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Companies that provide Microsoft, Google, and others with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring minors, often exposing them to traumatic content (Niamh Rowe/Wired)

Niamh Rowe / Wired: Companies that provide Microsoft, Google, and others with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring minors, often exposing them to traumatic content — Companies that provide Big Tech with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring young teens to work on their platforms, often exposing them to traumatic content.

Human smugglers are using Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and WhatsApp to recruit a new generation of coyotes to transport migrants from Mexico to the US (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Human smugglers are using Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and WhatsApp to recruit a new generation of coyotes to transport migrants from Mexico to the US — Cartel-backed networks are using Snapchat, TikTok and other apps to entice drivers into transporting migrants.

Pixel 9 could support Apple’s MagSafe-like wireless charging with Qi2 certification

The Qi2 wireless charging standard is now ready to hit devices. Qi2 accessories for the iPhone 15 series will be coming in time for the holiday season. Future Pixel phones, likely the Pixel 9 series, could also come bearing Qi2 certification. The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has announced that the Qi2 wireless charging standard has

The new Circular Ring Slim is a smart ring with haptic navigation

Circular has launched its newest smart ring, the Circular Ring Slim. In addition to the usual health tracking, the Circular Ring Slim includes a haptic navigation system and an AI assistant for personalized, actionable insights. The Circular Ring Slim is launched at a pre-order price of $245, with the device shipping by December 15, 2023.

The Linux Scheduler And How It Handles More Cores

Sometimes you read an article headline and you find yourself re-reading it a few times before diving into the article. This was definitely the case for a recent blog post by [The HFT Guy], where the claim was made that the Linux kernel has for fifteen years now been hardlocked into not scheduling for more

PJ&A, which provides medical transcription services in the US, says a March 2023 cyberattack exposed ~9M patients’ SSNs, medical files, and other sensitive data (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: PJ&A, which provides medical transcription services in the US, says a March 2023 cyberattack exposed ~9M patients’ SSNs, medical files, and other sensitive data — PJ&A (Perry Johnson & Associates) is warning that a cyberattack in March 2023 exposed the personal information of almost nine million patients.

Security researchers detail the largest cyberattack against Danish critical infrastructure, which involved Zyxel zero-days and affected 22 companies in May 2023 (Connor Jones/The Register)

Connor Jones / The Register: Security researchers detail the largest cyberattack against Danish critical infrastructure, which involved Zyxel zero-days and affected 22 companies in May 2023 — Zyxel zero days and nation-state actors (maybe) had a hand in the sector’s worst cybersecurity event on record

Color OS 14 goes global: Fast, but with some rough edges

Credit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority OPPO is starting to roll out Color OS 14 based on Android 14. The update comes with the October security patch and should now be available on the Find N2 Flip in select regions, with other OPPO phones on a beta rollout timeline that stretches all the way till

Paxos gets in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to issue a USD-backed stablecoin; Paxos claims it is the only company to get approval (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Paxos gets in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to issue a USD-backed stablecoin; Paxos claims it is the only company to get approval — – Paxos has created a Singaporean entity for launching a new USD-backed stablecoin in the country. — Paxos Digital Singapore Pte.

YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators

YouTube creators will get to test a new AI tool that generates and remixes music in the style of several famous musicians, including Sia, Demi Lovato, and T-Pain.

Parental Advisory: This Chatbot May Talk to Your Child About Sex and Alcohol

Common Sense Media’s first ratings for chatbots and other AI services warn parents that AI image generators and Snapchat’s My AI chatbot may not be safe for kids.

Google News is ending support for paid magazines starting December 18 and says users will be able to export copies of paid magazines before the shutdown (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google News is ending support for paid magazines starting December 18 and says users will be able to export copies of paid magazines before the shutdown — A lesser known feature of the Google News app (and the website) is its ability to show digital copies of magazines, but the company

Lenovo reports Q2 revenue down 16% YoY to $14.4B, meeting estimates but marking the fifth straight quarterly sales decline, net income down 60% YoY to $249M (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Josh Ye / Reuters: Lenovo reports Q2 revenue down 16% YoY to $14.4B, meeting estimates but marking the fifth straight quarterly sales decline, net income down 60% YoY to $249M — China’s Lenovo Group Ltd (0992.HK) on Thursday posted a 16% fall in revenue for the three months through September …

Google rolls out Bard access for teens that “meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own Google Account” and have English set, with safeguards in place (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out Bard access for teens that “meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own Google Account” and have English set, with safeguards in place — Following the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in September, Google is rolling out Bard access for teens with safety guardrails in place.

