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Google pays $30M to settle lawsuit over children’s YouTube data

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-14 21:28:12

In Brief Google will pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming it violated children’s privacy on YouTube, per Reuters. The lawsuit alleges that Google collected data from children watching YouTube videos; while this kind of data collection has become common, it remains illegal to collect data from children under the age of 13, per the longstanding COPPA legislation. Though Google will settle the case, the company denies these allegations. It’s possible that up to 45 million p

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Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-11-16 12:00:00

In the weeks since Zohran Mamdani’s New York City Democratic primary win on June 20, a slew of tech executives who do not have a primary residence in the city or state of New York have been panicking about the prospect of him becoming mayor. Every member of the popular All-In podcast, including current White House “AI and crypto czar” David Sacks, has raised alarms on X about the prospect of a Mamdani mayoralty. “Wake up, Silicon Valley,” Sacks posted on June 29, sharing a video of Mamdani on

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New Study Fuels Debate Over World-Changing Comet Strike 12,800 Years Ago

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-17 02:10:34

Roughly 12,800 years ago, as Earth was emerging from its last great ice age, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere suddenly plummeted back to near-glacial conditions. The cause of this abrupt shift—known as the Younger Dryas cool period—remains a mystery to this day, but new evidence may give credence to its most controversial explanation. Researchers analyzed sediment cores extracted from the seafloor of Baffin Bay near Greenland, finding indicators of a cosmic impact event inside the layer

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YouTuber Mark Rober is getting a Netflix series

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-17 11:10:59

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer now known for his science-focused stunts he publishes to more than 70 million subscribers on YouTube, will launch a competition show on Netflix in 2026. Rober will also bring “some of his most beloved, ambitious, and informative experiments to Netflix lat

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You Could Be Streaming the Oscars on YouTube or Netflix by 2029

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 11:08:00

Will we be watching 2029's Academy Awards on YouTube? That's one possibility as streaming and broadcast giants position themselves to potentially take over as the streaming/broadcast home of the Oscars after ABC's contract ends in 2028. According to a Bloomberg newsletter, Google's YouTube is now in the running as a potential Oscars suitor, joining companies such as Netflix and NBCUniversal as a possible new home for the awards. Like Netflix, YouTube has been increasingly become interested in

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The Tweens Down Under: Life Without Social Media in Australia

wired.com Charley Locke 2025-11-19 06:00:00

Starting on December 10, many Australian teenagers will no longer be as online as their peers in other countries. The Social Media Minimum Age Bill, passed in 2024, stipulates that a person must be at least 16 years old to have an account on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. Across the world, people young and old are increasingly recognizing the negative impacts that social media has on adolescents. Nearly half of teenagers in the US claim these platforms harm people thei

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These 5 Posture Corrector Picks Will Straighten You Out (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-11-18 17:00:00

Compare Top 5 Posture Correctors How We Test Posture Correctors AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron We tested each posture corrector, wearing them through the routines of daily life—from sitting at a desk to running errands and working out—for both short and long periods, over several months. No one wants to feel like they’re strapped into armor, so we evaluated wearability by focusing on comfort, breathable materials, and adjustability. Material quality was a priority, and we kept an eye

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YouTube Is Drowning in AI Slop Channels

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-18 14:00:58

YouTube is nothing without its advertisers. The beating heart of the video platform, big box companies have been locked in a historic game of Whac-a-Mole against low-quality YouTube content, which they say leads to a lowered perception of brands when paired with their ads. In the past, these high-risk videos took the form of right-wing conspiracy theorists, medical misinformation, and child exploitation. Now, in 2025, it's AI slop. Recent reporting by The Guardian details the staggering rise

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I subscribe to Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal, but keep coming back to YouTube Music for one reason

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 15:00:47

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Thanos has his gemstones, and I have my music subscription services. I’ve subscribed to practically all the major streaming services. Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal — they all have their own unique strengths and quirks. Of course, I’ve tried to rationalize the cost by saying that I’m keeping my options open and that different services are good for different use cases, and even moods. Spotify Jam comes in clutch when I’m throwing a party. Other days, I want Apple M

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TextKit 2 – The Promised Land

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 05:26:53

TextKit 2 (NSTextLayoutManager) API was announced publicly during WWDC21, which is over 4 years ago. Before that, it was in private development for a few years and gained widespread adoption in the macOS and iOS frameworks. Promised an easier, faster, overall better API and text layout engine that replaces the aged TextKit 1 (NSLayoutManager) engine. Over the years, I gained some level of expertise in TextKit 2 and macOS/iOS text processing, which resulted in STTextView - a re-implementation of

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In a First, Scientists Capture Human Embryo Implantation in Real Time

