Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon will require some remote corporate employees to relocate as part of a mandate requiring workers to be in the office three days a week — – Requirement comes amid souring morale in wake of layoffs — Company requires workers to be in office three days a week
Read MorePhoto by Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Seven of AI’s top companies attended a White House summit Friday, reaching a deal with the Biden administration to roll out new guardrails to enhance the safety and security of their systems and users, like watermarking AI-generated content. “These commitments are real, and they are concrete,” President Joe
Read MoreZack Whittaker / TechCrunch: How Vietnam’s 1Byte, the startup behind TheTruthSpy stalkerware, created fake sellers networks with forged US passports to evade detection and funnel payments — A network of fake sellers allowed a global phone surveillance ring to operate under the radar for years
Read MoreHumans have always drawn lines in the sand, whether it’s to communicate a plan of attack or to indicate metaphorically a very real boundary. It’s also something we do just for the aesthetic pleasure, and this plotter from [aidenvigue] is great at performing in just that role. The plotter traces patterns in the circular sand
Read MoreIn an era where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, privacy has become a precious commodity. Unfortunately, there are individuals and organizations exploiting this vulnerability for their gain. One such example is TheTruthSpy, a collection of Android surveillance apps known as “stalkerware.” These apps, including Copy9 and MxSpy, have compromised hundreds of thousands of
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has started charging customers who pay phone bills in-store a new $5 “Payment Support Charge,” plus tax. According to The Mobile Report, the new fee went into effect on July 19th, though prepaid customers will be charged the fee later on. In a flier shared with The
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney wants to transition ESPN from linear TV to streaming — and the NBA and NFL might be the partners that help the company do that. According to CNBC, Disney CEO Bob Iger and ESPN leader Jimmy Pitaro held talks with both leagues about bringing them on as
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Analogue Pocket is a fantastic way to play Game Boy games, but preorders have taken a long time to ship out. If you’re still waiting for your device, Analogue shared a promising update on Friday: any preorders made before July 20th, 2023, will “begin shipping in August,”
Read MoreKevin Collier / NBC News: The New York MTA says it has used AI-powered surveillance software at seven subway stations in May to track fare evaders, plans to expand to ~12 more this year — An MTA spokesperson said the software doesn’t flag fare evaders to New York police but declined to comment on whether
Read MoreAny time we mention Linux, it is a fair bet we will get a few comments from people unhappy that we didn’t refer to it as GNU/Linux or with some other appellation. To be fair, they aren’t wrong. Linux is a kernel. Much of what we think of as a Linux desktop OS is really
Read MoreAs you would expect from Bose, the QuietComfort Earbuds II offer fantastic active noise cancelation but also a hefty price tag of $299. That’s why we were stoked to see the true wireless buds return to their Prime Day sale price of $249 today in this Amazon deal, and you don’t even need the subscription
Read MoreImage: Metacore Have you ever been doomscrolling on a weeknight and see a weird ad for a mobile game that has you match three to fight off zombies or move sticks so a guy can reach treasure? Then, with your judgment impaired by late-night social media brain-poison, you download the game only to find it
Read MoreCredit: SmartPrix/Steve Hemmerstoffer A leak has provided new details about the OnePlus Open. OnePlus’s new foldable could have a periscope lens and come in Black or Green. The phone may be called the OPPO Find N3 in China. From the processor to the cameras and more, there have been numerous leaks giving us details about
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram’s new Stories feature that lets users share time-limited videos and photos is now live after CEO Pavel Durov shared last month that the feature was in testing (via 9to5Mac). For now, the company is only allowing its paid Premium subscribers to post Telegram Stories. The Telegram Stories
Read MoreImage: The Verge OpenAI’s head of trust and safety, Dave Willner, is stepping down from the company as the AI industry faces more scrutiny around privacy and security from policymakers. Willner has been working in trust and safety for nearly a decade. Before joining OpenAI, Willner was head of trust and safety at childcare startup
Read MoreImage: The Pokémon Company It makes a lot of sense that Pokémon Sleep is a simple game — it’s something that you play in part by sleeping, after all. There’s only so much complexity you can embed in an experience where players aren’t conscious much of the time. Even still, after spending most of the
Read MoreImage: Amazon Amazon is spending $120 million to build a new facility for its Project Kuiper satellites in Florida. On Thursday, the company announced it will use the 100,000-square-foot building to prepare its internet satellites for their launch into space. The building will be located at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space
Read MoreWestern Digital’s My Passport SSDs are the ideal way to expand your offline storage, and the offer that dropped today is remarkable. Amazon just slashed the price of the WD 500GB My Passport SSD to just $36.99, which is a huge deal at 69% off. WD 500GB My Passport Portable SSD for $36.99 ($83 off)
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Amazon settles with the US DOJ and the FTC for $25M over not complying with parents’ requests to delete their kids’ Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data — The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Amazon has agreed to pay a $25 million fine …
Read MoreGoogle’s co-founder, Sergey Brin, is taking a hands-on approach to the company’s AI efforts. Brin is now showing up at the Google offices three to four days a week. The co-founder is using his time to help support the hiring process. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, announced the exit of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Here’s all the news from Samsung’s second Unpacked event of the year. Continue reading…
Read MoreUp first this week is a report from vpnMentor, covering the unsecured database backing a set of dating apps, including 419 Dating. The report is a bit light on the technical details, like what sort of database this was, or how exactly it was accessed. But the result is 2.3 million exposed records, containing email
Read MoreIt’s no OLED, but Hisense’s midrange TV still offers phenomenal picture quality for the price. | Image: Hisense Things are looking up if you were thinking about picking up a new 4K TV. The price of an OLED has fallen dramatically in recent years, with newer standouts like LG’s last-gen C2 and A2 having recently
Read MoreRich Stanton / PC Gamer: Troy Hunt: sensitive info of ~4,000 people who attended Roblox Developer Conference between 2017-2020 was leaked in 2021; Roblox disclosed the leak just now — This may cost the company a few Robux. — The major gaming platform Roblox has suffered a major data breach …
Read MorePhoto by John Lamparski / Getty Images For the first time in over 60 years, the unions representing actors and Hollywood writers are staging a strike at the same time, protesting low pay and studios’ proposals for using artificial intelligence tools in production. More than 175,000 union members are out of work until a deal
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