Hi. Apologies if this is not the correct community. It appears that recently my Disney+ on my Samsung TV has started autoplaying the next episode in a series. But in my profile, autoplay has been turned off. Having autoplay off used to work fine but now it started autoplaying again....
Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music::Audio created using Google DeepMind’s AI Lyria model will be watermarked with SynthID to let people identify its AI-generated origins after the fact.
Amazon to sell cars online, starting with Hyundai::It was inevitable. Amazon, which got its start selling books, is getting into the car business. The e-commerce giant along with new partner Hyundai
TikTok ‘aggressively’ removing content praising Osama bin Laden after letter goes viral::The social media platform TikTok said it is “aggressively” removing content that praises Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to America.” The letter, published about a year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, was bin...
U.S. Department of Justice backs tenants in case alleging algorithmic price-fixing by big landlords and real estate tech company RealPage::ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
IBM suspends advertising on X after report says ads ran next to antisemitic content::IBM’s announcement that it’s halting ads on X came a day after Elon Musk boosted an antisemitic post on his platform
Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against....
Yet another former Silicon Valley darling is convicted of investor fraud::This year will be remembered for a lot of things. Among them could be the growing number of stars in the startup world who were later convicted for
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year::In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The…
IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages....
Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act::Microsoft has published a blog post detailing how it’s making Windows 11 compliant with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Economic Area (EEA.)
All of these Windows 11 changes are part of key tweaks that Microsoft has to make to its operating system to comply with the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act, which comes into effect in March 2024....
“the FCC is considering if AI analytics might better block unwanted calls and texts “and restore trust in our networks,” according to the agency. It would certainly be an improvement over reaching for the block button after receiving yet another call from someone purporting to be a Microsoft technician”