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An update to Discord’s support page says it’s trying out a way to scan your ID through Incode, adding that “only your date of birth is reviewed for age confirmation purposes,” while your ID and selfie will be “permanently deleted.” Discord’s also testing age verification via a credit card or ID pass in Google Wallet.
They will get a 50% discount on access to Claude, as part of a “first-of-its-kind collaboration” that also includes complimentary workforce training, technical assistance, and “workflow input from Anthropic developers,” per a release. On the state level, government employees will use Claude to help draft and summarize documents, analyze information, and supplement day-to-day work, per the release.
The Play design tool for Mac and iPhone won an Apple Design Award for innovation last year, and could be used to prototype iPhone app interfaces before it was pulled from the App Store. Apple doesn’t specifically mention how it’ll use Play, but its IP could be used to improve Xcode developer tools.
[MacRumors]
That’s according to this Trendforce report, which says Apple is planning to adopt OLED panels across its future MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and iMac products that are capable of achieving 95 percent coverage of the BT.2020 color gamut. BT.2020 covers more of the visible color spectrum compared to DCI-P3 standard Apple currently uses.
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Mirroring similar concerns raised by Apple, Google is now warning that “scammers and fraudsters could exploit greater access to apps’ permissions” if the EU pushes ahead with draft measures that would force the company to open its Search data and Android operating system to competitors. In a statement to Wired, Google security engineering head, Heather Adkins, said:
”Past implementation [date], I would give it maybe weeks before we began to see an increase in fraud in
Europe.”
It may never come to the US, but LG announced its new HomeBot AI Objet Collection Roni robot vacuum in South Korea today. Its charging/cleaning dock can be hidden in kitchen cabinetry (requiring some reno) but there’s also a standalone dock that looks like a nondescript side table.
If you’re trying to cut down the amount of time you spend on YouTube, there’s at least one more video you should watch. Modder Throaty Mumbo has built a custom cartridge that can search and stream YouTube on a Game Boy Color. The quality and experience look awful, but it works.
The maximum penalty for social media providers that fail to keep under-16’s off their platforms is now 99 million AUD (about $68.2 million), double the original. It follows a study suggesting more than 80 percent of under-16s are still using social media in Australia. In a statement, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said:
“It’s clear big tech are not doing enough to comply with the law – there are still too many children on social media.”
The upgraded StanbyMe 2 Max TV that was unveiled in April is now available to buy in the US for $1,299.99. The 32-inch display provides up to 4.5 hours of battery life, and can be rotated into landscape or portrait orientations when attached to its rolling stand, or the built-in folding stand at the rear.
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Google has struggled to keep up with demand for its cloud computing power, and Meta has grown increasingly reliant on Gemini for many of its needs. Now, Meta, along with a number of other clients, is being told that Google simply can’t provide the capacity they want. According to the Financial Times:
The decision by Google to cap a large customer’s access to its models offers a rare glimpse into the infrastructure pressures and bottlenecks building across the AI industry. Despite spending tens of billions of dollars on chips, data centres and power, even the largest tech companies are struggling to secure enough computing power to support surging demand for advanced models and AI services.
The racing league has been testing it for at least two years now, and it’s ready to make its big debut. It can accelerate to 300 km/h (186 mph) in 4 seconds with a top speed of over 350 km/h (217 mph). The big challenge is keeping that up for an entire lap without exploding.
Correction June 28th: This post originally stated the race in question was the Australian GP.
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The oldest service in the BBC’s portfolio has sent its last broadcast. Keeping the longwave signals flowing has become increasingly expensive, and very few rely on the tech now that streaming is widely available, and VHF radio and satellites have largely replaced longwave.
On June 27th the BBC will stop broadcasting Radio 4 Long Wave. It blames the cost of maintaining out-of-date technology. Droitwich uses two metre-high ceramic and metal valves, which are no longer made. Almost no one in Britain will notice. But it is the first nick in what the broadcaster hopes will eventually be a slashing of expensive radio and TV transmissions.
