Some of Xteink’s credit card-sized e-readers are losing their best feature
… Therefore, for recently shipped new devices, we have cautiously added restrictions to the flashing function. …
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Apple’s Screen Time updates are too little, too late
… In 2024, Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal reported on a bug that allowed kids to bypass content restrictions on Screen Time for years. …
Aurzen’s tiny trifold projector is almost 40 percent off right now
… The biggest downside to the Zip, at least for some folks, is that you won’t be able to use it to watch content from services like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Max due to copyright restrictions. …
Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet
… New York’s S8102A, currently in committee, would require age assurance measures on “any desktop, laptop, smartphone, tablet, or other device” that can access content on the internet. …
Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway
… Bypassing on-device systems is “relatively easy, which is why everything started moving toward servers,” Song says, despite the fact that on-device systems would be cheaper to run for companies like Persona. “If we could run on-device effectively on a phone, I would do it in a heartbeat, but it’s n… …
Speech and Moderation
… The ruling came after the Post asked for the return of Natanson’s devices and not to review their contents, alleging a grave First Amendment violation. …
007 First Light is like a James Bond movie in the best way possible
… You can take at most three devices into each mission, ranging from the laser watch to nausea darts. Every device is useful. …
Microsoft could be the next Big Tech antitrust target
… Earlier this year, Bloomberg outlined the contents of civil investigative demands CIDs — similar to a subpoena — the FTC sent to at least half a dozen companies that compete with Microsoft. …
Labor and worker’s rights in tech
Labor If the myth of tech over the past decade has been one of constant innovation, algorithmic scale, and new products and devices that “simply work,” the truth is that all of those illusions were made possible by the obfuscation of labor: the contract content moderators who sanitize the feeds of … …
Attack of the killer script kiddies
… Simply putting out a patch makes it easier for attackers to reverse engineer the bug fix and exploit vulnerabilities they may have been otherwise unaware of on devices that have not yet been updated. …