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YouTube ‘clarifies’ its plan to demonetize spammy AI slop

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-08-04 15:42:25

YouTube is trying to soothe concerns about an incoming update to its monetization policies following backlash from online creators. An announcement that YouTube would be updating restrictions around “inauthentic” content under the YouTube Partner Program guidelines was interpreted by some to mean the platform was planning to demonetize a wider variety of videos, including those using AI-generated content, clips, and reactions. Now, YouTube is seeking to clarify the situation. “YouTube has alway

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Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-04 19:06:01

Microsoft’s chief commercial officer Judson Althoff said during a presentation this week that AI tools are boosting productivity across sales, customer service, and software engineering, Bloomberg reports. Althoff noted AI has been so useful that Microsoft was able to save more than $500 million last year in its call center alone. The internal remarks come a week after Microsoft laid off more than 9,000 workers, the company’s third round of layoffs this year that put the total number of affecte

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OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic Pony Up $23M to Teach Teachers About AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-05 14:04:00

The American Federation of Teachers is using $23 million in funds from three tech companies to launch a program to train educators on artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, the country's second-largest teachers' union announced $12.5 million from Microsoft, $10 million in funding and technical resources from OpenAI and $500,000 from Anthropic will be used for a New York-based hub to teach AI. The AFT is working in partnership with the United Federation of Teachers, a union representing New York s

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YouTube Can’t Put Pandora’s AI Slop Back in the Box

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-08-05 19:21:15

YouTube is inundated with AI-generated slop, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. Instead of cutting down on the total number of slop channels, the platform is planning to update its policies to cut out some of the worst offenders making money off “spam.” At the same time, it’s still full steam ahead adding tools to make sure your feeds are full of mass-produced brainrot. In an update to its support page posted last week, YouTube said it will modify guidelines for its Partner Program, w

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YouTube prepares crackdown on ‘mass-produced’ and ‘repetitive’ videos, as concern over AI slop grows

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-05 19:23:13

YouTube is preparing to update its policies to crack down on creators’ ability to generate revenue from “inauthentic” content, including mass-produced videos and other types of repetitive content — things that have become easier to generate with the help of AI technology. On July 15, the company will update its YouTube Partner Program (YPP) Monetization policies with more detailed guidelines around what type of content can earn creators money and what cannot. The exact policy language itself h

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Appeals court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-08-06 11:16:59

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. A federal appeals court just threw out a new government regulation that would have required subscription services to give consumers an easy way to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel rule was set to take effect next week, and would have required everything from

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I want to use YouTube Music for podcasts, but it keeps letting me down

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-07 00:00:42

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority I like listening to podcasts when I’m doing household chores. So I recently opened YouTube Music with the intention of continuing a podcast I’d been enjoying the evening before, but instead of resuming where I left off, I found myself squinting at the screen, scrolling through a wall of music suggestions, videos, and algorithmic clutter. The podcast was nowhere in sight. YouTube Music had let me down, again. My dream is to have as few apps as possible, and t

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I've used OnlyOffice for a long time, and it just got a huge upgrade - for free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-06 23:44:00

OnlyOffice / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET OnlyOffice Desktop Editors might not be on your radar. You might assume there are only three major players in the office suite space: Office 365, Google Docs, and LibreOffice. However, there is another tool that I find to be as good (and even better in some ways) as the competition. That tool is OnlyOffice. Also: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux - here's why OnlyOffice has been around for a while but has mostl

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Video Games Weekly: Every time this industry grows, it shrinks

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-07 03:40:20

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. In a 2024 interview wit

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My favorite Microsoft Office alternative just got a huge AI upgrade - for free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-08 15:18:01

OnlyOffice / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET OnlyOffice Desktop Editors might not be on your radar. You might assume there are only three major players in the office suite space: Office 365, Google Docs, and LibreOffice. However, there is another tool that I find to be as good (and even better in some ways) as the competition. That tool is OnlyOffice. Also: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux - here's why OnlyOffice has been around for a while but has mostl

