absolute favorites. We love the Hyperboom, Epicboom, and the Wonderboom, in particular. The Everboom falls in between the Wonderboom and the Epicboom in size, making it portable enough for travel and powerful enough for the outdoors. It's fully loaded with two full-range transducers with augmented magnets and two customized passive radiators. Translation: it packs big bass and crisp clarity. There’s also specific EQ modes for every party scenario you can select from in the Boom app and an Outdoor Boost setting for extra oomph.

The battery will last for up to 20 hours and its rugged build will endure just about anything you throw at it. It's dust proof, water proof, drop proof up to one meter and can even float in water. Our only real complaint is the price tag. But fortunately, if you grab the Lightning Deal at Amazon, the price isn't as much of an issue.