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Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, best known as the parent company of WordPress.com, has been put on a leave of absence by his board against his will, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch.
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September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today's was no different.
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WorldPingApple Wallet and Apple Pay serve different functions, but you need them both to make online payments and store your cards.
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WorldPingThe exact circumstances surrounding the changes aren't clear, but Meta execs have accidentally tagged the band instead of their AI agent.
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Apple has seen reason: It has a black model in the iPhone Pro lineup again. Last year, Apple went bold with its colors for the iPhone 17 Pro, offering a flashy orange, a shiny silver, and a dark blue. Don't get me wrong, they looked nice.
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WorldPingFlorida Sues Netflix Over Streamer’s Collection of Data From Minors — full report at Gizmodo.
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Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of WordPress.com owner Automattic, has been placed on a paid leave of absence, as reported earlier by 404 Media.
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WorldPing'The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother' is coming in early 2027.
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Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
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Apple announced the company's first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo, but that's where the firsts end.
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WorldPingThe model could be a blueprint for solving AI song generators' copyright problem.
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WorldPingJacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
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WorldPingWe finally have an Apple foldable, and it looks pretty damn compelling.
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WorldPingPresales for the fifth 'Avengers' film, out on December 18, have already crossed $50 million.
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WorldPingGet a good look at Gloom Gate, Houm and Soggy Froggy from Playdate season three.
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Paying more for a new phone seems almost unavoidable after Apple's event today. The new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively - a $100 price hike over their predecessors.
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WorldPingThe iPhone Duo makes a great first impression, I just wish it had three cameras in back.
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Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on.
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Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
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WorldPingThe new Reference Image feature creates a 'digital negative' of photos taken with an iPhone 18 Pro that can be used to check for edits.
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WorldPingRight on cue, Motorola has teased a wide new foldable to compete with the Galaxy Fold 8 and iPhone Duo.
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WorldPingGeorge Wada teases the 'Spy x Family' studio's upcoming show, 'Lona,' and talks about the company's stance on AI and worker protections and the ambition behind 'The One Piece' remake.
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WorldPingWith football season just hours away, Google has turned its AI into a fantasy football coach.
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OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph.
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WorldPingThe City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
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WorldPingTurning Point will spend tens of millions on ads and turnout, sources say, with a focus on New Hampshire, Arizona, and Nevada.
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John Ternus made the case in his first keynote as Apple CEO that the iPhone isn't going anywhere.
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WorldPingA patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.
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WorldPingThe Communications Workers of America represents about 1,900 workers at the game company.
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WorldPingThe 'Carrie' and 'The Exorcist: Martyrs' director will shepherd Alexandra Magistro's 'Rot,' starring Amber Midthunder and Matthew Lillard.
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At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition.
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Apple rolled out the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at the "Surprise and shine" event.
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WorldPingApple's first foldable competes well with the Z Fold 8, at least in terms of specs.
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WorldPingLive Rewind and Siri Recap just killed the dreams of always on AI wearables.
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WorldPing"We will not be relevant without a massive rocket at a massive cadence."…
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Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
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WorldPingTo answer weird questions, come up with (reasonably) weird answers.
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Apple has just announced its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo. The new phone has a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.
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WorldPingThe iPhone Pro and Pro Max lines aren't the only iPhones that saw a $100 price increase today.
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WorldPingUS urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.
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The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
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WorldPingScience has always been driven by friendly competition and the free exchange of ideas. In the age of AI, it will be driven by greed.
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Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.
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WorldPingApple's first foldable can be yours next month.
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WorldPingHey, all things considered, a 30% unemployment rate doesn't sound so bad!
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WorldPingNew study detects 3,200 references to Beatles song titles and lyrics in academic papers.
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