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When Figma starts designing us

news.ycombinator.com Rune Madsen 2025-08-10 05:38:27

I first encountered Figma in 2013, when Dylan Field demoed an early prototype to me at O’Reilly’s Foo Camp. I remember the pen tool feeling surprisingly elegant, but I missed the bigger picture: the radical implications of a design tool that ran in the browser. A decade later, Figma is a core part of our creative process, and without it, we wouldn't have been able to build a fully remote design practice. That’s probably why Dylan is a near-billionaire and I’m not. However, over the course of th

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YouTube Premium offers many more perks that I didn’t know I was paying for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-11 07:30:02

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I’ve been subscribed to YouTube Premium for many years now, and yet I didn’t know what I was exactly paying for. In my mind, I always associated Premium with an ad-free experience; being able to get rid of all those pesky long and interrupting ads before or while watching a video is alone worth the price. Adding the family benefits for my husband, and the fact that this works everywhere, including on our TVs, makes it more of a no-brainer. Even though I don’t

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French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com A Nerd With A Passion For Open Source Software 2025-08-11 04:35:53

European countries have been growing increasingly wary of relying on Microsoft for critical government and public sector services. Concerns about data privacy, digital sovereignty, and potential governmental surveillance have led many to question the viability of depending on an American tech giant for sensitive infrastructure. Many worry that dependence on Microsoft could leave them vulnerable to sudden service interruptions or the risk of sensitive data being accessed without consent. This g

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Is the Nothing Phone 3 worth it? Survey reveals surprising consumer sentiment

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-13 16:59:10

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority After spending a few years setting itself up, Nothing boldly launched the Nothing Phone 3 as its top-tier flagship this week. Coming in at $799, it takes on the proper flagships from Samsung, Google, Apple, and others. While one can argue that it comes out on top against these three, Chinese competitors like OnePlus can give it a run for its money with the OnePlus 13. We asked you if you thought the Nothing Phone 3 was value for money at $799, and it seems a v

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YouTube adds a new Shorts feature that you should probably avoid

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-13 17:14:58

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is rolling out an accessibility-based feature that allows vertical Shorts videos to play in a landscape orientation. The Rotate Shorts option changes UI elements for sideway viewing but shrinks the video so much. This feature is likely intended for users with motor impairments or specific setups like mounted landscape-mode devices. By design, YouTube Shorts, just like Instagram Reels and TikTok videos, are all vertical videos. They’re meant to

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These Are the Easiest Ways to Watch YouTube Videos Without Internet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-13 15:00:03

There's a good chance you've used YouTube to watch a video at least once in the past month. Over 2.7 billion people use the online video platform every month, according to research from the digital marketing firm Global Media Insight. But if you're going somewhere with limited internet or trying to conserve data on your phone plan, you might want to download some YouTube videos to entertain yourself. Luckily, there are ways to download YouTube videos to watch offline. Subscribing to YouTube Pre

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Here’s why everyone is using YouTube Music — even if they don’t love it!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-15 23:00:49

Joe Maring / Android Authority Not many years ago, if you mentioned YouTube Music in a room full of long-time Google Play Music users, you could probably hear their collective sigh from space. Google retired its beloved service in 2020 and replaced it with something that, at the time, felt underbaked to be a true music player. Fast-forward to 2025, and while the groans haven’t completely died down, nearly everyone we know, including our readers, is using YouTube Music. This revelation came str

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The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Hoyt 2025-08-15 14:45:27

The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful A friend of mine, bright, driven, and relatively new to programming, asked me a heavy question the other day. “Did I make a mistake? Did I choose the right career?” The question hung in the air. It wasn’t born from a bad day or a frustrating bug. It came from a much deeper place of anxiety, one that I suspect many in our industry are feeling right now. They saw recent waves of layoffs, they read the headlines about Artificial Int

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The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Hoyt 2025-08-16 00:45:27

The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful A friend of mine, bright, driven, and relatively new to programming, asked me a heavy question the other day. “Did I make a mistake? Did I choose the right career?” The question hung in the air. It wasn’t born from a bad day or a frustrating bug. It came from a much deeper place of anxiety, one that I suspect many in our industry are feeling right now. They saw recent waves of layoffs, they read the headlines about Artificial Int

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Xbox Hit With Layoffs and Game Cancellations as Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Jobs