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-19 20:00:40

A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first time—footage of human embryo implantation right as it’s happening. Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), in collaboration with Dexeus University Hospital, detailed their work in a study published Friday in Science Advances. Among other things, the footage shows that human embr

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YouTube Music just got a new podcast superpower that’s been a long time coming

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 00:21:15

TL;DR Google Podcasts used to offer the ability to remove gaps of silence from podcasts. When Podcasts was retired, YouTube Music did not offer a similar tool. Work on a “trim silence” option for YouTube Music was spotted last year, and the feature is finally available now. Progress is supposed to mean improvement, right? While we’re no strangers to seeing Google transform one app into another, merging features in the process, it’s extremely frustrating when we lose some functionality along t

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Are We Creating Entrepreneurs or Just Privileged Risk-Takers?

news.ycombinator.com Magic Sketch 2025-11-20 00:20:08

We've all seen them — those impossibly young entrepreneurs gracing magazine covers, giving TED talks, and securing million-dollar funding rounds before they can legally drink. Mark Zuckerberg dropping out of Harvard, Evan Spiegel turning down billions for Snapchat, or countless other "wunderkind" stories that dominate our feeds. But here's the question nobody wants to ask: What role did their parents really play? A recent discussion on V2EX, China's equivalent of Hacker News, pulled back the c

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Gen-Z’s Social Media Addiction May Have Ironically Led to an Indie Cinema Revival

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-22 10:20:02

During the pandemic, movie theaters notably struggled, as social distancing restrictions all but temporarily killed their business model. Many smaller, independent theaters went out of business permanently. However, since the pandemic has ebbed, the film industry has slowly recovered. Attendance in theaters is not exactly where it was prior to the pandemic, but attendance is significantly higher than it was during Covid, and continues to climb. A new article published by The Guardian suggests t

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I wasn’t using NotebookLM for YouTube research, but this extension changed all that

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 00:30:29

Andy Walker / Android Authority NotebookLM is by far the best AI project Google has piloted, and you can’t convince me otherwise. Sure, there are flashier examples, but none match the practical, everyday usefulness of this research and notebook app. Whether it’s for analyzing insurance or legal documents or helping me navigate my car’s user and care manual, this is one AI product I use almost every day. While importing various documents into the service is straightforward, uploading online medi

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New York Takes Zelle to Court Over Alleged Fraud on the Platform, Claims $1 Billion Lost

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-23 15:10:23

Arguably, the entire selling point of Zelle as a platform is that it is owned by big banks that ostensibly are invested in making sure that your money is safe. Turns out security was not the priority that you might imagine, according to New York Attorney General Letitia James. In a lawsuit against the money transfer, the top prosecutor for New York State claims that customers have lost more than $1 billion to fraud on Zelle, which was enabled by a lack of sufficient protections. In the suit, Ja

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YouTube Music gets another music discovery tool that Spotify doesn’t have

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 03:28:57

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a new Daily Discover feed in YouTube Music. Like the existing weekly discover, the daily discover aims to help you find artists or music similar to what you already listen. Google only appears to be testing it at the moment, as the feature hasn’t rolled out widely. Although its supremacy is contentious, YouTube Music is easily among the top five music and podcast streaming services globally. Its popularity naturally stems from the f

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PSA: YouTube will start guessing your age from today (Updated)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:59:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube will start estimating the age of its US viewers beginning today, August 13. The platform will use AI to determine if you are under 18 and automatically apply age-appropriate experiences to your account. You can dispute the age estimation by providing a government ID, selfie, or a credit card. Update, August 13, 2025 (4:59 PM ET): Just as promised, YouTube’s new age checks have gone live, and users are already reporting running into restrictio

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Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image

news.ycombinator.com Shane O'Sullivan 2025-11-22 10:11:16

TLDR: Click here for code to implement a lightweight, resilient clickable YouTube preview. YouTube videos are expensive to load on a web page. This compounds if you want your page to display many videos at the same time for the user to choose from. Before the user even plays the video, it loads 4MB onto your previously zippy page. Of course, YouTube does a decent job of caching these resources, but your browser is still doing all this work, creating another complete page context per video, exe

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Bat colony checks in to hotel; 200 guests check out, unaware of rabies scare

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-25 14:35:15

Health officials in Wyoming are sinking their teeth into a meaty task. Over 200 people who stayed in a hotel in Grand Teton National Park between May and July may have unknowingly been exposed to rabies, according to Wyoming Public Radio. In an announcement on Friday, the National Park Service reported finding evidence of a bat colony in the attic. The discovery was made after there had been at least eight incidents in which guests encountered winged mammals inside the hotel. Now, the Wyoming