[The Economist]
Jeff Bridges is best known as an actor. But he’s also a reasonably accomplished musician who’s put out records on Blue Note and worked with T Bone Burnett. Which makes it all the more depressing when he fired up Suno on This Past Weekend with Theo Von.
Flying Lotus composed two ringtones for iOS 13. He was recently asked by Almanac of Rap host Donwill who he would put on the track if Daybreak were a song and not a ringtone. He said Freddie Gibbs and now I can’t stop thinking about the possibilities.
Dbrand opened up preorders on Monday, shortly ahead of the actual announcement of the Steam Machine’s price and release date. But the cube appears to have vanished from the company’s website, and the YouTube teaser has been made private, as noted on Reddit.
Dbrand and Valve didn’t immediately reply to requests for comment.
This is a long and distressing post from Buttigieg about an experience with CPS over an accusation that he says “was absurdly and obviously false, and was promptly rejected by law enforcement.”
As part of the process, however, Buttigieg could not be alone with his kids, and he could not be present while CPS interviewed them.
[Pete Buttigieg’s Substack]
In addition to tasking staffers at Meta to develop a prediction markets app, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also asked executives to look into partnerships with Kalshi and Polymarket, The New York Times reports. Meta wants to get “at least 100 million monthly active ‘predictors’ for the app,” which is set to be targeted toward 18- to 34-year-olds, the NYT says.
[The New York Times]
With its Vision Pro headset suddenly even more expensive, and plans for smart glasses apparently in the works, Bloomberg reports Apple is losing Paul Meade, the hardware VP who was in charge of those projects. The report says he’ll reunite with former Apple designers, including Jony Ive, Tang Tan, and Evans Hankey, at OpenAI, which purchased their startup last year, as the executive shakeup under new Apple CEO John Ternus continues.
“We want your algorithm to feel like something you talk to rather than something that happens to you,” Mosseri says. This month, Instagram announced it would start letting you tweak your algorithm.
I’ve compiled some screenshots of the concepts below, but check out Mosseri’s post to see the mockups in motion.
Agents walked into a polling place on primary Election Day to demand that one of the workers, Paigelynne Gonyea, delete her post, claiming she “may be in violation of federal law.” The post contains the name of Jonathan Ross, the agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, who has been named by a number of media outlets, including The Verge.
On Friday, US Representative John Mannion wrote to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin requesting the agency “promptly review this incident and put a stop to any ICE activities that target protected speech under the First Amendment.”
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The iPhone 17 has 8GB of RAM, but Apple’s “lower-end” iPhones set to launch in the first half of next year will get — drumroll please — 9GB of RAM, says supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo:
My latest industry checks suggest Apple’s lower-end 1H27 iPhones, powered by the A20 chip, will move to 9GB DRAM (1.5GB × 6 dies), up from 8GB (2GB × 4 dies) in the current A19 models, to keep the system running smoothly under AI workloads.
Mikhail Klimentov interviewed Schreier about the channel, where Schreier sits in a room and explains things about video games. “A rule that I set for myself is that I will not do any video that takes me more than 30 minutes to do in any way,” says Schreier.
The oldest video on Schreier’s channel was posted on May 27th, and he already has more than 100,000 subscribers.
[ReaderGrev]
“PlayStation hardware unit sales fell to their lowest May total since May 2000, while Xbox hardware unit sales were the lowest ever recorded for a May month,” says Circana analyst Mat Piscatella.
The PlayStation figures are probably explained by the recently-hiked prices. With Xbox prices going up soon, sales might continue to be grim.
The touchscreen device will come with current-gen M5 Pro and M5 Max chips when it launches later this year or early 2027, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Apple is reportedly planning to release an M7-equipped model in the future, as part of the company’s rumored plans to skip the M6 Pro and M6 Max.