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-08-16 22:33:29

Major layoffs are rolling across Microsoft today, impacting game developers within Xbox across several studios and the projects they’re working on, even as an executive at the company told staff more gamers are playing Xbox than ever before. According to The Seattle Times, 9,000 employees, or 4 percent of Microsoft’s workforce, are affected by the cuts, which started Wednesday morning. The full scope of layoffs within Microsoft’s gaming divisions are still unknown. “We continue to implement or

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Finally, I found a Lenovo laptop that I wouldn't mind putting away my MacBook Pro for

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-17 03:38:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition is on sale for about $1600. It's a lightweight laptop with a solid battery life and vibrant OLED display that is perfect for work and entertainment. However, its lightweight nature extends to its hardware, too, since it isn't a particularly powerful computer. View now at Lenovo View now at Best Buy more buying choices In the days leading up to July 4th, the Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition has been given a $160 discount, dropping down to

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Xbox Hit With Layoffs and Game Cancelations as Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Jobs

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-08-17 03:33:29

Major layoffs are rolling across Microsoft today, impacting game developers within Xbox across several studios and the projects they’re working on, even as an executive at the company told staff more gamers are playing Xbox than ever before. According to The Seattle Times, 9,000 employees, or 4 percent of Microsoft’s workforce, are affected by the cuts, which started Wednesday morning. The full scope of layoffs within Microsoft’s gaming divisions are still unknown. “We continue to implement or

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Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-08-17 03:08:25

Microsoft announced layoffs today affecting as many as 9,000 employees, and as part of the changes, more than 70 people will be let go at Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios, according to a source familiar with the situation. The cuts were made on a call with Microsoft HR representatives this morning, and are hitting the “vast majority” of the studio. One source described the layoffs as leaving enough people behind to keep Forza Motorsport up and running. Managers at Turn 10 didn’t disc

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This Lenovo laptop is a worthy rival to the MacBook Pro - and it's on sale

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-18 09:00:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition is on sale for about $1600. It's a lightweight laptop with a solid battery life and vibrant OLED display that is perfect for work and entertainment. However, its lightweight nature extends to its hardware, too, since it isn't a particularly powerful computer. View now at Lenovo View now at Best Buy more buying choices In the days leading up to July 4th, the Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition has been given a $160 discount, dropping down to

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Figma files for proposed IPO

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 21:39:14

Figma, Inc. (“Figma”) today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relating to a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. Figma has applied to list its Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FIG.” The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. The offering is subject to market conditions, and there

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Figma Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 22:39:14

Figma, Inc. (“Figma”) today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relating to a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. Figma has applied to list its Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FIG.” The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. The offering is subject to market conditions, and there

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Best Yoga Mats for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 05:00:00

Depending on your needs, you could purchase a standard yoga mat, or you may want to splurge a little more to get a mat with higher-quality features. This is important to consider if you want your mat to have extra grip or be easy to clean. Next, think about what types of activities you'll be using your yoga mat for. If you're only going to be doing yoga at home, you may not want the same features as someone who plans on using their mat outdoors. It's also important to consider if you need extr

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I just can’t imagine using YouTube Music, so why do you?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-20 15:45:02

Joe Maring / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. Not too long ago, I was a loyal Google Play Music user. It was an app that I loved dearly, offering great usability and a wide range of music. However, when the vastly different YouTube Music arrived and Play Music departed, I sought another service. I couldn’t quite get to grips with the changes, a

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Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo would feel right at home on your GBA

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-22 17:00:00

When I was a kid, there was a moment when it felt like everyone was obsessed with yo-yos. I never got better than just being able to make the yo-yo go up and down. But with Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo, I could pretend like I was halfway decent — all while playing a silly game that feels like a spiritual successor to the Game Boy Advance titles I loved growing up. Pipistrello is a top-down adventure game, in which you use your yo-yo to attack enemies and traverse the world. You play as Pippi

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Neil Young at Glastonbury 2025: Livestream His Headline Festival Set Free From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-22 13:00:02

In news that will come as a relief to armchair classic rock fans, Canadian rock star Neil Young appears to have had a surprise change of heart and has given his permission for his headline set today at Glastonbury to be broadcast live by the BBC. Below, we'll outline which live TV streaming service will be streaming Saturday's main headline show at Glastonbury, wherever you are in the world. We'll also explain how to use a VPN if you're outside of the UK. The veteran musician, performing with

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