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Source: The Verge The death knell for American TikTok should have been on March 13th, 2024, when Congress voted on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis to force its parent company to sell the app or face an outright ban. Rarely do you ever see Republicans and Democrats in agreement over anything, but both sides saw the…
Source: The Verge Commenters on the popular subreddit r/changemymind found out last weekend that they’ve been majorly duped for months. University of Zurich researchers set out to “investigate the persuasiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in natural online environments” by unleashing bots pretending to be a trauma counselor, a “Black man opposed to Black Lives…
Source: The Verge President Donald Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to complain after a Punchbowl News report suggested the online marketplace planned on displaying the cost of tariffs next to product prices. White House officials told CNN that Trump called Bezos “shortly after” receiving information about the report. Amazon spokesperson Tim Doyle later told…
Source: Venture Beat PlayNice, the developer of proven, fun, and engaging games that prevent and treat mental health, today announces the launch of MindLight. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge Here’s some dumb stuff that just happened: Punchbowl News, a new-ish DC publication which has an excellent record of political scoops but hasn’t done much tech reporting, published a single-sourced rumor that Amazon would soon begin showing tariffs next to prices. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about this at a White…
Source: The Verge Audio Overviews, the AI tool that turns your research into podcast-like conversations in Google’s NotebookLM app, is expanding beyond English. Now you can generate and listen to Audio Overviews in more than 50 languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hindi, Turkish, Korean, and Chinese. You switch to a different language by heading to…
Source: The Verge The release date for Borderlands 4 has been moved up by two weeks, shifting from September 23rd to September 12th. This is according to a video posted by Randy Pitchford, CEO of Borderlands developer Gearbox Interactive, that was ironically deleted and reposted because it went up too early. “I wanted to be…
Source: The Verge The first teaser for New Line Cinema’s upcoming horror Weapons was already unsettling enough, but the movie’s latest trailer makes it seem like writer / director Zach Cregger is about to leave us all terrified once again. Though Weapons’ new trailer doesn’t explain why an entire classroom of young children suddenly go…
Source: The Verge Meta’s standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you’d expect from an AI assistant. You can type or talk with it, generate images, and get real-time web results. The biggest new idea in the Meta AI app is its Discover feed, which adds an AI twist to social media. Here, you’ll see a…
Source: The Verge A former Disney employee will serve three years in federal prison for logging into the company’s servers to make changes to its restaurant menus’ allergen information, as well as carrying out “denial-of-service attacks” aimed at locking other employees out of their accounts. The court also ordered the man, Michael Scheuer, to pay…
