Building things in a lab is easy, at least when compared to scaling up for mass production. That’s why there are so many articles about fusion being right around the corner, or battery technology that’ll allow aviation to switch away from fossil fuels, or any number of other miraculous solutions that never come into being.
Read MoreMalak Saleh / Engadget: Instagram plans to roll out new tools in the coming weeks to flag fake followers and spam content, giving users the option to delete those items in bulk — The company is announcing a suite of new tools that prevent spam from flooding profiles. — Meta is rolling out a suite
Read MoreSarah Zheng / Bloomberg: Temu sues rival Shein in the US over “intensified” anti-competitive practices, reviving a legal fight after both had dropped earlier lawsuits against each other — – ‘Desperate plan’ stems from $30 billion value loss, suit says — Shein filed 33,000 copyright takedown notices against Temu
Read MoreIf you’ve been searching for a phone case, you’ve likely come across a brand called Mous. The reason you might remember Mous is that its ads often show a team member taking a phone, placing it in a Limitless case, and flinging it into the air. While we haven’t attempted that test, the Mous Limitless
Read MoreParker Ortolani / The Verge The Verge, your source for Tesla Cybertruck windshield wiper news, is unreasonably happy to potentially reveal: a Cybertruck windshield wiper replacement may cost as little as $165 for the entire arm and blade assembly, or $75 for just the wiper blade itself. That’s the word from Tesla watcher Nic Cruz
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Twitch now allows some previously prohibited sexual content, including “deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region”, with a sexual themes label — Twitch is updating the way it responds to sexual content. As part of the change, the streaming platform will now allow …
Read MoreAJ Vicens / CyberScoop: Microsoft seizes US-based infrastructure and websites used by cybercrime group Storm-1152 that created ~750M fraudulent Microsoft accounts, after a court order — Relying on a court order, the tech giant seized websites belonging to a top purveyor of fraudulent Microsoft accounts.
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Twitch now allows some previously prohibited sexual content, including “deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region”, with a sexual themes label — Twitch is updating the way it responds to sexual content. As part of the change, the streaming platform will now allow …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge PowerPoint for the web now lets users insert videos with closed captions and subtitles into presentations, reports Windows Central. It should make presentations created in the Microsoft 365 suite more accessible to Deaf people or those hard of hearing, but the feature also offers other benefits. You can add closed captions in
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Meta announced in a blog post update yesterday that it will apply an obscure Instagram setting to Threads that lets users control how much fact-checked content they see in their feed. Meta says its fact-checking is intended to address misinformation, so effectively, users will be able to decide how much they want
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch is updating the way it responds to sexual content. As part of the change, the streaming platform will now allow some previously prohibited content — as long as it has a label to warn viewers. Twitch has long struggled with moderating content containing sexual material and has
Read MoreReuters: Cruise says nine key executives, including COO Gil West, have departed the company, after its initial analysis of an October 2 pedestrian incident — General Motors’ Cruise robotaxi unit dismissed nine key people amid an ongoing safety investigation, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday …
Read MoreDuring [Matt]’s first year of college, he found in a roundabout way that he could avoid crowds in the dining hall by accessing publicly available occupancy data that the dining hall collected. Presumably this was data for the dining hall to use internally, but with the right API calls anyone could use the information to
Read MoreBrody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Adobe says the FTC is probing the company’s subscription cancellation rules and that a settlement could have “significant monetary costs or penalties” — Adobe Inc. said US regulators are probing the company’s cancellation rules for software subscriptions, an issue that has long been a source of ire for customers.
Read MoreAs much as smartphone tech has advanced in the past decade, charging some Android phones can still feel glacial — especially when you’re about to head out for work, school, or a trip and you forgot to charge overnight. When speed is of the essence, there are a number of tactics you can deploy to
Read MoreCredit: Google Welcome to What’s New in AI, our weekly update where we bring you all the latest AI news, tools, and tips to help you excel in this new brave new AI-driven world. AI in the news: Google dominates once again Last week Google was in the news for the release of its new
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $5.05B, vs. $5.03B est., Digital Media revenue up 13% YoY to $3.72B, and FY 2024 guidance below est.; ADBE drops 5%+ — – Adobe’s fiscal fourth-quarter results surpassed expectations, but guidance for fiscal 2024 trailed estimates.
Read MoreIf you want to take notes in the Google Keep app, you need to unlock your phone or tablet and then launch the app from the app drawer, the home screen, or use the widget. Android 14 quietly added support for a “default notes app” and a lock screen shortcut to launch that app. Google
Read MoreYou can now buy the new USB-C charger without needing to buy a new pair of AirPods
Read MoreAs much as smartphone tech has advanced in the past decade, charging some Android phones can still feel glacial — especially when you’re about to head out for work, school, or a trip and you forgot to charge overnight. When speed is of the essence, there are a number of tactics you can deploy to
Read MoreImage: The Verge As if publishers and users didn’t have enough reasons to reconsider their connections to the platform formerly known as Twitter, all outgoing links from X stopped working Wednesday afternoon. A problem with the URL redirect that captures activity before sending users on their way sent people to a simple error page saying,
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: The US, the UK, and Poland say that since September 2023, state-backed Russian group APT29 has targeted servers hosting Czech firm JetBrains’ TeamCity software — Government agencies in the U.S., Poland and the U.K. said on Wednesday that Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) …
Read MoreA team of researchers from the ASSET Research Group in Singapore have published the details of a collection of vulnerabilities in the fifth generation mobile communication system (5G) used with smartphones and many other devices. These fourteen vulnerabilities are detailed in this paper and a PoC detailing an attack using a software defined radio (SDR)
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Threads that the platform is beginning to test making Threads posts available on Mastodon and other ActivityPub-supporting services. Zuckerberg wrote that making Threads work with the interoperable standard “will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people.” Joining
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is testing making posts from Threads accounts “available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol” — Mark Zuckerberg said today that Meta has started testing a feature to show Threads posts on Mastodon and other AcitivityPub protocol-supported networks.
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