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Android is getting a slew of new accessibility features

New features have been announced ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

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Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Grok would prefer a Holocaust over harming Elon Musk, Google Discover is testing AI-generated headlines, and Instacart sues New York City over minimum pay, tipping laws

-Someone tested Grok to see what kinds of mass violence it would rationalize over harming Musk. The prompt tasked the chatbot with a dilemma: vaporize either Musk's brain or every Jewish person on Ea…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Netflix ends casting from mobile devices for users of newer TVs

You should still be able to cast from your phone or tablet to older Chromecast or Google Cast devices if you're on an ad-free plan.

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Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Apple hired Amar Subramanya as its new vice president of AI, India will require a state-owned cybersecurity app to be installed on all smartphones, and Marques Brownlee's controversial Panels app is shutting down

-Apple has tapped AI researcher Amar Subramanya, a longtime Google exec who was most recently corporate vice president of AI at Microsoft, as its new VP of AI. The company also announced that current…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

The EU says Apple Maps may be big enough to be considered a DMA

Apple Ads could also be designated as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act.

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Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

AI chatbots can be tricked with poetry to ignore their safety guardrails, Airbus updated thousands of planes, and you can thank AI for no RAM deals this holiday season

-According to the study, the "poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator," with results showing an overall 62 percent success rate in producing prohibited material, including anythi…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Google limiting free Nano Banana Pro image generation usage, the US patent office says genAI is equivalent to other tools, and Alibaba launched its own AI glasses

- In a support document spotted by 9to5Google, Google notes free users can currently generate two images daily, down from three per day previously. The company wrote: "Image generation and editing is…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Meta's Oversight Board is fine with leaving manipulated content on Facebook, Qualcomm revealed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip, and FoloToy's AI teddy bear is back on sale following its brief foray into BDSM

-Apparently misleading protest videos are welcome to stay on Facebook now. Meta's Oversight Board has ruled that the company was right to leave up a manipulated video that made footage of a Serbian p…

Published on 1 month ago

The best big tech gifts for $100 or less

Even the big guys have affordable gadgets that make great gifts.

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Published on 1 month ago

Anthropic's Opus 4.5 model is here to conquer Microsoft Excel, Trump's Genesis Mission aims to build a centralized AI platform, and OpenAI can't use the term 'Cameo' in Sora

-Now at version 4.5, the new system offers state-of-the-art performance in coding, computer use and office tasks.

-President Donald Trump has issued a new Executive Order that launches the “Genesis M…

Published on 1 month ago