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X's Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks

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Humane AI Pin review: not even close

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The idea behind the Humane AI Pin is a simple one: it’s a phone without a...
The idea behind the Humane AI Pin is a simple one: it’s a phone without a screen. Instead of asking you to open apps and tap on a keyboard, this little wearable abstracts everything away behind an AI assistant and an operating system Humane calls CosmOS. Want to make a phone call, send a text message, calculate the ...
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I'm still trying to generate an AI Asian man and white woman

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I inadvertently found myself on the AI-generated Asian people beat this past week. Last Wednesday, I...
I inadvertently found myself on the AI-generated Asian people beat this past week. Last Wednesday, I found that Meta’s AI image generator built into Instagram messaging completely failed at creating an image of an Asian man and white woman using general prompts. Instead, it changed the woman’s race to Asian every ti...
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A new bill wants to reveal what's inside AI training data

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A new bill would compel tech companies to disclose any copyrighted materials that are used to...
A new bill would compel tech companies to disclose any copyrighted materials that are used to train their AI models.The Generative AI Copyright Disclosure bill from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) would require anyone making a training dataset for AI to submit reports on its contents to the Copyrights Register. The reports ...
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Texas is replacing human exam graders with AI

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Students in Texas taking their state-mandated exams this week are being used as guinea pigs for...
Students in Texas taking their state-mandated exams this week are being used as guinea pigs for a new artificial intelligence-powered scoring system set to replace a majority of human graders in the region.The Texas Tribune reports an “automated scoring engine” that utilizes natural language processing — the technol...
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Kobo announces its first color e-readers

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Rakuten Kobo is launching its first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara...
Rakuten Kobo is launching its first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour. Both use E Ink’s latest Kaleido color screen technology, which has subtle, pastel-like hues and drops from a 300ppi grayscale resolution to 150ppi when you view content in color.I’ll be testing both e-readers soon, ...
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With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work

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For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Pages, Numbers,...
For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Pages, Numbers, Keynote; Docs, Sheets, Slides. Now Google is proposing to add another to that triumvirate: an app called Vids that aims to help companies and consumers make collaborative, shareable video more eas...
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Elon Musk says his posts did more to 'financially impair' X than help it

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Elon Musk admitted that his posts on the platform formerly known as Twitter may have financially...
Elon Musk admitted that his posts on the platform formerly known as Twitter may have financially harmed the company in the long run, in a March 27th deposition made public on Monday by The Huffington Post. The billionaire also admitted to have a “limited understanding” of the lawsuit for which he was being deposed. ...
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OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4

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Microsoft confident Windows on Arm could beat Apple with Snapdragon X Elite

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Microsoft is getting ready to fully unveil its vision for “AI PCs” next month at an...
Microsoft is getting ready to fully unveil its vision for “AI PCs” next month at an event in Seattle. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that Microsoft is confident that a round of new Arm-powered Windows laptops will beat Apple’s M3-powered MacBook Air both in CPU performance and AI-accelerated ...
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Canadians are asking their government to federate

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Best Buy Geek Squad employees report mass layoffs

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Google is working on a 'lookup' button for unknown callers on Android

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Google is working on a feature that is so simple and so useful that I’m shocked...
Google is working on a feature that is so simple and so useful that I’m shocked it hasn’t been part of our lives for a decade: a way to look up a phone number that just called you, right from your recent calls screen. X user AssembleDebug tipped off PiunikaWeb to a new “Lookup” button in the beta version of the Goog...
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Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills

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Roku's idea of showing ads on your HDMI inputs seems like an inevitable hell

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In this week’s edition of his Lowpass newsletter, Janko Roettgers covered a Roku patent that seems...
In this week’s edition of his Lowpass newsletter, Janko Roettgers covered a Roku patent that seems to telegraph that the company is planning some heavy advertising tactics for those who purchase Roku TV televisions. The patent centers around the idea of displaying ads on these TVs whenever they’re tuned to an HDMI i...
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We need a permanent solution for universal broadband access

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In August 2020, during the heart of the covid-19 pandemic when many schools were closed, social...
In August 2020, during the heart of the covid-19 pandemic when many schools were closed, social media and news outlets were awash with a picture of two grade school students sitting outside of a Taco Bell, attempting to do their schoolwork. That one picture changed millions of minds about the necessity for everyone ...
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Who is 'Jia Tan,' the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor?

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Roblox executive says children making money on the platform is 'a gift'

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Roblox, one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world, has taken a lot of...
Roblox, one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world, has taken a lot of heat from critics who accuse it of exploiting its users, the vast majority of whom are children and teenagers. In a recent interview with Eurogamer, however, Roblox’s studio head, Stefano Corazza, said the platform has actually been a ...
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X's 'complimentary' Premium push gives people blue checks they didn't ask for

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The App Store Was Down, Along with Apple TV, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Music

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Microsoft reveals how much you'll have to pay to keep using Windows 10 securely

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Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025, and you’ll need to pay...
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025, and you’ll need to pay yearly if you want to continue using the operating system securely. Microsoft will offer Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 users, with pricing starting at $61 for the first year.The pricing for additional security u...
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A first look at Europe's alternative iPhone app stores

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Almost a month after Apple’s begrudging capitulation to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), only one third-party...
Almost a month after Apple’s begrudging capitulation to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), only one third-party iOS app store is currently live in Europe. It’s the B2B-focused Mobivention marketplace that allows companies to distribute their own apps internally. While that’s fine and all, things won’t stay this way for ...
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Welcome to the AI Gadget Era

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I’m just going to call it: we’ll look back on April 2024 as the beginning of...
I’m just going to call it: we’ll look back on April 2024 as the beginning of a new technological era. That sounds grandiose, I know, but in the next few weeks, a whole new generation of gadgets is poised to hit the market. Humane will launch its voice-controlled AI Pin. Rabbit’s AI-powered R1 will start to ship. Bri...
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President Biden is now posting into the Fediverse

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