Rolling Stone: SAG-AFTRA’s deal would require studios to obtain consent before creating digital replicas of living and deceased actors, disclose their use, and pay to use them — The union’s national board voted Friday to accept the new deal with Hollywood studios
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta is starting to prompt users to sign up for the paid “no ads” version of Facebook and Instagram that’s launching in Europe. It’s rolling out as Meta responds to new EU privacy regulations by positioning the use of its services with targeted ads as a choice by
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple struck a deal with Amazon to strip competitors’ ads off of pages for iPhones, iPads MacBooks, and its other products, according to a report from Insider. The agreement makes search results and product pages for Apple devices cleaner than those of competitors. While Amazon still lists competing
Read MoreThe original Steam Deck was a surprise hit, even for Valve, which up until the handheld’s launch in 2022 had developed a poor track record with first-party hardware — its Index VR headset is the only other device it still has on the market. The Deck has been so successful, in fact, that there’s now
Read MoreIf you watch the movies, there isn’t much to a wind tunnel. Just a fan and a tunnel, right? The truth is there’s a lot more to it than that, and [ejs13] shows you how you can make a small tunnel with some basic supplies. One of the requirements for a useful tunnel is to
Read MoreKrystal Hu / Reuters: Sources: Character.AI is in talks to raise hundreds of millions from Google and to raise equity funding from VC investors, which could value the company at $5B+ — Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Character.AI, as the fast growing artificial …
Read MoreIt’s still two weeks until Black Friday, but you’re not going to see a better fitness tracker deal in that time than today’s gem. We know that’s quite a statement, but the recently released Fitbit Charge 6 just got a massive $60 markdown. It’s the first time the Fitbit wearable has had any type of
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta is starting to prompt users to sign up for the paid “no ads” version of Facebook and Instagram that’s launching in Europe. It’s rolling out as Meta responds to new EU privacy regulations by positioning the use of its services with targeted ads as a choice by
Read MoreJessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: LockBit leaks ~50GB of data that the ransomware gang claims to have stolen from Boeing in October, after the company apparently refused to pay the ransom demand — Aerospace titan pores over data to see if dump is legit — The LockBit crew is claiming to have leaked all
Read MoreImage: Netflix Netflix dropped a bit of a “Smile Bomb” (if you know, you know) during Geeked Week 2023. Not only did it share the first trailer for the live-action adaptation of Yu Yu Hakusho but we also got a release date. And it’s soon. If you’re an anime fan of a certain age, I’m
Read MoreIt remains to be seen just how much of the fascinating, winding complexity of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem ends up making it into Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of the novel from co-creators Alexander Woo, D.B. Weiss, and David Benioff. But in a new clip from the show that’s just dropped as part of Netflix’s Geeked
Read MoreJessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: LockBit leaks ~50GB of data that the ransomware gang claims to have stolen from Boeing in October, after the company apparently refused to pay the ransom demand — Aerospace titan pores over data to see if dump is legit — The LockBit crew is claiming to have leaked all
Read MoreTop senate officials are planning to save the Section 702 surveillance program by attaching it to a crucial piece of legislation. Critics worry a chance to pass privacy reforms will be missed.
Read MoreImage: Netflix Season 4 of The Witcher may be far off on the horizon, but there’s still plenty more of Geralt of Rivia in store on Netflix. At its Geeked Week event today, the streamer announced The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, an animated movie that takes place right in the middle of season 1
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: In an AMA on Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr’s future after shifting the majority of its staff to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more — This week, WordPress.com owner Matt Mullenweg confirmed his company would be shifting the majority of Tumblr’s workforce to other areas …
Read MoreUS government officials continue to warn that the public and private sectors need to identify and root out China-backed attackers lurking in industrial control systems.
Read MoreHomebrew reflow projects generally follow a pretty simple formula: find a thrift shop toaster oven or hot plate, add a microcontroller and a means to turn the heating element on and off, and close the loop with a thermistor. Add a little code and you’re melting solder paste. Sometimes, though, a ground-up design works better,
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority When I first learned about the new Go5G plans from T-Mobile I was a little confused by just how little the new plans seemed to offer. One of the things we previously loved about T-Mobile was the simplicity of its plans. It was easy to pick the right plan as
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images After four (!!) months, the SAG-AFTRA strike has ended. There is a lot to unpack about the contract, but I will let the showbiz experts (read: not me) handle that. For our purposes, there are a few key ways podcasting is affected. The most immediate impact
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Report: Apple product and search result pages on Amazon have few, if any, rival ads, after Apple asked for preferential treatment, leading to their 2018 deal — Apple and Amazon are once again facing scrutiny for their 2018 agreement that saw Apple finally establish an official Amazon storefront.
Read More[iforce2d] has an interesting video exploring whether the OpenMV H7 board is viable as a flyby camera for pick and place, able to quickly snap a shot of a moving part instead of requiring the part to be held still in front of the camera. The answer seems to be yes! The OpenMV camera module
Read MorePhoto: FX Thanksgiving is coming, and after that, December and all of its various holidays. For many of us, this means lots of cooking and traveling and family gatherings, with all that entails. And this year, conversations around the dinner table may be even more fraught than usual. So we asked the staff of The
Read MoreAditya Kalra / Reuters: India proposes broadcast and streaming rules that would set up content evaluation committees and let the government regulate any online creator or news platform — India on Friday introduced a new draft broadcasting law to regulate the sector that will also apply to streaming giants such as Netflix …
Read MoreResearchers are working on deep-learning algorithms that will allow headphone users to select which sounds they hear. Users will be able to choose from 20 classes of sounds, including sirens, baby cries, bird chirps, and more. The researchers plan to create a commercial version of the technology. Noise cancelation on headphones is great when you
Read MorePerhaps no words fill me with more dread than, “I hear there’s something going around.” In my experience, you hear this when some nasty bug has worked its way into the community and people start getting whatever it is. I’m always on my guard when I hear about something like this, especially when it’s something
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