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Yesterday · 6 min
How to turn off Find My iPhone (and when you definitely should)
There are times when turning off Find My is necessary, but you should always have it on otherwise to keep your phone safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Friday · 6 min
Speedo launches its own smart swim wearable
SpeedoIQ is a tiny tracker that sits inside a pair of Vanguard goggles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Friday · 7 min
X claimed it found a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center sentiments, a Stripe-led group abandoned its PayPal acquisition, and Bluesky’s new setting helps you avoid accidentally going viral
-X said that 200 accounts out of the 200,000 were posting comic strips, images and text about AI data centers in a manner that "could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy." -PayPal was worth as much as $320 billion at its highest market value during the height of the COVID pandemic. -Bluesky, unlike X and other platforms, doesn't allow people to have private accounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Thursday · 5 min
SoundCloud will now let you buy music directly from artists
Plus - GoPro is trying something different; Apple has confirmed when it'll pull back the curtain and officially reveal its latest iPhones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Thursday · 9 min
OpenAI detailed the failures that led to its Hugging Face breach, Meta apparently abandoned an AI-focused restructuring plan, and Google’s latest Gemini transcription model can turn your ramblings into structured text
-The report goes into how the different systems in OpenAI's training system failed and what behaviors from the agents it was testing resulted in those failures. - Meta executives were reportedly influenced by startups, including some they observed in Asia, that had structured themselves around AI. -The company says Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is more adept at speech-to-text than earlier models, with greater precision and the ability to automatically detect more than 85 languages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wednesday · 6 min
Zillow settles antitrust lawsuit with the FTC
Competitor Redfin will re-enter the real estate listing market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wednesday · 6 min
SpaceX building a $100 billion 'Starbase' launch site in Louisiana, Apple walked back a bad idea, and Adam Mosseri says it's 'news to him' that employees limited his exposure to teen safety data
-SpaceX said the Louisiana facility will be massive with five launch complexes, each with two launch pads. -A now-abandoned plan would have allowed companies to immediately know that they were dealing with a masked address, making the feature essentially useless. -One bit of internal research that surfaced during the trial Tuesday was from a 2023 slide deck prepared by Instagram designers and others about teen safety on the app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tuesday · 7 min
Taiwan reportedly indicted NVIDIA employees for exporting prohibited AI servers to China
The nine individuals are accused of 'severely damaged our nation's image,' prosecutors said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tuesday · 6 min
Threads is testing a podcast transcription feature, ESPN is raising prices on most of its streaming subscriptions, and Zillow settled its antitrust lawsuit with the FTC
-There's no guarantee that anything Threads tries out will get a formal release, but providing more support for content creators to leverage the platform appears to be a priority for the platform. -ESPN is increasing the cost of every single one of its subscription plans. -As part of the settlement, Redfin has to reenter the ILS market and make commitments that would ensure its competitiveness, including a relaunch with "significantly more listings." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Monday · 7 min
Nevada allows Uber, Tesla and Waymo to start paid robotaxi service
Authorities gave them permission to deploy thousands of robotaxis in Clark County. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Monday · 8 min
Humanoid robots beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter dash record, OpenAI said California should strengthen its AI safety laws, and LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working
-During the second annual World Humanoid Robot Games that kicked off in Beijing on Saturday, the Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot completed the 100-meter dash in 9.39 seconds. -OpenAI giant also called for "strengthening cybersecurity protections throughout the model-development lifecycle, specifically to prevent frontier models from circumventing internal security controls." -While AI slop has plagued just about every social media platform, LinkedIn has become notorious for being particularly filled with AI-generated posts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
August 21 · 7 min
Meta AI now has a dedicated desktop app for Mac
It's part of the company's latest push to make more business-friendly AI tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
August 21 · 8 min
Senators pressed TikTok on its 'sinister' experiment, GitHub said commits have doubled in the last four months, and Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global
-Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal sent a sharply worded letter to the company's top executives questioning them about how the app has tested, and in some cases, withheld, key safety features. -GitHub said that since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. -Bilibili's changes are part of an explicit strategy to get Western viewers posting and watching videos on the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
August 20 · 8 min
Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in latest trial over social media addiction
Dozens of states accuse the company of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
August 20 · 7 min
A robot may soon conduct your blood draw, traffic deaths increase after major music streaming releases, and NASA called off its mission to rescue the Swift observatory
-The Aletta robot uses near-infrared light and Doppler ultrasound to identify a vein and then automates the other processes of a blood draw, such as applying a tourniquet, inserting and disposing of a needle and placing a bandage on the patient. -The study looked at 233,809 fatal collisions between 2017 and 2022, comparing the incidence rate of car accidents on album release days against the 10 days immediately before and after each release. -NASA has announced that Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft will no longer dock with the satellite and boost it to a higher altitude as planned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
August 19 · 7 min
Reddit is experimenting with video and audio versions of posts
The company wants users to be able to watch and listen to conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
August 19 · 9 min
AI-generated bills are reportedly causing problems in the Capitol, ICE Agents have been restricted from using Meta glasses while working, and X’s algorithm apparently prioritizes ragebait disproportionately impacting Democrats
-Politico's sources said lawyers at the US House Office of Legislative Counsel are spending more time reviewing and rewriting them than they would have if they had written the bills from scratch. -In one case, reported by 404 Media, a CBP agent was spotted recording with his glasses despite the policy. In another instance, a member of Border Patrol wore a pair to an immigration raid. -On X, replying is weighted much more heavily than liking, despite replies accounting for under seven percent of interactions on the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
August 18 · 7 min
Another woman joins the lawsuit accusing Grok of generating CSAM
A Wyoming woman said that her stepfather created thousands of fake sexually explicit images of her through the AI chatbot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
August 18 · 7 min
Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in its latest trial, ByteDance agrees to reel in its AI models, and Reddit is experimenting with video and audio versions of posts
-Claims from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey say that Meta violated state consumer protection laws by intentionally misleading the public about the safety of its apps. -This memorandum applies to all AI models from ByteDance, including those used on TikTok, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, CapCut and Dreamina. -Reddit describes the test as a "limited experiment" affecting "a sample of posts across select communities" on the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
August 17 · 8 min
DeepSeek's AI models are about to cost four times more
Prices at off-peak hours will be half the peak-hour pricing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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