Israel-Hamas war: how social media companies are handling the response
Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The war in Israel presents content moderation challenges for the most popular social media sites. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The war in Israel presents content moderation challenges for the most popular social media sites. Continue reading…
Read MoreCoinDesk: Filing: the US SEC drops charges alleging Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chairman Chris Larsen aided and abetted the company in violating securities laws — The regulator had included them as defendants in its securities violation case revolving around XRP transactions, and the agency now says it’s just pursuing Ripple for damages.
Read MoreIllustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The war in Israel presents content moderation challenges for the most popular social media sites. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The war in Israel presents content moderation challenges for the most popular social media sites. Continue reading…
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: India’s Central Bureau of Investigation works with Microsoft and Amazon to raid 76 locations in a nationwide crackdown on tech support scams and crypto fraud — India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided 76 locations in a nationwide crackdown on cybercrime operations behind tech support scams and cryptocurrency fraud.
Read MoreCredit: Google An APK teardown of the Google app hints that Google may have renewed work on its AR glasses project. The code reveals references to the codename “iris” and device gestures. The code also suggests the smart glasses could be used for Google Assistant actions. We often see Google cancel projects and products alike.
Read MoreOracle has released the Oracle Java Platform extension for Visual Studio Code, bringing full-featured Java development for Maven and Gradle projects to Microsoft’s popular code editor. Available in the VS Code portion of the Visual Studio Marketplace, the Oracle Java Platform extension was unveiled October 18. The extension covers the development cycle from editing to
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Product Hunt’s CEO says layoffs announced on October 10 were for “strategic” not “financial or company performance reasons”, and impacted ~60% of the team — Product Hunt, the product discovery site for smaller startups, apps, tech tools, and developers’ side projects, is cleaning house.
Read MoreImage: Lexus Toyota and its luxury brand Lexus will start implementing Tesla’s winning charging plug standard known as the North American Charging Standard, or NACS, in “certain” vehicles starting in 2025. Toyota will also provide current and soon-to-be EV buyers with adapters to access 12,000-plus Tesla Supercharger stations. One of Toyota’s first vehicles to include
Read MoreImage: Lexus Toyota and its luxury brand Lexus will start implementing Tesla’s winning charging plug standard known as the North American Charging Standard, or NACS, in “certain” vehicles starting in 2025. Toyota will also provide current and soon-to-be EV buyers with adapters to access 12,000-plus Tesla Supercharger stations. One of Toyota’s first vehicles to include
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: India’s Central Bureau of Investigation works with Microsoft and Amazon to raid 76 locations in a nationwide crackdown on tech support scams and crypto fraud — India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided 76 locations in a nationwide crackdown on cybercrime operations behind tech support scams and cryptocurrency fraud.
Read MorePhoto by Steven Ferdman / Getty Images Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is among a group of authors suing Meta, Microsoft, and other companies over the use of their work in building AI tools. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Huckabee and other authors including Christian writer Lysa TerKeurst allege that their books were pirated and
Read MoreWes Davis / The Verge: The FCC unanimously approves a petition by Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others for access to the 6GHz band for Wi-Fi tethering for AR and VR headsets — The FCC has unanimously approved plans by several tech companies to use the 6GHz band for wireless devices.
Read MoreAny student new to the principles of fluid dynamics will be familiar with Bernoulli’s principle and the Venturi effect, where the speed of a liquid or gas increases when the size of the conduit it flows through decreases. When applying this principle to real-world applications, though, it can get a bit more complex than a
Read MoreWe’re finally seeing more foldable smartphones arrive in the US market. Samsung has dominated the US with its Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5, and only recently did we get the Google Pixel Fold. Now, OnePlus has arrived with the OnePlus Open, heating up the competition with its superior spec sheet. But
Read MoreApple reportedly fired multiple App Store workers in China after an internal audit found they were breaching strict rules.
Read MoreGrand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Chinatown Wars are now available to iPhone owners with GTA Plus subscriptions.
Read MoreAmazon’s paper mailers. | Image: Amazon Amazon is fulfilling a small part of its promise to switch from using plastic bubble mailers and air pillows to all recyclable paper packaging for its shipments. The company announced that it has outfitted one facility in Euclid, Ohio, with an upgraded packaging machine that can automatically fold custom-fit
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon, Microsoft, and India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the country’s federal enforcement agency, have announced a major crackdown on tech support fraud. The CBI’s post details two instances where scammers pretended they were customer support agents for two “well-known multi-national companies” (Amazon and Microsoft) through pop-ups
Read MoreRollerskates are all well and good, but they’re even more fun when they’re powered. Then again, why stick with wheels, when you can have the off-road benefits of tracked propulsion? That’s precisely what [Joel] was thinking when he built this impressive set of Tank Boots. The build uses a set of tracks from a tracked
Read MoreThe US Congress won’t pass federal AI regulation anytime soon. NYC is forging ahead with an AI Action Plan and a proposal for a new Office of Algorithmic Data Integrity.
Read MoreNew York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against crypto companies, including the Winkelvoss twins’ Gemini, alleging they misled investors.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Major record label Universal Music Group and other music publishers have sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic for distributing copyrighted lyrics with its AI model Claude 2. The music publishers’ complaint, filed in Tennessee, claims that Claude 2 can be prompted to distribute almost identical lyrics to songs like
Read MoreJaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau. | Photo by Brooke Palmer / Prime Video As invested as Amazon has been in its adaptation of The Boys, it always seemed like a given that the series’ new spinoff, Gen V, would be coming back for a second season following its debut last month. But just in case
Read MoreThe HyperX Cloud series of headsets has long been a favorite in the gaming community, so the arrival of the HyperX Cloud III Wireless was hotly anticipated. Just weeks after it became available, you can now score a $20 discount on the gaming headphones. HyperX Cloud III Wireless for $149.99 ($20 off)
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