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The Digital Fairness Act would outlaw manipulative "dark patterns," let adults switch off addictive features and make cancelling a subscription a few clicks. Fines could reach 6% of global turnover.
In a four-week project, an AI system verified core guarantees of the protocol behind Signal, WhatsApp and Google Messages. It found no new flaws, and it caught old ones when pointed at outdated versions.
NASA expects the 49-year-old probe to cross the line early on November 18, and it's inviting everyone to flash "VGR" in Morse code at the sky the night before.
One DMCA notice took down the open-source code behind Picofly, HWFLY and SX Core chips. Consoles that are already modded keep working, but new installs and updates just got harder.
A security firm listed tens of thousands of apps made with the AI app builder by searching public DNS records, and nearly all of them opened without a login.
Automatic Super Resolution, Microsoft's answer to DLSS-style upscaling, no longer requires docking the handheld or lowering your game's resolution first.
Lorenzo Stoakes says low-quality AI-generated submissions have grown from an occasional nuisance to roughly half of what lands in his inbox.
The user-to-user help boards are already read-only and will close for good on November 20. Apple is pointing people to its official support site instead.
Flight 15 is set to launch November 13 and, if everything goes to plan, land the Super Heavy booster and the Ship back at the launch site, a day apart.
The Ring Drone Cam and Ring Rover Cam map your home or shop and patrol on their own when an alarm goes off. They also reopen old questions about cameras that move around inside your house.
Under the RAISE Act, frontier AI developers with more than $500 million in revenue must publish safety plans and report serious incidents within 72 hours, or face fines of up to $3 million.
The smart ring maker already offered Counsel's medical chatbot, backed by real doctors, inside its app. Now it's buying the company outright, weeks after shelving its IPO.
Arriving alongside Android 17 QPR2, Google's latest feature drop leans hard on Gemini for the Pixel 10 and 11, with a few tools reaching phones as old as the Pixel 6.
One flaw is being actively exploited: a booby-trapped message file can make Outlook leak your Windows password hash without its usual warning.
