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Meta has eliminated key privacy protections for Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses users in a policy update that took effect April 29th. The company now permanently enables Meta AI with camera functionality unless "Hey Meta" voice commands are completely disabled, while simultaneously removing users' ability to opt out of having their voice recordings stored in the cloud.
These recordings are kept for up to a year for Meta's product development, with the company only deleting accidental voice interactions after 9
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He said about the unilateral tariffs: "You don't have to use it. You don't have to shop in the United States, as I say." Read more ›
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The defense contractor's shares fell on Wednesday amid a report that the Pentagon was only requesting 24 F-35s from Congress. Read more ›
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Schultz said he did a "cartwheel in my living room" when he heard Niccol's turnaround plan for the coffee chain. Read more ›
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Back at Google I/O, Google announced that it was indeed making a desktop mode or desktop windowing feature for Android 16 that would allow you to connect a phone to a display and get a desktop-like experience. They had worked with Samsung on it, because of their expertise from their DeX product, and planned to … Continued Read the original post: Android 16’s Desktop Mode Arrived in QPR1 Beta 2,... Read more ›
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A Marine Corps spokesman told BI there were concerns about prank calls, harassment, and doxxing of leaders and their families amid the protests. Read more ›
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Navid Mahmoodzadegan is set to succeed Ken Moelis as CEO of Moelis & Co. Read more ›
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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has already used AI to replace himself during earnings reports, and now Klarna is using AI to clone him another way: through an AI-powered phone hotline. The hotline is now open for users to provide feedback to an interactive AI version of Siemiatkowski that’s trained on his “real voice, insights, and […] Read more ›
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He's been playing Jim Hopper since 2016—and we'll see him do it one last time when the show's fifth and final season hits Netflix later this year. Read more ›
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How to watch U21 Euro 2025 for free. Live stream Czech Republic vs. England in U21 Euro 2025 for free. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said the deal with China is "done." His former Commerce Secretary told Business Insider it's far from comprehensive. Read more ›
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Tesla, which is battling a global sales slump amid backlash against CEO Elon Musk's political interventions, saw its sales in the UK fall 36% in May. Read more ›
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OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic tackle the growing issue of models producing responses that are too sycophantic Read more ›
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iOS 26 features a whole new design material that Apple calls Liquid Glass, with a focus on transparency that lets the content on your display shine through the controls. If you're not a fan of the look, or are having trouble with readability, there is a step that you can take to make things more opaque without entirely losing out on the new look. Apple has multiple Accessibility options that... Read more ›
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"I'd read something about Koh Samui being like a little Hawaii, and I thought we should go and try it," Wes Moss told BI. Read more ›
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The Ukraine war shows countries don't need a small amount of the best equipment. They need a huge quantity of less-impressive gear. Read more ›
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The Big Law firm Sullivan & Cromwell is arguing that additional appeals for Trump's hush-money convictions should be heard in federal court. Read more ›
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The company's CEO said programming without AI is a "great timeboxed test for skill and intelligence." Read more ›
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YouTube pulled a popular tutorial video from tech creator Jeff Geerling this week, claiming his guide to installing LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5 violated policies against "harmful content." The video, which showed viewers how to set up their own home media servers, had been live for over a year and racked up more than 500,000 views. YouTube's automated systems flagged the content for allegedly teaching people "how to get... Read more ›
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The Atlantic makes that case that "the foundation of the AI industry is a scam" and that AI "is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking — and, soon, feeling — machines." [OpenAI CEO Sam] Altman brags about ChatGPT-4.5's improved "emotional intelligence," which he says makes users feel like they're "talking to a thoughtful person." Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI company Anthropic,... Read more ›
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UK tech job openings have surged 21% to pre-pandemic levels, driven largely by a 200% spike in demand for AI skills. London accounted for 80% of the AI-related postings. The Register reports: Accenture collected data from LinkedIn in the first and second week of February 2025, and supplemented the results with a survey of more than 4,000 respondents conducted by research firm YouGov between July and August 2024. The research... Read more ›
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The Class of 2025 is encountering the worst entry-level job market in years with unemployment among recent degree-holders aged 22 to 27 reaching 5.8% this spring -- the highest level in approximately four years and well above the national average. According to Federal Reserve Bank of New York data, 85% of the unemployment rate increase since mid-2023 stems from new labor market entrants struggling to find work. Corporate hiring freezes... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Discord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy wants you to know he thinks a lot about enshittification. With reports of an upcoming IPO and the news of his co-founder, Jason Citron, recently stepping down to hand leadership of the company over to Humam Sakhnini, a former Activision Blizzard executive, many Discord users are rightfully worried the platform is about to become, well, shit.... Read more ›
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Bluesky's user engagement has fallen roughly 50% since peaking in mid-November, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis, as progressive groups' efforts to migrate users from Elon Musk's X platform show signs of failure. The research found that while many news influencers maintain Bluesky accounts, two-thirds post irregularly compared to more than 80% who still post daily to X. A Washington Post columnist tries to make sense of it:... Read more ›
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"Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics," according to a recent announcement from the University of California, Riverside. In a new modeling study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, showed that restoring forests to their preindustrial extent could lower global average temperatures by 0.34 degrees Celsius. That is roughly one-quarter of the... Read more ›
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David Sacks, President Trump's AI policy advisor, has dismissed the prospect of implementing a universal basic income program, declaring "it's not going to happen" during his tenure. He said: The future of AI has become a Rorschach test where everyone sees what they want. The Left envisions a post-economic order in which people stop working and instead receive government benefits. In other words, everyone on welfare. This is their fantasy;... Read more ›
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The World Bank sharply reduced its global economic growth forecast for 2025 to 2.3% from 2.7%, warning that the current decade is on track to become the weakest for the global economy since the 1960s. The Washington-based lender attributed the downgrade to mounting costs from "international discord -- about trade, in particular," as Donald Trump's tariff policies create unprecedented uncertainty. The revised forecast would mark the slowest growth rate outside... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Vibe coding might sound chill, but Andrew Ng thinks the name is unfortunate. The Stanford professor and former Google Brain scientist said the term misleads people into imagining engineers just "go with the vibes" when using AI tools to write code. "It's unfortunate that that's called vibe coding," Ng said at a firechat chat in May at conference LangChain Interrupt. "It's misleading a lot... Read more ›
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