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Engadget

Lyft agrees to pay $272.5 million to settle worker classification lawsuit

Uber and Lyft were sued by the state of California in 2020 for misclassifying employees as contractors.

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Engadget

Lyft agrees to pay $272.5 million to settle worker classification lawsuit

Ars Technica

Someone got Doom in an SQL database

1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.

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Ars Technica

Someone got Doom in an SQL database

TechCrunch

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

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TechCrunch

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music

Ars Technica

Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash

Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.

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Ars Technica

Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash

Engadget

Meta wants people to build their own Muse gadgets, too

The company also created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link

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Engadget

Meta wants people to build their own Muse gadgets, too

Ars Technica

Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed

Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.

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Ars Technica

Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed

Engadget

Batomon Showdown is the hottest new auto battler on the block

Batomon Showdown is like Pokémon meets Super Auto Pets.

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Engadget

Batomon Showdown is the hottest new auto battler on the block

WIRED

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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WIRED

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

Engadget

Samsung and Google are raising prices on their budget phones

Line go up (bad version).

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Engadget

Samsung and Google are raising prices on their budget phones

Engadget

Apple sounds the alarm on AI agents and 'Full Disk Access'

There's an increasingly high cost to convenience.

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Engadget

Apple sounds the alarm on AI agents and 'Full Disk Access'

Ars Technica

Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M

Critics say workers are still owed far more.

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Ars Technica

Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M

Ars Technica

The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy

It wasn't obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth.

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Ars Technica

The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy

Ars Technica

US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China

Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.

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Ars Technica

US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China

TechCrunch

Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

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TechCrunch

Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents

Engadget

iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 18 Pro Max: Comparing their displays and batteries

Not much else differentiates them, which isn't a bad thing.

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Engadget

iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 18 Pro Max: Comparing their displays and batteries

TechCrunch

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)

With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve that.

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TechCrunch

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)

WIRED

The NHL Is Releasing Its Own ‘Hot’ Fanfic. Romance Lovers Hate It

The league is releasing romance-style audio stories to promote games. Critics say it’s cheap pandering that doesn’t address toxic masculinity in the sport.

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WIRED

The NHL Is Releasing Its Own ‘Hot’ Fanfic. Romance Lovers Hate It

TechCrunch

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to become Skydance

The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6.

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TechCrunch

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to become Skydance

TechCrunch

Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art

"There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others," the pope wrote. "Algorithms lack the spark of humanity."

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TechCrunch

Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art

TechCrunch

Laytr's new app lets you save anything you find online, not just articles to read

Laytr lets you save articles, recipes, screenshots, videos, PDFs, and more for later, while keeping your archive private and synced across your Apple devices.

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TechCrunch

Laytr's new app lets you save anything you find online, not just articles to read

WIRED

Your Driverless Cab Is Spying on You

Self-driving cars from Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla are studded with cameras and sensors. Some of them are pointing at riders.

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WIRED

Your Driverless Cab Is Spying on You

WIRED

Election Deniers Think the GOP’s Terrible Midterm Polling Is a ‘Psyop’

Dozens and dozens of high profile MAGA influencers and pundits have weighed in. “The laughable fake polls are rolling out,” Catturd posted on X.

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WIRED

Election Deniers Think the GOP’s Terrible Midterm Polling Is a ‘Psyop’

WIRED

A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

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WIRED

A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

WIRED

AI Is Making a Mess of Nurses’ Schedules. They Say It’s a Safety Issue

A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.

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WIRED

AI Is Making a Mess of Nurses’ Schedules. They Say It’s a Safety Issue