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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music’s yearly recap is back — and this time, it’s available to see and share from directly within the app. If your iPhone runs iOS 18.1 or later, you can now access Apple Music Replay 2024 from the Home, New, and Search tabs. Otherwise, you’ll have to view your yearly stats from the Apple Replay site, as was the case previously. Apple has added some new insights to Replay 2024, including whether you’ve made it onto the list of the top 500, or 1,000 listeners for a particular genre or artist. Additionally, it will display the longest number of days you’ve consecutively used Apple Music, as well as show your top artists, albums, and songs from each month during 2024. Image: Apple Now you can find all your yearly stats in the Apple Music app. You can also see how many consecutive months you’ve listened to your top artist and find out which dates you started listening to your top song, artist, or album of the year. But in case you find some unwanted songs or artists appearing in your Replay — maybe as a result of sharing your account with a partner or kids — Apple Music business manager David Emery has posted some handy instructions on how to keep them from muddying up your results. Apple is adding new Replay features for artists on the app as well, allowing them to view and share stats like the total minutes users listened to their music this year, how many listeners they had, which cities listened to them the most, and their most-Shazamed song. This year’s recap season has only just begun. We’re still waiting for Spotify Wrapped to drop, and Amazon Music has even launched a recap feature of its own.

Illustration: The Verge Google officials had concerns about potential human rights violations that might be linked to its $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government before ever even signing the deal, according to documents first reported on by The New York Times today. “Google Cloud services could be used for, or linked to, the facilitation of human rights violations, including Israeli activity in the West Bank,” Google lawyers, members of the company’s policy team, and outside consultants wrote in the documents prepared for executives and reviewed by the Times. The documents date to several months before Google announced the deal in May 2021 and show that the company was worried about whether the contract might be bad for its reputation. “Google Cloud services could be used for, or linked to, the facilitation of human rights violations” The company has staunchly defended the deal since inking it in 2021, going so far as to fire dozens of employees who protested the contract they believed might involve them in violence against Palestinians. Now, it seems Google was weighing those risks, too — but ultimately decided to move forward with the deal anyway. Dubbed Project Nimbus, the contract gives the Israeli government access to cloud services from Google and Amazon. Project Nimbus enabled the use of AI tools to analyze and identify objects in images and videos, according to the Times. It also included videoconferencing and “services to store and analyze large amounts of data.” The most profitable part of the deal was $525 million from Israel’s Ministry of Defense expected between 2021 and 2028, the Times reports. That’s not a huge sum for Google, which reportedly made $258 billion in sales in 2021. But it was enough to give the company some clout with other potential military and intelligence customers. Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from The Verge. But in April, it said in an emailed statement that “the Nimbus contract is for workloads running on our commercial cloud by Israeli government ministries, who agree to comply with our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. This work is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.” A Google spokesperson provided a similar statement to the Times. However, separate Israeli government contract documents recently reported on by The Intercept suggest that Project Nimbus is subject to “adjusted” terms of service rather than Google’s general terms of service. In the months leading up to the contract in 2021, Google reportedly sought input from consultants including the firm Business for Social Responsibility (BSR). Consultants apparently recommended that the contract bar the sale and use of its AI tools to the Israeli military “and other sensitive customers,” the report says. BSR reportedly recommended “due diligence” on Google’s part to make sure its services weren’t being misused and that Google add its AI principles that prohibit surveillance or weapons to the contract. Ultimately, the contract reportedly didn’t reflect those recommendations. The contract did, however, include a right to suspend customers for breaching Google’s terms of service and acceptable use policy. Before signing the deal, the Times says, Google had additional concerns about the company itself potentially running into legal quandaries because of the contract: The company also worried that it would be forced to accept “onerous” risks, such as the possibility that it could run into conflicts with foreign or international authorities if they sought Israeli data and that it might have to “breach international legal orders” under the deal terms, according to the documents. Project Nimbus has become an even bigger flashpoint within the company since the Israel-Hamas war, which has killed more than 44,000 people in Gaza. Google has fired roughly 50 employees for their alleged involvement in protests against Project Nimbus. “We did not come to Google to work on technology that kills. By engaging in this contract leadership has betrayed our trust, our AI Principles, and our humanity,” Billy Van Der Laar, a Google software engineer, said in an emailed statement following protests in April that called on Google to exit Project Nimbus.