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CCDH: despite Google’s promise to demonetize climate denial content in 2021, researchers find 100 YouTube videos with 18M+ views that feature ads for big brands (New York Times)

New York Times: CCDH: despite Google’s promise to demonetize climate denial content in 2021, researchers find 100 YouTube videos with 18M+ views that feature ads for big brands — Google said in 2021 that it would stop running ads alongside videos and other content that denied the existence and causes of climate change.

Amazon’s latest Echo Dot is on sale for as low as $29.99

Amazon’s current $20 discount applies to both the standard and clock-equipped models. | Image: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Right now, you can get Amazon’s latest Echo Dot smart speaker, which has some good sound for such a tiny device, for just $29.99 ($20 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. The LED-equipped model is

Motorola is finally bringing a real flagship contender to the US

This year’s Edge Plus boasts all the right specs to take it to Samsung and Google. | Image: Motorola We asked, and we received: Motorola is bringing its newest slab-style flagship to the US as the Motorola Edge Plus (2023). It’s priced at $799 for a base model with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of

Samsung tells employees not to use AI tools like ChatGPT, citing security concerns

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung has banned the use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT on its internal networks and company-owned devices over fears that uploading sensitive information to these platforms represents a security risk, Bloomberg News reports. The rule was communicated to staff in a memo which describes it as a

Apple’s iPhone App Store rules labeled ‘absurd’ as Elon Musk and Spotify’s CEO pile on

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and Twitter owner/CEO Elon Musk have complained about Apple’s in-app subscription rules with one calling them “absurd.”

Bolt co-founder Ryan Breslow launches Love.com, a marketplace with 600+ health supplements that raised $15M+; Breslow famously attacked Stripe’s founders (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Bolt co-founder Ryan Breslow launches Love.com, a marketplace with 600+ health supplements that raised $15M+; Breslow famously attacked Stripe’s founders — Wellness startup Love, the latest company co-founded by Silicon Valley’s favorite provocateur Ryan Breslow, is open for business.

I Regret to Inform You That Bluesky Is Fun

The buzzy new Twitter alternative is a throwback to an earlier internet era. The good times might not last—but it shows the blue bird can be replaced.

The Secrets of Aging Are Hidden in Your Ovaries

The ovaries age faster than any other organ in the body. Figuring out how to slow down that process could have health benefits for women—and men.

The Writers Guild of America calls for a strike after negotiations with Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and others over pay and AI issues failed; around 12K may strike (Lucas Ropek/Gizmodo)

Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: The Writers Guild of America calls for a strike after negotiations with Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and others over pay and AI issues failed; around 12K may strike — The entertainment industry is in the throes of a labor dispute and more than a few of the sticking points involve recent technological

Modern Components Enable Cheap and Compact Nixie Driver Circuit

Nixie tubes can add some retro flair to any project, but they can also complicate your electronics quite a bit: after all, you need to generate a voltage high enough to ignite the tube and then switch that between ten separate display segments. Traditionalists may want to stick with chunky mains transformers and those unobtainium

Apple releases first-ever urgent iPhone security update users should install right away

Apple has finally released Rapid Response updates to plug in exploits without you downloading another huge update.

AI is being used to generate whole spam sites

Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images AI chatbots are being used to generate news stories and blog posts for online content farms in the hopes of attracting a trickle of ad revenue from the stray clicks of web users. Experts have been warning for years that such AI-generated content farms will soon become

Pixel 7a official materials outed: Pixel 6a comparison, freebies, and more leak

Credit: MySmartPrice Another last-minute leaks has outed Google’s Pixel 7a marketing materials. The graphics and images confirm features like free VPN by Google One access, camera options, and more. One leaked image also shows a specs comparison between the Pixel 7a and Pixel 6a. It’s another day and another set of Pixel 7a leaks have

Uber reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $8.82B, gross bookings up 19% YoY to $31.4B, $761M in adjusted EBITDA, up from $593M in Q1 2022, and a $157M loss (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)

Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: Uber reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $8.82B, gross bookings up 19% YoY to $31.4B, $761M in adjusted EBITDA, up from $593M in Q1 2022, and a $157M loss — Ride-hailing leader predicts continuing growth for current quarter — Continued demand for Uber Technologies ‘ ride-share …

Sources detail Amazon’s canceled plan to make Halo a success; the sophisticated AI-based fitness service was undone due to “significant headwinds” and low sales (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge: Sources detail Amazon’s canceled plan to make Halo a success; the sophisticated AI-based fitness service was undone due to “significant headwinds” and low sales — A redesigned Halo service was due this fall with an AI-powered personal trainer, celebrity-led fitness classes, and even Apple Watch support.

Hollywood writers are striking over low wages caused by streaming boom

The 2007 writers’ strike (pictured above) lost California an estimated $2.1 billion and was credited with tipping the state into a recession. | Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images As of today, thousands of Hollywood television and movie writers are going on strike for the first time in 15 years. The Writers Guild of America (WGA)

Letters: the US and EU warn Malaysia over national security and foreign investment risks if the government gives Huawei a role in the country’s 5G network (Mercedes Ruehl/Financial Times)

Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times: Letters: the US and EU warn Malaysia over national security and foreign investment risks if the government gives Huawei a role in the country’s 5G network — Kuala Lumpur’s review of tender tests ability to juggle relations with the west and China — The EU and US have warned Malaysia

Get ready for exploding cloud growth

This article tells me what I already understand: Use of cloud services, including compute and storage, is about to inflect upwards, perhaps more than we’ve seen since cloud computing became a thing. Reporter after reporter has been calling me over the past few months about how cloud providers are suffering due to the downturn. This

Deno 1.33 debuts built-in key-value database

With newly published Deno 1.33, the project’s developers are preparing users of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime for the planned, ambitious Deno 2 release. Part of that push is the debut in Deno 1.33 of the Deno KV key-value database. Unveiled April 28, Deno 1.33 takes steps toward meeting the goals of Deno 2.0, which is due

An Amnesty report details Israel’s Red Wolf facial recognition system at checkpoints in Hebron and East Jerusalem, helping restrict Palestinians’ movements (New York Times)

New York Times: An Amnesty report details Israel’s Red Wolf facial recognition system at checkpoints in Hebron and East Jerusalem, helping restrict Palestinians’ movements — The Israeli government is using computer vision to monitor Palestinian travel across checkpoints, according to the report.

BeReal rolls out RealPeople, a curated timeline of “the world’s most interesting people”, first to the UK, as the startup seeks to reverse slowing growth (Kris Holt/Engadget)

Kris Holt / Engadget: BeReal rolls out RealPeople, a curated timeline of “the world’s most interesting people”, first to the UK, as the startup seeks to reverse slowing growth — Days after it started offering users the option to post more than once per day, BeReal is rolling out another new feature.

Signed Steve Jobs check from year of Apple’s founding expected to sell for huge sum

A signed check from Steve Jobs in 1976, the year Apple was born, is currently at auction.

A profile and interview of Geoffrey Hinton, who laid the foundations for LLMs via backpropagation, worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: A profile and interview of Geoffrey Hinton, who laid the foundations for LLMs via backpropagation, worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and more — “I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”

Nigerian payment service provider Nomba raised a $30M pre-Series B led by Base 10 Partners at a $150M+ valuation, per YC, following a $5M Series A in 2019 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Nigerian payment service provider Nomba raised a $30M pre-Series B led by Base 10 Partners at a $150M+ valuation, per YC, following a $5M Series A in 2019 — Nigerian payment service provider Nomba has raised $30 million in a pre-Series B investment to support the delivery of bespoke payment solutions

SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack

The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.

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