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Australia abandons its plans to mandate age verification tech for porn sites, citing privacy and security concerns, and will instead focus on educating parents (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)

Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Australia abandons its plans to mandate age verification tech for porn sites, citing privacy and security concerns, and will instead focus on educating parents — The eSafety commissioner is to work with industry on a new code to educate parents about how to access filtering software and limit children’s access

Meta lets users submit requests to access, alter, or delete some of their third-party information that Meta uses for generative AI training (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta lets users submit requests to access, alter, or delete some of their third-party information that Meta uses for generative AI training — – Meta updated its help resource center with a form that gives users some control over what personal data is used to train generative artificial intelligence models.

The US Copyright Office seeks public input on AI and copyright issues, including the use of copyrighted works to train AI; written comments are due October 18 (Emilia David/The Verge)

Emilia David / The Verge: The US Copyright Office seeks public input on AI and copyright issues, including the use of copyrighted works to train AI; written comments are due October 18 — The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues beginning August 30th as the agency figures

The FCC rejects ISPs’ requests to eliminate an upcoming requirement that they list all their monthly fees, saying “every consumer needs transparent information” (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: The FCC rejects ISPs’ requests to eliminate an upcoming requirement that they list all their monthly fees, saying “every consumer needs transparent information” — Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says “no.”

Restoring A 45 Year Old Video Game

When we say vintage video game, some of you may think of the likes of Lemmings, Mario or maybe even Donkey Kong but the game that [Vintage Apparatus] restored is slightly older and much more minimalist, using an LED matrix and some 7-segment displays rather than this newfangled color CRT thing. The game is disassembled

OnePlus Open could outfold the Galaxy Z Fold 5

Credit: MySmartPrix OnePlus Open is said to be tested for 400,000 folds by the company. The foldable phone might end up being equally or more durable than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5. OnePlus Open seems to be inching closer to launch if the increasing frequency of leaks about the device is anything to go

NYC subway’s contactless payments system, the OMNY, has a privacy issue that lets one view a rider’s 7-day trip history using just the rider’s credit card info (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: NYC subway’s contactless payments system, the OMNY, has a privacy issue that lets one view a rider’s 7-day trip history using just the rider’s credit card info — In the mid-afternoon one Saturday earlier this month, the target got on the New York subway. I knew what station they entered

Google Chrome could soon let you share passwords with up to 6 people

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Chrome’s upcoming password-sharing feature could be limited to members of a Google family group. That means you’ll soon be able to share your saved Chrome passwords with up to six people. Google Chrome could soon add a password-sharing feature that lets users share login credentials with other family

Google partners with enterprise messaging interoperability provider Mio to enable messaging between Chat and platforms like Slack and Teams, available in beta (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google partners with enterprise messaging interoperability provider Mio to enable messaging between Chat and platforms like Slack and Teams, available in beta — Besides the upcoming homescreen redesign and Duet AI, Google Chat is getting voice messages and interoperability with third-party messaging services.

A look at cybercrime writing contests, which Russian-language cybercrime forums have hosted for over a decade, that offer the winners up to $80K in prize money (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Matt Burgess / Wired: A look at cybercrime writing contests, which Russian-language cybercrime forums have hosted for over a decade, that offer the winners up to $80K in prize money — The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners.

How open-source software transformed automated insulin delivery systems, as many advocates say the tech promises more personalization than proprietary software (Liam Drew/Nature)

Liam Drew / Nature: How open-source software transformed automated insulin delivery systems, as many advocates say the tech promises more personalization than proprietary software — – Liam Drew 0 — Liam Drew is a freelance writer based near London, UK. — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar

IFA 2023: the biggest announcements from Europe’s big tech show

Photo by John MacDougall / AFP via Getty Images From the smart home to foldables, here’s everything being announced in Berlin. Continue reading…

