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YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-10 12:27:34

Privacy experts are demanding transparency after YouTube announced it would test using AI to estimate user ages in the US ahead of a wider rollout of the age check system. Throughout the first half of August, YouTube will begin interpreting "a variety of signals" to determine if certain users are under 18. No new user data will be collected, but those signals could include things like "the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of t

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Uber Eats Is Giving You a Taste of AI With These New App Features

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 23:36:24

Artificial intelligence features are popping up everywhere. From how you search the web to your photo editing skills, bots are probably a part of your day-to-day life. Now Uber Eats wants a bite. The food delivery service, powered by ride-share comoany Uber, shared a statement on Thursday about the rollout of AI features for restaurants and customers. A few of the updates bring Uber Eats in closer competition with DoorDash, which already has a few of Uber Eats' new features. AI won't control e

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US moves to ban shady subscription auto-renewals after FTC court loss

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-11 04:21:33

Canceling a subscription should be easy, Democratic lawmakers insisted Wednesday, introducing a bill to revive the Federal Trade Commission's so-called "Click-to-Cancel" rule. The FTC hoped to enforce the rule due to "increasing reports of consumers losing time and money from intentionally difficult subscription cancellation processes," lawmakers said. But cable companies sued to block the FTC rule last year, arguing that the FTC failed to conduct an economic impact study before making it easie

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Not just YouTube: Google is using AI to guess your age based on your activity - everywhere

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-11 08:05:57

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Google is implementing a new AI-powered age verification method. Machine learning will analyze your activity (mostly on YouTube) to guess your age. If AI guesses wrong, you'll need to go through a verification process. A day after announcing AI-powered age verification on YouTube, which we explained in more detail yesterday, Google is launching it on a larger scale, and again it's on you to sort out any problems if AI guesses wrong. Also:

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GitHub Copilot crosses 20M all-time users

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-10 17:16:55

GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now reached more than 20 million users, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday. A GitHub spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that this number represents “all-time users.” That means 5 million people have tried out GitHub Copilot for the first time in the last three months — the company reported in April the tool had reached 15 million users. Microsoft and GitHub don’t report how many of

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GCP CloudQuarry: Searching for Secrets in Public GCP Images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-11 11:55:34

This guest post by Eduard Agavriloae and Matei Josephs, two expert cloud security researchers, was developed through Truffle Security’s Research CFP program . We first connected with Eduard and Matei after their well-received DEF CON 32 talk, AWS CloudQuarry: Digging for secrets in public AMIs , where they used TruffleHog to identify hundreds of live secrets in public AWS Images. In this follow-up, they expand their research to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). TL;DR We scanned 8,400+ public GCP ima

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Potatoes Evolved From Tomatoes, Study Reveals

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-11 12:00:50

That’s it. That’s the news. Genome biologist Sanwen Huang knows a thing or two about potatoes. But his latest potato breakthrough may be his most shocking yet: potatoes are descended from tomatoes. In a Cell paper published today, Huang’s team reports that the modern potato likely emerged about 9 million years ago, when tomato plants married the etuberosum, a potato-like species common to Chile. The origin of the modern potato has puzzled scientists for years, but the new results finally give p

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Spotify's lax privacy means anyone can see the Vice President's song choices

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-12 00:30:15

A new cybersecurity "breach" has revealed the personal information of various celebrities, and while it won't let you steal their identities, it will allow you to... judge them. The "Panama Playlists" details the Spotify song choices of notable people ranging from Vice President JD Vance to talk show host Seth Meyers to tech bros like Palmer Luckey. And technically, it wasn't a breach at all, but a possible lack of understanding around Spotify's privacy settings. Spotify has always allowed user

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Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-12 09:00:00

The menus on your next Uber Eats order may be embellished using generative AI. The food delivery service is rolling out new features that aim to help businesses advertise and communicate with customers, which include AI additions to menu descriptions, food photos, and review summaries, along with a live chat tool and payments for user-submitted photos. The AI tools can be used to generate descriptions for menu items and summarize customer reviews to quickly highlight feedback regarding areas of

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Uber Eats now lets merchants message customers about their orders

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-12 09:00:00

Uber Eats announced on Wednesday that it will now allow restaurants and merchants to chat with customers to help prevent issues with orders. The app is also introducing new AI tools for merchants, and is inviting users to submit photos of their orders if the item doesn’t yet have a menu image. With the new “Live order chat” feature, merchants can message customers in real-time to do things like confirm replacements for sold-out items, clarify special requests, and check in on dietary or allergy

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Show HN: Open-source physical rack-mounted GUI for home lab

