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Amazon violated consumer protection law by gathering Prime subscribers' billing information before disclosing the service's terms, a judge ruled on Wednesday, handing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission a partial win. From a report: The ruling by U.S. District Judge John Chun in the case accusing Amazon of deceptive practices to generate Prime subscriptions puts the company at a disadvantage at trial.
The FTC is poised to argue that the online retailer signed up tens of millions of customers for Prime witho
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Sinclair, the largest ABC affiliate in the US, doesn't think the network reprimanded Jimmy Kimmel enough for his remarks about Charlie Kirk. Read more ›
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Anna Gomez, the sole FCC Commissioner appointed by a Democrat, said ABC "has put the foundation of the First Amendment in danger." Read more ›
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It's very bad when American regulators like Trump's FCC call on American media companies to shut down a TV show they don't like, like Jimmy Kimmel. Read more ›
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Damon Lindelof joins Hollywood in supporting Jimmy Kimmel amid ABC's suspension, saying he won't work for Disney unless the late-night host returns. Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel drew the wrath of Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair after the FCC's Carr criticized him. Nexstar has a $6.2 billion deal on the line. Read more ›
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ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel after FCC chair Brendan Carr criticized his remarks on Charlie Kirk. It's part of a pattern. Read more ›
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The latest ACIP votes could lead to substantially fewer kids getting vaccinated. Read more ›
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Zuck's new $800 smart glasses failed spectacularly in live demos. Watch the cringefest. Read more ›
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Meta this week unveiled $800 smart glasses that include an in-lens display. The new Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses allow you to check messages, view photos, and interact with Meta AI without the need to use a smartphone. There is a full-color, high-resolution display included in the glasses, along with cameras, microphones, and speakers. Meta says that the included monocular display has a custom light engine and custom module that... Read more ›
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Former President Barack Obama responded to ABC's decision to indefinitely take Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air and warned of "government coercion." Read more ›
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The hosts of "The View" didn't discuss ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show following comments the host made about Charlie Kirk's death. Read more ›
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Donald Trump sat next to Princess Kate at the UK state dinner attended by business leaders like Tim Cook. Let's see what the seating chart says. Read more ›
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Disney does FCC chair's bidding, suspends Kimmel show over Charlie Kirk comment. Read more ›
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iFixit today took apart the iPhone Air MagSafe Battery pack, an accessory designed to work exclusively with the iPhone Air, and discovered something interesting. The battery inside the accessory has an unusual shape, leading iFixit to conclude that it's possible that Apple is using the same battery for the iPhone Air and the iPhone Air MagSafe Battery. iFixit compared the battery in the MagSafe Battery pack to the iPhone Air... Read more ›
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Melania Trump wore an array of neutral-toned outfits during her visit to the UK, aside from one bright yellow gown from Carolina Herrera. Read more ›
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Nvidia and Intel announced today that the companies would jointly-develop multiple new generations of products together. The products include x86 Intel CPUs tightly fused with an Nvidia RTX graphics chiplet for the consumer gaming PC market, and custom-built Intel x86 CPUs for Nvidia’s AI products for hyperscale and enterprise customers. Read more ›
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Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days is one of the biggest shopping events of the year, and it’s returning October 7th and 8th. The two-day shopping affair will grant Prime members access to some of the best prices of the year on Amazon devices, as well as products from Sony, Sonos, Microsoft, Apple, Withings, and other […] Read more ›
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Once the crown jewel of network television, the late-night format faces intense political pressure as ratings and revenue decline. Read more ›
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Jimmy Fallon, host of "The Tonight Show," canceled a Thursday appearance on a Fast Company panel about his new NBC reality series, "On Brand." Read more ›
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They stole a woman's phone in Barcelona. Unfortunately, her husband was security consultant/penetration tester Martin Vigo, reports Spain's newspaper El Pais. "His weeks-long investigation coincided with a massive two-year police operation between 2022 and 2024 in six countries where 17 people were arrested: Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru...." In Vigo's case, the phone was locked and the "Find my iPhone" feature was activated... Once stolen, the phones are... Read more ›
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Last week Steam and other major storefronts crashed, reports the Guardian, including Nintendo's eShop, PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store. They were all "unable to cope with the demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong, the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed 2017 indie hit Hollow Knight." (which had sold 15 million copies): SilkSong's release triggered widespread outages, with thousands of users reporting issues trying to buy the game in the first few... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a column: After nearly 30 years of USB-A connectivity, the market is now transitioning to the convenient USB-C standard, which makes sense given that it supports higher speeds, display data, and power delivery. The symmetrical connection is also smaller and more user-friendly, as it's reversible and works with smartphones and tablets. I get that USB-C is inevitable, but tech brands should realize that the ubiquitous USB-A... Read more ›
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The ability of AI displace humans at various tasks is accelerating quickly, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said at an Axios event on Wednesday. From the report: Amodei and others have previously warned of the possibility that up to half of white-collar jobs could be wiped out by AI over the next five years. The speed of that displacement could require government intervention to help support the workforce, executives said. "As... Read more ›
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By 2028, Gartner research VP Julia Palmer predicts that VMware will lose 35% of its current workloads as Broadcom's licensing changes and rising costs push customers toward competitors like Nutanix and public clouds. The Register reports: On Wednesday at the analyst firm's Symposium event in Australia, Palmer pointed out that the Broadcom business unit recently tweaked its licensing program so that hyperscalers can no longer sell VMware subscriptions to users... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded. Rover has been in the industry for 15 years, mainly working as a web developer. She's now building a startup, alongside her son, that creates custom machine learning models for marketplaces. She called vibe coding a beautiful, endless cocktail napkin on which one can perpetually sketch... Read more ›
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Anthropic has declined requests from federal law enforcement contractors to use its Claude AI models for surveillance activities, deepening tensions with the Trump administration, Semafor reported Wednesday, citing two senior officials. The company's usage policies prohibit domestic surveillance, limiting how agencies including the FBI, Secret Service, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement can deploy its technology. While Anthropic maintains a $1 contract with federal agencies through AWS GovCloud and wor Read more ›
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AI will enable three to four-day workweeks, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told The New York Times, joining Microsoft's Bill Gates, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon in predicting shorter schedules. Yuan also acknowledged AI will eliminate some positions, particularly entry-level engineering roles where AI can write code, but argued new opportunities will emerge managing AI agents. Gates previously suggested two to three-day weeks within 10 years during a February... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from IEEE Spectrum: The world's largest airplane, when it's built, will stretch more than a football field from tip to tail. Sixty percent longer than the biggest existing aircraft, with 12 times as much cargo space as a 747, the behemoth will look like an oil tanker that's sprouted wings — aeronautical engineering at a preposterous scale. Called WindRunner, and expected by 2030,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Medical researchers at some institutions in Canada, the United States and Italy are using data created by artificial intelligence (AI) from real patient information in their experiments without the need for permission from their institutional ethics boards, Nature has learnt. To generate what is called 'synthetic data', researchers train generative AI models using real human medical information, then ask the models to create data... Read more ›
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