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Some iPhone 14 users say the crash detection feature has triggered false alarms and called 911 during rollercoaster rides or after a phone drop while driving — Apple's crash detection for the iPhone 14 and new Apple Watch models can alert 911 and emergency contacts in the event of a collision.| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel confirms its proprietary UEFI code appears to have been leaked by a third party; the Alder Lake BIOS source code was leaked to 4chan and GitHub — Hack's perpetrator and origins remain unknown. — We recently broke the news that Intel's Alder Lake BIOS source code had been leaked …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
A look at the history of online content moderation, which has become a top culture war issue since the 2016 election and is the subject of multiple court cases — Online content moderation wasn't always a partisan issue. That began to change in 2016. — Early last year … | Financial Times: |
Experts paint a dire picture for China's semiconductor industry and AI development after the US announced new export controls on chips and chipmaking tech — Experts predict ‘tsunami of change’ for semiconductor industry as Washington wields tools tested on Huawei
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| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
An analysis of Pornhub's transparency reports shows the site removed 8,547 pieces of content in 2021, down 98% YoY, after adding an uploader verification tool — Pornhub is without a doubt one of the most visited adult entertainment outlets on the Internet.| Anna Gross / Financial Times: |
A look at efforts in the EU and US to make tech and streaming companies pay telecom operators for investments that the operators are making in their networks — Decade-long debate over infrastructure investment heats up in streaming era — On the morning of September 28 … | NL Times: |
A Dutch court calls webcam tracking of a remote worker an unreasonable intrusion, awarding him €75K after his US employer fired him for not turning on a webcam — A remote employee of a U.S. business who was fired for refusing to leave his webcam on while he was working …
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How the BBC's archive team is using tech to help digitize, catalog, and publish 23PB+ of content, including random clips that go viral on social media — For years the corporation has been digitising its vast reserve of content, turning up lost footage of everyone from General Eisenhower to Victoria Wood.| Morgan Sung / NBC News: |
At least two TwitchCon attendees say they were severely injured, one with a broken back, after using Lenovo and Intel's foam pit scattered over bare concrete — SAN DIEGO — At least two TwitchCon attendees said they were severely injured after they participated in an interactive exhibit …
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A look at Dance Diffusion, an AI music generator aiming to overcome the limitations of other open-source audio tools, and legal issues with AI-generated music — Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is tackling music — It was only five years ago that electronic punk band YACHT entered … | Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
GIF, once called “the file format of the internet generation”, is declining in use as young users say GIFs are “cringe” and MP4 videos make the format outdated — The internet's file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence.
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| Emma Camp / Reason: |
Critics say the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, a digital privacy law for minors, could lead to invasive age verification methods like face-scanning — While the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act was hailed as a victory for digital privacy, critics warn of a litany of unintended consequences.
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