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TikTok confirms appealing a €345M teen privacy fine by EU regulators from September in the EU General Court and is also locally challenging an order by Ireland (Stephanie Bodoni/Bloomberg)

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: TikTok confirms appealing a €345M teen privacy fine by EU regulators from September in the EU General Court and is also locally challenging an order by Ireland — – Chinese-owned platform contests EU-level, Irish decisions — Unit faces intense scrutiny of child safeguarding practices

6 ways automation bites software developers

Every software developer knows the dream. We sit in some deck chairs by the pool as the AIs and no-code layers keep the enterprise stack running smoothly. Perhaps we get a whim or an urge to redesign some section of the web app or maybe even completely refactor everything. Without raising our heads, we just

Brace yourselves: New iPads and Apple Pencil could be coming very very soon

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Apple could announce the iPad 11, the iPad Mini 7, and the iPad Air 6 tomorrow, according to reports. However, some reports suggest Apple could release the Apple Pencil 3 instead. These tablets are expected to be processor refreshes of existing products. The stylus is said to feature interchangeable

PS5 won’t connect to the internet? Here’s how to fix it

The PlayStation 5 packs powerful and innovative hardware. With a high-speed internet connection, you can sign into PlayStation Network, explore PlayStation Plus to enable online multiplayer games, download your favorite titles, and update your PS5. However, many have faced difficulties with connecting their PS5 consoles to the internet. Before you rush to the nearest Sony

Tokyo-based, KKR-owned chipmaking equipment maker Kokusai Electric raised $724.4M in its IPO, after pricing shares at ~$12.30, valuing the company at ~$2.8B (Reuters)

Reuters: Tokyo-based, KKR-owned chipmaking equipment maker Kokusai Electric raised $724.4M in its IPO, after pricing shares at ~$12.30, valuing the company at ~$2.8B — Chip equipment maker Kokusai Electric (6525.T) has raised $724.4 million after pricing its shares at the top end of their marketed range …

Assassin’s Creed Jade: Expected release date and the latest rumors

Assassin’s Creed Jade is one of the most anticipated games in the Assassin’s Creed series. Ubisoft, known for open-world games on PC and consoles, partnered with Tencent’s Level Infinite to develop Assassin’s Creed Jade. It’s the company’s first creation of an Assassin’s Creed title specifically for iOS and Android. Thanks to Ubisoft Forward Live 2023,

Spotify on iOS causing problems for weeks? You’re not alone

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Spotify’s iOS users have been complaining about performance issues with the app for several weeks. The more recent complaints suggest the Spotify iOS app is randomly crashing or stopping playback mid-song. Spotify has acknowledged the issue and is investigating the matter. Spotify seems to be misbehaving for iOS users

SolanaFM: the FTX estate staked 5.5M SOL, valued at $122M, from a principal wallet, delegating the coins to network validator Figment; FTX has $1B+ in SOL (Vishal Chawla/The Block)

Vishal Chawla / The Block: SolanaFM: the FTX estate staked 5.5M SOL, valued at $122M, from a principal wallet, delegating the coins to network validator Figment; FTX has $1B+ in SOL — – The FTX estate has staked over 5.5 million Solana worth $122 million. — A wallet address identified as managed …

21.co: the US now holds 200K+ bitcoin, worth $5B+, seized from criminals and darknet markets; an IRS executive says sales are “set by the timing in our process” (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: 21.co: the US now holds 200K+ bitcoin, worth $5B+, seized from criminals and darknet markets; an IRS executive says sales are “set by the timing in our process” — Uncle Sam’s stash of some 200,000 bitcoin was seized from cybercriminals and darknet markets

Ferrari begins accepting crypto payments for its cars in the US and plans to add the option for European customers in Q1 2024; Ferrari sold 13,200 cars in 2022 (Giulio Piovaccari/Reuters)

Giulio Piovaccari / Reuters: Ferrari begins accepting crypto payments for its cars in the US and plans to add the option for European customers in Q1 2024; Ferrari sold 13,200 cars in 2022 — Ferrari (RACE.MI) has started to accept payment in cryptocurrency for its luxury sports cars in the U.S. and will extend the

Mojang announces 300M+ copies of Minecraft sold in ~15 years; Rockstar’s GTA V is the second best-selling game ever after reportedly selling ~185M in ~10 years (Ash Parrish/The Verge)

Ash Parrish / The Verge: Mojang announces 300M+ copies of Minecraft sold in ~15 years; Rockstar’s GTA V is the second best-selling game ever after reportedly selling ~185M in ~10 years — Today, it adds more down to that particular feather in its cap with the announcement that it has sold a staggering 300 million

A ‘Green’ Search Engine Sees Danger—and Opportunity—in the Generative AI Revolution

Berlin-based Ecosia carved out a niche as a carbon-negative search engine. To adapt to the ChatGPT era, it’s moving closer to Google and exploring how AI could help users cut carbon emissions.

