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Roblox expands use of age estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-12 05:27:08

Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to provide age and content ratings for the games and apps on its platform. The company said that by year’s end, the age estimation system will be rolled out to all Roblox users who access the company’s communication tools, like voice and text-based chat. This involves sca

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Netflix adds Twitch-like clipping function, complete with an editor

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-12 09:45:18

Netflix has upgraded its Moments feature for the mobile app. It already lets users save iconic scenes, but now there's a simple editor to bring it in line with something like Twitch's clipping tool. Viewers can use the tool to set start and end points, so they can turn preferred scenes into "full clips to save, relive and share anytime." Just tap the "Clip" button when watching something on mobile and the new editor will pop up. Once something is saved, it'll reside in the "My Netflix" tab. The

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PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-12 09:58:44

Perplexity, the NVIDIA- and Bezos-backed AI company, is partnering with PayPal to get its Comet browser in front of millions of the financial tech giant's users. The deal will see PayPal and Venmo customers in the US and select international markets gain access to the AI-powered browser, as well as a free 12-month subscription to Perplexity Pro, which normally costs $200. There are, of course, some conditions. The promotion is part of PayPal's new subscription hub, where users can manage all th

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Google's NotebookLM now lets you customize your AI podcasts in tone and length

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-12 13:51:02

NotebookLM/Screenshot by Nina Raemont ZDNET's key takeaways NotebookLM introduced new audio formats on Wednesday. The formats offer users more interactive, customizable information distillation. The tool could save students and workers time. Google's NotebookLM audio overview feature went viral because it uses AI to create engaging, realistic podcasts from your content. The feature just got a facelift, making it even more helpful, allowing you to customize the podcast to suit your needs eve

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PayPal and Venmo users can try Perplexity's Comet AI browser free for a year now

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-12 17:00:17

May James/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Some PayPal and Venmo users can now access Comet for free. The offer includes a one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro. Comet is Perplexity's new AI-centric web browser. PayPal and Venmo users in the US and other global markets can now receive early access to Perplexity's highly anticipated Comet web browser, PayPal announced today. The offer includes a 12-month f

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Apple's Assault on Standards

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 11:55:37

Apple's Assault on Standards Will we notice? And what can be done? TL;DR: Market competition underlies the enterprise of standards. It creates the only functional test of designs and functions as a pressure release valve that enables standards-based ecosystems route around single-vendor damage. Without competition, standards bodies have no purpose, and neither they, nor the ecosystems they support, can retain relevance. Apple has poisoned the well through a monopoly on influence which it has pa

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MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

news.ycombinator.com Css . Node_Modules Css-Loader Dist Cjs.Js 2025-10-12 21:06:19

By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH A new MIT study titled, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task, has found that using ChatGPT to help write essays leads to long-term cognitive harm—measurable through EEG brain scans. Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, impaired memory recall, and diminished sense of ownership over their own writing. While the AI-generated content often scored well, the brains beh

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Google did not warn 2.5B Gmail users to reset passwords

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 09:29:57

Google has disputed a widely reported story about the company warning all Gmail users to reset their passwords due to a recent data breach that also affected some Workspace accounts. This claim was covered by numerous news outlets, as well as cybersecurity firms, which published stories about the so-called "urgent warning" asking 2.5 billion Gmail users worldwide to enable two-step authentication and reset their passwords. However, as the company explained on a Monday blog post addressing thes

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OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 12:10:26

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its simulated reasoning models, following what the company has called "heartbreaking cases" of users experiencing crises while using the AI assistant. The moves come after multiple reported incidents where ChatGPT allegedly failed to intervene appropriately when users expressed suicidal thoughts or experienced mental health episodes. "This work has already been underwa

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No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-14 16:57:28

Google has disputed a widely reported story about the company warning all Gmail users to reset their passwords due to a recent data breach that also affected some Workspace accounts. This claim was covered by numerous news outlets, as well as cybersecurity firms, which published stories about the so-called "urgent warning" asking 2.5 billion Gmail users worldwide to enable two-step authentication and reset their passwords. However, as the company explained on a Monday blog post addressing thes

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This Gemini upgrade will soon make Google Docs even more useful on Android (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-15 01:58:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Docs on the web recently received a new feature that lets users listen to their documents with Gemini. We spotted code that enables this feature on the Google Docs Android app and activated it ahead of release for an early look. The current mobile implementation lacks some features from the web version, but they could be added later. Google recently released a new feature for Google Docs that allows users to listen to their documents using Gem

