Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung is starting to roll out a “Temporary Cloud Backup” feature to Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets running on One UI 6, the company announced on Thursday. It’ll allow users to back up and transfer an unlimited number of photos, videos, and other data for up to 30
Read MoreSarah Fielding / Engadget: Google expands its bug bounty program to include generative AI, which presents different security issues, including model manipulation and unfair bias — New guidance outlines what discoveries garner financial rewards. — With concerns around generative AI ever-present …
Read MoreThe UK government says its Online Safety Act will protect people, particularly children, on the internet. Critics say it’s ineffective against dangerous misinformation and may be a threat to privacy.
Read MoreIllustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge The UK’s Online Safety Bill, a wide-ranging piece of legislation that aims to make the country “the safest place in the world to be online” received royal assent today and became law. The bill has been years in the making and attempts to introduce new obligations for how
Read MoreThe services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options if your distributed applications span heterogeneous platforms. Earlier protocols such as DCOM, RPC, and IIOP were restricted to homogeneous environments. For heterogeneous environments, we need a
Read MoreA drone flying outside of that abandoned train station that Ford wants to turn into an innovation hub. | Image: Michigan Central Detroit’s Michigan Central Station, the once beautiful but now abandoned train station that Ford is rehabilitating into an innovation and technology hub, is about to be swarmed by drones. The Ford subsidiary that
Read MoreDavid Lawder / Reuters: US Trade Representative Katherine Tai dropped longstanding US digital trade demands in WTO talks, aiming to give Congress room to regulate Big Tech companies — U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has dropped longstanding U.S. digital trade demands in World Trade Organization talks …
Read MoreCredit: Honor HONOR has announced that the Magic 6 will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 platform. The phone will feature a unique eye-tracking function that’ll allow users to open apps just by looking at them. Qualcomm is hosting the Snapdragon Summit this week, and as usual, smartphone makers are also present at
Read MoreJessica Nix / Bloomberg: Magic Leap names Bain Capital tech executive Ross Rosenberg as CEO, starting November 1, replacing Peggy Johnson, who joined from Microsoft in 2020 — Rosenberg, a tech executive at Bain Capital, takes over Nov. 1. He’s charged with expanding the commercial adaptation of the AR technology, the company said in a
Read MoreA clinical trial reveals the first evidence of how the brain restructures physically in the first month on SSRIs—and the link between neuroplasticity and depression.
Read MoreThis summer, Meta began taking requests to delete data from its AI training. Artists say this new system is broken and fake. Meta says there is no opt-out program.
Read MoreGet rid of old, broken, and unused devices—even Lightning cables—without adding to the e-waste problem.
Read MoreDo you miss the days of thumbing through a sticky, laminated booklet to order your food? Sick of restaurants and their frustrating electronic menus? Fear not, for [Guy Dupont] and his QR code menu printer are here to save the day. Yes, that’s right — it’s a lunchbox-sized printer designed to spit out a paper
Read MorePolitico: UK PM Rishi Sunak announces plans for a new UK-based AI Safety Institute and a new AI research network, modeled on the IPCC, ahead of the AI Summit in November — British PM defended seeking Chinese buy-in for a bevvy of new AI governance initiatives he is set to launch next week.
Read MoreAssociated Press: Hyundai plans to run five US “clinics” for anti-theft software upgrades for vehicles now regularly targeted by thieves using techniques popularized on TikTok — Hyundai said Wednesday that it will set up “mobile clinics” at five U.S. locations to provide anti-theft software upgrades …
Read MoreCredit: Lily Katz / Android Authority Apple is reportedly planning to revamp the entire AirPods lineup starting next year. The fourth-generation AirPods and third-generation AirPods Pro are expected to get a new design, more models, and USB-C charging. The AirPods Max headphones are also expected to gain a USB-C port. Apple is betting big on
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority X is rolling out audio and video calling on the platform. Several users have received the features, but they have not rolled out widely just yet. It’s unclear if non-Premium X subscribers will have access to audio and video calling. X (formerly Twitter) is now rolling out the ability
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Photos is preparing a new Photo Stack feature. It will automatically group similar photos in various stacks. Users will be able to further edit and manage these stacks as per their linking. Google Photos is getting ready for a new feature that would help you organize photos that
Read MoreThe astonishing variety of ways to tell the time which have appeared on these pages over the years provides a showcase of the talents and ingenuity of our community. Many clocks use designs we are familiar with, but every now and then along comes a clock that rings something new. So it is with [Ivan
Read MoreNitasha Tiku / Washington Post: Analysis of 1,800 AI datasets: ~70% didn’t state what license should be used or had been mislabeled with more permissive guidelines than their creators intended — The Data Provenance Initiative analyzed data sets used to build generative AI and found confusion surrounding licencing and fair use.
Read MoreAs X (formerly Twitter) went into disarray, it became an opportunity for other microblogging platforms to take over. Meta launched Threads, and more people became curious about Bluesky Social. The question is, what do they offer, and which one is best? We’ll share all in this Threads vs Bluesky Social comparison. Threads vs Bluesky: How
Read MoreYoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Kioxia investor SK Hynix says the company didn’t agree to the Kioxia-Western Digital merger due to “the overall impact on the value of the company’s investment” — – Its opposition introduces more uncertainty to a landmark deal — Western Digital and Kioxia have talked for years about a combo
Read MoreThe complexity of cloud-native applications appears bottomless. In addition to the familiar Kubernetes, cloud-native apps build on a growing ecosystem of services baked into the public cloud platforms. Developing and managing these applications requires a lot more than coding, going beyond devops into platform and infrastructure engineering. If you want a stable application, you need
Read MoreSure, there are LLM-powered websites you can use for chatbots, querying a document, or turning text into SQL. But there’s nothing like having access to the underlying code. Along with the satisfaction of getting an application up and running, working directly with the Python files gives you the chance to tweak how things look and
Read MoreBenoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q3 revenue up 2.5% to $4.43B, beating $4.38B est., net income down 0.8% YoY to ~$1B, and predicts demand rising in Q1 — – Net revenue in fourth quarter seen at $4.3 billion, down 3% — Third quarter sales were buoyed by automotive industry demand
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