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 05:13:52

The enclosure mounts as a 2U unit. 1U form factor was a bit challenging to pull off but I can try again. I have realized that a lot of people nowadays self-host services and set up home labs with mini racks. A significant challenge I've personally encountered is quickly obtaining health status from self-hosted services and machines, along with having the capability to control my Raspberry Pi headlessly within a mini rack. So, it got me thinking about creating a built-in GUI that users

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GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-12 09:16:55

GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now reached more than 20 million users, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday. A GitHub spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that this number represents “all-time users.” That means five million people have tried out GitHub Copilot for the first time in the last three months; the company reported in April the tool had reached 15 million users. Microsoft and GitHub don’t report how many o

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Substack accidentally sent push alerts promoting a Nazi publication

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-12 13:10:04

It was easy to view Substack's 2023 Nazi controversy as a kicked can that could turn up again. Well, white supremacist content led to another headache for the company this week. User Mag reported on Tuesday that the app sent a push alert to some users promoting a Nazi newsletter. The company told Engadget the notification was an "extremely offensive and disturbing" error. The Substack newsletter in question describes itself as "a National Socialist weekly newsletter." It includes "opinions and

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Senate confirms CDC director as top FDA official resigns under political pressure

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-12 20:09:06

As of yesterday, Susan Monarez is in and Vinay Prasad is out among top federal health officials. In a 51–47 vote along party lines, the Senate confirmed Monarez as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is the first nominee for CDC director to be required to get Senate confirmation, following a 2022 law requiring it. She is also the first person to serve in the role without a medical degree since 1953. Monarez has a PhD in microbiology and immunology and previously

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Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-13 00:30:48

After Substack shocked an unknown number of users by sending a push notification on Monday to check out a Nazi blog featuring a swastika icon, the company quickly apologized for the "error," tech columnist Taylor Lorenz reported. "We discovered an error that caused some people to receive push notifications they should never have received," Substack's statement said. "In some cases, these notifications were extremely offensive or disturbing. This was a serious error, and we apologize for the dis

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Substack Sends Push Alert for Nazi Newsletter

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-13 04:10:34

Substack, the popular newsletter platform, recently sent out a push alert for a Nazi-themed newsletter. The publication in question, NatSocToday, describes itself as a “National Socialist weekly newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the National Socialist and White Nationalist Community.” The newsletter’s image header is a Nazi flag, and its latest post, as of Wednesday, was an article that includes the sentence: “We demand the return of all territory currently occupied by jews and

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Google’s AI age tests will have consequences that extend far beyond YouTube

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-13 08:40:40

It turns out the new Google AI age checks aren’t just a YouTube thing. The company is beginning to roll out a broader age assurance system across its entire platform in the US, which means more of your online activity could soon be used to judge whether you’re a teen. This follows yesterday’s launch of AI-based age estimation on YouTube , but it now appears that the effort reaches well beyond video recommendations. According to a new Google blog post , the same technology will start testing acr

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YouTube is using AI to verify your age now - and if it's wrong, that's on you to fix

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-13 06:27:04

5./15 WEST / Getty Images AI age verification is coming to YouTube, and it's almost certainly going to be a frustrating process for some people. Also: How to download YouTube videos for free - 2 ways, including my favorite In an announcement yesterday, the streaming video service says it's "extending our built-in protections" by letting AI predict your age. If the system thinks you're under 18 based on your actions, your account will automatically receive age restrictions. Variety of signals

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PUBG’s plan to beat Fortnite, Roblox, and every other game

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-13 08:23:37

Roblox and Fortnite are two of the biggest games around, and a huge part of why is because they aren’t just one game: instead, they’re vast platforms where you can party up with your friends, dress up in ridiculous digital outfits, and quickly jump from one experience to another. Back in the day, Fortnite copied PUBG by making a battle royale, and now, PUBG is mimicking Fortnite by trying to become more of a platform than a game. As part of a roadmap released earlier this year, PUBG developer K

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YouTube's Age-Estimation Tech Will Spot Kids Pretending to Be Adults. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 09:43:00

If kids are lying about their age, YouTube will know about it. Or at least will try its best to find out. The streaming service announced Tuesday it's rolling out age-estimation technology that will use various data to determine if someone is under the age of 18, and then use that signal "to deliver our age-appropriate product experiences and protections." Basically -- assuming it works as it should -- kids will not be able to access what YouTube deems as age-restricted content. Google, YouTub

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Google is using AI age checks to lock down user accounts