The Wireless Power Consortium says the first Qi v2.0 devices are arriving in time for the holidays and over 100 are in certification testing or waiting in line (Nathan Edwards/The Verge)

Nathan Edwards / The Verge: The Wireless Power Consortium says the first Qi v2.0 devices are arriving in time for the holidays and over 100 are in certification testing or waiting in line — Qi2 — the next version of the wireless charging standard, now with more magnets! — is more almost-here than ever.

Google is going to let teens use Bard, though with some guardrails

Illustration: The Verge Google is going to allow teens to use Bard beginning Thursday, though the AI chatbot will have some guardrails in place, according to a blog post from Google’s Tulsee Doshi. Bard will be available for teens in “most countries around the world” as long as they meet Google’s minimum age requirement to

Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 N performance EV is coming March 2024

The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N has a soul patch. | Image: Hyundai Hyundai showed off its production performance-variant Ioniq 5 “N” at the LA Auto Show this week, releasing final specifications of the electric crossover and announcing its availability at US dealerships in March 2024. As previously announced in July, this new version of

Bing adds AI-generated captions to some search results, using GPT-4 to analyze a user’s search query and the contents of webpages to create custom snippets (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Bing adds AI-generated captions to some search results, using GPT-4 to analyze a user’s search query and the contents of webpages to create custom snippets — Bing is now using AI to generate captions for some of its search result snippets. Bing is using GPT-4 to make the …

Elon Musk replied “You have said the actual truth” to an X user who, replying to a “Hitler was right” inquiry, accused Jewish groups of “hatred against whites” (Charisma Madarang/Rolling Stone)

Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Elon Musk replied “You have said the actual truth” to an X user who, replying to a “Hitler was right” inquiry, accused Jewish groups of “hatred against whites” — The billionaire amplified a post Wednesday accusing the Jewish community of promoting “dialectical hatred against whites”

Threads is testing hashtags with a side of trending topics

Threads is adding trending topics and hashtags. | Image: Meta Mark Zuckerberg revealed Meta is testing a new tagging feature for Threads that’s like hashtags, but not exactly. Yes, you’ll use a hashtag to create or add to a topic’s conversation, but instead of showing up as a hashtagged word, Threads converts it to a

The best AI tools for writing a research paper

Research papers may be the most dreaded of academic assignments, even before you hit the Master’s or PhD level, never mind your post-grad career. Thankfully there are now a number of generative AI tools that can speed up research writing, and we’ve gathered some of the better ones into a handy list. The best AI

Threads tests tags, a way of categorizing posts similar to hashtags without the # symbol being visible, initially in Australia and other countries “soon” (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Threads tests tags, a way of categorizing posts similar to hashtags without the # symbol being visible, initially in Australia and other countries “soon” — Instagram’s Threads app has been duping Twitter/X in a number of ways and today it’s adding one more feature that’s been core …

After MEMS Microphones, MEMS Speakers Enter The Market

These days it’s hard to not come across solid-state (micro-electromechanical systems, MEMS) microphones, as they are now displacing electret microphones almost everywhere due to their small size and low cost. Although MEMS speakers are not impossible, creating a miniature speaker that can both displace a lot of air (‘volume’) and accurately reproduce a wide range

Get a sneak peek at the cool new features coming with first 2024 Pixel feature drop

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google unexpectedly dropped Android 14 QPR2 beta 1 today. This includes features we’ll see in the March 2024 feature drop for Pixel smartphones. This release signifies that the beta for QPR1 is closed, and we should see that launch in December. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been covering

Pew: 30% of US adults regularly get their news from Facebook; 26%, from YouTube; 16%, Instagram; 14%, TikTok; 12%, X; 8%, Reddit; and 5%, Nextdoor and LinkedIn (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)

Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: Pew: 30% of US adults regularly get their news from Facebook; 26%, from YouTube; 16%, Instagram; 14%, TikTok; 12%, X; 8%, Reddit; and 5%, Nextdoor and LinkedIn — Facebook may be ready to divorce the news business, but it’s still the No. 1 source of news on social media for

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