reader comments 99 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is standing by Reddit’s decision to block companies from scraping the site without an AI agreement. Last week, 404 Media noticed that search engines that weren’t Google were no longer listing recent Reddit posts in results. This was because Reddit updated its Robots Exclusion Protocol (txt file) to ..
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Enlarge / iOS 17.6 installing on an iPhone 13 Pro. Samuel Axon reader comments 55 Apple has some minor updates for all its operating systems, and the releases include iOS 17.6, iPadOS 17.6, tvOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6, and macOS Sonoma 14.6. Apple’s notes for these updates simply say they include bug fixes, security updates, or ..
Enlarge / Wikipedia’s decades of content can be a light to you in dark places, and now you can choose the dark for yourself. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Wikipedia reader comments 76 Dark mode, night mode, light-on-dark design, or whatever you want to call the version of computer content that doesn’t feel blindingly ..
Enlarge / In this handout image from Synology, a thoughtful worker uses BeeFiles on their MacBook and BeePhotos on their iPhone, always keeping their BeeStation close at hand. They might have important thoughts about the books “Island” or “DECO” to keep stored privately, redundantly, forever. reader comments 50 Dropbox is not backup. A portable hard ..
Enlarge / One day, using pixellated fonts and images to represent that something is a video game will not be a trope. Today is not that day. reader comments 67 SAG-AFTRA has called for a strike of all its members working in video games, with the union demanding that its next contract not allow “companies ..
Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. reader comments 132 Elon Musk-led social media platform X is training Grok, its AI chatbot, on users’ data, and that’s opt-out, not opt-in. If you’re an X user, that means Grok is already being trained on your posts if you haven’t ..
Enlarge / I don’t know how Sonos’ app might have developed during the groovy era their marketing images aim to summon, but it feels like it might not have wanted to rush head-long into disappointing users quite so quickly. reader comments 101 Sonos issued a redesigned app in May, and what lots of customers noticed ..
reader comments 38 AMD had planned to launch its first round of Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors by the end of July, but those plans have changed thanks to a very non-specific problem found with the first batch of processors that AMD sent out to its partners. The six- and eight-core Ryzen 9600X and 9700X are ..
reader comments 124 The Amazon business unit that focuses on Alexa-powered gadgets lost $25 billion between 2017 and 2021, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported this week. Amazon claims it has sold more than 500,000,000 Alexa devices, which included Echo speakers, Kindle readers, Fire TV sets and streaming devices, and Blink and Ring smart home ..
Enlarge / Intel’s Core i9-13900K. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 128 For several months, Intel has been investigating reports that high-end 13th- and 14th-generation desktop CPUs (mainly, but not exclusively, the Core i9-13900K and 14900K) were crashing during gameplay. Intel partially addressed the issue by insisting that third-party motherboard makers adhere to Intel’s recommended default power ..
