Amazon Plans Commercial Breaks for Prime Video (variety.com)
Amazon Plans Commercial Breaks for Prime Video::Amazon plans to add commercial breaks to its Prime Video service, the latest streamer to embrace advertising after previously shunning it
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog (blog.kagi.com)
Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10....
OpenAI’s new AI image generator pushes the limits in detail and prompt fidelity (arstechnica.com)
On Wednesday, OpenAI announced DALL-E 3, the latest version of its AI image synthesis model that features full integration with ChatGPT. DALL-E 3 renders images by closely following complex descriptions and handling in-image text generation (such as labels and signs), which challenged earlier models. Currently in research...
Unity Backpedals on Its Horrible Plan for Game Install Fees Amid Developer Backlash (gizmodo.com)
Unity Backpedals on Its Horrible Plan for Game Install Fees Amid Developer Backlash::Unity CEO John Riccitiello reportedly sold thousands of shares of stock in the weeks ahead of the fee announcement.
Terraforming Mars Publisher Calls AI "Too Powerful" Not to Use (gizmodo.com)
Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself. (themarkup.org)
France halts iPhone 12 sales over radiation levels (www.bbc.co.uk)
France halts iPhone 12 sales over radiation levels::Apple has been told it must recall every iPhone 12 sold in the country if it cannot fix the problem.
iOS 17 to Launch on September 18, Featuring StandBy Mode, NameDrop, Interactive Widgets (www.macrumors.com)
Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (www.washingtonpost.com)
Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,”...
You Need to Update Your iPhone [if you have one], Right Now (gizmodo.com)
“We’re not ‘gatekeepers,’” Apple and Microsoft tell European Union (arstechnica.com)
Call Of Duty using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matches (news.sky.com)
Call Of Duty using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matches::The tool, which will monitor voice chat for any bullying and harassment, will be part of Modern Warfare III - the next game in the series - when it launches in November.
Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn (techcrunch.com)
People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently (mashable.com)
New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires (fortune.com)
New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly fires::After a series of deadly fires.
Samsung’s 20-year-life EV battery runs 600 miles on 9-minute charge (interestingengineering.com)
'Zeus' Hacker Group Strikes Israeli Olympic Athletes in Data Leak (www.darkreading.com)
The sensitive data of several Israeli athletes in the Paris Olympic Games was published on Telegram in an alleged doxing attack on Friday....
Apple in Talks to Bring Ads to Apple TV+ (www.macrumors.com)
How Elon Musk allowed X to become a stalwart platform for Trump supporters. (theconversation.com)
Data from deleted GitHub repos may not really be deleted (www.theregister.com)
Researchers at Truffle Security have found, or arguably rediscovered, that data from deleted GitHub repositories (public or private) and from deleted copies (forks) of repositories isn’t necessarily deleted....
OopsGPT - OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong. (www.theatlantic.com)
FUTO Keyboard: The Discussion Behind A Cool Product (tedium.co)
A pretty interesting take, and an interesting discussion about what it means to be open source. Is there room for a trusted space between open source and closed corporate software?
Meta to use Instagram and Facebook posts from as far back as 2007 to train artificial intelligence tools (www.abc.net.au)
iPhone 16 Leaks: Apple Might Dethrone Samsung With The Thinnest Bezels Yet (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Leaks suggest Apple’s iPhone 16 will have record-thin bezels, potentially dethroning Samsung.
Google’s Privacy Chief Is Out And Will Not Be Replaced (www.forbes.com)
Google’s chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, will depart the tech giant after 13 years, with no plans yet to replace him, as the company restructures its teams in charge of privacy and legal compliance....
