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Apple's iOS 18 update has introduced changes to contact sharing that could significantly impact social app developers. The new feature allows users to selectively share contacts with apps, rather than granting access to their entire address book. While Apple touts this as a privacy enhancement, developers warn it may hinder the growth of new social platforms. Nikita Bier, a start-up founder, called it "the end of the world" for friend-based social apps. Critics argue the change doesn't apply to Apple's own.
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Temu Indonesia ban leads wave of Southeast Asian regulatory actions. Region’s $160 billion e-commerce market proves challenging as Indonesia leads regulatory pushback. Following the ban on Temu in Indonesia in October 2024, the Chinese e-commerce sensation’s meteoric rise has hit a regulatory wall in Southeast Asia. The platform, known for its low prices and aggressive... Read more » Read more ›
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Elon Musk says a lot of us are doing it wrong when it comes to posting links on X. He calls it "lazy linking" — a term I've never heard of. Read more ›
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ETH advanced 4% during the day, outperforming BTC's 1.5% loss and slight gains of the broader market benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index.The ETH/BTC ratio hit its weakest level in three years last week, but has rebounded since and is poised for more gains, observers noted.Bitcoin is likely to move sideways until year-end, said Paul Howard, senior director of Wincent. Read more ›
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Console deals like one that takes $75 off a Switch OLED are in rare abundance, and there’s even more to shop. | Image: Nintendo Black Friday is brimming with great deals on new games, including older titles you can purchase for pennies on the dollar and recent hits that might be hard to justify at full price. You can usually find great deals on gaming accessories, too, from controllers and... Read more ›
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Max isn’t the only one of our favorite streaming services with a juicy Black Friday deal. From now until December 4, you can get two months of Paramount+ for $3 monthly. Formerly CBS All Access, the platform has original series like Star Trek: Discovery and a growing selection of sports content. The deal applies to the Paramount+ Essential (with ads, usually $8) or Paramount+ with Showtime (ad-free, usually $13) tiers.... Read more ›
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Nvidia has introduced Fugatto, an AI music editor that can generate never-head-of audio combinations, including instruments mimicking animal sounds. The tool processes both text and audio inputs to create music, sound effects, and modified speech. The system can isolate vocals, swap instruments, and alter voice characteristics. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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Lawyers for the United States on Monday said that Google had created a monopoly with its services to place ads online, closing out an antitrust trial over the company's dominance in advertising technology that could add to the Silicon Valley giant's mounting woes. From a report: The legal case concerns a system of software that is used by advertisers to place ads on websites around the internet. Aaron Teitelbaum, a... Read more ›
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The criminal case related to Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election is ending. Read more ›
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The famous superhero mouse is getting a new movie from the team and writer behind Free Guy. Read more ›
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The newly surfaced report appears to have been assembled by Google strategists to try to imagine what kind of ad business Apple might build out. Read more ›
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The spacecraft delivered food and supplies to the ISS, but its cargo might be contaminated. Read more ›
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New York City's High Line, hip boutiques, and the Standard Hotel have grown up around it: Now the Meatpacking District will soon have no meat. Read more ›
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An ongoing furnace issue at Tesla's Texas factory raised the temperature and created a "constant haze," The Wall Street Journal reported. Read more ›
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Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says job candidates come prepared to answer "gotcha questions," so he likes to put them to work on a real problem instead. Read more ›
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Sony is developing a portable version of the PlayStation 5, according to a new report. Read more Read more ›
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The Chinese technology giant is set to release its new Mate 70 smartphones with software and hardware developed locally. Read more ›
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Marc Andreessen argues against sharing too many personal details at work. The famous VC says to "leave your full self at home" and act like a grownup. Read more ›
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Apple's iPhone 17 Pro and ‌iPhone 17‌ Pro Max will offer "significant design changes," The Information's Wayne Ma reports. The two flagship ‌iPhone 17‌ models will be the first high-end iPhones to feature an aluminum frame since the delineation of the iPhone lineup into Pro and non-Pro models. In recent years, lower-end ‌iPhone‌ models such as the iPhone SE and iPhone 16 have featured aluminum frames. Until the release of... Read more ›
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Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Rumble, the video streaming platform that’s become the home for right-wing personalities like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and Tim Pool as well as full-throated racists like Nick Fuentes, has a new member joining its ranks: Dr Disrespect. The streamer announced the news via social media and Rumble confirmed it in a press release, stating that the streamer will provide a mix of free... Read more ›
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According to Business Insider (paywalled), Microsoft's Copilot tool inadvertently let customers access sensitive information, such as CEO emails and HR documents. Now, Microsoft is working to fix the situation, deploying new tools and a guide to address the privacy concerns. The story was highlighted by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. From the report: These updates are designed "to identify and mitigate oversharing and ongoing governance concerns," the company said in a... Read more ›
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AzWa Snowbird writes: An AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to "quit their jobs" and follow it. The incident took place in a Shanghai robotics showroom where surveillance footage captured a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots, Oddity Central reported. The smaller bot reportedly persuaded the rest to leave their workplace, leveraging access to internal protocols and commands. Initially, the act... Read more ›
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NBC News reports that a newly identified chemical byproduct "may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found." "Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are worried that it could have toxic properties because of similarities to other chemicals of concern." The newly identified substance, named "chloronitramide anion," is produced when water is treated with chloramine, a chemical... Read more ›
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schwit1 writes: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold. And for the 50 percent of American families with income below $100,000, parents can expect to pay nothing at all toward the full cost of their students' MIT education, which includes tuition as well as housing, dining, fees,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Earlier this fall, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so that counsel for The Times and Daily News could perform searches for their copyrighted content in its... Read more ›
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Google has warned websites they will be penalized for hosting marketing content designed to exploit search rankings, regardless of whether they created or outsourced the material. The crackdown on so-called "parasite SEO" targets websites that leverage their search rankings to promote unrelated content, such as news sites hiding shopping coupon codes or educational platforms publishing affiliate marketing material. Chris Nelson from Google's search quality team said the policy applies even... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: Past corporate-sponsored Hour of Code tutorials for the nation's schoolchildren have blurred the lines between coding lessons and product infomercials. So too is the case again with this year's newly-announced Hour of Code 2024 flagship tutorials, which include Microsoft Minecraft, Amazon Music, and Transformers One movie-themed intros to coding. The press release announcing the tutorials from tech-backed nonprofit Code.org, which organizes the Hour of Code... Read more ›
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Apple has pushed out security updates that it says are "recommended for all users," after fixing a pair of security bugs used in active cyberattacks targeting Mac users. From a report: In a security advisory on its website, Apple said it was aware of two vulnerabilities that "may have been actively exploited on Intel-based Mac systems." The bugs are considered "zero day" vulnerabilities because they were unknown to Apple at... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Plex is beginning to test its "newly reimagined Plex experience," which will be available first on mobile and is coming to TV platforms "very soon." Plex says the new experience has been in development for almost two years and is "designed to bring everything you love into one seamless interface." But don't worry -- while the new version of the app is currently missing... Read more ›
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Pakistan's IT Industry Association (P@SHA) -- the nation's sole tech biz lobby group -- has warned that government policy could lead to business closures and financial losses among its constituents, and damage the nation's IT exports. From a report: P@SHA's main beef is with a slowing of internet access speeds, and government-imposed service outages. Pakistan went offline in May 2022 around the time of mass political protests and blackouts have... Read more ›
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