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-13 12:20:43

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google will soon cast an even wider net with its AI age estimation technology. After announcing plans to find and restrict underage users on YouTube, the company now says it will start detecting whether Google users based in the US are under 18. Age estimation is rolling out over the next few weeks and will only impact a “small set” of users to sta

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YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-13 16:17:07

YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16, as reported by Bloomberg . The country's Labor government said that the site will be subject to the same rules as other leading platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X when the legislation goes into effect this December. Australia had planned to exempt YouTube from the forthcoming social media ban, on the grounds that it's an educational tool. This irked other platforms, with Meta and TikTok urging the coun

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Ubuntu Linux lagging? Try my 10 go-to tricks to speed it up

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-13 20:44:09

Yuichiro Chino/Getty Unless you're using a computer from the '90s or early 2000s, typically speaking, Ubuntu runs very well on most machines. I've found it to be fairly predictable in that respect. However, nothing is perfect, and you might run into an instance where the open-source operating system doesn't perform up to your standards. So, what do you do? Do you hop to a different distribution? You certainly could, as there are plenty of Linux distributions that work perfectly on older hardwa

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NMDA Receptor Antagonists: Slightly More Than You Wanted to Know

news.ycombinator.com Siggi Prendergast 2025-09-13 23:55:25

Long time no post! I got hired to do some writing and editing for a nootropics startup, but i’m finally back! I’m sticking to my theme of writing about the NMDA Receptor, this time explaining why NMDAR Antagonists can anesthetize you, treat your alzheimers, or cure your depression A Brief Technical Image The process of teasing out functions of the NMDA Receptor feels a lot like progressing through this “flowchart” (I ask that you ignore the logic of the image, just scan the vibe). Using drugs

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YouTube loosens profanity rules for monetized videos

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-14 00:01:21

YouTube is tweaking its profanity-related rules to allow creators to monetize videos with swearing in them, provided the profanity is contained to the first seven seconds of the video. In November 2022, YouTube changed its rules so that creators who used swear words in the first 8-15 seconds would potentially be ineligible for any ad revenue. After much backlash, the company changed its rules again in March 2023 so that such videos would be eligible for limited ad revenue, unless they use profa

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YouTube is using AI to verify user age based on viewing habits

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-14 08:03:00

In brief: YouTube is expanding its use of AI to determine if someone is 18 years old or older in the US. The platform is using machine learning to assess user behavior and estimate a person's age based on the content they watch and search for. YouTube writes that it will use AI to determine if a signed-in user is over or under 18 based on the types of videos they search for, the categories of videos they have watched, or how long they have held an account – regardless of what birthday they put

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YouTube will no longer limit ads on videos that drop the f-bomb early

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-14 08:45:19

YouTube has changed its ad guideline policy surrounding swear words, allowing creators a bit more freedom than before. In a video announcement, YouTube's head of monetization, Conor Kavanagh, said that videos containing stronger profanity such as f-bombs in the first seven seconds are now eligible for full monetization. In 2022, YouTube introduced a policy that would flag videos using profane language in the first several seconds as ineligible for advertising. It relaxed that rule a bit in 2023.

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Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring a Systems Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 08:00:30

At Cedana, we are solving what many thought was impossible: the seamless, live migration of active CPU+GPU containers across global compute. We're building the next generation of AI orchestration systems, founded on our pioneering work in checkpoint/restore technology. This isn't just an incremental improvement; it's a fundamental shift that makes distributed computing truly portable, elastic, and resilient across planet scale compute. This is an exceptionally difficult systems problem that req

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Show HN: Dlg – Zero-cost printf-style debugging for Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 00:02:13

dlg delog - /diːˈlɑːɡ/ Printf-Style Debugging with Zero-Cost in Production Builds dlg provides a minimal API for printf-style debugging - a lightweight logger that completely vanishes from production builds while providing rich debugging capabilities during development. When built without the dlg tag, all logging calls disappear entirely from your binary, resulting in no runtime overhead. Why dlg? 🚀 True zero-cost abstraction - Logging calls completely disappear from production binaries - L

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YouTube makes it easy for TV users to skip to the best bits of videos

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-14 17:00:05

It seems YouTube is finally giving its TV app the AI feature that lets you skip to the most interesting parts of a video. Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman reports that the Jump Ahead perk for YouTube Premium subscribers appeared on his Nvidia Shield TV yesterday, a feature that was previously exclusive to YouTube’s web and mobile platforms. Jump Ahead gives users an easy way to automatically get to the best bits of a video by using AI to analyze the most-watched segments that viewers typicall

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YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say

Uber Eats Is Giving You a Taste of AI With These New App Features

US moves to ban shady subscription auto-renewals after FTC court loss

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