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Emma Roth

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    There’s no link between cellphone use and brain cancer, WHO says.

    A review commissioned by the World Health Organization examined over 5,000 studies on the connection between cellphone radiation and brain cancer. In the final analysis published today, lead author Ken Karipidis said there is no evidence of a link between the two:

    I’m quite confident with our conclusion. And what makes us quite confident is… even though mobile phone use has skyrocketed, brain tumour rates have remained stable.

    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    X’s TV app is out in beta.

    The app, which you can use to watch content on X, is now available on LG TVs, Fire TV, and Google TV. You can also find it on the Google Play Store.

    An image showing the X app on a TV
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    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    The nonprofit behind a popular AI training dataset says it purged links to CSAM.

    Last year, Stanford researchers found that LAION-5B — the dataset used by Stable Diffusion — contained thousands of links to child abuse imagery. LAION has since attempted to address this issue by re-releasing a clean version of the model, now called RE-LAION-5B:

    In all, 2236 links were removed after matching with the lists of link and image hashes provided by our partners. These links also subsume 1008 links found by the Stanford Internet Observatory report in Dec 2023.

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    Emma Roth
    Google’s new Nest thermostat isn’t as bright as it should be.

    Users apparently can’t adjust the brightness on the new Nest Learning Thermostat, leaving the display too dim at times. Fortunately, it seems a fix is on the way, as Google has told 9to5Google that it will soon roll out a way to adjust brightness.