As is often the case, the tech news tide is out after Apple’s iPhone 17 event. (Did we do a data-i13n=”cpos:1;pos:1″ href=”https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-hands-on-with-the-iphone-air-iphone-17-pro-airpods-pro-3-and-more-111101338.html” data-ylk=”slk:dedicated newsletter;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>dedicated newsletter on all the announcements? Yes, yes we did.)
Before the weekend, though, there’s still more to read about. But let’s start with the not-great tech news. David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, plans to data-i13n=”cpos:2;pos:1″ href=”https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/hbo-max-is-going-to-get-a-lot-more-expensive-ceo-promises-221656560.html” data-ylk=”slk:make HBO more expensive;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>make HBO more expensive and passwords a lot harder to share. These were part of his comments at a Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, which sounds awful.
The main thrust…

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