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Google Translate Expands Live Translation To All Earbuds On Android

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google has increasingly moved toward keeping features locked to its hardware products, but the Translate app is bucking that trend. The live translate feature is breaking out of the Google bubble with support for any earbuds you happen to have connected to your Android phone. The app is also getting improved translation quality across...

The Data Breach That Hit Two-Thirds of a Country

Today at 00:22 AM, via Slashdot

Online retailer Coupang, often called South Korea’s Amazon, is dealing with the fallout from a breach that exposed the personal information of more than 33 million accounts — roughly two-thirds of the country’s population — after a former contractor allegedly used credentials that remained active months after his departure to access customer data through the company’s overseas servers. The...

New Kindle Feature Uses AI To Answer Questions About Books – And Authors Can’t Opt Out

Yesterday at 23:40 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has quietly added a new AI feature to its Kindle iOS app — a feature that “lets you ask questions about the book you’re reading and receive spoiler-free answers,” according to an Amazon announcement. The company says the feature, which is called Ask this Book, serves as “your expert reading assistant, instantly answering questions about plot details,...

Arkansas Becoming 1st State To Sever Ties With PBS, Effective July 1

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

joshuark writes: Arkansas is becoming the first state to officially end its public television affiliation with PBS. The Arkansas Educational Television Commission, whose members are all appointed by the governor, voted to disaffiliate from PBS effective July 1, 2026, citing the $2.5 million annual membership dues as “not feasible.” The decision was also driven by the loss of a similar amount in...

Amazon Prime Video Pulls AI-Powered Recaps After Fallout Flub

Yesterday at 22:36 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered video recap of Fallout after viewers noticed that it got key parts of the story wrong. The streaming service began testing Video Recaps last month, and now they’re missing from the shows included in the test, including Fallout, The Rig, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Upload, and Bosch. The feature is supposed to use AI...

Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers

Yesterday at 20:30 PM, via Slashdot

Berlin’s regional parliament has passed a far-reaching overhaul of its “security” law, giving police new authority to conduct both digital and physical surveillance. From a report: The CDU-SPD coalition, supported by AfD votes, approved the reform of the General Security and Public Order Act (ASOG), changing the limits that once protected Berliners from intrusive policing. Interior Senator Iris...

‘Apple Tax is Dead in the USA’

Yesterday at 19:25 PM, via Slashdot

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has almost entirely upheld a scathing April ruling that found Apple in willful violation of a 2021 injunction meant to open up iOS App Store payments in its long-running legal battle against Epic Games. A three-judge panel affirmed that Apple’s 27% fee for developers using outside payment options had a “prohibitive effect” and that the company’s design...

China Leads Research in 90% of Crucial Technologies – a Dramatic Shift this Century

Yesterday at 18:44 PM, via Slashdot

China is leading research in nearly 90% of the crucial technologies that “significantly enhance, or pose risks to, a country’s national interests,” according to a technology tracker run by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) — an independent think-tank. Nature: The ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker evaluated research on 74 current and emerging technologies this year, up from the...

EEIP policy garners 90% support, says Malatsi

Yesterday at 18:19 PM, via ITWeb

Communications minister Solly Malatsi gazettes the final policy direction on the role of equity equivalent investment programmes in the ICT sector.

The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps

Yesterday at 18:05 PM, via Slashdot

A new study of roughly 80,000 bachelor’s degree recipients from a large urban public college system finds that characteristics of a graduate’s first job can explain nearly two-thirds of the otherwise-unexplained earnings gap between students from low-income and high-income families five years after graduation. The research [PDF], published as an NBER working paper by economists at Columbia...

Washington Post’s AI-Generated Podcasts Rife With Errors, Fictional Quotes

Yesterday at 17:26 PM, via Slashdot

The Washington Post’s top standards editor Thursday decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists. From a report: Earlier this week, the Post announced that it was rolling out personalized AI-generated podcasts for users of the paper’s mobile app. In a release, the paper said users will be able to choose...

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