Aqara put a notification light in its new Matter ceiling light

The outer ring can create a gradient — or serve as a notification light. | Image: Aqara Aqara is adding a bunch of new products to its smart home lineup today, one of which includes a Matter-enabled ceiling light with a pretty unique perk. With a diameter of 50cm (~19.7 inches), Aqara’s Ceiling Light T1M

Apple may stop offering customer support on social media

Illustration: The Verge Apple employees will soon stop providing assistance to customers via X — formerly Twitter — as well as YouTube and the Apple Support Community online forum, MacRumors reports, citing anonymous sources. Apple reportedly plans on getting rid of its social media support advisor roles, including the paid community specialist role for the

Xbox clips will soon automatically upload to OneDrive cloud storage

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is working on a feature that will allow Xbox owners to automatically upload their screenshots and clips to OneDrive. Xbox Insiders in the Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead rings can now test this new feature, which also allows you to upload your existing clip and screenshot collection to

Robinhood Wallet adds support for bitcoin and dogecoin six months after public launch, and is rolling out in-app Ethereum swaps to all users in the coming weeks (Ben Strack/Blockworks)

Ben Strack / Blockworks: Robinhood Wallet adds support for bitcoin and dogecoin six months after public launch, and is rolling out in-app Ethereum swaps to all users in the coming weeks — Six months after its public launch, the self-custody offering has begun enabling in-app swaps on the Ethereum network

All-Mechanical Coil Winder is a Scrap-Bin Delight

If there’s something more tedious than winding coils, we’re not sure what it is — possibly rolling and wrapping coins; that’s really a bother. But luckily, just like there are mechanical ways to count coins, there are tools to make coil production a little less of a chore, but perhaps none that have as much

Amazon announces the Buy with Prime app for Shopify, which will let US-based Shopify merchants natively integrate Amazon’s program into their Shopify stores (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon announces the Buy with Prime app for Shopify, which will let US-based Shopify merchants natively integrate Amazon’s program into their Shopify stores — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.

Google kills Pixel Pass without ever upgrading subscriber’s phones

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In October 2021, Google launched a new Pixel Pass subscription program alongside the Pixel 6 series of phones that promised three things for one monthly payment ($45 for a Pixel 6 or $55 for a 6 Pro): “Google’s best mobile services, device protection, and regular device upgrades.”

Google finally launches AI-powered Search outside US

Credit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Google is bringing generative AI-based search features to India and Japan. The company has also brought improvements to its AI-powered overview feature. Google may have been a little late to the generative AI game, but it’s been testing a so-called Search Generative Experience (SGE) with users as part of

Google launches its Search Generative Experience in India and Japan via Search Labs opt-in, following the US launch of the AI search feature in May 2023 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches its Search Generative Experience in India and Japan via Search Labs opt-in, following the US launch of the AI search feature in May 2023 — Following the May launch in the US, Google is giving the Search Generative Experience (SGE) an international launch in India and Japan …

Sources: Apple plans to eliminate social media support adviser roles across X, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later this year (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Sources: Apple plans to eliminate social media support adviser roles across X, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later this year — Apple is planning to eliminate social media support advisor roles across Twitter, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later …

The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Saga and Calls for Right to Repair

The inside of a Taylor C709 ice cream machine, as seen from the back with the cover over the electronics removed. (Credit: iFixit) Raising a likely somewhat contentious topic, iFixit and Public Knowledge have challenged the manufacturer behind McDonald’s ice cream machines to make them easy to diagnose and repair . This is a subject

The best Android phone to buy in 2023

Image: The Verge Whether you want everything but the kitchen sink or top-tier performance for a midtier price, you’ve got options. Continue reading…

Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which develops generative AI tools for text use cases, raised a $155M Series C at a $1.4B valuation, taking its total funding to $283M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which develops generative AI tools for text use cases, raised a $155M Series C at a $1.4B valuation, taking its total funding to $283M — AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing a range of text-generating AI tools, has raised $155 million in a Series C funding

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