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'2.5 billion Gmail users at risk'? Entirely false, says Google

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-15 01:55:54

SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google did not issue a warning about a major security breach. But hackers have been targeting Salesforce data in the cloud. Always be alert for phishing and vishing attacks. Worried about reports that a major security breach has impacted your Gmail account? Well, apparently, those claims are much ado about nothing. Also: How to encrypt any email - in Outlook, Gmail, and o

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Google Play Games is about to show people what you play

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-15 11:58:50

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is updating user profiles for its Play Games service on Android devices to display gaming stats, achievements, and social features. The changes include a suite of new capabilities for “showcasing and tracking your game progress and stats, new ways to build your gaming community, and allowing you to tailor your profile to your liking,” according to Google’s help page. The update will be applied automa

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WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-15 21:24:36

While most U.S. users have never used—or even heard of—WhatsApp Status Updates, Meta recently revealed that the tab is now used by 1.5 billion people per day worldwide. And soon, WhatsApp will take a page from Instagram by adding a Close Friends feature. If you’re unfamiliar with WhatsApp Status, it works much like Instagram Stories, where users can post photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. For the last few years, Instagram users have enjoyed a Close Friends feature, which lets the

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Google says reports of a major Gmail security issue are 'entirely false'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-15 21:48:12

Google is officially debunking a series of reports that claimed Gmail has been hit with a "major" security issue in recent days. "We want to reassure our users that Gmail’s protections are strong and effective," the company said in a somewhat unusual statement. "Several inaccurate claims surfaced recently that incorrectly stated that we issued a broad warning to all Gmail users about a major Gmail security issue. This is entirely false." Google doesn't detail the erroneous claims in its post. B

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Chinese social media platforms roll out labels for AI-generated material

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-16 09:48:03

Major social media platforms in China have started rolling out labels for AI-generated content to comply with a law that took effect on Monday. Users of the likes of WeChat, Douyin, Weibo and RedNote (aka Xiaohongshu) are now seeing such labels on posts. These denote the use of generative AI in text, images, audio, video and other types of material, according to the South China Morning Post . Identifiers such as watermarks have to be included in metadata too. WeChat has told users they must pro

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Poll: Were you affected by Verizon’s service outage over the weekend?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 22:42:37

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Verizon had a very eventful August, thanks mainly to the unpopular decision to cut loyalty discounts. The company had to resort to damage control by offering new discounts instead of the old ones, but some customers felt tricked into accepting lower discounts. If you were willing to look past all of this, the carrier just bounced back after a rough weekend where it suffered a service outage. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a pre

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Pick up an Apple AirTag four-pack for only $70 in this Labor Day sale

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 15:30:37

Labor Day sales include a decent number of Apple devices this year, from big to small. AirTags are among the latter; you can pick up a four-pack of the Bluetooth trackers for only $70 right now. That's only about $5 more than the pack's record-low price, and it's one of the best prices we've seen all year. For Apple users, AirTags offer some large advantages over rival trackers. The ultra-wideband functionality offers precise tracking with iPhones less than five years old, so you can narrow you

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Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

news.ycombinator.com Terence Eden 2025-10-17 00:03:09

In which I attempt to be pragmatic. Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess. Google has recently announced that Android users will only be able to install apps which have been digitally signed by developers who have registered their name and other legal details with Google. To many people, this signals the death of "sideloading" - the ability to install apps which don'

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TikTok users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in chats

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 12:44:13

TikTok is taking another step towards becoming more than just a platform for infinitely scrolling through short videos. The social media app told TechCrunch that its users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in direct messages or group chats. According to a TikTok spokesperson, these features will roll out in the next few weeks. As voice messaging has risen in popularity, TikTok will embrace the trend but is capping the length of its voice notes to one minute. For images an

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Are we decentralized yet?

news.ycombinator.com Robert Ricci 2025-10-17 12:26:29

This page measures the concentration of user data on the Fediverse and the Atmosphere according to the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), an indicator from economics used to measure competition between firms in an industry. Mathematically, HHI is the sum of the squares of market shares of all servers. Values close to zero indicate perfectly competitive markets (eg. many servers, with users spread evenly), while values close to 10000 indicate highly concentrated monopolies (eg. most users on a si

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WhatsApp Just Patched a ‘Zero Click’ Bug Being Used to Hack Apple Users

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-17 13:50:34

On Friday, WhatsApp announced that it had patched a software vulnerability that was being used by unknown hackers to target specific users of Apple products and hack them with spyware. WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, said in an advisory that the previously unknown bug “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.” The vulnerability is officially dubbed CVE-2025-55177. TechCrunch notes that this week, WhatsApp fixed the bug while last week, Apple fixed an

