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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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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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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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Anthropic will watermark Claude's output, and is upfront that it won't always hold
Anthropic will embed C2PA provenance metadata in Claude images and an unnamed imperceptible watermark in Claude text, applied at the model level, to meet EU AI Act transparency rules. The company says the marks are not infallible.
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