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Honky-Tonk Tokyo (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Katherine Lagrave Is A Writer 2025-11-21 10:20:35

George Strait wasn’t supposed to be in Japan, but when I push open the door to a bar called Little Texas on a cool Tokyo night, the so-called King of Country is here: hand on his hip, hand on his wide-brimmed white hat, a crooked smile tilted to the left, like a puppeteer pulled the strings unevenly. There he is on the ceiling, smiling down from a poster, there he is on a $1 bill, sheathed in plastic, pinned on the back of the bar next to a Texas A&M Forest Service patch and a bumper sticker for

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You’re not making the most of YouTube and YouTube Premium if you’re not using this trick

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 00:00:59

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Back in April, I watched dozens of YouTube videos about Budapest before traveling there. When I returned home, my YouTube home page was still full of Budapest videos, and although I haven’t clicked on any since then, I still get them in my recommendations to this day. The same happened when I obsessed over lawnmowers before buying one, and the Ninja Woodfire grill before I splurged on it. YouTube keeps recommending videos for things I was momentarily intrigued

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PSA: YouTube will start guessing your age from today

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 23:00:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube will start estimating the age of its US viewers beginning today, August 13. The platform will use AI to determine if you are under 18 and automatically apply age-appropriate experiences to your account. You can dispute the age estimation by providing a government ID, selfie, or a credit card. YouTube will start rolling out its new AI-powered age estimation system in the US beginning today, August 13. First announced last month, the feature us

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YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-28 04:58:05

Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube's plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US. On Tuesday, a Change.org petition rapidly neared its 50,000-signature goal, with tens of thousands hoping that with enough users protesting, the wide rollout of the AI age checks might be stopped. They fear the age checks will make it harder to access content they love while staying anonymous on the platform YouTube's age verification system estimates user ages by interpreting a "vari

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One of Google’s YouTube channels looks like it was hacked to promote crypto

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-28 20:34:10

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR An official Google YouTube account was taken offline today. Evidence suggests that Google India’s primary YouTube channel was hijacked by hackers. Screenshots show the account promoting crypto trading prior to going offline. Security is hard. Even with all the fantastic tools we have access to, designed to help keep our accounts and information private, actually maintaining good security requires ongoing effort, making sure we’re taking full advantage of

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Tesla is hiring robotaxi test drivers in New York City, but company hasn't applied for permits

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-11-29 10:00:01

Tesla is recruiting test drivers in New York to operate cars with "automated driving systems," but the company hasn't applied for the permits it would need to test autonomous vehicles in the nation's largest city. A job opening on Tesla's website says the company is looking to hire vehicle operators in the borough of Queens. The hires will be "responsible for driving an engineering vehicle for extended periods, conducting dynamic audio and camera data collection for testing and training purpose

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Revel shutters rideshare business, pivots to EV charging

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-11-30 20:04:26

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Revel is shutting down its ridehail business, citing heightened competition from rideshare leaders like Uber and Lyft. The company, which began as an electric moped business before shifting to rideshare, plans to pivot to electric vehic

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YouTube is expanding its powerful new search feature to more Premium users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-02 15:43:09

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s AI-powered search results carousel is rolling out to more Premium users in the US. According to the updated YouTube Premium page for experimental new features, the AI-powered search results carousel will be available until August 20. Google may decide to expand access to the feature once the testing period ends. YouTube is expanding access to its experimental AI-powered search results carousel to more Premium subscribers, though the feature still

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The computer science dream has become a nightmare

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-02 08:59:42

In Brief Well, the coding-equals-prosperity promise has officially collapsed. Fresh computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5% — more than double what biology and art history majors are experiencing, according to a recent Federal Reserve Bank of New York study. A crushing New York Times piece highlights what’s happening on the ground. The individual stories are surreal. Manasi Mishra, 21, graduated from Purdue after being promised six-figure starting salaries, on

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Robin is Finally Getting Some Cinematic Love Again

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-02 03:50:08

To the delight of DC fans online, The Batman Part II has now entered pre-production ahead of its start date in early 2026. Director Matt Reeves and co-writer Mattson Tomlin have been secretive about what to expect from their Bat-sequel, but there’ve been rumors flying for some time now, with the most recent being that it’ll be darker—because of course it’ll be, and probably likened to Empire Strikes Back at some point—and will feature Robin, Batman’s sidekick. If true, this will make for the th

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Google pays $30M to settle lawsuit over children’s YouTube data

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Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image

Bat colony checks in to hotel; 200 guests check out, unaware of rabies scare

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YouTube is expanding its powerful new search feature to more Premium users

The computer science dream has become a nightmare

Robin is Finally Getting Some Cinematic Love Again

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