Making sure open source doesn’t fail AI

Open source has never sat comfortably in the cloud. It’s true open source has never been stronger (despite some evidence that most open source projects are an unmaintained security wasteland), but there’s a reason new license models keep cropping up, and it’s not corporate greed. Rather, it’s because the fundamental freedoms of open source and

Democratizing AI with digital adoption platforms

More quickly even than the internet, generative AI has become a core technology that is shaping our immediate workplace reality and longer-term future. Its poster child, natural language wiz ChatGPT, is one of the fastest growing apps in history, now featuring Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4, or simply GPT-4, which is so smart it recently passed

The Pixel 8 series supports display output over USB-C despite what Google says

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The Pixel 8 series supports DisplayPort functionality on a hardware level. The feature is disabled in the phones’ software. You can root the devices to enable display output over USB-C. The Google Pixel 8 series is now confirmed to support DisplayPort Alternate Mode, also known as DP Alt

Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies

From the Philippines to Colombia, low-paid workers label training data for AI models used by the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

Google Camera now has a new name to give you next level Pixel envy

Credit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Google has changed the name of the Google Camera app. It is now called Pixel Camera to highlight the app’s exclusivity to Pixel phones. It’s no doubt that the Pixel flagships are some of the best photography phones you can buy. A large part of the success of Pixel

Apple will soon be able to update unopened iPhones

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Apple is reportedly working on a way to wireless update iPhones without opening their boxes. This means you might not have a system update waiting for you out of the box. One thing about buying a new phone is that you’ll often have a system update waiting for you

Google confirms Pixel 8 series will support lossless USB audio in the future

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google will bring lossless audio support to the Pixel 8 series with a future update. Other Android 14 phones are also expected to gain the feature in the near future. App developers will need to adopt the new API for lossless audio to take advantage of the Android 14

Even 3D Printers Are Taking Selfies Now

We love watching 3D prints magically grow, through the power of timelapse videos. These are easier to make than ever, due in no small part to a vibrant community that’s continuously refining tools such as Octolapse. Most people are using some camera they can connect to a Raspberry Pi, namely a USB webcam or CSI

You told us: Most of you don’t care that the Pixel 8 lacks ray tracing

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Google Pixel 8 series has arrived, and we recently discovered that the phones lacked hardware-accelerated ray-tracing. This discovery came after our earlier leak pointed to ray-tracing support. That got us wondering whether readers actually cared about this missing feature. We posted a poll to find out, and here’s

Hackaday Links: October 15, 2023

Want to get a chatbot to do your bidding, even when it’s programmed not to? It’s easy — all you have to do is learn to speak Zulu or Scots Gaelic. At least that seems to be the case, if research from Brown University into OpenAI’s GPT-4 vulnerabilities proves to be true. Like most chatbots,

Australia fined X ~$384K and warned Google after the companies didn’t give enough info about their efforts to fight CSAM despite a law requiring the disclosure (Kate Conger/New York Times)

Kate Conger / New York Times: Australia fined X ~$384K and warned Google after the companies didn’t give enough info about their efforts to fight CSAM despite a law requiring the disclosure — The service formerly known as Twitter told Australian regulators that its automated detection of abusive material had declined after Elon Musk bought

Can A $3200 Kit Convert Your Car To Electric Power?

Whether hardcore petrolheads like it or not, we appear to be living through the final years of the internal combustion engine. In many countries there are legislative timetables in place for their eventual phasing out, and even those which remain in production are subject to ever more stringent emissions legislation. If there’s a problem with

Lakers legend Rick Fox built a house that can suck CO2 out of the atmosphere

Laker legend-turned-actor Rick Fox has a new passion: sustainable concrete. | Image: Partanna A new house in the Bahamas is built with an alternative concrete that sucks CO2 out of the air. It’s a home that’s supposed to help in the fight against climate change, and the plan is to build 999 more like it.

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