With upcoming ban, Meta begins to notify Australian teens that their accounts will be shut down
When the ban goes into effect on December 10, Meta will revoke account access for users under the age of 16 in Australia.
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Spotify’s new features let listeners explore the people and stories behind their favorite music
Spotify new features will showcase who’s behind your favorite songs, how music is connected, and what inspired the tunes.
This viral AI pen didn’t help me cheat
A college student recently told me about the latest tech designed to help students cheat – and it wasn’t ChatGPT. It was an actual, physical gadget marketed in YouTube ads as the workaround to physical, hardcopy tests, which are back in vogue now as AI tears through higher education like a tornado. (One example is […]
Demonschool channels Buffy and Persona for delightfully demonic RPG action
In one particularly memorable sequence in Demonschool – the new tactical RPG from Necrosoft that, after a few hiccups, releases on November 19th – I throw a doll at a zombie’s head, dispatch it with a roundhouse kick to the jowls as I watch my friends sweep demons off the floor in vortices of blood, […]
Onepot AI raises $13M to help make chemical drug creation easier
Onepot AI is a a company that is home to the small-molecule synthesis lab POT-1.
Target joins OpenAI’s growing list of retail apps
OpenAI is pushing deeper into retail, with Target set to debut a new ChatGPT-powered app for shoppers. The app is launching in beta next week.
OpenAI board member Larry Summers steps down amid Epstein file revelations
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board days after Congress released documents showing he was close friends with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Porsche crowns Cayenne Electric ‘most powerful production Porsche of all time’
It’s no surprise that the Porsche Cayenne EV is a beast. Of course the famed German automaker would tout its all-electric SUV as “the most powerful,” the quickest — both off the line and in a charging stall — and record-setting in so many ways. The question remains: how beastly are we talking? Now, thankfully, […]
Adobe to acquire digital marketing platform Semrush for $1.9 billion
Adobe is acquiring the digital marketing platform Semrush for around $1.9 billion. In a press release on Wednesday, Adobe says the deal will allow it and Semrush to give marketers insight into how their brands appear across the web. The acquisition builds on Adobe’s existing suite of marketing tools that help businesses manage digital campaigns […]
Security startup Guardio nabs $80M from ION Crossover Partners
Guardio is leveraging its experience building browser extensions and apps that scan for malicious and phishing sites to build a tool that looks for artifacts in code and websites made with vibe coding tools.