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Keet, backed by Y Combinator, generates video courses on whatever you ask for
Keet, a Y Combinator S24 company, has launched an app that generates structured video courses on any topic, pairing short explainer clips with quiz games along a module-and-lesson roadmap. It is in private beta, with two free courses before credits are required.
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Zoom patches a device-takeover bug that took under 20 AI prompts to find
Zoom has patched a flaw in its annotation feature that let an attacker run code on other participants' devices with no interaction and no visible sign. Researchers at A Security found it in a day using fewer than twenty prompts against publicly available AI models.
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A TransUnion survey puts numbers on the gap between AI confidence and AI measurement
A TransUnion survey of 100 senior marketing and technology leaders finds 89% planning to increase AI spend while only 36% rate their data and processes as ready. The visibility gap it describes covers AI search too — which changes how SEO teams should pitch it.
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Samsung's Galaxy Buds get FDA clearance to work as hearing aids
The FDA has cleared Samsung's hearing aid feature for the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro and 4 Pro, arriving later this year with a five-minute hearing test that grades each ear and feeds the results into Samsung Health.
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The DMCA takedown has become a censorship tool, and the burden of proof sits on you
A fraudulent DMCA complaint pulled Search Engine Land and Press Gazette out of Google worldwide within 48 hours. The mechanics are structural — Section 512 rewards speed over verification and puts the burden on the accused. Here is how a counter-notice works, what evidence to hold, and what Section 512(f) offers.
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Bumble drops the rule it was built on
Bumble has ended the women-message-first rule that defined it since 2014, and extended the reply window from 24 hours to 72. The company cites survey data showing 66% of women prefer men to open; the change lands alongside a 15.2% drop in quarterly revenue.
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The AI emissions nobody counts are the ones it helps oil companies produce
Research in npj Climate Action by two former Microsoft sustainability staff models AI as a productivity gain for oil and gas, and finds it could add 1.2% to 4.8% to global energy emissions — more than the data centre buildout, and more than AI's contribution to clean technology.
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A North Korean IT worker got inside a US federal agency, and the FBI is investigating
A senior FBI official has confirmed an investigation into a North Korean working for an unnamed US federal agency — a rare confirmed breach of government hiring by a scheme that has placed thousands of fraudulent remote workers at private companies.
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Amazon stopped telling you what you ordered, and the reason is AI
Amazon's order emails now list categories instead of products. The company says it is simplifying and reducing data shared outside its app — which also happens to starve third-party AI shopping agents of the receipts they feed on.
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CeraVe is marketing sunscreen against the trend rather than with it
CeraVe's new social series pairs Tyler Cameron with a dermatologist to renovate a Florida sorority house, pitching SPF to a Gen Z audience that has embraced tanmaxxing. Searches for tanning are at a five-year high.
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Spotify will badge AI artists and keep them out of its recommendations
From mid-September, Spotify will badge AI-generated artist identities as AI Personas and exclude them from editorial and algorithmic recommendations unless a listener follows them. The badge judges the profile, not how the music was made.
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GuliKit's ES Max changes what its anti-drift sticks actually measure
GuliKit's $49.99 ES Max is its first wireless controller with revised TMR thumbsticks, which read the rotational angle of a magnet rather than changes in field strength — keeping signal strength constant across the full range of travel.
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