LinkedIn restricts targeted advertisements after complaints from privacy organizations
LinkedIn will no longer allow targeted advertisements based on sensitive data on its platform, Bits of Freedom reported on Friday. Earlier this year, the civil rights movement filed a complaint about this with the European Commission.The…
Seasonic is working on solid state heat sinks for power supplies
Seasonic wants to equip its power supplies with heatsinks, which the company calls OptiSink Design. These should replace traditional heatsinks, to which Mosfets are screwed, and should cool those Mosfets better.The first power supplies…
Netflix is testing new design of Apple TV app
Netflix is testing a new version of its app for Apple TV. The appearance of the app has changed and should make it easier for the user to request information about programs and films.The new UI will first be tested among a small group…
Meta rolls out AI tools for customer contact to the business version of WhatsApp
Meta will roll out new AI tools for WhatsApp Business. One of the AI tools creates advertisements for Facebook and Instagram, where customers are immediately redirected to the company's WhatsApp channel when they click.The…
DuckDuckGo lets users chat anonymously with AI chatbots
Search engine DuckDuckGo has added a feature that lets users chat anonymously with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT 3.5 and Claude 3. The conversations are anonymous and the data is not used to train LLMs.The chatbots currently available…
US to investigate AI market power of Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI
US authorities may investigate Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia to see whether those companies have abused their market power in the artificial intelligence market. The companies are said to maintain a vendor lock-in and unfairly bundle…
Bunq will detect remote access tools to stop phishing attacks
Bunq will apply various security measures to prevent phishing attacks. The bank is doing this after it previously emerged that relatively many customers became victims. The measures include detection for rats, the ability to recover 2fa…
Twitch gets DJ category for live streams
From this summer, Twitch will have a separate category for live streams from DJs. The Amazon streaming platform has announced this. Until now, that category did not exist, although DJs have been active on the platform for some time.The…
Nothing shows dynamic AI home screen as a prototype
Smartphone maker Nothing has shown a prototype of a dynamic AI home screen that automatically combines data from various sources. It should lead to a software feature that will be released next year.The prototype of the home screen shows…
Stability AI shows tool for creating audio trained on royalty-free sound
Stability AI, best known for its image generator Stable Diffusion, has announced Stable Audio Open. The tool can generate up to 47 seconds of audio from a text prompt and is said to have only been trained on royalty-free material.…