Poverty, fentanyl, and lack of public funding mean morgues are overloaded with unidentified bodies. TikTok and Facebook pages are filling the gap—with AI proving a powerful and controversial new tool.
Read MoreCompanies 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.
Read MoreMike Masnick / Techdirt: US v. Google raises the question of how antitrust law handles a company becoming dominant due to offering a far superior product, especially if the DOJ wins — I’ve noted my skepticism regarding the antitrust attacks on the current Google antitrust trial regarding how it pays to have its search placed
Read MoreSalvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: In 2022, Meta quietly began letting ads say past US elections were “rigged” or “stolen”; sources say execs made the decision based on free speech considerations — Company weighed free-speech considerations in changing its policy last year
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today we have a look at how YouTube’s new AI rules will (and will not) affect podcasting, another late-night host ditching TV for audio, and a bunch of your recs
Read MoreNecklaces aren’t often very high-tech, mostly because of the abuse they have to go through being worn. This was obviously a problem that needed solving, so [Matt Venn] decided to change that by making a necklace out of ASICs just in time for Supercon. Although this isn’t the first time [Matt] made such a necklace,
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure as part of a September plea deal with Sergei Makinin, the hacker behind the operation — The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure this week following a September plea deal with the hacker behind the
Read MoreReuters: Cruise says it will pause all supervised and manual car trips in the US while it undergoes a full safety review and that it will hire an outside safety expert — General Motors’ (GM.N) Cruise driverless car unit said on Tuesday it will pause all supervised and manual car trips in the U.S …
Read MoreDan Goodin / Ars Technica: Intel patches a bug affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs that allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors, a risk to cloud providers in particular — Among other things, bug allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors. — Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates …
Read MoreKo Fujioka / Nikkei Asia: Japan proposes making Apple, Google, and other app store operators responsible for paying consumption taxes on content sold by foreign developers — Government targets platform operators as route to hard-to-reach small developers — Google and Apple will be required to pay consumption taxes …
Read MoreThe Great American Eclipse was a solar eclipse that passed nearly the entire continental United States back in 2017. While it might sound like a once-in-a-lifetime event to experience a total solar eclipse, the stars have aligned to bring another total solar eclipse to North America although with a slightly different path stretching from the
Read MoreNico Grant / New York Times: Epic v. Google: Sundar Pichai confirms Google paid Apple 36% of the search revenue generated on iPhones, saying the total payment “was well over $10B” in 2022 — Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, testified on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks to defend his company against monopoly
Read MoreKristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: Sam Altman says OpenAI is pausing new ChatGPT Plus signups “for a bit” as “the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity” — OpenAI has paused new ChatGPT Plus signups due to overwhelming demand for new features introduced at recent DevDay conference.
Read MoreThe Commodore International of the 1970s was a company which dabbled in a bit of everything when it came to consumer electronics, with the Commodore ChessMate being a prime example of the circuitous way that some of its products came to be. Released in 1978, its existence was essentially the result of MOS Technology releasing
Read MoreBloomberg: Huawei and China Mobile have built a 3,000 km network that they claim is the world’s first internet network to achieve a “stable and reliable” 1.2Tbps bandwidth — – Huawei, Tsinghua and China Mobile claim an industry first — The network spans 3,000 km from Beijing to Guangzhou
Read MoreNicola Davis / The Guardian: A study found that AI-generated photos of faces, particularly white faces, were perceived as more real by survey participants than photos of actual people — Photographs were seen as less realistic than computer images but there was no difference with pictures of people of colour
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today we have a look at how YouTube’s new AI rules will (and will not) affect podcasting, another late-night host ditching TV for audio, and a bunch of your recs
Read MoreThe Nuki 4.0 comes in a Pro and Standard version; both work with Matter over Thread and are designed for European-style doors. | Image: Nuki After teasing it for over a year, Austrian smart lock maker Nuki has launched its Matter-over-Thread smart lock. The Nuki Smart Lock is the company’s fourth generation of its retrofit
Read MoreOlga Kharif / Bloomberg: Crypto exchange and wallet service Blockchain.com raised a $110M Series E led by Kingsway, a source says at less than half of its $14B valuation in spring 2022 — – Prior investor Kingsway led the Series E funding round — Raise leaves valuation at less than half of prior $14 billion
Read MoreAlmost everything about the world of Pokémon revolves around humans and their magical monster buds fighting to near-death for fame and glory. But the first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming Pokémon Concierge series from Dwarf Animation Studio is a reminder that in order to succeed in battle, one must also make time to relax. Set on
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Nothing is launching the beta of Nothing Chats, which promises to give the Phone 2 compatibility with iMessage. Nothing Chats requires you to connect it with your Apple ID. Nothing claims its messaging app is private and secure. Nothing is getting ready to launch a new messaging app called
Read MoreThe Nuki 4.0 comes in a Pro and Standard version; both work with Matter over Thread and are designed for European-style doors. | Image: Nuki After teasing it for over a year, Austrian smart lock maker Nuki has launched its Matter-over-Thread smart lock. The Nuki Smart Lock is the company’s fourth generation of its retrofit
Read MoreThe Verge There’s no shortage of ways to share files with other people, whether you want to send them in a group chat, attach them to an email, or ping them over via AirDrop or Nearby Share. These all work perfectly well, but they’re all best for smaller files. If you’ve got a larger file
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: EU lawmakers are on a tricky knife edge hammering out the AI Act’s final shape, as France and Germany push for a regulatory carve-out for foundation models — Negotiations between European Union lawmakers tasked with reaching a compromise on a risk-based framework for regulating applications …
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Notion unveils Q&A, an AI assistant that answers questions using info from a user’s files and apps, as part Notion’s AI add-on for $8 to $10 per user per month — The first killer app of AI for businesses, it appears, is a simple thing: to be able to find
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