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TikTok now lets users send voice notes and images in DMs

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-18 09:15:08

TikTok is giving users new ways to interact with others via direct messages (DMs), the company told TechCrunch on Friday. Users will now be able to send voice notes and share up to nine images or videos in one-to-one and group chats on the platform. With these new features, TikTok is positioning itself as more than just an entertainment platform, aiming to become a place where users interact regularly beyond simply sending each other TikTok videos. Additionally, the new capabilities bring TikTo

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Wearable devices are sharing your private data - these are the 5 worst offenders

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-18 13:15:30

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Several wearable devices are sharing user data. The worst offenders include Meta, Samsung, Xiaomi, and Huawei. Apple, Oura, and Whoop have some of the best data practices. Those shiny new Meta Ray-Bans might be uploading the media you're collecting to train its AI model, according to a new report by VPNMentor highlighting the data-sharing practices of the best and worst wearables. Meta and it

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WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-18 13:15:55

WhatsApp said on Friday that it fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into the Apple devices of “specific targeted users.” The Meta-owned messaging app giant said in its security advisory that it fixed the vulnerability, known officially as CVE-2025-55177, which was used alongside a separate flaw found in iOS and Macs, which Apple fixed last week and tracks as CVE-2025-43300. Apple said at the time that the flaw was used in an “extremely sophistica

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Microsoft to enforce MFA for Azure resource management in October

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-19 01:56:47

Starting in October, Microsoft will enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure resource management actions to protect Azure clients from unauthorized access attempts. This change is part of the company's Secure Future Initiative (SFI), will be applied gradually across tenants worldwide, and it requires users to enable MFA on Azure CLI, PowerShell, SDKs, and APIs to ensure that their accounts are protected against attacks. To avoid compatibility issues, users are also advised to up

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AirTag deal: Get a four-pack of Apple's Bluetooth trackers for $70 for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 09:16:26

Labor Day sales include a decent number of Apple devices this year, from big to small. AirTags are among the latter; you can pick up a four-pack of the Bluetooth trackers for only $70 right now. That's only about $5 more than the pack's record-low price, and it's one of the best prices we've seen all year. For Apple users, AirTags offer some large advantages over rival trackers. The ultra-wideband functionality offers precise tracking with iPhones less than five years old, so you can narrow you

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Microsoft Word will soon save documents to the cloud by default

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-10-18 13:46:00

In brief: OneDrive, Microsoft's answer to iCloud and Google Drive, is deeply embedded in Windows 11. The operating system doesn't display prompts for opting out of the program, and Microsoft is preparing to introduce more obstacles for users who wish to save files locally. The change will begin with Microsoft Word before coming to other apps. Microsoft 365 Insiders should soon begin seeing Microsoft Word automatically save files to the company's OneDrive cloud by default. Users can toggle the f

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Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 22:55:14

Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. After more than two years of development, the Debian Project has released its new stable version, Debian 13 ("trixie"). The release comes with the usual bounty of upgraded packages and more than 14,000 new packages; it also debu

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-20 03:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: Previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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Latest Tech News

Roblox expands use of age estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

Netflix adds Twitch-like clipping function, complete with an editor

PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser

Google's NotebookLM now lets you customize your AI podcasts in tone and length

PayPal and Venmo users can try Perplexity's Comet AI browser free for a year now

Apple's Assault on Standards

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

Google did not warn 2.5B Gmail users to reset passwords

OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords

This Gemini upgrade will soon make Google Docs even more useful on Android (APK teardown)

'2.5 billion Gmail users at risk'? Entirely false, says Google

Google Play Games is about to show people what you play

WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

Google says reports of a major Gmail security issue are 'entirely false'

Chinese social media platforms roll out labels for AI-generated material

Poll: Were you affected by Verizon’s service outage over the weekend?

Pick up an Apple AirTag four-pack for only $70 in this Labor Day sale

Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

TikTok users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in chats

Are we decentralized yet?

WhatsApp Just Patched a ‘Zero Click’ Bug Being Used to Hack Apple Users

TikTok now lets users send voice notes and images in DMs

Wearable devices are sharing your private data - these are the 5 worst offenders

WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware

Microsoft to enforce MFA for Azure resource management in October

AirTag deal: Get a four-pack of Apple's Bluetooth trackers for $70 for Labor Day

Microsoft Word will soon save documents to the cloud by default

Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training

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