It won't be making smartphones great again. The long-awaited Trump-branded smartphone has finally arrived, and it appears to be exactly what many suspected: an existing handset in gold drag. Repair biz iFixit got its hands on the Trump Mobile T1 after the device became available in May, and its teardown found the model is essentially an HTC U24 Pro with cosmetic tweaks and a Trump-friendly gold finish. It was almost exactly a year ago that the Trump Organization unveiled the Trump Mobile cellular service and heralded the coming of the T1 Phone, described as "a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States." Few expected the gilt gadget to live up to that promise, as there are effectively no mass-market smartphones built in the US, with the possible exception of Purism's Liberty Phone, which is priced at a challenging $1,999 for those who absolutely must have a smartphone made outside China. Despite accepting $100 deposits to pre-order the coveted handwarmer, Trump Mobile failed to deliver the device by August last year, as promised, and many started to believe it would never show up. But it arrived this May amid claims that the Trump Mobile website was leaking customer data to anyone who sent an HTTP POST request. The nerds at iFixit passed the Trump Phone through a CT scanner alongside an HTC U24 Pro to confirm that the internals of the two devices are almost an exact match. They even went so far as swapping the main board of the T1 for that of the HTC phone, and showed that it not only fits, but the phone still works. One difference iFixit noted is that the multichip package housing the 12 GB of LPDDR5 memory and 512 GB of storage is from Micron, whereas the corresponding package in HTC's phone is supplied by SK hynix. The HTC U24 Pro is a mid-range smartphone that was launched almost exactly two years ago in June 2024. It is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 platform, has a 6.8-inch display, and came with Android 14 at launch, whereas the Trump phone features Android 15. In other words, it's a fairly unremarkable smartphone, sprayed gold and marketed to Trump fans for a promotional price of $499. To be fair, as iFixit makes clear, this is not a bad price for a device like this, so aureate wannabes are not being overcharged here. But as iFixit also makes clear, the device may be assembled in Florida, but it was designed in China and the vast majority of its parts have been sourced from and made in China as well. ®

Online chat platform VRChat says a recent cyberattack compromised the data belonging to nearly 2.5 million users. It confirmed the “data security incident” in a report filed with Maine’s attorney general, but has not disclosed it via public channels. The company’s report confirmed that its cloud environment was accessed between May 10-12, with the unauthorized intruder making off with information concerning 2,436,782 users. This included VRChat usernames, email addresses, whether a user was a VRChat+ subscriber, login histories (including device, hardware identifiers, and IP addresses), and Steam or Meta user IDs. It does not believe passwords, credit cards or other payment information, or government IDs used for age verification were affected. “VRChat sincerely regrets that this security incident occurred,” the company stated in its disclosure. “We understand that trust between our platform and its community is earned through consistent action, and we take full responsibility for the concern this event has caused. “The security and privacy of our players' information remain our highest priority, and we are committed to doing everything within our power to protect it.” VRChat said that after it was made aware of the intrusion, it contained the threat and implemented additional security controls, as well as engaging outside security experts. And in an unusual move for US breaches, the San Francisco-based company did not offer identity theft or credit monitoring services. Offering these kinds of services is not a legal requirement, but doing so is highly common, especially regarding attacks that affect so many individuals. VRChat does not publish the total number of registered users that it has on its books, but its documentation states that “the platform has grown to millions of users,” who have collectively published tens of millions of unique pieces of content for it since its first release in 2014. The part game, part chat platform is an online, open-world chatroom where people walk around interacting with one another via their 3D avatars. It has been compared to Second Life in that users explore other users' worlds, play mini-games, and partake in casual chit-chat, with support for both virtual reality headsets and conventional PCs. You can also think of it as something similar to Meta’s vision for the metaverse, just without all the coworking and KPI meetings, and with way more users. ®

The defence secretary’s departure was the wrong resignation at the worst possible time for the prime minister

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During Wednesday’s prime minister’s questions, the defence secretary was standing at the other end of the Commons, away from other cabinet members on the government frontbench. His expression gave nothing away as Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch blamed one another for spending too much on welfare and not enough on defence. In hindsight, he was possibly thinking “to hell with both of them”. Most defence secretaries go native sooner or later, imagining themselves to be embedded officers serving on the frontline. Tory Ben Wallace appeared to hate most of his cabinet colleagues by the time he resigned in 2023.

