The Electronic Frontier Foundation has said that age-verification requirements harm privacy by requiring more collection of personal information from users of all ages. Banning social media also prevents kids from accessing useful content, the group said. “Beyond being spaces where people can share funny videos and engage with enjoyable content, social media enables young people … Read More “UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews” »
As Meta tries to catch up in the AI race and boost engagement with its AI bot, the company announced Monday that it’s rolling out new AI features on Facebook that aim to change how users find information, create content, and interact with the platform. The headline update is “AI Mode,” a new way to … Read More “Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms” »
Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off foreign access to its most recently released AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. When they launched on June 9th, Anthropic said “Fable 5’s capabilities exceed those of any … Read More “All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House” »
I may have too many devices. Scott Stein/CNET AI is wildly disrupting the world at large, and tech more specifically, and one manifestation of that is the advent of new devices like smart glasses. I’ve been covering the emergence of wearables, virtual reality and augmented reality for over 15 years, but the current moment is … Read More “AWE 2026 Live: Smart Glasses Are Bringing AI to Our Faces” »
Speed without control is a false economy. As AI code-generation accelerates software delivery, the FeatureOps Summit 2026 is here to ensure that when we ship more, we break less.This premier virtual event brings together engineers, architects, and product leaders from companies like Wayfair, Visa, Mintlify, Lloyds, and many others, to explore the infrastructure of fearless … Read More “A Guide to AI Inference Engineering” »
“And so today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for both PowerPC and Intel,” announced Jobs. “This has been going on for the last five years. Just in case.” The transition The “first” Intel Mac was a Developer Transition Kit (DTK) made … Read More “20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again” »
For the third week in a row, the Xiaomi 17T and Xiaomi 17T Pro are available at discounted prices. Xiaomi’s flagship offerings, the Xiaomi 17 and Xiaomi 17 Ultra, have also received price cuts. Elsewhere, deals are available on Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7, select Google Pixel 10 series smartphones, and a couple of Nothing devices. … Read More “Deals: Xiaomi 17 and 17T series discounted, Galaxy Z Fold7 also gets a price cut” »
Versión en Español aquí; gh:v1ctorio/e2ee-slack Introduction Some time ago, while exploring Slack’s Block Kit reference, I noticed something peculiar: the video block. When I saw that it accepted a video_url, the first thing I thought was: how does it distinguish between any content and an actual video? Would there be any particular requirement or limitation … Read More “Exploiting Slack’s video embeds to achieve e2ee communication” »
The internet was built on the assumption that there’s a human being on the other side of every screen. That assumption no longer holds. Cloudflare’s Radar tool now shows agentic AI bots generating 57.4% of web requests globally, with humans accounting for just 42.6%, a milestone that arrived well ahead of even the most aggressive … Read More “Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Internet. Here’s What That Actually Means” »
Samsung has released the stable One UI 8.5 update for the Galaxy F15, which launched in 2024 with One UI 6. The update has firmware version E156BXXUADZE7, requires a download of around 2.5GB, and bumps up the Android security patch level on the Galaxy F15 to May 5, 2026. While stable One UI 8.5 for … Read More “Samsung Galaxy F15 receives the One UI 8.5 stable update” »
