Author: Cinga
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Snap is cutting 10 percent of its staff
Snap plans to lay off around 10 percent of its employees as the company continues to struggle with declines in the digital advertising market. The company had around 5,300 employees at the start of 2023. Snap previously cut 20 percent of its staff in 2022 and had a smaller cut of 3 percent in 2023.…
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YouTube says a Vision Pro app is ‘on the roadmap’
Here’s a little bit of an about-face: YouTube now says it has a Vision Pro app on its roadmap. I mean this literally, as YouTube spokesperson Jessica Gibby just emailed me the following statement: “We’re excited to see Vision Pro launch and we’re supporting it by ensuring YouTube users have a great experience in Safari.…
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iFixit pulls the Vision Pro apart, exposing its connectors, screens, and fans
Disconnecting those Buff Lightning connectors for the battery cable and strap arms is pretty easy, requiring only a SIM eject tool. After that, the disassembly is pretty standard for Apple hardware: heat gun, prying, screws everywhere, brackets, and connectors. iFixit’s blog complementing the video comes with a deep breakdown of EyeSight, which it says isn’t…
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‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec
There was a very nice video by Marques Brownlee last year on the moon picture. Everyone was like, ‘Is it fake? Is it not fake?’ There was a debate around what constitutes a real picture. And actually, there is no such thing as a real picture. As soon as you have sensors to capture something, you…
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Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired
Google has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire…
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Apple’s Vision Pro headset is hiding yet another XL Lightning plug
We thought the 12-pin plug connecting the Vision Pro to its battery pack was the final boss of Lightning cables — but there’s one that’s even bigger. Hiding within the strap on the Vision Pro headset is what I can only call a Mega Lightning plug. This XL cable appears to slot into the side…
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Netflix’s 2024 TV lineup has more Squid Game, Arcane, and lots of reality shows
Things have been a little quiet for Netflix so far this year when it comes to television, but the streamer has at least a few heavy hitters in store. Today, it revealed its upcoming TV slate for 2024 — alongside similar lists for film and games — and, while there aren’t a lot of surprises…
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Lawmakers propose anti-nonconsensual AI porn bill after Taylor Swift controversy
US lawmakers have proposed letting people sue over faked pornographic images of themselves, following the spread of AI-generated explicit photographs of Taylor Swift. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act would add a civil right of action for intimate “digital forgeries” depicting an identifiable person without their consent, letting victims collect financial…
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Elon Musk won’t get his $55 billion pay package after all
Elon Musk isn’t going to get that $55 billion pay package after all, a Delaware Court of Chancery judge has ruled. The ruling means Tesla’s board will need to come up with a new proposal. The ruling threatens Musk’s fortune if it makes it through an appeal, Bloomberg reports. Without the options in that package,…
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Your home network might soon get a new — and simpler — name
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is proposing a change that could streamline the way you access your home’s internal network. That means, instead of using the 192.168.x.x address to configure your router, you’d just need to type .internal. As pointed out by The Register, ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC)…