Less than 24 hours after PMQs, Healey had also resigned, his departure being all the more powerful for being so unexpected. This exit seemed to come out of a clear blue sky. There had been no briefings to the media in the preceding days. No threats to stand down if his demands were not met. All the arguments had taken place behind closed doors. A determination to do the right thing throughout.

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Cat allergies affect millions of people. Experts explain how to manage symptoms without necessarily giving up a pet

When I got a kitten in February, I thought I had done everything right.

I’d considered getting a cat for years and carefully thought through the decision. I am allergic to them, but I had lived with a cat before and managed symptoms like sneezing and itchiness with antihistamines. I rationalized that I’d probably be OK, especially if I found a “hypoallergenic breed” (more on that later).

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For the first time on record, solar overtook coal in the US electricity mix in May 2026. “Solar supplied a record 12.8% of US electricity, while coal fell to 12.2%, its fourth-lowest monthly share ever.”

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Ja eerst even voor de scherpslijpers in de comments: bovenstaande kop klopt niet helemaal, kennelijk werd de Hugo-frikandel afgelopen zaterdag al gelanceerd in samenwerking met De Dagelijkse Standaard ("Weg met het chemische separatorvlees: Waarom de kwalitatieve Hugo-frikandel de ultieme rechtse snack is"), de site voor en door FvD-frikandellen, maar Thierry Baudet heeft er zojuist pas over getwitterd dus laat ons even. Want Eerlijk Eten, het kokende onderdeel van de FvD-sekte waarover in de Powned-docu die FvD niet wil dat u ziet wordt gesproken, heeft dus een frikandel gemaakt. Een dure frikandel misschien, maar naar eigen zeggen wel een lekkere frikandel. Die zou u bijvoorbeeld op kunnen eten terwijl u naar de Powned-docu die FvD niet wil dat u ziet zit te kijken. Een afgewogen oordeel over de Powned-docu die FvD niet wil dat u ziet vindt u overigens bij Victor Vlam, die door Sander Schimmelpennick ooit is vergeleken met een frikandel. Je kunt zeggen: de Hugo de Jonge-frikandel is een geniale bliksemafleider van de Powned-docu die FvD niet wil dat u ziet, maar je kunt ook zeggen: het is een frikandel, die genoemd is naar Hugo de Jonge. Hoe vet is dat.

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De binnenvaartsector maakt zich grote zorgen over de containerafhandeling in de Rotterdamse haven. De bedrijven vinden de wachttijden te lang, de planning onvoorspelbaar en er is te weinig plek aan de kades. Hierdoor lopen de kosten op en wordt het werk voor de schippers en planners steeds lastiger.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De documentaireserie De Afhaalchinees: Thuisbezorgd van Omroep Zwart heeft dit jaar de Zilveren Nipkowschijf gewonnen. Regisseur Kelly-Qian van Binsbergen nam de belangrijkste Nederlandse juryprijs voor televisie in ontvangst in Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam. De Afhaalchinees: Thuisbezorgd is het vervolg op De Afhaalchinees uit 2023 en gaat over de gevolgen van adoptie.

Ook de winnaar van de Zilveren Reissmicrofoon, de prijs voor radio en podcasts, werd donderdag bekendgemaakt. De podcast De Rolverdeling van de NTR was de uitverkorene. Hierin volgt Sara de Monchy een groep 8 van een basisschool tijdens de repetities voor de eindmusical. Ze vraagt zich af wat hun musicalrol zegt over de rol in het echte leven.

Burgemeesters moeten volgens het kabinet meer macht krijgen wanneer demonstraties uit de hand dreigen te lopen. Ook het wetsvoorstel tegen het ophemelen van terrorisme ligt weer op tafel. „De ministers voelen duidelijk de druk vanuit de Kamer om het demonstratierecht aan te passen.”